Jury
Fabio Cavallucci, born in 1961, at the age of 29 he opened and directed until 1998 the contemporary Art Gallery “Vero Stopponi” in Santa Sofia di Romagna, his hometown. Between 2001 and 2008 he was director of Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea in Trento, organizing more than 350 exhibitions over the years.
Between 2006 and 2008 he was coordinator of “Manifesta 7. European biennial of contemporary art”, realized in Trentino Alto Adige in 2008. In 2010 he was the artistic director of the XIV International Biennial of Sculpture in Carrara and starting from the same year he has directed the Centre for contemporary art of the Ujazdowsky Castle in Warsaw, which includes a department for visual arts, music, theatre, dance and cinema. At the moment, starting from march 2014, Fabio Cavallucci is the director of the Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea L. Pecci in Prato.
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo,
after graduating in business studies and economics at the University of
Turin, she first started collecting contemporary art in the early
nineties.
What started as a hobby, rapidly became a full time career when she
founded the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 1995, of which she is
President. The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo set up its first
gallery at the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene in 1997 and officially
opened its current headquarters, a centre for contemporary art in Turin,
in September 2002. The Turin space is a flexible structure that can put
together exhibitions quickly and efficiently to respond to today’s
trends, working with artists, critics, curators collectors and
institutions from around the world to promote and support the production
and exhibition of contemporary art at an international level.
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is an extremely active patron of the
arts. She is a Member of the International Council, Museum of Modern
Art, New York (since 1996); Member of the Friends of Contemporary
Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York (since 1996); Member of the
International Council, Tate Gallery, London (since 1997); Member of the
Leadership Council, New Museum, New York (since 2007); Member of the
Advisory Committee for Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum
of Art (since 2008); Member of the Amici Sostenitori, Castello di Rivoli
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (since 1993); patroness Italian Red
Cross (since 1992); founder and dir. National Association of the Tree of
Dreams (assistance and therapeutic support to children undergoing
intensive medical treatment); Member of the Confindustria Nazionale
Cultural Commission (since 2008); Member of the “Giuria dei Letterati”
for the “Premio Campiello – Confindustria Veneto”.
Among other Italian honors and awards for her work in the art world, she
also received the Mont Blanc Arts Patronage Award for her dedication to
contemporary art in 2003 and was awarded the title “Chevalier dans
l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture in
2009.
Roberta Valtorta, historian and photography critic, is the scientific director of the Museum of Contemporary Photography of Cinisello Balsamo, Milan. She has worked in photography since 1976. She held university courses in Udine, Rome and Milan and since 1984 she has been teaching History and Theory of Photography at CFP Riccardo Bauer of Milan – ex Umanitaria. She studies photography as a form of artistic research, an instrument to read the contemporary landscape, cultural asset. She curated many exhibitions and published several theoretic and historical essays.
Francesca Baboni
lives in Correggio (Re). Graduated in classical studies with art
history program from the University of Bologna, she is an art critic,
art historian and independent curator. For several years she has been
curating solo and group exhibitions of contemporary artists for private
spaces, with a particular focus on painting and photograph. She has been
a contributor to many art periodicals and she is currently editor for
Artribune magazine. She collaborates with Correggio Art Home, a study
center dedicated to the painter Antonio Allegri known as Correggio, and
she is a member of the board of directors of Fondazione Il Correggio,
which oversees its activities.
Andrea Bruciati
(Corinaldo, 1968), received his degree in Contemporary Art History
after writing his thesis on Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. Since 2002,
he has been the artistic director of the GC. AC of Monfalcone, in
northeastern Italy. He contributes to several specialist magazines and
plays an active role in the debate regarding a national network for
research and training in the field of contemporary art. He is also
interested in this regard in the international promotion of the younger
generation of Italian artists who work on the peninsula, with the
establishment of the MOROSO Prize for Contemporary Art, the network
Argonauti, and the dissemination of new media. His work for the museum
includes designing the program formats: lab. it, videoREPORT, prima
visione, 40, L’immagine sottile, Fruz, Past Forward, On Stage, Message
in a Bottle; So Fresh!, studiovisit. it, and Where the West Ends. Among
the exhibitions he has organised are: Ouverture: Art from Italy (2002);
Painting Codes (2006); Arrivals and Departures_ Europe: a new generation
of artists (2010); 00 ITALIA: 100 masterpieces for a hypothesis of
History (2012).
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.
