ART NOW - Lorenzo Fusi Speaks January 27th, 2017 at Noon in the Recital Hall

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Lorenzo Fusi (b. 1968) is the Visiting Academic Curator at the Illingworth Kerr Gallery at ACAD (Alberta College of Art + Design) in Calgary. He is also the Artistic Director of PIAC (Prix International d'Art Contemporain) at the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco.

He was previously the Director of Open Eye Gallery, one of the oldest not-for-profit photography galleries in the UK. During his tenure, he curated a solo exhibition of Tim Hetherington’s work (2013) and premiered in the UK the work of Letizia Battaglia and Alvin Baltrop. His project Not All Documents Are Records: Photographing Exhibitions as an Art Form looked at the relations between documentation and art-making through the lens of photography (as part of the 2014 Liverpool Biennial). Prior to this time, Fusi was the International Curator at the Liverpool Biennial, for which he curated the 2010 and 2012 renditions, respectively titled Touched and The Unexpected Guest. Between 2001 and 2009 he was the Chief Curator at Palazzo delle Papesse Contemporary Art Centre, to then became the Contemporary Art Curator of the Santa Maria della Scala museum hub in Siena (Italy).

Fusi regularly writes about contemporary art. Amongst his latest essays No more enemies, no more frontiers. The borders are red flags in Emily Jacir: Europa (Prestel 2015) accompanying the eponymous exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London; and an article in Matter Matters, Nadia Kaabi-Linke’s first monograph, just published by Kerber Verlag just launched this year at Art Dubai and Dallas Contemporary, Dallas (TX).

Personal publishing endeavours include, The Piers From Here, released as an e-book, featuring contributions by Jessamyn Fiore, Robert Reid-Pharr and Jonathan Weinberg; Changing Difference: Queer Politics and Shifting Identities (a collection of essays accompanying the eponymous multi-venue exhibition at the Galleria Civica di Modena); and the monographic book Alfredo Jaar, both published in 2012.

Photo courtesy of the speaker.

Room or Area: 
W570

Contact:

Jarrett Duncan | jarrett.duncan@uleth.ca