Laura Mattioli (born May 28, 1950) is an Italian art historian, a collector and a curator. Since 2013, she has been the President of the
Center for Modern Italian Art in New York City.
Early life and education
Mattioli was born in
Milan, Italy
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. Her father was the Milanese collector
Gianni Mattioli
Gianni Mattioli (1903 – 1977) was an Italian businessman, a cotton trader in Milan, and art collector, particularly of the work of the Italian Futurists.
Mattioli was born in Milan in 1903, and started collecting in the early 1920s, but most ...
, who started collecting during the Second World War, building his collection in 1943, after he saw the first massacre of Jews carried out by the Nazis in Italy. In 1949, he acquired 87 works from fellow Italian collector Pietro Feroldi.
Mattioli's childhood was unconventional and most of her younger years were spent with nannies and, rather than friends, artists, critics and intellectuals her parents would see regularly including modernist
Mario Sironi, art historian Fernanda Wittgens,
Giorgio Morandi,
Fortunato Depero
Fortunato Depero (30 March 1892 – 29 November 1960) was an Italian futurist painter, writer, sculptor, and graphic designer.
Biography
Although born in Fondo or in the neighboring village of Malosco, according to other sources (in the It ...
,
Giacomo Manzù and
Marino Marini .
Her art education includes studying at
Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
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in Milan (
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in
History of Art
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),
Università degli Studi in Milan (
BS in
Art History
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) and Liceo Giuseppe Parini in Milan.
Career
Mattioli had not planned to be involved in art. Her father had other ideas and had Laura begin training in art history with a family friend.
From 1975 to 1981, she taught at the Università degli studi di Milano and at the
Accademia Carrara
The Accademia Carrara, (), officially Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti di Bergamo, is an art gallery and an academy of fine arts in Bergamo, in Lombardy in northern Italy. The art gallery was established in about 1780 by , a Bergamasco collect ...
from 1992 to 1999. Along with teaching, Mattioli has organized many exhibitions including:
*
Barry X Ball
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His work has been widely exhibited internationally over the last 30 years and is represented in many public and private collections.
His work has bee ...
. ''Pietà''. 2018.
Museo d'Arte Antica
The Museo d'Arte Antica ('Museum of Ancient Art') is an art museum in the Castello Sforzesco in Milan, in Lombardy in northern Italy. It has a large collection of sculpture from late antiquity and the medieval and Renaissance periods. The vari ...
Milan, Italy.
* ''Metaphysical Masterpieces 1916-1920: Morandi, Sironi, and Carrà''. October 2018–June 2019. CIMA, New York.
*
Barry X Ball
Barry X Ball (born 1955, Pasadena) is an American sculptor who lives and works in New York City.
His work has been widely exhibited internationally over the last 30 years and is represented in many public and private collections.
His work has bee ...
,
Portraits and Masterpieces in Venice, June 4 - September 11, 2011
Museo del Settecento Veneziano di Ca’ Rezzonico
* ''Giorgio Morandi et l’abstraction du réel''. June–September 2010. , Toulon, France.
*
Boccioni
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pittore scultore futurista, Palazzo Reale, Milan(October 6, 2006 – February 25, 2007)
* ''Morandi Ultimo, nature morte 1950–1964'', December 1997–February 1998, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona; April–September 1998.
Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice.
* Boccioni’s Materia: A Futurist Masterpiece and the European Avant-Garde
In 2003, she wrote an essay for the book "The Mattioli Collection: Masterpieces of the Italian Avant-garde" by Italian Art Historian Flavio Fergonzia.
In 1999, she edite
Foppa e la Cappella Portinari, Milan which includes her essay, "I restauri: interventi e interpretazioni (The restorations, interventions and interpretations)."
Since 1983 she has been the curator responsible for the collection of her father, Gianni Mattioli.
Mattioli established the
Center for Italian Modern Art, a public nonprofit exhibit and research center, in 2013.
References
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Italian art curators
People from Milan
Fondo Ambiente Italiano
1950 births
Living people