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Angela Madesani, an art historian and an independent curator, is also the author of “Le icone fluttuanti Storia del cinema d’artista e della videoarte in Italia” and of “Storia della fotografia”, published by Bruno Mondadori. She curated a number of exhibitions for public and private institutions, both in Italy and abroad and she writes for some art magazines. She is responsible for the series of books on photography and art published by Dalai editore, for which she edited many books by prestigious authors such as: Gabriele Basilico, Franco Vaccari, Vincenzo Castella, Francesco Jodice. She teaches at the Accademia di Brera in Milan, Istituto Europeo del Design in Milan and Accademia Cignaroli in Verona. She contributes to some art magazines, among them Artribune, arteecrtitica and with the daily newspaper La Repubblica.
Francesca Baboni was born in Carpi (MO). She lives in Correggio (RE). She gained a degree in Classics, specialising in art history, from the University of Bologna. She is an art critic and an independent curator.
Giuseppe Donnaloia was born in Duisburg in 1967, he is an artist and the assistant of Markus Lüpertz at Akademia Bad Reichenhall. Since 1988 he has been displaying his artworks in private and public galleries in German and Europe. He is the winner of the second edition of PREMIO COMBAT - COMBAT PRIZE 2011, section painting.
Heinrich Heil
lives and works as a freelance author in Düsseldorf. He has been
dealing with the fine arts and photography in his publications, talks
and lectures for years. In 2006 he became adviser for cultural affairs
in the office of the Lord Mayor of Düsseldorf. During the Quadriennale
2010 he was the chairman of the symposium “Objects for everyone and no
one“ and curated the James Lee Byars exhibition “The Perfect Axis“. Publications:
“Giving Art Rules“ A Conversation (Discourse; Dialogue) With Markus
Lüpertz, Amman Publ., Zurich, 2005. “Moments of Perfection, Works of
James Lee Byars and 100 Haiku for Now“, Piet Meyer Publ., Vienna, 2010.
“James Lee Byars ’I GIVE YOU GENIUS’ Heinrich Heil, Photography Claudio
Abate, publ. By bookshoop Walter König, Cologne, 2011.
Laura Barreca is an art historian and a curator. From 2007 to 2009 she worked as Junior Curator of PAN - Palazzo delle Arti Napoli. In 2009 she won a postdoc scholarship from the Italian Academy for Advanced Studies at Columbia University of New York. She was member of a scientific commitee, Sensi Contemporanei, in Parco Nazionale of Pollino in Basilicata, between 2008 and 2009, for the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities. Since 2009 she has been working with Fondazione MAXXI and curates Committenze contemporanee with UniCredit and Galleria Borghese and a project concerning the conservation and documentation of contemporary art. In 2011 she was co-curator of "Premio Ariane De Rothschild", at Palazzo Reale in Milan for the Fondation Ariane de Rothschild in Paris and curator of "Premio Selezione 2011" for the Istituto Italiano di Cultura di New York. In 2009 she teached History of Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Architecture of the University "La Sapienza" Roma. She also worked with the Faculty of Conservation of Cultural Heritage of the University of Tuscia and with IED - Istituto Europeo di Design, Roma. She currently teaches Phenomenology of the Media at the Accademy of Fine Arts in Palermo. She has taken part in commissions for the assignament of prestigious prizes for contemporary art and she has given lectures in Italy and abroad on New Media Art (Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid 2007; McGill University, Montreal 2008; Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna, Roma 2008; University of Maine, Bangor 2009; Columbia University, New York 2009; Universitad do Miño, Guimaraes 2010; University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati; New York University, Villa La Pietra, Firenze, 2011).
Martina Cavallarin, Venice (Italy), 1966. Critic and Curator, she is specialized in contemporary art. Even though her glance dwells upon painting, it ranges over contaminations and quite different languages, fully conscious that art uses expressive ways aimed at searching for quality. She is project professor in Politecnico of Milano, design and architector department (2010). Critic and curator in Project Room in MART Museum of Trento e Rovereto (2008). She is President and director of scatolabianca cultural association. È curatrice di EcoArt Project, piattaforma di Green Art. 2009: curator of Sant’Elena-La seduzione nel segno- collateral in 53° Biennale di Venezia, and in the solo show of Fabio Mauri, Fabio Mauri, etc.… at Michela Rizzo Gallery, Venice. 2010: curator of the exhibition The Belly of an Architect, Collateral of People meet in architecture - 12th International Architecture Exhibition of Venice - directed by Kazuyo Sejima.
2011: curator of the exhibition by Nanni Balestrini - Bastacani - Michela Rizzo Gallery, Venice. Curator of Round the Clock, Spazio Thetis, Arsenal Novissimo, events of the 54th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia. In October curator of the exhibition Personality (Lawrence Carroll, Tony Cragg, Robert De Pol, Richard Nonas, Mariateresa Sartori, Eric Winarto) and ORIGINAL RIELLO. She collaborates with various magazines such as Mood- she was responsible of the artistic field- Arte, Il Progetto, Segno, Artestetica, ToGetAir, alfabeta2, Artribune. Her first book, “I segni di Milano”, was published by Mazzotta.
Stefano Taddei was born in Vignola (MO) and he lives in Albinea (RE). He gained a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage - Contemporary Field from the University of Parma. He is an art critic and an independent curator.
