Vittorio Urbani in Zagreb

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Lecture hall, 14. 10.2009 19,00 h

Vittorio Urbani, born in Ferrara (Italy), 1954. Lives in Venice.

Founded in 1993 in Venice “Nuova Icona, Associazione Culturale per le Arti”, a non-profit art organization dedicated to new art production which he since directs. The association has 40 members.

            personally curated or co-curated 180 shows of contemporary visual arts as the director/curator of “Nuova Icona” and also on call by foreign galleries/institutions..

-     edited or co-edited about 80 catalogues and publications for “Nuova Icona”.

-           organized or co-organized:

-           in February 1994, the seminar “Progettare l’Arte Contemporanea” at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Venice;

-           in December 1999 the seminar “La produzione di progetti di arti visive come risorsa economica alternativa alla monocultura turistica di Venezia” (Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice).

-           In June 2001 the round table of international curators “Venice Agendas” in collaboration with Winchester School of Art, London (Teatro Consiglio di Quartiere, Giudecca, Venice);

-           in June 2003 “Venice Agendas II” in collaboration with the same institution + Cardiff School of Arts and the British Council (Hotel Metropole, Venice).

-           “Venice Agendas III”, Hotel Metropole, Venezia, June 2003;

-           “Venice Agendas IV: Neighbours in Dialogue”, Hotel Metropole, Venezia, June 2005;

-           organized and curated (with Dora De Diana and Martina Pizzul) in the years 2002 and 2003 the series “Guggenheim Jeune” a string of talks and lectures by artists at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice.

-           participated as invited speaker, at the following meetings on art matters:

-      “Giornata di Studio sull’Archivio Storico delle Arti Contemporanee”, Venice, 

        ASAC, 26/2/94

-      “Arte allo Specchio”, Padoa, 23/10/94              

-      “Emergenti nell’Arte”, Padoa, at the Caffé Pedrocchi, 22/1/95

-      “Arte Nuova a Venezia”, Venice, Scuola dei Calegheri, 25/10/96

-      “Il Restauro del Contemporaneo: i problemi giuridici e il circuito delle informazioni”, Venice, Cà Bembo, 26/10/96

-           “Arte contemporanea e scuola: il senso della comunicazione”, Venezia, Ist. Statale d’Arte, 28-30/11/97;

-           “Art-criticism and Curatorial Practices, East of the EU” care of AICA Turkey, Istanbul,   September 2003

-           “Radar”, conference at Telecom Future Centre,  September 8 / 9, 2004, Venice;

-           Convegno “Spazio, Ambiente, Metamorfosi” organized by the University of Venice and La Sourbonne, Paris, 2 / 3 novembre 2004, Auditorium di Santa Margherita, Venice;

-           “Continental Breakfast- the expanded map”, organized by “Trieste Contemporaneo”, Palazzo Zorzi-UNESCO, Venice, June 8 / 9, 2005

-           visiting curator at Vancouver (B.C., Canada) in September 1999; to Istanbul (Turkey) in October 2000; to Baku (Azerbaijan) in February 2004; to Cardiff (UK) in November 2004; to Rotterdam (Netherlands, Spring 2004).

-           Selector (judge) for the art prize “Perspectives”, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, September 2004 and called as co-Selector in the Committee of the Kyoto Prize Commission, June 2006.

-           consultancy for the National Pavilion of Turkey (2003) and USA  (2003) in the Biennial of Visual Arts of Venice, plus actively collaborated to the realization and management of the National Pavilions in the Biennale for Ireland (1995, 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005); Turkey (2001, 2005), Scotland (2003), Wales (2003, 2005); India (2005); Finland (2005).

-           provided consultancy and collaboration to the National Pavilions of Ireland in Venice Architectural Biennial in 2002 and 2004.

  - bibliography (not complete):

-     Records of the seminars and meetings (see above);

-     “Forma - nuova scultura italiana”, Venice, Liège, Dublin, Winchester, 1996/97. Text for the catalogue of the show;

-     “Biennale dei Giovani Artisti di Vigonza”, Villa Bettanini, Vigonza,  Italy 1996. Text for the catalogue of the show;

-     “Giuseppe Pulvirenti”, Venice, 1996. Text for the catalogue of the show.

-     “Host: Daniel Harvey and Heather Ackroyd”, Venice, 1996. Text for the catalogue of the show;

-           -     “Robert Morris: Tar Babies of the New World order”, Venice, 1997. Text for the catalogue of the show;

-     “Maurizio Pellegrin: La Stanza Cinese”, Venice, 1997. Text for the     catalogue of the show;

-      “Rosso_Casali”, Venice, 1997. Text for the catalogue of the show;

-     “Transitional - Charles Mason, Stephen Elson, Terry Smith”,    Venice 1998. Text for the catalogue of the show.

-    “Too beautiful to be true: Enzo Apruzzese, Maurizio Pellegrin, Giovanni Rizzoli, Paolo Ravalico Scerri” text for the       catalogue of  the show held in Istanbul in  2000

-     “Starting Over; Maurizio Pellegrin and Charles Mason” Text for the catalogue of the shows held in London 2001 and Venice 2002

-     “Where is my Home? Graham Fagen and Flavio Favelli” Text for the catalogue of the shows held in London 2002, Istanbul 2003 and Venice 2004.

-      “Through the Window: Peter Liversidge and Antonio Riello”, Text for the catalogue of the show held in London 2003

-   “Venice Agendas III”, Conference of International Curators, text in the publication,Hotel Metropole, Venezia, June  2003;

-    “Istantanea di un Duca Morto: solo show by Fabio Mauri”. Text for the Catalogue of the show, held during and under the auspices of the Biennale of Venice 2003.

-    “Continental Breakfast – the expanded map”, essay in the publication by “Trieste Contemporaneo”, publication related to the conference held in Palazzo Zorzi-UNESCO, Venice, June 8 / 9, 2005

-     “Venice Agendas IV – Neighbours in Dialogue”, text in publication, Hotel Metropole, Venice, June 8 / 9, 2005

-      “Space: architecture for art” essay in the book published by Circa Art Magazine, Dublin, 2005

-    “Engaged in Recreation” works by Antonio Riello, Lorraine Burrell and Peter Liversidge, text for the catalogue. Show at Borusan Art Center, Istanbul, November 2005

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