She lives and works in Rome where she has been collaborating with MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo since 2002. After a Master in Arts Administration at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, she has been collaborating for different galleries and institutions, in Italy and abroad, such as P.S.1 [...]
Maurizio Sacripanti (1916-1996) graduated in Rome in 1942 and after only a few years, he won first prize in the competition for the refurbishment of Piazza Garibaldi in Perugia. Sacripanti’s pioneering inventiveness was the most outstanding feature of his architectural design career. Following the construction of a few residential complexes built in a clearly rationalistic [...]
Between 2005 and 2009 she was the Contemporary Art Advisor to the Province of Milan. She curated CECAC (European Course for Contemporary Art Curators) – Fondazione Ratti, Como, Italy and Province of Milan. Between 2000 and 2004 she headed the Archivio degli Artisti C/O Careof-Viafarini, Milan. She curated exhibitions such as Alfredo Jaar, It is [...]
Architect, artist and designer, Carlo Scarpa (Venice, 1906 – Sendai, Japan, 1978) is considered to be one of the most interesting figures of 20th century architecture. Educated in Venice, where he earned his diploma in Architectural Design from the Reale Accademia di Belle Arti in 1926, he began his teaching career at the IUAV, an [...]
Bernardo Secchi is a professor in Territorial Economics since 1965, initially with the Faculty of Economics in Ancona and later with the IUAV in Venice. Since 1986 he also teaches at the Ecole d’Architecture de Genève.
He has designed public housing neighbourhoods, including the Piano per l’Edilizia Economica e Popolare di Vicenza, the recovery of the [...]
Kiki Smith (Norimberga, 1954) primarily a sculptress, gained international acclaim with her Body Sculptures in the late 80’s. Her work is included in public collections, such as MoMA (NYC), Metropolitan Museum (NYC), Centre Pompidou (Paris) and Tate Gallery (London). In 2005 a large retrospective, named A Gathering, was dedicated to the artist.
Paolo Soleri is well known especially for being the founder of the Cosanti Foundation (1956) situated in Scottsdale (Arizona), a place where both research and teaching takes place. The main aim of the foundation is the creation of Arcosanti, a self-sufficient city, for seven thousand inhabitants, the construction of which started in 1970. The Arcosanti [...]