This edition of "Light Art in Italy 2012 - Temporary installations" is stron-gly focused on the artists of light. My choice responds to a need forclarity between light art and lightdesign. Having worked and re-searched in this field for years, I am aware of the closerelationshipand overlap of art and design, and in fact, even at my work for the Po-litecnico of Milan, I have always promoted an active interaction bet-ween the two sectors.
Title: Light art in Italy 2012
Author(s): Gisella Gellini
Publisher: Maggioli SpA
Year of publication: 06/2013
Pages: 252
Book series: Politecnica
Series: Essay
Topic: Design
Language: English
ISBN code: 8838762198
EAN code: 9788838762192
Gisella Gellini
Gisella Gellini, Architect, graduated in Florence with a study about the refurbishment and museal concept of Schifanoia Palace in Ferrara (XIV century). After that, she attended research courses and masters in experimental aesthetics focused on the space-time-light topics. She went to Sao Paulo in Brazil, where she designed many important buildings, such as the Santa Marcellina Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and history-oriented settings in other brazilian cities. At the same time she carried out a consultancy for the Centre of Study and Research of the Sao Paulo State. A researcher in the field of the light's culture, with a particular reference to Light Art, she obtained the co-operation and consultancy of the great art collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. In 2009 she was invited as curator of the exhibition "Dan Flavin in the Panza Collection", set up at the Berardo Museum, Lisboa. then during Euroluce of Milan, she curated the Nicola Evangelisti installation "Light Blade", at Villa Reale. In 2010, on the occasion of Luminale, she was invited as curator of "Luces. Light Art from Italy", a collective exhibition of Italian light's artists, set up at the Archaelo-gical Museum of Franfkurt. At present she is inolved in the organisation of an anthological exhibition of works from the Panza Collection at the Tomie-Ohtake Museum of Sao Paulo, an exhibition within the "Momento Italia-Brasile 2011-2012" major event.