Biography:Federico Ferrari

Short description: Italian philosopher and art critic

Federico Ferrari
Born	(1969-09-15) 15 September 1969 Milan, Italy
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy
Main interests	Aesthetics
Notable ideas	Arte essenziale
Influences Blanchot · Nancy

Federico Ferrari (born 15 September 1969) is an Italian philosopher and art critic. He teaches Philosophy of Art at Brera Academy, in Milan, Italy.

Career

Under the influence of Maurice Blanchot and Jean-Luc Nancy he has published many essays on philosophy, as well as literature. He has written two books with Jean-Luc Nancy: the first on the subject of nude, the second on the iconography of the writer. More recently, he has focused on the ontological state of the image, the deconstruction of the museum in postmodernity, and the question of art and/or in time. In 2011 he theorized the aesthetics of "Arte Essenziale", which manifested itself in the show held at Collezione Maramotti (Reggio Emilia, Italy) and at Frankfurter Kunstverein (Germany). Eugenio Viola writes of Ferrari, "In a time when many continue to lament what they see as the inexorable decline of theory’s role in criticism, "Arte essenziale" (Essential Art), curated by philosopher Federico Ferrari, does its part to placate concerns with an exploration of the ties that link artistic practice and philosophical speculation. The show focuses on the Wesen, or essence, of a work of art—a notion that has always been inextricably linked with a search for the new."

Bibliography

• La comunità errante. Bataille e l’esperienza comunitaria, Milano, Lanfranchi, 1997 ISBN:978-88-363-0066-2
• Nudità. Per una critica silenziosa, Milano, Lanfranchi, 1999 ISBN:978-88-363-0068-6
• Wolfgang Laib, Venezia, West Zone 1999
• Nus sommes. La peau des images, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Klincksieck 2002 (Torino, Bollati Boringhieri, 2003; Berlin-Zűrich, Diaphanes 2006). Trans. Anne O'Byrne and Carlie Anglemire as "Being Nude The Skin of Images", New York, Fordham University Press, (2014) ISBN:9780823256204
• Lo spazio critico. Note per una decostruzione dell’istituzione museale, Roma, Sossella, 2004 (with Johannes Cladders, Rosalind Krauss, Federico Nicolao, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Giulio Paolini, Claudio Parmiggiani, Harald Szeemann) ISBN:978-88-87995-82-4
• La convocazione, with Tomas Maia e Federico Nicolao, Genova, Chorus, 2006
• Costellazioni. Saggi sull'immagine, il tempo e la memoria, Milano, Lanfranchi, 2006 ISBN:978-88-363-0075-4
• Iconographie dell'auteur, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Paris, Galilée 2005 (Roma, Sossella, 2006; Tokyo, Chikuma Shobo 2008) ISBN:978-88-89829-11-0
• Del contemporaneo. Saggi su arte e tempo, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Georges Didi-Huberman, Nathalie Heinich, Jean-Christophe Bailly, Milano 2007, Pearson Paravia Bruno Mondadori
• Sub specie aeternitatis. Arte ed etica, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis, 2008 ISBN:978-88-8103-524-3
• Il re è nudo. Aristocrazia e anarchia dell'arte, Roma, Sossella, 2011 ISBN:978-88-89829-94-3
• Arte essenziale, Milano, Silvana, 2011 ISBN:978-88-3662-055-5
• L'insieme vuoto. Per una pragmatica dell'immagine, Milano, Johan & Levi, 2013 ISBN:9788860100924
• L'anarca, Milano, Mimesis, 2014 ISBN:9788857526898
• La fin des fins. Scène en deux actes, with Jean-Luc Nancy, Nantes, Éditions Cécile Defaut, 2015 ISBN:9782350183664
• Visioni. Scritti sull'arte, Milano, Lanfranchi, 2016 ISBN:978-8836300815
• Oscillazioni. Frammenti di un'autobiografia, Milano, SE, 2016 ISBN:9788867232116

Video lectures

• Ferrari, Federico. Arte essenziale. Collezione Maramotti. 2011. (Italian)