Enrico Pedrini
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Enrico Pedrini is an academic, theorist and collector of Conceptual Art
. He is a professor of epistemology in Italy.
. Pedrini’s collection is focused on Dada
, Fluxus
, Minimal Art, Arte Povera
, Vienna Aktionismus, and Graffiti Art. His books and articles examine issues in Anthropological Art, Conceptual Art, and Possibilism
, and include John Cage
, Happenings, and Fluxus (1986) and The Quantic Machine and the Second Avant-Garde (1991) in which he discusses the relation between quantum theory
and the visual arts movements of the 1960s.
Pedrini studies the interaction of dissipating systems, chaos theory
, and new potential in art. He is known as a curator of international exhibitions, including the Studio Oggetto in Milan, the Gallery Persano in Turin, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Nice, and the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in New York City. He curated, with Wolfgang Becker
, the Taiwanese Pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale
.
Conceptual art
Conceptual art is art in which the concept or idea involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. Many of the works, sometimes called installations, of the artist Sol LeWitt may be constructed by anyone simply by following a set of written instructions...
. He is a professor of epistemology in Italy.
Research and curation
He places particular emphasis on the work of Bernar Vernet, Art and Language, and Victor BurginVictor Burgin
Victor Burgin is an artist and a writer. Burgin first came to attention as a conceptual artist in the late 1960s and at that time was most noted for being a political photographer of the left, who would fuse photographs and words in the same picture. He has worked with photography and film,...
. Pedrini’s collection is focused on Dada
Dada
Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...
, Fluxus
Fluxus
Fluxus—a name taken from a Latin word meaning "to flow"—is an international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s. They have been active in Neo-Dada noise music and visual art as well as literature, urban planning,...
, Minimal Art, Arte Povera
Arte Povera
Arte Povera is a modern art movement. The term was introduced in Italy during the period of upheaval at the end of the 1960s, when artists were taking a radical stance. Artists began attacking the values of established institutions of government, industry, and culture, and even questioning whether...
, Vienna Aktionismus, and Graffiti Art. His books and articles examine issues in Anthropological Art, Conceptual Art, and Possibilism
Possibilism
Possibilism may refer to:* Possibilism , a theory of cultural geography* Possibilism , a 1880s faction of the Federation of the Socialist Workers of France...
, and include John Cage
John Cage
John Milton Cage Jr. was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher and artist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music, electroacoustic music, and non-standard use of musical instruments, Cage was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde...
, Happenings, and Fluxus (1986) and The Quantic Machine and the Second Avant-Garde (1991) in which he discusses the relation between quantum theory
Introduction to quantum mechanics
Quantum mechanics is the body of scientific principles that explains the behavior of matter and its interactions with energy on the scale of atoms and atomic particles....
and the visual arts movements of the 1960s.
Pedrini studies the interaction of dissipating systems, chaos theory
Chaos theory
Chaos theory is a field of study in mathematics, with applications in several disciplines including physics, economics, biology, and philosophy. Chaos theory studies the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions, an effect which is popularly referred to as the...
, and new potential in art. He is known as a curator of international exhibitions, including the Studio Oggetto in Milan, the Gallery Persano in Turin, the Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain in Nice, and the Williamsburg Art & Historical Center in New York City. He curated, with Wolfgang Becker
Wolfgang Becker
Wolfgang Becker is a German film director and writer. He is best known to the international audience for his work Good Bye Lenin! .-Biography:...
, the Taiwanese Pavilion at the 1995 Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
.