Conferenza presso la Scuola Normale
Nei giorni 2 e 3 maggio 2025, presso la Sala Azzurra della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Palazzo della Carovana), si terrà la conferenza “Pseudoscripts. (Il)legibility & Ornamentation”, co-organizzata da Gregor Christopher Meinecke (Scuola Normale Superiore), Luca Palozzi (Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere dell’Università di Pisa) e Vera Simone Schulz. L’incontro si terrà in presenza a Pisa con la possibilità di partecipare a distanza via Zoom.
Inoltre, nelle giornate del 9 e del 17 maggio, i lavori della conferenza proseguiranno online via Zoom.
Link Zoom per partecipare online:
Link registration ZOOM 2 / 3 May
Intervengono:
- José Gabriel Alegría – Bibliotheca Hertziana, Roma
- Tairan An – Princeton University
- Jane Boddy – Kupferstich-Kabinett, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden
- Francesco Caglioti – Scuola Normale Superiore
- Paolo Celi – Università degli Studi di Padova
- Mela Dávila Freire – Hochschule für Bildende Künste, Hamburg
- Regine Ehleiter – Universität Münster
- Flavio Fergonzi – Scuola Normale Superiore
- Sarah Flitti – Sorbonne Université, Paris
- Nan Han – 中央美术学院 (Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing)
- Michael Kiefer – Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Charlotte Langersdorf – Royal College of Art London/Düsseldorf
- Giovanni Lusi – Scuola Normale Superiore
- Gregor Meinecke – Scuola Normale Superiore / Universität Hamburg
- Jakob Moser – Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Austrian Academy of Science)
- Kate Nesin – Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago
- Luca Palozzi – Universtità di Pisa
- Isabel Ruiz Garnelo – UNED, Madrid
- Vera Simone Schulz – Leuhpana Universität Lüneburg/Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz
- Alex Dika Seggerman – Rutgers University-Newark
- Joanna Sikorska – Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie (National Museum in Warsaw)/Uniwersytet Warszawski (University of Warsaw)
- Marta Smolińska – Uniwersytet Artystyczny im. Magdaleny Abakanowicz (Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznań)
- Pablo Violero Rodríguez – Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- Rebecca Wrighton – University of Rhode Island
- Yuefeng Wu – Johns Hopkins University
- Rabiu Yussuf – Ahmadu Bello University
Programma
Friday, 2 May 2025, 9:45–18:30
9:45
Greetings (Francesco Caglioti) & Introduction (Gregor Meinecke, Luca Palozzi, Vera-Simone Schulz)
The Iconicity of Arabic in Transcultural Contexts I
10:30–11:00
Rebecca Wrighton – University of Rhode Island
The Arabic Kāf: A Case Study in Epigraphic Patterns on Early Islamic Ceramics
11:00–11:30
Alex Seggerman – Rutgers University-Newark
Photographic (Il)legibility of Florence Pseudo-Arabic at the KHI Photothek in Florence
11:30–12:00 Coffee break
The Iconicity of Arabic in Transcultural Contexts II
12:00–12:30
Nan Han – Central Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai
Between Legibility and Illegibility: Arabic Lettering in Neapolitan Panels
12:30–13:00
Michael Kiefer – University of Heidelberg
Inscribing the Emperor – The Semiotics of Pseudo-Kufic Ornaments on Middle Byzantine Items of Dress
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch break
The Aesthetics of Early Modern Mediality I: Bodies & Demons
14:30–15:00
José Gabriel Alegría – Stony Brook University/Bibliotheca Hertziana
The Dark Script of the Mystical Body: The Aesthetic Role of Inscription in the Mundus Archetypus (1574)
15:00–15:30
Jakob Moser – Austrian Academy of Science
Demonic Illegibility. Pseudoscript and Temptation in Bernardo Parentino’s St. Anthony. (Online)
15:30–16:00 Coffee break
The Aesthetics of Early Modern Mediality II: Artistic Signatures
16:00–16:30
Paolo Celi – University of Padua
Writing in Bronzino’s Paintings: A Paleographic Analysis of Models and Hidden Meanings
16:30–17:00
Joanna Sikorska – Department of Prints and Drawings, National Museum Warsaw/University of Warsaw
Early Printed Signatures. Between Self-Fashioning and Encryption
17:00–17:30 Coffee Break
Beyond Legibility: Asemic Writing and Cultural Critique
17:30–18:00
Charlotte Langersdorf – London/Düsseldorf
Writing at the Interface: Rethinking Interaction through Asemic Writing
18:00–18:30
Regine Ehleiter – Berlin/Centre for Advanced Study: Access to Cultural Goods in Digital Change, University of Münster
Between Reading and Viewing: The Asemic Writing of Mirtha Dermisache’s Artists’ Publications
20:00 Optional Dinner
Saturday, May 3, 2025, 10:00–17:30
10:00 – 13:00 Museo San Matteo
13:00–14:30 Lunch Break
Decoding Iberian Pseudo-scripts: Spirituality and Authorship
14:30–15:00
Sarah Flitti – Sorbonne Université Paris
“The Epigraphic Invention of the Sepulchre: Fifteenth-Century Altarpieces from the Crown of Aragon”
15:00–15:30
Isabel Ruiz Garnelo – Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid
Script and Pseudo-Script in the Master of Alzira: spirituality, ornamentation, or a tool for identifying authorship? (Online)
15:30—16:00
Pablo Violero Rodríguez – Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
(Pseudo)scripts in the Iberian ornamentation in the Late Middle Ages
16:00–16:30 Coffee Break
Letters, Marks, and Meaning: Exploring Contemporary Art’s Inscriptions I
16:30 –17:00
Marta Smolińska – Magdalena Abakanowicz University of the Arts, Poznań
Epistemic Trauma: Illegibility as a Subversive Strategy Against Censorship in Eastern European Art of the 1980s. (Online, Berlin, CET)
17:00–17:30
Mela Dávila Freire – University of Fine Arts Hamburg
Eigenschriften and other “Blank Writing” Works by Irma Blank
Additional Online Dates
Friday, May 9, 2025, 14:00–17:00
Online
Transcultural Echoes I: Pseudo-Scripts and Visual Communication Across Eurasia
2 pm – 2:30 pm
Yuefeng Wu – Johns Hopkins University, Writing Mongol in Medieval Assisi: Picturing the Universal Church at the Basilica of San Francesco
2:30 pm – 3 pm
An Tairan – Princeton University, The Unnatural Brushstroke: Athanasius Kircher, Late-Ming Seal Scripts, and the Origins of Chinoiserie Pseudoscripts
3 pm – 3:30 pm Coffee break
Letters, Marks, and Meaning: Exploring Inscriptions in Contemporary Art II
3:30 pm – 4 pm
Jane Boddy – Saarlandmuseum Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Rethinking Pseudo-Scripts: Material Messages of Ink and Form in Oskar Hollweck’s Drawings
4 pm – 4:30 pm
Kate Nesin – New York City/ Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Sense/Sensibility: A Typology of the Writing-Like in Cy Twombly’s Work
4:30 pm – 5 pm
Giovanni Lusi – Scuola Normale Superiore, Cy Twombly’s letters. Missives and Capitals
Saturday, May 17, 2025, 2:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Online
Transcultural Echoes II: Pseudo-Scripts across Afro-Eurasia
2:30 pm – 3 pm
Rabiu Yussuf – Ahmadu Bello University, Arabic (Pseudo-)Scripts in Nigerian Art: Tracing Mamluk Metalwork Influence on Metalwork Objects in Northern Nigeria
3 pm – 4 pm
Round Table Discussion: Arabic and Pseudo-Arabic Script in Contemporary Art in West Africa
4 pm – 4:30 pm Publication & Future Thoughts
Informazioni e contatti
gregor.meinecke@sns.it
vera-simone.schulz@leuphana.de
luca.palozzi@unipi.it
eventiculturali@sns.it
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