Rome in the building of South American Art and academies in the long Ninenteenth century

GIULIA MURACE

Buenos Aires

Workshop; Mobility, objects, materials, concepts, actors II Transregional Academy on Latin American Art; 2017

Forum Transregionale Studien, UNTREF

Since the last quarter of the nineteenth century, numerous Latin American artists arrived in Rome to perfect their artistic education. Giulia Murace?s project aims to investigate the mobility of artists in their status as ?marginal cosmopolitans? and, from a transnational perspective, the different ideas that circulated in this period regarding contemporary artistic tendencies. She analyzes the education of these artists, the social networks that they built and the dynamics with which they developed their own careers. The project proposes to examine the different artistic and cultural manifestations in Rome at the end of the century from the point of view of the artists and South American intellectuals. It compares the pictorial and sculptural production of these artists with what was produced contemporaneously in Rome and in the rest of Europe, and with what South American artists produced in the other European centers. The objective of this research is to note, from a critical analysis, the relevance of Rome in the process of the construction of the South American artistic field, putting it in dialogue and, if necessary, in dispute with the recognized capitals of modernity, first among them, Paris. This project proppses that Paris was not the only cultural capital of reference for South America during the second half of the nineteenth century, and Rome has not been considered enough by the local historiography. Without neglecting the importance of the French capital for the whole century, the proposal is to outline a more heterogeneous view of world political-artistic geography.