Tour at the Art Institute: The Construction of Space in Italian Art

Cultural Institute this year, Professor Giovanni Aloi, School of the Art Institute, will lead a tour at the Art Institute of Chicago focusing on Italian paintings from the Middle Ages to Surrealism.

The tour is limited to 25 people. The group will meet just inside the Michigan Avenue entrance of The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S Michigan Avenue. 
Professor Aloi's three lectures looked at the history of representation in Italian art from the unrealistic organizations of space in medieval painting and the recovery of classical perspective that shaped the Renaissance to the fragmentation of space in modern and contemporary art. The series argued that the construction of space in art and architecture constitutes much more than a simple aesthetic solution in representation and that the ways in which Italian artists have constructed space in their work is part of a complex relationship which defines the essence of being human in a precise moment of time and place. 
Giovanni Aloi is an art historian in modern and contemporary art. He currently teaches at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Sotheby's Institute of Art New York and London, and Tate Galleries. He regularly lectures on modern and contemporary art at the Art Institute of Chicago. His work has been translated in Italian, Chinese, French, Russian, Polish, and Spanish.