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Critic and Art Historian, professor at the Venice Fine Arts Academy since 1985 and temporary lecturer at Ca’ Foscari University until 2010. At the moment professor of Contemporary History of Art and Methodology of the Art Critic. Some studies published in various University Art History magazines, Arte Veneta (Fondazione Cini), Arte/Documento (Università di Udine), Antichità Viva (Firenze), Notizie da Palazzo Albani (Università di Urbino), Quaderni della Fondazione Querini Stampalia (Biblioteca Querini Stampalia). The compilation of information on famous 20th century artists to be included in The Dictionary of Art (MacMillan Publishers Ltd., London-New York, 1995/1996); Sconfinamenti. L’avanguardia cinese (Chinese Contemporary Art Gallery, togeteher with Julia Colman, Ludovic Bois and Li Xianting, London, Beijing, New York 1999); ‘900 all’Accademia, opere per il Nuovo Museo (Marsilio, Accademia di belle arti, Venezia 2001); Giancarlo Franco Tramontin. L’idea della bellezza (Caleidoscopio, Carrara 2003); La tentazione del tempo (Danilo Montanari Publisher, 1998); Gianni Guidi, le forme dell’aurora (Siaca Arti Grafiche, 2004); Anatomia e Disegno (Biblos, 2004); Views from an island (Norsk Filmtrykk AS, 2006/2007); τέχνη, pittura_ricerca, giovani artisti dell’Accademia (Arti Grafiche Veneziane, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venezia 2012); Controluce, an event in the 51st International Art Exposition in Venice (Marsilio, 51. Biennale Internazionale d’arte di Venezia, 2005), Luoghi, corpi; Spazio disponibile, 2006.
Organization with G.F. Tramontin and M. Tosa of the exhibition and the congress about the sculptor Alberto Viani; after that, editor of the book which collects the essays of the scholars who participated at the symposium, Alberto Viani e il suo tempo, Edizioni della Laguna 2007.
On December 2008 printing of an essay about the drawings by Giuseppe De Fabris in the book Il disegno nella scultura italiana dell’Ottocento tra Neoclassicismo e Restaurazione. Il corpus dei disegni di Giuseppe De Fabris, Silvana Editoriale, Milano 2008, pp. 216, edited together with Lara-Vinca Masini, Agato Bruno, Francesco Tognoni, Cecilia Barbieri and Nico Stringa. Publisher and A.I.C.A. (Paris and Rome) regularly associated. Since 2002 to 2006 in the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts Administration Staff and since June 2007 to 2011 in the Administration Staff of Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, always in Venice. As Art critic, for a lot of contemporary art exhibitions and in organization of artistic events both in Italy and abroad, particularly in Poland, Sweden, Spain, Greece, U.K., China, Cuba, USA, Belgium, Tasmania, Austria and Norway.
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Education
Works and Exhibitions
A 6-meter tall sculpture made of rice bricks, commissioned by the City of Florence. The rice was then given to children in Mozambique and Romania.
Producer of the exhibition Design for Children at Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy
Artistic director of the foundation Children in Emergency operating in Romania and founded by the late Italian TV journalist Mino Damato. Contributors to the foundation have been clown-doctor Patch Adams, opera singer Luciano Pavarotti, the President of the Italian Republic Oscar Luigi Scalfaro and the President of Romania Emil Constantinescu
Co-designer of La Città dei Ragazzi (The City of the Young People), a space for playing and for TV productions, City of Cosenza, Italy
Designer for WWF of the exhibition space and the installations of the Miramare Museum of Maritime Research in Trieste, Italy, together with the museum Director Franco Zuppa
Curator, with famous Italian movie director Paolo Virzì, of Videominuto, an exhibition of video art, at the Pecci Museum in Prato, Italy
Video-maker and photographer in the USA for leading companies for the promotion of education
The 5-meter tall sculpture Pinokio, of the sitting puppet, with foodstuffs of 15 brands. The food was then given to children of three Serbian orphanages
Responsible for the Pinocchio Project in Lala Port and Urban Center, Tokyo, for the Tokyo publisher Gakken and Spiral Society. The large sculpture has become the focus of the yearly Pinocchio Festival in Tokyo.
A 9-meter long sculpture of a fish made of waste recovered from the sea for the City of Pula, Sardinia, Italy
Responsible for the exhibition Urban Emotions, curated by Naoyoshi Itani, at the Digital Hollywood University in Tokyo
The large sculpture Dugongo for the University of Naha, Japan at the Naha Museum of Art. Lectures and workshops were then held at the University of Okinawa, Japan
A large sculpture of Pinocchio for the City of Genoa, Italy, for the inauguration of the Environment Year, curated by the Atelier gallery
His works have been exhibited in international events and private galleries such as Rome Quadriennale d’Arte, Arte Bari Expo, Venice Biennale of Architecture, Bologna Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna, Milan Triennale d’Arte, Ferrara Palazzo dei Diamanti, Milan Il Naviglio, Naha Museum, Eremitani, Milan D’Ars, Spazio Arte, Belgrade Skzè, Prato Museo di Arte Contempranea Pecci, Milan Galleria Rossini, Bologna Pinacoteca, Berlin Abaco Contemporary Art.
Workshops and Teaching
First professor of the Chair of Design at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts
Workshop on Art of Waste held at Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy, of leading Italian artist Michelangelo Pistoletto
Founder of Poliarte, school of Art and Design, in Ancona, Italy with the participation of internationally renowned architects
Research on Utopia of Sustainability carried out in several Dutch cities on assignment from the Cassino University, Italy
Several workshops on Ecological Design held at the Akademie Gestaltung di Munster, Germania
Consultant for KIDP in Seoul and the University of Taejon, South Korea, for designing children games and workshops for university students.
Scientific advisor for Architecture and Design of the National Institute of Educational Documentation, Innovation, Research of the Italian Ministry of Education and University
Contributor for contemporary art to the Art Council England a-n magazine of Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Workshop The Art Asks, the Design Answers held at the Academic Training Association in Pristina, Kosovo, with world famous artist Sislej Xhifa
Workshops on Art and Design held, with architect Fredric Levrat and artist Rahraw Omarzad, at the Art Academy of Kabul, Afghanistan, the Summer Light Design Festival in Cacak, Serbia and the Brucken als hilfe at the Theater Winterer-Foyer in Freiburg, Germany
Host of the radio show Artemisia, Artefatti e Fatti d’Arte, for Controradio station in Florence, the longest running such show on Italian radio. Many leading international artists participated in the show.
Courses currently held at the Hongyu School of Beijing in collaboration with the Italian Galleria Continua in that city
Workshop in Art and Design held at the Concordia University in Montreal, Canada
Workshops and lectures on the relationship between Art and Design in Munster, Qingdao, Havana, Chengdu, Lugano, Chongqing, Seoul, Hangzhou, Lisbon, Shanghai, Boston, Freiburg, Biella, Nanchino, Florence, Newcastle upon Tyne, Beijing, Belgrade, Monaco di Montecarlo, Sofia, Kabul, Prishtina, Wuhan, Tokyo, Naha, Cairo, Cetine, Siena, Shenyang, Madrid
Writings
His writings have been published in specialized magazines and newspapers such as Domus, Casabella, Moda, Architettura, Japan Interior Design, Quaderni Montessori, L’educatore, Interni, Edilizia Scolastica, Costruire, L’Arca, Area, Abitare, Il Giornale dell’Arredamento, Riforma della scuola, Campus, L’Età Verde, Architettura minore, Bollettino Archietetti Toscani, Bio Report, La Nazione, La Repubblica, L’Unione Sarda, l’Espresso, AAM Terranuova, Terra nostra, Andersen, ICS, L’Unità, Eco d’arte moderna, L’Avanti, Spettacoli e società, La Città, Stampa Sera, il Mattino, La Gazzetta Firenze, il Resegone, La Provincia, Il Tirreno, Il Giornale di Venezia, Il Giornale, L’Arena, Il Sole 24 Ore, Segno, Il Piccolo, Il Corriere di Pordenone, Il Secolo XIX, Italia Oggi, Avvenire, Oreiz, La Stampa, Donna Moderna
Publications
Start Point, a catalog of five exhibitions of young artists of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts, with Valeria Bruni and Paola Bitelli
Prishtina Kabul, reports on workshops on Art and Design in Kosovo and Afghanistan, LCD, Florence
Un mondo di carta, Arte e Design, 2011, SKIRA, Milan
Arte, Design e viceversa, catalog of projects by students of the Florence Academy of Fine Arts
Lettere sul corpo, with Adriano Sofri and Luigi Lombardi Vallauri, 2003, Morgana Edizioni, Florence
Design per la scuola, innnovativefurniture and equipment for elementary schools. Edicom Edzioni, Udine
Benessere a scuola, how children want their schools, Edicom Edizioni, Udine
Less is Next, per un design solidale e sostenibile, with a complete survey of the researches performed in the Course of Design at the Florence Academy of Fine Arts
SCART, objects made for Waste Recycling in Santa Croce sull’Arno, Pisa
Glasse Jewellery – Gioielli di Vetro, jewels made by young artists, Universitas Studiorum, Mantova