Macsotay Bunt, Attila Tomas

Tomas Macsotay is an art historian and Associate Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has developed a research programme on community approaches to cultural materiality. He has published extensively on the history of sculpture in the 18th century, on academies and artistic associations of the Ancien Régime, Rome at the end of the Enlightenment, affective and colonial aspects of Spanish ecclesiastical decoration and ornamentation, as well as visual cultures of rebellion and punishment. Finally, he has published on installation practices since the 1960s and earlier in the 20th century. 

Recipient of a number of prestigious awards and fellowships - Prix Marianne Roland Michel at the Institut de France, 2009; postdoctoral research fellow in Sculpture Studies at Leeds, Henry Moore Foundation, 2009-11; Marie Curie FP7 of the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, 2012-14; Ramón y Cajal, 2016-22; Alexander von Humboldt for Advanced Researchers, 2022-24; has been sole author, editor and co-editor of a total of 6 books; co-edited 3 thematic dossiers in international journals and published over 50 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. Recent works include an edited volume on the controversy over the removal of monuments in recent years and two others on the material and affective apparatus of the multisensory artwork.