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Corrado Cagli Research Fellowships - Center for Italian Modern Art, NY

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Posted by: Center for Italian Modern Art
Deadline: Fri, June 30th, 2023

General Information

Each year the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA) awards multiple Fellowships to support research on and the study of Italian modern and contemporary art for doctoral and post-doctoral scholars. Citizens of all nationalities are eligible. CIMA offers a unique experience to its fellows: its exhibition program serves as a hub for scholars from different academic backgrounds to share—with each other and with the public—research that speaks to the artworks on view. 

 

Fall-Winter 2023-24 Fellowships

CIMA’s Fall-Winter 2023-24 exhibition will be dedicated to Italian artist Corrado Cagli and focus on the human and intellectual trajectory of the years he spent in the United States, between 1938 and 1948. As a Jewish and openly gay artist, starting in 1937 Cagli became the target of antisemitic attacks from reactionary critics within the fascist regime. As Italy promulgated its racial laws in 1938, Cagli left the country for the United States, where he became a protagonist of the New York émigré artistic scene; as World War II raged, he enrolled in the US Army, training on the West Coast, and traveled back to Europe, where he participated in historical events such as D-Day and the liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp. At the end of the war, he played a key role in re-establishing cultural relationships between Italy and the US thanks to his collaboration with Irene Brin and the Roman Galleria L’Obelisco. During the ten years of his American stay, Cagli continued to produce and exhibit drawings—a medium that became a particularly apt instrument to interrogate and critique the magniloquence of the fascist rhetoric that Cagli himself had contributed to delineate. Besides the themes of war, exile, and discrimination, the drawings in the exhibition will also address Cagli’s multifaceted engagement with the New York Surrealist and Neo-romantic milieu, as well las his collaboration with George Balanchine and the Ballet Society.

  

The deadline for this CIMA Fellowship application is Friday, June 30, 2023. The selection process will be completed by mid-July 2023 and may include a phone or video interview if necessary. Application materials must be submitted in English.

 

You can find the complete Call for Applications and the instructions to submit an application at this address:

https://www.italianmodernart.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/CIMA_Cagli_CFA.pdf

 

For any questions regarding the fellowship and application procedure, please contact CIMA at info@italianmodernart.org

Posted on Mon, June 5th, 2023
Expires on Fri, June 30th, 2023

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