Vittoria Biasi
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Vittoria Biasi

Vittoria Biasi is a Contemporary Art Historian and an Art Critic. She is a
Contemporary Art History professor at Florence’s Academy of Fine Arts. After
her humanities graduation she concerned herself with the Theory of White
following Hubert Damish at Paris *Ecole des Haute Etude*. Close to artists who
interprets the monochromy of white she devoted herself to the theoretical criticism realizing
national and international shows and exhibitions with a particular attention to the Eastern culture.
She attends conferences as a lecturer about the white and its light. Among the others: Lumière(s)
En Usage, Pèrigueux 1998. From 1996 on to 2000 she realizes the events of Light of Art for
Art’s sake at Rome, Parma and Padoa. For Homo Sapiens (1) first she translated Henry
Meschonnic from French, publishing some excerpts from Modernité (2). Some other
publications: State of White (3); In Line with Light, Light for Light’s sake (4). She wrote for the
magazine Lighting. Through a text of her she is attending Fabrizio Crisafulli’s Theatre of Places.
The theatre as a place and the experience at Formia (1996-1998), **G.A.T.D*., Rome, 1998. She
looked after the exhibitions for the book of artist in Italy and abroad.

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Concerto di Hirari Sato organizzato da: Yasuko Ishikawa, Presidente della Japan-Abruzzo Association Umberto Donati, Direttore della Fondazione Italia Giappone Venerdì 28 marzo 2014 Basilica Sant’Andrea della Valle Corso Vittorio Emanuele II – Roma Testo di Vittoria Biasi L’invito della Fondazione Italia – Giappone al concerto di Hirari Sato, bimba giapponese

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BooksROMEtexts

Translate Quella notte a Roma Biografia di Luigi di Sarro di Carla Cucchiarelli Iacobelli Editore 2013, Roma pp. 158 Testo di Vittoria Biasi La memoria collettiva è stata segnata dall’assurda morte di Luigi Di Sarro, medico artista. L’evento tragico e assurdo si inserisce nella storia di giovani, morti mentre erano

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EventsROMEtexts

VALENTINA COLELLA | SARA SPIZZICHINO ATTESE IMPOSSIBILI Dal 5 febbraio al 28 febbraio 2014 Centro di documentazione artistica contemporanea Luigi di Sarro – Roma www.centroluigidisarro.it –  info@centroluigidisarro.it Via Paolo Emilio 28 – 00192  Roma Valentina Colella’s and Sara Spizzichino’s artistic project Attese impossibili was born from the desire to visualise

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Image above 'Remember the Dance'by Jill Rock (photo Antonio Mena)
LONDONtextsvideo film & live performances

‘Whiteout’ by Jill Rock From 3rd of December to 9th of January | Hundred Years Gallery Hundred Years Gallery 13 Pearson St. London E2 8JD +44 (0) 20 3602 7973 – info@hundredyearsgallery.com http://www.hundredyearsgallery.com/whiteout/ Testo di Vittoria Biasi  Translate Ho conosciuto Jill Rock a Roma in occasione della sua mostra “jill

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Exhibition View
LONDONtextsU.K.video film & live performances

Collaboration or better Korean Artist Association UK at London Korean Cultural Centre Text bt Vittoria Biasi – Copyright 1F mediaproject. All rights reserved The exhibition Collaboration at the London Korean Cultural Centre is an important expositive event organized by Korean Artists who live in London and associated in The Korean

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PhotographyROMEStudio.ratextsvideo film & live performances

Text by Vittoria Biasi  The photograph of Jill Rock standing by a tree whose branches are clothed in coloured drapes reminds me of a journey I made to Thailand for a show I curated there. A large tree had been decorated with coloured pieces of fabric; they hung down from

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FABRIZIO CORNELI Open Secret, 2008 Bottle dimension cm20x25x35 frosted glass, brass, halogenlamp
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English National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea and Vittoria Biasi present White & White Dialogue between Korea / Italy ROMA, Museo Carlo Bilotti – Aranciera di Villa Borghese Viale Fiorello La Guardia – 00197 Roma – Tel. 060608 – Email: info@museocarlobilotti.it – http://en.museocarlobilotti.it/ White&White nel dialogo tra Corea e Italia

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Le premier matin du monde, 2012 olio su tela cm 85 x100, Liliana Malta
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Di Sarro’s Centre hosts the exhibition Dualism where the languages of abstraction face themselves with the fleetingness of the speeches. The artists Candida Ferrari and Liliana Malta witness the expressive identity, the power of artistic pathway towards different issues. Candida Ferrari is after the inner light of paintings ever since,

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Vincenzo Ceccato - c = dsl, 2012
BooksPARIStexts

A light in my book by Vittoria Biasi Gallery Vera Amsellem www.galerieveraamsellem.com 48 Rue du Roi de Sicile – 75004  Paris Book of Artist International Exhibition 13 december 2012 – 15 January 2013 Opening 13 December 2012  at 6:30 pm Artists: Sidival Fila, Silvia Stucky, Lea Contestabile, Adolfina De Stefani,

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Contextus # 24 Tecnica Mista Su Tela 100x100 2012 © Emanuela Lena - All rights reserved
EventsPARIStexts

Exposition « Contextures blanches » d’Emanuela Lena à la galerie Véra Amsellem du 14 novembre au 10 décembre 2012 Vernissage le 14 novembre à 19h Contextures blanches – Text by Vittoria Biasi Le blanc, rappel inexplicable vers une idée d’origine, conjugue les âmes le long d’un fil unificateur et de respectueuse distance,

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Johannes Vermeer Giovane donna con bicchiere di vino, 1659 – 1660 ca Olio su tela, 78 x 67 cm Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museu, Braunschweig
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Text by Vittoria Biasi – Copyright 1F mediaproject Vermeer The Golden Age of Dutch Art September 27th, 2012  –  January 20th, 2013 Scuderie del Quirinale (Quirinale’s stables) – Rome www.scuderiequirinale.it – http://english.mondomostre.it/categorie/categoria-181 Curated by Arthur K. Wheelock, Curator of Northern Baroque Paintings National Gallery of Art, Washington; Walter Liedtke, Curator

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rifiut-arte II mostra d'arte contemporanea a Posta (RI) particolare installazione di Monica Renzi (croce in legno) e Davide Febbo
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III Mostra d’Arte Contemporanea Inaugurazione: 11 Agosto, ore 17.30 – Chiusura della mostra: 22 Agosto 2012 Convento di San Francesco a Posta – Comune di Posta (Rieti) Artisti: Massimo Arduini,Veronica Cesaretti, Sara Chiaranzelli, Stefano Confalone, Gianluca D’Angeli, Yuri Di Blasio, Enrica Di Marcoberardino, Gianna Ganbucci, Gina Perotti, Tatjana Kojic Cehic,

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BooksFIRENZEROMEtexts

Museo d’Arte Moderna-Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto Il fascismo e la ‘sua’ arte Dottrina e istituzioni tra futurismo e Novecento di Monica Cioli Mart – Collana «Inediti», volume 2, Leo S. Olschki, Firenze 2011 Testo di Vittoria Biasi Con la foto di Marinetti tra i futuristi, alla Biennale di Venezia

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Pittore di scuola emiliana, Natività di Gesù, olio su tela, Torino 1649
BooksROMEtexts

Il Museo dei Cappuccini Convento dell’Immacola Concezione della Beata Vergine Maria Roma, Via Vittorio Veneto, 27 Gangemi Editore, 2012 Testo di Vittoria Biasi L’inaugurazione del Museo dei Cappuccini all’interno del Convento dei Frati Minori Cappuccini di Via Veneto in Roma è una occasione per riflettere sul ricco patrimonio di opere

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Reynolds, Pax Puki, 31 x 41 cm
London BiennaleROMEStudio.ratextsvideo film & live performances

Text by Vittoria Biasi The symbolism is the idea of the Rainbow Bridge between the opposing elements of excellence: the earth and sky. The distance between the two worlds is filled with exciting images from every religion, revolving around the idea of a bridge, connecting the rainbow is the scale

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© Gerhard Richter, 2012, Reader 1994 © Gerhard Richter Courtesy San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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Gerhard Richter – View A retrospective exhibition Centre Pompidou – Paris June 6 – September 24 www.centrepompidou.fr Text by Vittoria Biasi – English by esserre The Centre Pompidou through the exhibition of Gerhard Richter-View, celebrates the 80th anniversary of German artist (1932), as an appreciation for his intellectual and pictorial

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Daniel Buren, Excentrique(s), travail in situ, 2012, Monumenta, Grand Palais, Paris
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Text by Vittoria Biasi – English by esserre EXCENTRIQUE(S) – DANIEL BUREN – GRAND PALAIS – PARIS The architecture of the aisle inside the Grand Palais at Paris inspires the specific site work of Daniel Buren through the project Monumenta, occurrence proposed every year. During 2007 it was Kiefer, during

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Books

Giovanni Travaglini Oltre la materia Una presenza inedita nell’arte informale materica Opere dal 1958 al 1974 Clean Edizioni, Napoli 2011 Pagg. 192 L’autore introduce la raccolta del suo impegno pittorico tra 1958 e il 1974 con una pagina poetica, emozionante dal titolo La mia pittura di cui mi fa piacere

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STEICHEN, Edward - Gloria Swanson - 1924 © Permission of the Estate of Edward Steichen | Courtesy George Eastman House
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THE BIRTH OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY FROM PICTORIALISM TO MODERN PHOTOGRAPHY (1889-1929) 29th March – 1 July, 2012 Curator: Baki Péter Exhibition Manager: Pablényi Agnes Exhibition co-ordination: Schilling Sara Catalogue Editor: Baki Péter – Publisher: dr. Laszlo Baan, Museum of Fine Arts Budapest, 2012 Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (Szépművészeti Múzeum)

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Modern Fine Art Collection Museum of Fine Arts Budapest (Szépművészeti Múzeum) Dózsa György út 41, Budapest 1146 – e-mail: info@szepmuveszeti.hu Text by Vittoria Biasi – translated by Salvatore Rollo The Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest (Szépművészeti Múzeum) has one of the richest and important collection of art from Middle

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Fabrizio Corneli Sognatrice Annerose - 2011 - ottone verniciato, alogena, ombre, cm 180x150
EventsROMEtexts

Text by Vittoria Biasi Shadowed by the White Thai Artists Amrit Chusuwan, Sakarin Krua, Sittichai Italian Artists Fabrizio Corneli, Alessandra Porfidia, Stato di Famiglia, Maria Chiara Calvani All the cultures are united by the symbology of tree and shadow. Some peoples think that the shadow of the brambles in the

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PARIStexts

Écrire l’espace par Vittoria Biasi Dans le constant processus d’explorations linguistiques et sociales, certaines créativités s’imposent, gagnant célébrité, pendant que d’autres recherches, comme la braise sous les cendres, suivent un parcours discret, solitaire, loin des bruits. Ces formes sont en dialogue permanent avec l’identité culturelle, avec la mémoire picturale, avec

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The Retrospective Exhibition of Károly Ferenczy (1862-1917) 30 November, 2011 – 27 May, 2012 Hungarian National Gallery Szent György tér 2., Budapest, Hungary, 1014 www.mng.hu – info@mng.hu – nemzetigaleria.budapest@museum.hu http://www.mng.hu/kiallitasok/idoszaki/ferenczy_nyito_en   Text by Vittoria Biasi – translated by Salvatore Rollo. All Texts are 1F mediaproject copyright. All Rights Reserved. The

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Dal Cielo ci Guardano – From above in space somebody looks at us, 2011 - © Raffaella Losapio 2011, stampa mild solvent su canvas pro, cm 184 x 204
PhotographyROMEStudio.ratextsvideo film & live performances

From above in space somebody looks at us – Dal Cielo ci Guardano Raffaella Losapio & The Yuri Gagarin Contraband Multimedia event curated by Vittoria Biasi DOORS OPEN at 5pm on Sunday 27 November 2011 AOCF58 – ASSOCIAZIONE OPERATORI CULTURALI FLAMINIA 58 Via Flaminia 58, 00196  Roma  +39 06 3610411 +39 063211880 – aocf58@virgilio.it Further

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