The Art historian and critic Tomás Llorens Serra, will offer the conference ‘Modernity and avant-garde’, today Thursday, 5 May at the Cultural Centre La Nau. The first director of the IVAM and with an extensive trajectory at the world of art acknowledge with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2007, will offer a conference at 19 hours, at the Paranimf, in an act that will be broadcasted live in http://mediauni.uv.es/vcultura/
This event is framed in the commemoration of the first centenary of the Saint Juan de Ribera Hall of Residence in Burjassot. Llorens, who precisely started his training in this school, invites to review the very concept of modernity and its influence, not just in Art creation and reception, but also in the historiographic speech.
From his multidisciplinary perspective, he will reflect on the modernity of the artistic life of the XX century, understand as a normative criterion similar to the notion of beauty during the Renaissance.
Exactly as happened with this notion, the way of understanding modernity has evolved with time by influencing the task of the historian and the representation of art in the recent past. The most serious deformations come, probably, from the systematic confusion between modernity and avant-garde.
This reflection on the changes in the way of understanding art and building the historiographic speech around it, it is added to the cycle of conferences given at La Nau on the occasion of the centenary of the Saint Juan de Ribera Hall of Residence and that gives voices to referents from different areas of knowledge that were once students of the institution.
About Tomás Llorens Serra
The intellectual biography of Tomás Llorens Serra (Almassora, 1936) can be understand as the fussion of a marked passion for art with a clear commitment with society. His intense vital trajectory around culture makes possible to describe him in several ways (theoric, historian and art critic; creator and director of museums; university professor...) without this diversity implying that his dedication to each of this areas has not been high and valuable productive. He studied his first four years of the Law degree as a scholarship holder student of the then called Blessed Saint Juan de Ribera Hall of Residence, in Burjassot, getting his degree at the end at the Central University of Madrid. Afterwards, he started the studies of the llicenciatura (former Spanish undergraduate degree) in Philosophy and Humanities, this time again at the Valencian university. He has been Aesthetics professor at the Architecture schools of Valencia, Portsmouth, Barcelona and Alicante.
He has also taught Theory and Art History at the University of Girona. He exercised as General Director of Artistic Heritage at the Valencian Government. He was the promoter and first director of the IVAM, as well as Director of the MNCARS and Chief Curator of the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. He has written several articles and books about art and architecture. He also publishes regularly in the national press. He has commissioned extraordinarily relevant exhibitions in Spain and the rest of Europe. He was awarded with the Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts in 2007 and he was invested Honorary Doctor by the University of Alacant in 2013, when he was also declared adopted son of the city of Valencia.
More information about the congress on: http://www.sanjuanderibera.es/
Last update: 5 de may de 2016 08:00.
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