
Alain Chivilò is an
Italian
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contemporary art
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curator, critic and writer based in
Venice
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and
Milan
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. He began his studies on art during childhood with lessons held by Master
Eugenio Da Venezia, starting around a post-impressionistic figurative way of expression generated by a group of modern artists working before and world war II in Italy. He studied art history and business administration at university, but he doesn't like to write these qualifications with the dr abbreviation or similar (doctor, phd, dottore, ext). More research, to deepen his education on contemporary art, has been done in cities such as London, Paris, Madrid as well as Milan, Venice and Rome.
In
Venice
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he is one of the last artistic director to defend a nineteenth century masters group characterized by exploring nature, still life and portraits (Marco Novati,
Eugenio Da Venezia, Neno Mori, Carlo Dalla Zorza, Fioravante Seibezzi, Cosimo Privato, Mario Varagnolo for example). In this context the art monographs “Gigi Candiani Tessere di vita”,
[Publication details: A. Chivilò "Gigi Candiani Tessere di vita" Alcione editore, 2013. ] “Marco Novati Volti Vissuti”
[Publication details: A. Chivilò "Marco Novati Volti Vissuti". A. Moro Editore, 2015. ] and "Gigi Candiani Atmosfere Rarefatte"
[Publication details: A. Chivilò "Marco Novati Volti Vissuti". A. Moro Editore, 2016. ] triggered in Italy a debate about the importance of these figurative artists in modern Italian art.
[Source details: Gigi Candiani book presentation. Ateneo Veneto Venice 10/23/2014]
As freelance writer he is collaborating with magazines as ''Art Review, Drawing, Art Style, Art Calling, Art&trA''. During his career Chivilò interviewed artists as for example Sir
Anthony Caro
Sir Anthony Alfred Caro (8 March 192423 October 2013) was an English abstract art, abstract sculptor whose work is characterised by assemblages of metal using 'Found object, found' industrial objects. His style was of the modernist school, hav ...
,
Marc Quinn
Marc Quinn (born 8 January 1964) is a British contemporary visual artist whose work includes sculpture, installation, and painting. Quinn explores "what it is to be human in the world today" through subjects including the body, genetics, ident ...
,
Shozo Shimamoto
was a Japanese artist. Having studied with Jirō Yoshihara, the future Gutai leader, from 1947, Shimamoto was a key founding member of Gutai along with Yoshihara and fifteen others in August, 1954. He was close to the leader Yoshihara and act ...
,
Hermann Nitsch,
Jacques Villeglé
Jacques Villeglé, born Jacques Mahé de la Villeglé (27 March 1926 – 6 June 2022) was a French mixed-media artist and affichiste famous for his alphabet with symbolic letters and decollage with ripped or lacerated posters. He was a memb ...
, Fabrizio Plessi,
Gianni Berengo Gardin, Riccardo Licata, Eugenio Carmi,
Rabarama, Achille Perilli,
Luca Alinari, Alberto Biasi, Xu Deqi,
Helidon Xhixha. In June 2017 all these art contacts, that involved him, have been published in a new book: "Tracce Segni Macchie Bruciature Concetti Scatti Tagli Buchi".
[Publication details: A. Chivilò "Tracce Segni Macchie Bruciature Concetti Scatti Tagli Buchi" A. Moro Editore, 2017.]
As art critic a simplicity of expression (not banality) is a fundamental feature of his texts.
[Source details: Marco Novati book presentation, Caio Giulio Cesare hall Mestre 5/11/2015] As art curator fundamental are the collaboration with Italian critics, for example Giovanni Faccenda and Vittorio Sgarbi. He has also organised exhibitions at
Villa Pisani, Stra
Villa Pisani at Stra refers to the monumental, late- Baroque rural palace located along the Brenta Canal ( Riviera del Brenta) at Via Doge Pisani 7 near the town of Stra, on the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy. This villa is one of the l ...
(Venice), Casa dei Carraresi (
Treviso
Treviso ( , ; vec, Trevixo) is a city and ''comune'' in the Veneto region of northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 84,669 inhabitants (as of September 2017). Some 3,000 live within the Veneti ...
) and in other different Italian locations as
Milan
Milan ( , , Lombard language, Lombard: ; it, Milano ) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the List of cities in Italy, second-most populous city proper in Italy after Rome. The city proper has a population of about 1.4  ...
and
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus ( legendary)
, image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg
, map_caption ...
.
From 2013 to 2016 he studied and analyzed the ignorance and lack of communication in the Italian culture (different geographical areas). The project called ''Quod erat demonstrandum'' was a sort of global provocative act denouncing the current strength of ''commonplace'' generated by a culturally superficial society. Now he attempts to form the society towards a philosophy based on dialogue and listening.
Publications
Recent edited anthologies include:
''Marco Novati Volti Vissuti'' 2015, ''Gigi Candiani Atmosfere Rarefatte'' 2016 and ''Tracce Segni Macchie Bruciature Concetti Scatti Tagli Buchi'' 2017.
Recent catalogue essays include:
"
Donald Martiny Divine Material" (ArteA, 2019), Alfredo Rapetti Mogol Parole Svelate" (ArteA, 2019), "Materials: Pino Pinelli, Elio Marchegiani,
Mario Ceroli
Mario Ceroli (born 1938) is an Italian sculptor. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson, Mississippi. One of his sculptures is on the Luigi Einaudi campus of the Unive ...
, Piero Gilardi,
Roberto Barni, Enzo Cacciola, Umberto Mariani, Armando Marrocco, Giuseppe Uncini, Getulio Alviani, Jannis Kounellis, Alberto Burri and Gioni David Parra" (Armanda Gori Arte, Pietrasanta, 2018), "Antonio Amodio Fisionomie Elettive" (Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, 2017), "Piero Slongo Ars" (Galleria d'arte moderna, San Donà di Piave, 2016), "Paola Romano Moon" (National Museum Villa Pisani, Stra Venice, 2015), "Stefano Benazzo La Naturalezza dell’Istante" (Casa dei Carraresi, Treviso, 2015), "
Cinzia Pellin
Cinzia Pellin (born 19 July 1973 in Velletri, Rome) is a contemporary Italian painter and set designer.
Art career
The women in Pellin's works are show and film stars or, often, fashion models. But also simply “women”, unaware stars of ou ...
Cinemart: Omaggio al Cinema Italiano" (Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, 2013).
Notes
External links
Alain's introductionCinzia PellinPaolo VegasPaolo Vegas I quattro elementiFausto NazerMarco Novati
Material by Chivilò
Paolo Vegas italian pressPaolo Vegas italian pressOmar Galliani italian pressAnna ReberDaniela Rebuzzi MovimentiKarin Monschauer Universi GeometriciKarin Monschauer Universi Geometrici English TextVittoria Chierici Selected press
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Italian art critics
Italian art curators
Living people
1969 births
Writers from Venice
Writers from Milan
Curators from Milan