"Blank Spaces of the Graphic Arts - Function, aesthetics and meaning of the undesignated space"

The aim of the early modern workshop is to pursue the unsigned body in its various expressions and functions as an active image-determining element. The contributions of the workshop are based on fundamental questions concerning concrete physical properties of the blank paper, semantic as well as image-theoretical differentiations of the phenomenon of the void depending on the technique and subject of the work. In doing so, the gaze focuses, among other things, on the brightness and darkness of the material nothing, as well as on atmospheric landscape spaces as open places of potential, metaphysical and artistic reflections. Furthermore, it is examined how and with what aesthetic implications in the print graphic an exemption of the figure may be due to different motivations or which gaps art-historical contemplation itself produces. Another focus of the event is the relationship between image and text (omission).

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PROGRAMM

Donnerstag, 18. Januar 2018

14:30
Begrüßung:
Gerhard Wolf

Einführung:
Lisa Jordan und Elvira Bojilova

Moderation: Maria Aresin

15:00
Iris Brahms (Freie Universität Berlin)
Luft, Licht, Leere, Leinen, Lapsus. Konnotationspotentiale von Papier auf Zeichnungen um 1600

15:30
Heiko Damm (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Mut zur Lücke. Zur Ästhetik der Aussparung im zeichnerischen Werk von Luca Giordano

16:00 Pause

Moderation: Samuel Vitali

16:30
Anna Christina Schütz (Universität Stuttgart)
Himmlische Leere. Die unbezeichnete Fläche auf gezeichneten Landschaften um 1500

17:00
Huigen Leeflang (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
The printmaker Hercules Segers and his experiments with surface and space

17:30 Pause

Moderation: Jessica Richardson

18:00
Renzo Baldasso (Arizona State University)
The Aesthetic of White in the Early Black Art

18:30
Lisa Pon (Southern Methodist University)
Blank Forms: Print, Paper, and the Invitation to Inscribe


Freitag, 19. Januar 2018

Moderation: Felix Jäger

10:00
Franz Engel (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Negative Präsenz. Die Persistenz des Chaos im Bildgrund

10:30
Margareta Ingrid Christian (University of Chicago)
Luftraum: Empty Space in Riegl's Studies on the Baroque

11:00 Pause

Moderation: Irene Gilodi

11:30
Stephanie Porras (Tulane University)
Graphic absence, the excerpt and the print collection

12:00
Anja Wolkenhauer (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen)
Die Fragilität der Medienmischung (Der Text als Leerstelle)

12:30 Pause

14:30
Besuch des Gabinetto dei Disegni e delle Stampe degli U zi (nur für Vortragende)
mit Marzia Faietti, Roberta Aliventi, Laura Da Rin Bettina, Michele Grasso und Pierluca Nardoni