Alexandru Patatics on Fri, 22 Mar 2002 16:25:06 +0100 (CET)
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Title: Francesco Bonami
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Subject: Francesco Bonami
FRANCESCO BONAMI IS THE
NEW DIRECTOR OF THE VENICE BIENNALE
We are extremely pleased to learn
that Francesco Bonami has been appointed
director of the next Venice
Biennale.
Francesco Bonami (Florence, 1955) has been U.S. Editor of Flash
Art from
1990 to 1997, and since then he has been one of our finest and
more
appreciated contributors.
He is currently Manilow Senior Curator of
the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Chicago, and Artistic Director of the
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Foundation in
Turin and Pitti Discovery in
Florence.
With Francesco Bonami, the Venice Biennale will be directed by
a prepared
and efficient curator.
We are positive that thanks to
Francesco Bonami, the Venice Biennale will
be finally a real survey of
contemporary art, a meeting point for the great
news and the great artists of
today.
After the wild and obsolete attempts of Italian and International
curators
(Achille Bonito Oliva, Harald Szeemann), and Italy Minister of
Culture
Vittorio Sgarbi's concerns about having a director unfamiliar
with
contemporary art (Jean Clair, Robert Hughes), Venice will finally have
a
real professionist of contemporary art.
Flash Art, its staff and its
readers, wish to Francesco Bonami all the best
for his new
work.
Giancarlo Politi