Rosanna Ruscio

Rosanna Ruscio is a tenured professor of Art History at the Brera Academy. Specializing in twentieth-century art, she was the author and consultant for the Treccani Biographical Dictionary and for the publishers De Agostini and Electa and has written numerous texts for books and exhibition catalogs. Her publications include Letters to Wart. The Arslan Fund: Studies and Paths of an Art Historian (2006); The Artistic Vocation in the Anthropocene Era, in the Biennale Art Contemporary (Malta 2020); In the Sign of Appiani. Nine Readings and an Artist's Project (with Chiara Nenci, 2021); In Praise of the Sign. Luigi Sabatelli (2025) with C. Nenci and A. Zanella; She curated the study day: Questions of Techniques: Open Dialogues between History and Materials (Milan 21-2-25). Member of the doctoral college Techniques and tools for the study, production, conservation and valorization of cultural heritage (Brera) since 2024. As part of the IARTNET project, he is the scientific director of WP 2: Narrative perspectives for contemporary art. Brera and its living protagonists: self-portraits, forms of representation and storytelling. The activity aims to develop a narrative model of contemporary artworks by living artists who trained or taught at Brera with the aim of creating a sort of mapping (which can be gradually integrated over time) of all those artists whose activity is recognizable nationally and internationally. Through the use of interviews (designed on the basis of the artists' individual research activities and intended as a tool for understanding their work) and the analysis of some works chosen to exemplify the artistic history of each, we will try to offer a new reading of the ideas and the creative process behind each work. The aim is to collect and organize information through direct and then transcribed oral testimonies and from there, proceed with the dissemination by uploading all the data to a digital platform. In keeping with the criteria of the ICCD sheet on contemporary art, the idea is to upload 25 interviews and works by living artists to the portal so as to prepare an epistemology capable of corresponding to the new conditions of narrative knowledge.