“Lo spiegamento del geometrico domina il paesaggio”: astrazione, landscape e mindscape nelle opere e negli scritti di Peter Halley (1980-1995)

Authors

  • Alessandro Ferraro Università degli studi di Genova

Keywords:

Abstraction, Landscape, Art, Peter Halley, Mindscape

Abstract

The article investigates the interrelation between the concepts of landscape and mindscape in the artistic and theoretical production of the American artist Peter Halley. Using as primary sources both his writings and various reviews and contributions concerning this specific aspect of his work, the aim of this short essay is to problematize the landscape dimension of some of his works from the 1980s and 1990s, in light of various contemporary considerations regarding the concept of abstraction.

Author Biography

Alessandro Ferraro, Università degli studi di Genova

Alessandro Ferraro, Ph.D., is an adjunct lecturer in History of Exhibitions and Artistic Image Analysis at the University of Genoa. He was a research fellow at the University of Parma for the PRIN PNRR project Straniere. La ricezione delle arti e delle culture non-europee in Italia dal 1945 al 2000. He has been a visiting professor at Stockholm University. In 2024 he published the essay L’astrazione come condizione storica (Mimesis). More recently, he edited and published the conference proceedings Mostra come dispositivo. Prospettive di ricerca sull’esperienza espositiva from a conference he organized at the University of Parma (Postmedia Books).

Published

15-12-2025

How to Cite

Ferraro, A. (2025). “Lo spiegamento del geometrico domina il paesaggio”: astrazione, landscape e mindscape nelle opere e negli scritti di Peter Halley (1980-1995). Elephant & Castle, (36), 118–127. Retrieved from https://elephantandcastle.unibg.it/index.php/eac/article/view/585

Issue

No. 36 (2026): Raccontare il paesaggio

Section

Articoli

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