Corrado Cagli Study Day
January 25, 2024, 10:00 AM - 06:00 PM
General admission: $15. Members and Students: Free
Keynote speaker: Dr. Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
The exhibition Transatlantic Bridges: Corrado Cagli, 1938-1948, curated by Raffaele Bedarida and on view in New York at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) through January 27, 2024, is dedicated to the Jewish Italian artist Corrado Cagli (1910-1976) and sheds light on Cagli’s captivating human and intellectual journey during his transformative years in the United States, from 1939 to 1948.
With this Corrado Cagli Study Day, CIMA’s Research Fellows join prominent and emerging scholars to investigate the themes at the center of the exhibition within and outside of established critical frameworks.
The conference will take place in person at the Center for Italian Modern Art, and will include a keynote address followed by scholarly panels.
Conference Program
10AM – Registration and breakfast buffet
10:30AM – Keynote address
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev (Castello di Rivoli – Museo di Arte Contemporanea, Turin), Artisti in guerra / Artists In a Time of War. A Sadly Topical Exhibition
11:30AM – Panel 1 – Politics of Representation: Fascism, its Arts, and their Circulation
Joseph Perna (NYU), Circulatory Systems; Terni ’34, Rome ’38
Lorenzo Carletti (Liceo Artistico F. Russoli, Pisa, and Università di Pisa), Cristiano Giometti (Università di Firenze), MoMA, Summer 1940: Fascism and Democracy in a Never Realized Exhibition
Cristiana Antonelli (Università di Pisa), The War Quadriennal (1943): Rhetoric and Ambivalences in the Last Major Fascist Exhibition
Sophia Farmer (University of Arkansas – Fort Smith), Identity, Heritage, and Ecology: Questions of Ethics and Sustainability in the Preservation and (Re)Construction of Fascist Era Monuments
1PM – 2PM – Lunch break – Light buffet lunch will be provided
2PM – Panel 2 – Cagli’s Strategies in Context: Identity, Practice, Iconography
John Champagne (Penn State Behrend), Corrado Cagli and the Italian Vice. Reconfiguring the History of Modern Homosexuality
Filippo Bosco (Scuola Normale Superiore), Lines of Marginality: Dedication, Repetition, and Constraint in Cagli’s Draftsmanship of Exile
Caterina Caputo (IUAV, Venice), Corrado Cagli and the Surrealist Circle in New York in the 1940s: Artworks and Contexts
3:30PM – Panel 3 – Departures and Returns: Art in Times of Exile and Displacement
Rachel Perry (University of Haifa), Survivor Artists in Italy: Regina Lichter-Liron’s Holocaust Album, 1939-1945
Davide Spagnoletto (Università di Roma Tre), Jewish Roots in Exile: from Corrado Cagli to Dario Viterbo
Peter Benson Miller (Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio), Corrado Cagli and Eugene Berman: Partners in Exile
The Corrado Cagli Study Day at CIMA is made possible with the generous support of the Tiro a Segno Foundation.
