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born in Rome on 1961

education
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1996
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza , Rome, Italy. Department of Art History. Degree
1984
Università degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza , Rome, Italy. Department of Law .Degree
Professional Activities
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2012 - 2014
Vice-president of Amaci (Association of Italian Contemporary Art Museum)
2009 - 2012
Curator , Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy (titoli completi in ita)
Exibitions: Arte Natura/Natura Arte. Landscape and contemporary art in Tuscany
Artists: Jannis Kounellis , Daniel Spoerri, Robert Morris and others.
Viaggio in Italia
Artists: Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, William Kentridge, Douglas Gordon, Alfredo Jaar, Simon Starling and others.
Scultura a due voci
Artists: Luciano Fabro and Fernando Melani
Oltre il giardino .
Artists: Vittorio Corsini, Giovanni Ozzola, Massimo Bartolini and others.
2008 - 2013
Artistic Director , Conventino of Monteciccardo, Pesaro, Italy
Exhibitions: Enzo Cucchi, Ettore Spalletti, Mario Merz, Giulio Paolini, Jannis Kounellis Eliseo Mattiacci and Giovanni Anselmo
2006 - 2010
President of the Italian section of AICA (International Association of Art Critics)
2004 - 2014
Artistic Director, Guastalla Foundation, Rome, Italy and Lugano, Switzerland.
Created a collection of international artists of the last generations and meetings with art professionals like Francesco Bonami , Lia Rumma , Laura Cherubini, Claudia Gianferrari, Julian Opie, Stephan Balkenhol, Massimo De Carlo , Giancarlo Politi.
2002 - 2004
Art Consultant for the Municipality of Bari, Italy
Exhibitions: Mario Merz, Domenico Bianchi, Mimmo Paladino and Sol Lewitt.
2000 - 2014
Artistic Director, Fondazione Pescheria, Pesaro
Exibitions: Enzo Cucchi, Francesco Gennari, Cristiano Pintaldi, Domenico Bianchi, Mimmo Paladino, Tony Cragg, Candida Höfer, Jan Vercruysse, Gianni Caravaggio, Luigi Carboni, Flavio Favelli, Pietro Ruffo, Stefano Arienti, Paolo Icaro, Luigi Ghirri, Mario Giacomelli, Alfredo Pirri, Claudio Cintoli, Giovanni Ozzola, Gabriele Basilico, Luigi Ontani, Pino Pascali
1998 - 2008
Professor of Contemporary Art, Reggio Calabria University, Faculty of Architecture.
1995 - 2010
Board member of the Fondazione Quadrenniale di Roma, Rome, Italy
1985 - 2014
Art critic for the Italian newspaper La Repubblica and the weekly magazine Il Venerdì della Repubblica.
Writes regularly for Flash Art Italy, Exibart.From 1994 to 2000 was a regular writer from Italy for the French newspaper Le Monde.
Exhibitions
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2013
Triple Identity. Contemporary Art Museum, Pula , Croatia.
Artists: Lara Favaretto, Tobias Putrih,David Malikovic
2012
Mediterranean: meetings or conflicts? Palazzo Gargasole, Gagliano del Capo (Lecce)
Artist: Rossella Biscotti, Pascal Hachem, Kader Attia, Sislei Xhafa, Adrian Paci and others
2012
Claudio Cintoli. Macro, Rome
2011
Three Amigos: Dan Colen, Nate Lowman, Dash Snow
Palazzo Rospigliosi, American Academy, MACRO, Rome.
2011
Double Identity: Italian Video Art. Crane Arts Center, Philadelfia.Co –curator with Shara Wasserman.
Artists: Rosa Barba, Giulia Piscitelli, Marzia Migliora, Lara Favaretto, goldiechiari, Gianluca e Massimiliano De Serio, Patrizio Di Massimo, Nico Vascellari and others.
2011
The time of the painting : Roman Opalka / Vittore Carpaccio.Correr Museum, Venice
2010 - 2012
Eighties are back!.Macro, Rome
Artists: Alfredo Pirri, Vittorio Corsini, Nunzio, Luigi Carboni, Vittorio Messina, Daniela De Lorenzo, Massimo Kaufmann, Felice Levini, Marco Tirelli, Mario Dellavedova.
2009
Espacios Urbanos. Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires
Artists: Candida Höfer, Thomas Struth, Thomas Ruff, Axel Hütte, Andreas Gursky.
2008
Tony Cragg. Material Thoughts.Fondazione Stelline, Milan
2003 - 2012
Soltanto un Quadro al Massimo . German Academy, Rome. Co-curator with Joachim Blüher.
Artists: Georg Baselitz, Rebecca Horn, Marisa Merz, Wolfgang Laib, Giulio Paolini, Candida Hofer, Ettore Spalletti, Lothar Baumgardner, Giovanni Anselmo, Jannis Kounellis, Gerhard Merz, Sigmar Polke and others
2002
Incontri. Galleria Borghese, Rome
Artists: Enzo Cucchi, Carla Accardi, Giulio Paolini, Francesco Clemente, Jannis Kounellis,. Mimmo Paladino, Luigi Ontani.
1999 - 2009
Giganti .Imperial Fora, Rome.
Artists: Tony Cragg, Jannis Kounellis, Marina Abramovic, Joseph Kosuth, Stephan Balkenhol, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Domenico Bianchi, Maurizo Mochetti and others.
1999
Effetto Notte , Napoli Sotterranea, Napoli.
Artists:Massimo Bartolini, Mario Airò, Loris Cecchini, Studio Azzurro.
1997
Città Natura
Rome, different sites (Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Mercati Traianei, Orto Botanico, Museo Civico di Zoologia) Co-curator with Carolyn Christov Bakargiev
Artists: Mario Merz , Mark Dion, Robert Smithson, Yves Klein, Lucio Fontana and others.
1995
Arte Identità Confini (Art Identity Boundaries)International seminar. Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome.Co-curator with Carolyn Christov Bakargiev
1993
Il Suono rapido delle cose: John Cage & Co, 1993, Venice Biennal. Co –curator with Alanna Heiss, Angela Vettese, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
1992
Molteplici Culture,1992 Museo del Folklore, Rome.Co-curator with Carolyn Christov Bakargie,
1989
Art in Rome, 1980-1989 Palazzo Rondanini, Rome. Curator
Books
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2012
New Italian Art
Castelvecchi, Rome
2010
The art of collecting contemporary art
Castelvecchi,Rome
2006
A guide to Italian Contemporary art Museums
Skira, Milan
2006
The Museum of Contemporary Art in Italy
Skira, the first guide to Italian Contemporary Art Museums
Languages
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Spanish
Good knowledge of spoken and written
French, English
Fluent in spoken and written