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Adriana Polveroni | Exibart
She is a journalist and essayist. She worked in the group “L’Espresso” and collaborated with other newspapers including “Il Sole 24 Ore” e “L’Unità”. Teaches Contemporary Museology at the Accademy of Brera in Milan and also in some Masters at Luiss and Ied in Rome. She worked on Environmental Art and Public Art, realizing the “Art and Landscape” entry for the Treccani Encyclopedia of XXI Century (2010). She has published This is Contemporary! How the museums of contemporary art changes (2007) and Lo Sboom. The decade of crazy art between financial bubble and conceptual flop (2009), other than numerous essays in anthologies and catalogues. In February 2012 she released her latest book, The pleasure of art. Practice and phenomenology of contemporary collecting in Italy, written with Marianna Agliottone. Since January 2012 is the director of “Exibart”. |
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Francesca Pini | Il Corriere della Sera
Francesca Pini, journalist of the Corriere della Sera, writes about art and culture not only for the newspaper, but also for Sette the weekly magazine, and the online version. Over the years she has interviewed several people including the Dalai Lama and the French philosopher Jean Guitton, with whom she wrote a book of dialogues on religion and contemporaneity published in France, Portugal and Italy (L’infinito in fondo al cuore, Mondadori, 1998). She is the author and director of videos and documentaries aired on French television channel Arte. Of particular interest are her videos dedicated to the great Giorgio Strehler, while her dialogues with him have been collected in the volume "Il tempo di una vita. Conversazione con Giorgio Strehler", published by De Ferrari Devega, in the series "Palcoscenico". |
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Pia Capelli | Il Sole 24 Ore
Pia Capelli was born in Milan. She studied Philosophy in Milan and Contemporary Art in London. She started working for Corriere della Sera when she was 22, but she wrote about Culture for other national newspapers including Libero, Il Foglio, Arte Mondadori, Antiquariato. She translated essays and novels from English and Spanish and writes critical textes for art books and exhibition catalogues. Today she writes about Contemporary Art and art market for the Sunday edition of Il Sole 24 Ore and other publications of 24 Ore Cultura Group, including IL, the monthly male magazine. Furthermore she is the Art columnist of Elle, Hearst Group. |
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Rosanna Gangemi | DROME magazine
Co-founder (2004) and editor-in-chief of the contemporary art magazine DROME magazine, which - based on a thematic approach - investigates the complexity of our contemporary world. She holds a B.A. in Communication Studies and a Master’s Degree in Cultural Heritage Studies. She is a cultural journalist with a past in film criticism; as an essayist, she is one of the authors of the volume Mutamento sociale, diritti, parità di genere (Led, 2004), which received a Special Mention at the Amelia Rosselli Award 2005. She also wrote a monograph on the Italian songwriter Salvatore Trimarchi (Armando Siciliano Editore, 2007). She has been director of foxtv.it. She keeps exploring the constant creative exchanges between the arts through the co-ordination of the Phlegmatics Studio, as well as managing and architecting exhibitions, publications and interdisciplinary projects of international scope, aimed in particular at discovering new talents. Besides her academic experiences, she has been a featured speaker and panellist in several meetings about contemporary art, publishing, media, gender issues, design and fashion. She lives between Paris, Brussels and Rome. |
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Maurizio Zuccari | INSIDE ART Maurizio Zuccari is a journalist and writer. He has a degree in Political Science at La Sapienza University of Rome, with a specialization in Communication Science, and he wrote for Paese Sera, il Manifesto, Diario, Medioevo, Archeo, Ragionamenti di storia. He conceived and directed the monthly magazine Cittànova and he is now the managing editor of the art magazines InsideArt and Sofà. |
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Alessandra Redaelli | ARTE MONDADORI She was born in Milan, she graduated in art critic and she has been working as a professional journalist since 1989. She collaborated with various monthly magazines including, for a long period of time, Weekend Viaggi. Since 1995 she has been collaborating continuatively to the monthly magazine Arte, of Cairo Editore, focusing mainly on young Italian artists (in particular on the representatives of newbrow from Vanni Cuoghi to Giuseppe Veneziano to the newest fringes of the movement, appeared in the U.S.), but also on design, architecture and jewelry. She has been also collaborating with the monthly magazine Antiquariato, of the same publisher, writing articles about Art Déco. Besides being a journalist, she has been working as a curator for many years now. |
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Cristiano Seganfreddo | INNOVeTION VALLEY He works on the contemporary aspect of culture as a curator and cultural planner. He is author of numerous publications and catalogs, working with not only sectoral newspapers. He is columnist for Nordest Europa and Artribune. He collaborates with Il Corriere della Sera and Il Corriere del Veneto. He is director and founder of the Fuoribiennale and Innov(e)tion Valley, the first Italian network of creative companies. |
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Helga Marsala | ARTRIBUNE Helga Marsala is a journalist, contemporary art critic and curator. Collaborator for many years of trade magazines, she has worked for a long time as menaging editor for Exibart. Now she is a member of the direction's staff of Artribune, responsible of Artribune Television and of the editorial office in Sicily. She develops a theoretical analysis through essay and critical writings inside publications and catalogues of contemporary art and culture. In 2009, she has been administrator of the Archive SACS at Riso, Contemporary art museum of Sicily. She curates exhibition projects for public and private spaces in Italy, following the artistic development of Italian and international artists, specifically of the last generations. She collaborates as independent curator with Riso and with the Gam - Gallery of Modern art in Palermo. |





















