Michelangelo Pistoletto
Artistic Director
Michelangelo Pistoletto is a major figure of contemporary art. He began to exhibit his work in 1955 and in 1960 he had his first solo show at Galleria Galatea in Turin. An inquiry into self-portraiture characterizes his early work. In the two-year period 1961-1962 made the first Mirror Paintings…
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Cittadellarte
Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto was instituted in 1998 as a concrete action of the Progetto Arte Manifesto where the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto proposed a new role for the artist: that of placing art in direct interaction with all the areas of human activity which form society.
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Luigi Coppola
Representative artistic director
Luigi Coppola is an Italian artist that works primarily in performance art. His artistic research is concentrated on the relational dynamics, stressing the conceptual aspects of order in the social mechanisms. His artistic practice comes from a combination of various educational and professional experiences….
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Judith Wielander
Associate curator
Judith Wielander is a curator of art projects specializing in public art and cultural activation. She is currently working in the art department of Cittadellarte where she has curated…
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Gabi Farage
Associate curator
Gabi Farage is an architect and visual artist. He is co-director of the Bruit du frigo organization, a hybrid structure somewhere between urban research bureau, art collective, and popular education organization…
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Éric Troussicot
Associate curator
Éric Troussicot is an architect and exhibition curator. Since 2008 he has been working on a regular basis with arc en rêve centre d’architecture in Bordeaux, curating and designing several exhibitions…
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Emiliano Gandolfi
Advisor to the artistic direction
Emiliano Gandolfi is an architect and independent exhibition curator, focusing on the theme of the relationship between architecture, art and urbanism….
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The award will be presented at the third annual Creative Time Summit conference in NYU on September 23, 2011. 