Jeff Koons to become Honorary Academician in Sculpture at Carrara Academy of Fine Arts

Next April 16, Jeff Koons (York, Pennsylvania, 1955) will be in Carrara, where he will receive the title of Honorary Academician in Sculpture of theAcademy of Fine Arts of Carrara. The award will be conferred on him at 5 p.m., when the opening ceremony of theAcademic Year will be held: for the occasion, Jeff Koons will give a lectio dottoralis preceded by a laudatio by Professor Raffaele Simongini. This appointment is part of a path undertaken by the director of the Carrara institute, Luciano Massari, and by its president, Antonio Passa, which aims to put the Academy of Fine Arts of Carrara, which has seen professors such as Lorenzo Bartolini and Jean Baptiste Desmarais pass through its halls, and conferred the title of honorary professor to such outstanding artists as Antonio Canova and John Flaxman, back on an international level.

Last year, the title of honorary professor had been awarded to Maurizio Cattelan, who arrived in Carrara on April 23: on that occasion, the work Eternity, which the Venetian artist had created together with the students of the Carrara Academy, was also inaugurated(here is the interview we had conducted for the occasion). This year, the awarding of the title to Jeff Koons is also part of the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the founding of the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts, which was opened in 1769 by Maria Teresa Cybo-Malaspina, ruler of Massa and Carrara until 1790. To mark the occasion, the institute has already kicked off a full calendar of lectures with leading scholars, entitled Tales of Art, and other initiatives will be unveiled in the coming weeks.

Jeff Koons to become Honorary Academician in Sculpture at Carrara Academy of Fine Arts

Warning: the translation into English of the original Italian article was created using automatic tools. We undertake to review all articles, but we do not guarantee the total absence of inaccuracies in the translation due to the program. You can find the original by clicking on the ITA button. If you find any mistake,please contact us.