Between Art and Theater: an open lecture with Emilio Isgrò

Emilio Isgrò is one of the masters of Italianc onceptual art whose fame has crossed national borders. His activity of "erasing" literary works(I promessi sposi), institutional texts(The Constitution of the Italian Republic), cultural writings (the Manifesto of Futurism), and reference volumes (the Enciclopedia Treccani), push the viewer to question himself and free the "word" from its link with the referent. As the artist himself says: "The erasures certainly serve to provoke an absence and set in motion the cerebral mechanisms of the viewer, who will always want to know 'what lies beneath.' But at the same time (and this function is much more important) they are a precise, unambiguous linguistic sign. Not so much a void to be filled, then; as a presence, a compact fullness." Our University's campus boasts the presence of the sculpture "Monument to Hell" specially conceived and created for IULM by Isgrò and inaugurated in 2018.

On November 25, 2024, at 12 noon in room 125 (IULM 1), the Rector Prof. Valentina Garavaglia, Dr. Martina Treu and Dr. Nadia Palazzo will be in dialogue with the Sicilian artist, Milanese by adoption, in a meeting entitled "Emilio Isgrò between Art and Theater." The meeting takes the form of an open lecture as part of Professor Garavaglia's Theatre and Art course, and the invitation to participate is extended to all students of our Athenaeum.

Download here the open lecture poster