A recém-criada Pós-Graduação em Mercado da Arte e Coleccionismo, fruto de uma parceria entre o Instituto de História da Arte e o Departamento de História da Arte da FCSH/NOVA, contará com o Professor Filip Vermeylen, da Erasmus University Rotterdam, na Holanda, na sua sessão inaugural, que acontecerá no dia 20 de Outubro no Palácio do Correio Velho, em Lisboa (local ainda a confirmar).
Especialista em temas como a economia da arte e da cultura e o funcionamento dos mercados de arte desde o período do Renascimento, o Professor Vermeylen dará também um workshop no dia 21 de Outubro no âmbito desta Pós-Graduação, que se inicia neste ano lectivo de 2016/2017 com a lotação máxima de alunos.
Filip Vermeylen (PhD. Columbia University 2002) is Professor of Global Art Markets at the Erasmus University Rotterdam in The Netherlands. He lectures and publishes on various aspects of the economics of art and culture, and is currently the chair of the Department of Arts and Culture Studies. He is especially interested in the history and functioning of art markets since the Renaissance, the notion of quality in the visual arts, the role of intermediaries as arbiters of taste and emerging art markets such as India. Between 2009 and 2014, he was the program director of large-scale research project entitled Artistic exchanges and cultural transmission in the Low Countries, 1572-1672 which sought to gain insight into the circulation of artistic knowledge, and examined how culture was and is transferred. His book Painting for the market. Commercialization of art in Antwerp’s Golden Age won the Robert Bainton Prize for Art History in 2006. More information on Filip Vermeylen’s scholarly work and a full CV can be found on his website: filipvermeylen.com
