Federico Ferrari (born 15 September 1969) is an Italian

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and

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. He teaches Philosophy of Art at Brera Academy, in Milan, Italy.

Career

Under the influence of Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy he has published many essays on philosophy, as well as literature. He has written two books with Jean-Luc Nancy: the first on the subject of nude, the second on the iconography of the writer. More recently, he has focused on the ontological state of the image, the deconstruction of the museum in postmodernity, and the question of art and/or in time. In 2011 he theorized the aesthetics of "Arte Essenziale", which manifested itself in the show held at Collezione Maramotti (

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, Italy) and at

Frankfurter Kunstverein The Frankfurt Art Association (german: link=no, Frankfurter Kunstverein) is an art museum founded in 1829 by a group of influential citizens of the city of Frankfurt, Germany. The aim of the institution is to support the arts in the city, which w ...

(Germany).

Eugenio Viola Eugenio Viola (Naples, 1975) is an Italian art critic and curator based in Bogotá. Viola is the current Chief Curator of the Bogota Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO), Colombia, and Curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 59th International Art Exh ...

writes of Ferrari, "In a time when many continue to lament what they see as the inexorable decline of theory’s role in criticism, "Arte essenziale" (Essential Art), curated by philosopher Federico Ferrari, does its part to placate concerns with an exploration of the ties that link artistic practice and philosophical speculation. The show focuses on the Wesen, or essence, of a work of art—a notion that has always been inextricably linked with a search for the new." Arte essenziale
by Eugenio Viola in "Artforum"

Bibliography

* ''La comunità errante. Bataille e l’esperienza comunitaria'', Milano, Lanfranchi, 1997 * ''Nudità. Per una critica silenziosa'', Milano, Lanfranchi, 1999 * ''Wolfgang Laib'', Venezia, West Zone 1999 * ''Nus sommes. La peau des images'', with Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Klincksieck 2002 (Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2003; Berlin-Zűrich, Diaphanes 2006). Trans. Anne O'Byrne and Carlie Anglemire as "Being Nude The Skin of Images", New York, Fordham University Press, (2014) * ''Lo spazio critico. Note per una decostruzione dell’istituzione museale'', Roma, Sossella, 2004 (with Johannes Cladders, Rosalind Krauss, Federico Nicolao, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Harald Szeemann) * ''La convocazione'', with Tomas Maia e Federico Nicolao, Genova, Chorus, 2006 * ''Costellazioni. Saggi sull'immagine, il tempo e la memoria'', Milano, Lanfranchi, 2006 * ''Iconographie dell'auteur'', with Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Galilée 2005 (Roma, Sossella, 2006; Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo 2008) * ''Del contemporaneo. Saggi su arte e tempo'', with Jean-Luc Nancy, Georges Didi-Huberman, Nathalie Heinich, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Milano 2007, Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori * ''Sub specie aeternitatis. Arte ed etica'', Reggio Emilia, Diabasis, 2008 * ''Il re è nudo. Aristocrazia e anarchia dell'arte'', Roma, Sossella, 2011 * ''Arte essenziale'', Milano, Silvana, 2011 * ''L'insieme vuoto. Per una pragmatica dell'immagine'', Milano, Johan & Levi, 2013 * ''L'anarca'', Milano, Mimesis, 2014 * ''La fin des fins. Scène en deux actes'', with Jean-Luc Nancy, Nantes, Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2015 * ''Visioni. Scritti sull'arte'', Milano, Lanfranchi, 2016 * ''Oscillazioni. Frammenti di un'autobiografia'', Milano, SE, 2016

Video lectures

* Ferrari, Federico
Arte essenziale
Collezione Maramotti. 2011. (Italian)

References

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