Public Defence Doctoral Thesis Giovanna Caimmi

About the Defence

The Ph.D. project of Giovanna Caimmi, an artist and professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna, takes up from perceiving a dual nature of her own, a “Double Track” of the mind: a dualism, a double gaze that the artist places in a cultural interstice between Northern and Southern Europe, since birth and owing to her ancestry, with the impossibility of choosing an affiliation.

By constantly analyzing her own work and artistic poetic, she compares the Northern lights with the Southern ones, the landscape, the relationship with the artistic medium, the idea of Space, the visual grammars that inhabit the two parts of ancient Europe; a discourse that uses the gap and the visual connection between images and writing, the slips and trips as a thinking pattern, main elements for Caimmi as a visual artist and image/thinker.

Investigating among the fascinations and nostalgias that lured like magnets the artists towards the two European poles of thought and feeling, Giovanna Caimmi detects her own interlocutors in the present just as in the past, timelessly, in real or imaginary dialogues, in the most ancient visual arts and in contemporary, in cinematography, poetry, philosophy, psychology.

A constant presence of images coming from these cultural worlds is associated with a distilled synthesis of her artworks, often monumental even though only apparently fragile, building upon ruins, upon remains, fragments inserted in a solid visual and conceptual structure.

After the doctoral defence everyone is invited to the opening of Giovanna Caimmi’s solo exhibition. The exhibition showcases the body of artworks produced in the context of her doctoral research.

Date and locations:

• Tuesday March 26th 2025
• Defence: 14h00 - 17h00
• Opening Exhibition: 17h00 - 19h00
• PXL MAD, Elfde Liniestraat 25, 3500 Hasselt

Registration

You can register for the PhD defence of Giovanna Caimmi via this Google Form.

Please fill in this form before March 22th 2025.