On the occasion of the exhibition "KEITH HARING" set up in the rooms of Palazzo Blu from 12 November 2021 to 17 April 2022, the Fondazione Palazzo Blu d'Arte e Cultura is proposing an interesting programme of meetings that will take place at the Auditorium, in via Pietro Toselli 27, Pisa, during the course of the exhibition.
The series of appointments will investigate some aspects of the Pop-Art movement and the historical, artistic and cultural period connected to it, with journalists, art critics, authors and art history professors who will be able to give a wider scope to the themes that the exhibition offers.
The programme:
1st meeting at 5.30 p.m., Thursday 16 December 2021
"Tuttomondo, behind the scenes".
With Piergiorgio Castellani, Lorenzo Bani, Andrea De Gioia, the protagonists of Keith Haring's 1989 Pisan adventure.
2nd meeting at 5.30 p.m., Thursday 27 January 2022
"Francesco Barbieri & Arnaldo Testi"
A conversation about Keith Haring's New York and the rest of the scene
With Arnaldo Testi, Professor of US History at the University of Pisa and Francesco Barbieri, artist and post-graffiti scholar.
3rd meeting at 5.30 p.m., Friday 18 February 2022
"Let's colour all the walls. Houses, alleys and buildings".
Life, works and curiosities of Keith Haring
With Marco Carminati, art historian, writer and journalist responsible for the art pages of La Domenica de IlSole24Ore.
4th meeting at 5.30 p.m., 24 or 31 March 2022
"What will remain of the 1980s? Keith Haring's art in the age of innocence".
With Luca Beatrice, Italian art critic, curator and academic.
In the auditorium and live streaming from the Palazzo Blu website and Facebook page.
Reservation required through Eventbrite website.
