Jean Soldini Explained
Jean Soldini (born 13 March 1956 in Lugano) is a Swiss and French philosopher, art historian and poet.
Biography
He studied in Paris, where he earned the Habilitation à diriger des recherches (1995), after he graduated with a Ph.D. in philosophy and with a preceding Ph.D. in history of architecture.
Knowledge and hospitality
His studies are aimed to build a non-authoritarian metaphysics where aesthetics of hospitality plays a primary role within knowledge, looking for the possibility of a resistance against the annihilation of the Other. A resistance against the arrogance of any kind of authoritarian thinking with its multiform camouflages, with its never-ending threat against what is existing-with-other. The aesthetics of hospitality does not be confused with an aestheticization of hospitality. It is a philosophy involved to reflect on sensation through what has its focus on the senses: to donate and receive food, water, a roof for sleeping.Soldini is also author of essays on Alberto Giacometti, on the philosophical margins of a creative work that put into effect the vital desire to know radically.
Bibliography
- Monico. L'opera incisa, preface by Vittorio Fagone, Bellinzona, Casagrande,1987.
- La Pinacoteca Züst, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1988.
- Affreschi tardoromanici nel Battistero di Riva San Vitale, Bellinzona, Casagrande, 1990.
- Alberto Giacometti. Le colossal, la mère, le “sacré”, Lausanne, L'Age d'Homme, 1993.
- Saggio sulla discesa della bellezza. Linee per un'estetica, Milan, Jaca Book, 1995.
- Alberto Giacometti. La somiglianza introvabile, preface by René Schérer, Milan, Jaca Book, 1998.
- Cose che sporgono, “alla chiara fonte”, Lugano, 2004 (Book of the year 2005 of Swiss Schiller Foundation).
- Il riposo dell'amato. Una metafisica per l'uomo nell'epoca del mercato come fine unico, Milan, Jaca Book, 2005.
- "Storia, memoria, arte sacra tra passato e futuro", Sacre Arti, edited by F. Gualdoni, texts by T. Tzara, S. Yanagi, T. Burckhardt, 2008.
- “Resistance and Beauty of the Other”, FMR White Edition, Milan, 2008, n.4, pp. 96–109.
- Bivacchi, Ulivo, Balerna 2009.
- Resistenza e ospitalità, Milan, Jaca Book, 2010.
- A testa in giù. Per un'ontologia della vita in comune, preface by René Schérer, Milan, Mimesis, 2012.
- Tenere il passo, preface by Jean-Charles Vegliante, Edizioni Lietocolle, Faloppio (Como) 2014.
- Alberto Giacometti. L'espace et la force, Éditions Kimé, Paris, 2016.
- Graphics on the Border between Art and Thought / Alberto Giacometti. Grafica al confine fra arte e pensiero, edited by Jean Soldini and Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Skira, Milan 2020.
- Schiave e minatori. Versi per una scena, Museo Vela, Ligornetto 2021.
- Il cuore dell'essere,la grazia delle attrazioni. Tentativi di postantropocentrismo,preface by Roberto Diodato, Milan, Mimesis, 2022.
- Quaderno a righe. Poesie 2014-2022, preface by Angelo Maugeri, Forlimpopoli, L'Arcolaio, 2023.
References
- Sylvain Latendresse, “Giacometti: à l’ombre du marcheur”, Espace Sculpture, Montréal, n° 46, 1998.
- Terry Kirk, The Architecture of Modern Italy. The Challenge of Tradition 1750-1900, Princeton Architectural Press, New York 2005.
- Giovanni Trabucco, “Arte e Teologia”, Orientamenti bibliografici, edited by the Facoltà Teologica dell'Italia settentrionale, Milano 2006, 28.
- Maria Dolores Pesce, “Della trascendenza orizzontale”, dramma.it, 2006.
- Isabelle Roche, “La Revue Blanche FMR numéro 4”, Le Litteraire.com, 3 dicembre 2008.
- Christine Bouche, Alberto Giacometti. La femme, le sphinx et l'effroi, Paris, L'Harmattan, 2004.
- James Madge and Andrew Peckham, Narrating Architecture. A Retrospective Anthology, London, Routledge, 2006, p. 35.
- Julie F. Codell, The Political Economy of Art. Making the Nation of Culture, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, Madison, New Jersey 2008.
- Pascal Gabellone, La blessure du réel. La poésie et l'art à l'épreuve du monde, Parigi, L'Harmattan, 2011.
- Marco Martinelli, interview by, “«Ma noi siamo stranieri». Un incontro a Lido Adriano su ospitalità e libertà”, Cenobio, 2012, 1.
- Modesta di Paola, Ética de la hospitalidad lingüística, in "Interartive", 47, December 2012 http://interartive.org/2012/12/etica-hospitalidad-linguistica/
- Renato Miracco, “Alberto Giacometti: The Core of Life”, i-Italy, The multimedia network for all things Italian in America, June 28,2018.
- Modesta di Paola,Cosmopolitics and Biopolitics. Ethics and Aesthetics in Contemporary Art,Edicions de la Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona 2018.
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