• Auditorium San Micheletto
Friday 15th November, 21.00-22.30
The Extinct Desinence
Presentation of the project with the artist Lucia Veronesi and Davide Dal Sasso – researcher in aesthetics at Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Admission free while places last
The artist Lucia Veronesi converses with Davide Dal Sasso (Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca) about The Extinct Desinence, her project curated and produced by Ramdom (Italy), realised with the support of Collezione Luca Bombassei and supported by the Italian Council (12th Edition, 2023) programme for the promotion of Italian contemporary art in the world of the General Directorate for Contemporary Art of the Ministry of Culture.
The Extinct Desinence is an artistic project on cultural erasure on three levels: the first is inspired by a study on indigenous languages and the loss of medicinal knowledge, conducted by Rodrigo Cámara-Leret and Jordi Bascompte of the University of Zurich; the second level of erasure concerns women who dealt with botany from the 18th to the 20th century; the third level is ideally connected to the poetics of Norwegian artist Hannah Ryggen, who has also developed a reflection on the relationship between human beings and the environment in her works.
One of the formal syntheses of the project, the stop-motion video made by Lucia Veronesi centred on the lives of some botanists, illustrators, explorers of the past and their scientific discoveries, accompanied at times by the sound of indigenous languages in extinction, will also be presented during the conversation.
Lucia Veronesi
Lucia Veronesi is an artist. She has long been questioning the ways of experiencing and narrating the landscape in its various forms: domestic, natural, urban, family. She does so by exploring the possibilities offered by collage, expressing herself in a variety of media: video animation, installations, drawing, the elaboration of elementary scenographies, combinations of photography and painting, the assemblage of fabrics. In 2023, he was among the winners of the 12th edition of the Italian Council. His most recent solo exhibitions include: La desinenza estinta, (Moca London, Kunstindustrimuseum MiST, Trondheim (Norway), Museo Ca’ Pesaro, Venice, Kora, Castringnano De Greci, Lecce, 2024); Da sola nel bosco (D3082, Venice), È successo il mare (Fondazione Pino Pascali, Polignano a Mare, (Ba), 2020); Fuori una gran notte di stelle, (Muratcentoventidue Gallery, Bari, 2016); In piena presenza (Yellow, Varese, 2015). In 2011 he founded Spazio Punch in Venice, a non-profit space based in Giudecca, which he co-directed until 2015. In 2018 he won the 69. Edition of the Michetti Prize and in 2002 she received the Alida Premian prize for young female artists.
Davide Dal Sasso
Davide Dal Sasso is a researcher (RTD A) in aesthetics at the Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca. His research focuses on four main subjects: the relationship between aesthetic philosophy and contemporary arts, the essence of artistic practices, the nature of the catalogue and its relationship with the archive, and the latter’s link with visual culture and cultural heritage. He is a member of Lynx – Center for the Interdisciplinary Analysis of Images, Contexts, Cultural Heritage Labont – Center for Ontology, SIE (Italian Society for Aesthetics), NSAE (Nordic Society for Aesthetics). He is the creator and editor of ‘Dialogues of Aesthetics’, a column on philosophy and the arts published since 2012 in the magazine Artribune. He has published several articles on aesthetics, contemporary art and philosophy of art. He is the author of the books Nel segno dell’essenziale L’arte dopo il concettualismo (Rosenberg & Sellier, 2020) and The Ground Zero of the Arts: Rules, Processes, Forms (Brill, 2021), he edited with the philosopher Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala University) the volume Aesthetics, Philosophy, and Martin Creed (Bloomsbury, 2022), he is the editor of the volume Prima dell’archivio Il catalogo tra soggetti e oggetti (il Mullino, 2024).
