FRANCESCO GUZZETTI

Fall 2014

Francesco Guzzetti is a doctoral candidate at the Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa. His dissertation concerns the artistic dialogues between Italy and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s, comparing the productions of Conceptual and Arte Povera artists and their ways of rereading the work of earlier artists, such as Medardo Rosso and the Futurists, and their American Abstract Art counterparts. This work builds on his master’s degree, which explored the 1970 exhibition Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art in Turin. In 2010 he curated the exhibition Ennio Morlotti, 1945-47 at the Museo del Novecento, Milan. Among his publications are “Carrà di fronte a Giotto: la monografia del 1924 per Valori Plastici” (ONH Opera Nomina Historiae, no. 7, forthcoming 2014) and “Marini, o della policromia / Marini, or on polychromy” in the exhibition catalogue Marino Marini: Cavalli e Cavalieri / Horses and Riders (Museo d’Arte Moderna, Nuora; Silvana Editoriale, 2012).

For his CIMA fellowship he will be conducting research on Rosso’s legacy and critical reception after World War II.