ARTI VISIVE E DISCIPLINE DELLO SPETTACOLO
SCULPTURE course

The degree course in Sculpture aims to prepare a professional figure capable of operating within the field of the Plastic Arts with particular reference to the setting of interior spaces and to urban design.
This professional figure carries out his/her activity as a freelance, either independently or in collaboration with others.
He/she makes for a worthy collaborator with professional studios, workshops specialized in the artistic working of marble and other hard stones, organizations and companies operating in the field of the Plastic Arts.
In the accomplishment of his/her professional activity he/she is able to directly assume project planning responsibilities and to collaborate in the art direction for the realization of tasks and works.
He/she is able to plan the setting up for use of exposition spaces, large events, exhibitions. competitions, etc.
He/she can take on the planning and implementation of sculptural works designed to decorate interiors of private and public buildings, houses, religious edifices and exhibition spaces such as art galleries and museums.
He/she can plan artistic elements for urban design.
This art professional will moreover be in a position to exercise his/her professional skills in the field of graphic design and in the art publishing world and to collaborate with printing offices, galleries and artistic circuits in the field.

KNOWLEDGE BASE

- Comprehensive overview of the History of Modern and Contemporary Art.
- The framework of the events and dynamics that are at the basis of the current culture of the planning of interior and exterior spaces.
- The techniques and the technologies of both traditional and contemporary sculpture.
- The main techniques of graphical representation, with reference to computer-assisted design (CAD) and to the techniques of digital modelling.
- The techniques of relief and drawing in appropriate graphical scale.
- The most effective methods from a functional and perceptual viewpoint for the disposition of elements in space, according to various contextual conditions and planning requirements.
- The techniques of engraving, printing and the graphic design in art.
- The techniques of photography (B/W, colour and digital).

Study plan 2011/2012

Obligatory credits to achieve for basic and specific training activities (60% of 180) 108
Total credits required in the three years 180