Homage and SymposiumAugust 26, 2015

A Tribute to Ivonne Pini5th International Art History Symposium

The 5th International Art History Symposium will be held next September 3, 4, and 5. For this 5th edition, the theme is "In Search of What Is Ours," and the event will feature a tribute to professor Ivonne Pini. Universidad de los Andes' 5th International Art History Symposium focuses on the question for "what is ours." In recent years, since the consolidation of our Program as Colombia's premier Art History program, this symposium has inquired about the place of Art History as a discipline (thinking art history, here and now) and its connections with other fields (critical dialogs), as well as transnational encounters in Latin American art (here, there, and in the middle), and the migration of artistic forms from different contexts and their appropriation by local artists (between what is ours and what is not). In other words, a concern for the relationship between the local, the regional, and the global has been constant, and it is revisited in this 5th Symposium. On this occasion, we will review some of the threads explores in previous editions, and will open new questions around the paradoxes that emerge from those relationships: how to conceive what is "ours" in a globalized world? In what ways have the arts expressed this paradoxical situation? What does "ours" mean in the context of the emerging nations of the Nineteenth Century? What are the tensions between texts and artworks that seek to define identity or reflect on it? For this symposium, we take as our starting point the investigations carried out by Ivonne Pini, whose work has influenced several generations of Colombian art historians. Ivonne Pini is a historian from Universidad de Montevideo, her native city, and she did her postgraduate studies at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in the year 2000. Prominent among her research interests is the search for memory in Colombia and Latin America. She has taught both at Universidad Nacional—where she is professor emerita—and at Universidad de los Andes. Between 1982 and 2012, Ivonne Pini was Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes' Art Department, where she taught courses in History and Theory of Art to several generations of artists. Since 2010, she has remained connected to the university as a professor, teaching in the Art History program. Her activity as a critic and her interventions in many debates have been reflected in her work as executive editor of ArtNexus Magazine and as a member of Ensayos Magazine's advisory committee. For more information about the symposium and videos with commentary on the Ivonne Pini tribute, visit: https://arte.uniandes.edu.co/evento/enbuscadelopropio/
A Tribute to Ivonne Pini5th International Art History Symposium | artnexus