The meetings at Palazzo Blu in Pisa are back on the occasion of the “KEITH HARING” exhibition
On the occasion of the exhibition “KEITH HARING“Set up in the halls of Palazzo Blu from 12 November 2021 until 17 April 2022, the BLU Foundation Palace of Art and Culture proposes an interesting program of meetings that will take place at the Auditorium, in via Pietro Toselli 27 in Pisa, during the course of the exhibition.
The cycle of appointments will investigate some aspects of the Pop-Art movement and the historical, artistic, cultural connected to it, with journalists, art critics, authors and professors of art history who will be able to give wider scope to the themes that the show offers.
The programa:
1st meeting at 5.30 pm, Thursday 16 December 2021
“Tuttomondo, behind the scenes”
with Piergiorgio Castellani, Lorenzo Bani, Andrea De Gioia, the protagonists of Keith Haring’s Pisan adventure in 1989.
2nd meeting at 5.30 pm, Thursday 27 January 2021
“Francesco Barbieri & Arnaldo Texts”
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 e Francesco Barbieri, artist and post-graffiti scholar.
3rd meeting at 5.30 pm, Friday 18 February 2022
“Let’s paint all the walls. Houses, alleys and buildings “.
Life, works and curiosities of Keith Haring
with Marco Carminati, art, writer and historian journalist responsible for the La Domenica de IlSole24Ore art pages.
4th meeting at 17.30, 24 or 31 March 2022
“What will remain of these 80s? Keith Haring’s art in the age of innocence “
with Luca Beatrice, Italian art critic, curator and academic.
photo of Haring at work for the Tuttomondo mural, credit photo @DanielaMeucci for the Cineclub Arsenale collection