Adele Di Ruocco
diruocco@usc.edu
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Education
Adele Di Ruocco received her BA in 2001 from the Department of Comparative Languages (German and Russian) at the Italian University “L’Orientale” in Naples. Working under Professor Nicoletta Misler, her work culminated in the paper La dissidenza artistica russa negli anni Sessanta e Settanta e la poetica dell’Artefatto di Francisco Infante (Russian Artistic Dissidence in the Sixties and Seventies, and Francisco Infante’s Poetic of the Artifact).
In 2002, she enrolled in a three year graduate program at the
Moscow State Institute of Art History under the supervision of Ekaterina Bobrinskaya.
During the period of her enrollment she completed a program of postgraduate
professional education in visual, decorative and applied arts and architecture.
In May 2005, she successfully defended her dissertation and was awarded the academic degree of Kandidat in art history. The theme of her thesis was Allusions to Buddhism in Russian Art of the First Thirty Years of the XX Century. N. Roerich, “Amaravella,” N. Kul’bin, M. Matiushin, E. Guro.View in PDF
Relevant Work Experience
In December 2000, Di Ruocco participated in the organization of the photography exhibition L’architettura islamica lungo le vie carovaniere (Islamic Architecture along the Caravan Routes) by Aleksei Komech at the Institute of Philosophical Studies in Naples.
In February 2002 she worked on the Italian version of the website dedicated to the Russian artist Francisco Infante for the Institute of Modern Russian Culture in Los Angeles.
On September 30 2005, she participated in the performance of part one of Pavel Filonov’s piece A Chant of Universal Flowering at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, playing the role of the old German king.
Conferences
April 16-17 2005, California Slavic Colloquium hosted by the Slavic Department of UC Berkeley.
December 28-30 2005, AATSEEL hosted in Washington DC.
April 8 2006, California Slavic Colloquium hosted by the Slavic Department of the University of Southern California.
Publications
“Il segno dell’infinito nella spirale di Francisco Infante e Nonna Gorjunova. Una lettura attraverso la filosofia buddista” [The Sign of Infinitive in Francisco Infante and Nonna Goriunova’s spiral. A Work Overview through the Buddhist Philosophy]. In La dimensione metafisica. Rappresentazioni, Artefatti ed installazioni di Francisco Infante e Nonna Gorjunova [The Methaphysical Dimension. Rapresentations, Artifact and Installation by Francisco Infante and Nonna Goriunova]. Reggio Emilia, Badalucco, 2002: 23-27. View in PDF
“O’ sole mio in light box. Le suggestioni italiane di Francisco Infante e Nonna Goriunova” [O’ sole mio in light box. Italian Suggestions by Francisco Infante and Nonna Goriunova]. In Il Giornale dell’Arte (March 2003): 53.
“’Amaravella’. Ee poetica i khudozhestvennaya deiatel’lnost’ po vospominaniam Marii Drozdovoi-Chernovolenko” [“Amaravella”. Its Poetic and Artistic Activity as remembered by Maria Drozdovaya-Chernovolenko]. In Aspirantskii sbornik Gosudarstvennogo Instituta Iskusstvoznania 2 (2004): 73-86. View in PDF
Di Ruocco has translated into English and edited the explanations to the works of the Russian artist Francisco Infante for his monograph Francisco infante. Artifacts. Retrospective. Moscow: State Centre of Contemporary Art, 2004.
“From Microcosm to Macrocosm and Back. A Spiritual Journey in Eugenia Emets’ Exhibition 108”. In Eugenia Emets 108. Moscow, Stella Art Gallery, 2006: 6-19 (article published both in Russian and English).View in PDF
