About me
I am a young curator and a skilled researcher. I have a long-term experience in the visual arts environment and cultural institutions in the US, Uk and Italy as art professional.;
I have just submitted my cross-disciplinary Ph.D thesis to the Royal Holloway College, University of London, with the title Redefining the auteur: Antonioni as multimedia artist, after having graduated from University of Virginia (MA in Italian Studies, 2010) and Catholic University of Milan (MA and BA in Art History, 2007 and 2005).
Investigating, listening and dialoguing are at the core of my curatorial practice. I investigate the artworks, the details and the issues that arise from them; I listen to my intuitions, to the environment, the artists and the feelings that they evoke; and then, my goal is to make all these elements dialogue with each other, within a dynamic balance of languages and forms.
Understanding the mission, as well as the environment, of an exhibition is a crucial step: as art historian I am guided by the aesthetic principles and inputs from the history of art; as curator, I start setting up the exhibition from its vibrant context, towards the long-term goal of interpreting, rather than objectively telling, our contemporary story.
Curating is for me a methodological and intuitional quest, leading to a traumatic, yet fruitful, encounter between the artworks and the audience, and bringing to the surface both expected and unexpected issues.
Projects
- Turin 1911: A World’s Fair in ItalyTurin 1911: The World's Fair in Italy is the first digital project devoted to the only universal exposition ever held in Italy. Though World's fairs were among the West's largest mass-attended events, they were also ephemeral occurrences designed to exhibit, rather than preserve, the changing world of modernity. Turin 1911 was no exception. Once the Fair was dismantled, its artifacts were scattered among institutional archives and private collectors, thus failing to be studied in a systematic manner. Turin 1911: The World's Fair in Italy collects a wide array of Exposition artifacts and organizes them in an analytical database in order to investigate the Fair's technologies of representation. The goal of this project is twofold: a) to preserve an endangered cultural patrimony and b) to promote understanding of the ways in which this fair (and World's Fairs in general) conveyed specific cultural and ideological messages. This project is made possible by funding from the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of Virginia.
- ANTONIONI AND THE ARTS STUDY DAYA study day devoted to the late Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007) took place on Friday, 26 October, in Egham, co-sponsored by HARC, SMLLC, Media Arts, and the Institut Français du Royaume-Uni. The centenary of the birth of this master of European modernist cinema was a chance to bring together a number of scholars and curators who have a particular interest in the interdisciplinary aspects of Antonioni's oeuvre. Dr Laura Rascaroli (U. of Cork) and Dr John David Rhodes (U. of Sussex), who edited the 2011 volume, Antonioni: Centenary Essays, offered a novel perspective on the work of the Italian film-maker by focusing on the influence of art and architecture respectively. The two talks were preceded by a screening of two rare Antonioni documentaries: Gente del Po (1943-7) and Lo Sguardo di Michelangelo (2004).. The second part of the study day was a lecture by film scholar and curator, Professor Dominique Païni (École du Louvre, Paris), who presented with slides his plans for the forthcoming centenary exhibition on Antonioni in his home-town of Ferrara. Professor Païni revealed that the physical challenge of the exhibition space, the Renaissance Palazzo dei Diamanti, created the opportunity to present Antonioni's work as a series of contrasts arising from the idea that cinema is, after all, narrative sculpture in movement, and that shapes are born out of the most basic contract, that of light and dark. The entire event was recorded by the film-maker, Alessandro Zangirolami. The day was organised by Dr Giuliana Pieri (Reader in Italian and Visual Studies), Ms Eleonora Raspi (doctoral student in Italian Studies), Professor James S. Williams (Professor of Modern French Literature and Film).
- M'ARTE V EDITION - habitat, habitus, humusM’arte 2015 (12-14 June) starts with a residency (3-11 June) spread across the ancient hamlet of Montegemoli (Pisa), the town of Pomarance (Pisa), the Castello di Querceto (Pisa) and the city of Volterra (Pisa). M’arte 2015 is a contemporary art project, an experience in creative participation blooming within the territory of the ancient hamlets of Tuscany. Through an artists-in-residence programme, critics and professionals share paths and confront each other to reach a dynamic balance of languages, towards the long-term goal of an inner transformation of the current art system. It unravels in an unexpected place, far from the background noises of big urban centres and mainstream national events, and it develops itself into site-specific installations, conferences, workshops with the students of the Liceo Artistico G. Carducci di Volterra, children and adults all ages, concerts and food/wine tastings. Many visions, linked to the independent group SITE SPECIFIC (Scicli, Ragusa), are asked to explore the themes of M’arte 2015. Specifically, featured artists will be: Claudio Cavallaro, Maria Grazia Galesi,, Sebastiano Mortellaro, Isabella Pers, Tiziana Pers, Francesco Rinzivillo, Piero Roccasalvo Rub and Sasha Vinci. SITE SPECIFIC and C.A.R.M.A. will present ORACULUM, a collection of international video art, curated by Veronica D’Auria and Maurizio Marco Tozzi, and including works by Alessandro Amaducci, Alessandro Bavari, Piero Chiariello, Valeria Del Vacchio, Elisabetta Di Sopra, Francesca Fini, Maria Korporal, Igor Imhoff, Salvatore Insana, Eleonora Manca, Pinina Podestà, Arash Radpour, Mauro Rescigno and Lino Strangis. A pool of other creative professionals will complete the residency project: independent critic/curator Pietro Gaglianò, filmmakers/photographers Malia Bruker and Alessandro Zangirolami, videomaker/choreographer J. Louise Makary and graphic designers Luisa Milani and Walter Molteni (La Tigre). The artists and creative professionals inhabiting the residency will ‘draw’ a participatory trajectory that will enable them to discover the past, empower the present and uncover the future possibilities of this territory. Montegemoli is the core of M’arte 2015 and its spaces will be fully invaded by art projects, performances and events. In the town of Pomarance the ground floor galleries of Scuderie Casa Bicocchi and the area of the Casalini will be the key places. The city of Volterra will feature a site-specific installation in the ground hall of the Palazzo dei Priori. Finally, in Querceto, the gallery space of Accademia Libera will become a testimony and a space of exchange between the artists of SITE SPECIFIC. Finally, Laurent Delaye and Clare Bradley (London) present Videoform. Videoform is an art video organisation using a sophisticated video media platform developed by Secure Broadcast, a technology company based in Northern Ireland. This platform enables users to create, manage and distribute HD video content securely. Using cloud hosting it allows videos to be shown simultaneously in multiple locations.
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Work history
Freelance Art Professional
I am currently in the process of organising a series of screenings of Italian Cinema (8 titles) with Q.A., to be hosted and run between January-February 2016 at the Cinema Teatro Florentia, Larderello (Pisa, Italy).
Gallery Assistant
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Assisting with the organisation and promotion of exhibitions and artists; conducting studio visits and studio inventory; researching, writing bios and critical texts; liaising with general public and visiting artists; keeping artworks and contacts database updated; developing and maintaining the gallery blog and social media platforms.
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Skills
- Events
- Art Direction
- Exhibition
- Project Management
- Office
- Photoshop
- Very Organised
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Writing Communication
Education
Italian Cinema, Art History, Italian Studies
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My main research interests lie in the space of interdisciplinary. Under the supervision of Dr. Giuliana Pieri and Prof. James Williams, my research is a cross-disciplinary study of Michelangelo Antonioni’s late, controversial corpus of works.
Italian Cinema, Art History, Italian Literature
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Master’s Degree in Italian Studies, with a comparative thesis on Photography and Literature
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Awards
Lola Pelliccia Graduate Prize
Universit
Tuition waiver