Luca Cerizza will be the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 2024 Art Biennale

Luca Cerizza will be the curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia: his name has become definitively official, after the progress of recent weeks. Therefore, the countdown continues towards the 2024 Art Biennale, which will be held Held from April 20 to November 28, 2024: curated by Adriano Pedrosa, artistic director of the Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand in Brazil, The international exhibition will be titled Strangers Everywhere – Foreigners Everywhere. LUCA CERIZZA CURATOR OF THE ITALY PAVILION 2024 The project developed by Cerizza is titled Due qui / To Hear and features the artist Massimo Bartolini. As is tradition, more details will be presented during a specific press conference, which will take place in the first months of 2024. Meanwhile, it became known that the proposal developed by Cerizza prevailed in the second phase of the announced public selection; – for the first time in the history of the Italian Pavilion at the Art Biennale – over the other two included in the selected trio, beating those presented respectively by Ilaria Gianni (who participated with the artist Anna Franceschini) and Luca Lo Pinto (who competed with a proposal from the Invernomuto collective). Professor of Museology and Curation in the specialized master’s degree at the NABA in Milan, Cerizza is the author of several publications, including Alighiero Boetti. Map; and the monograph Massimo Bartolini (edited with Cristiana Perrella). Curatorial projects include the individual exhibition of Tomàs Saraceno at the Villa Croce Museum in Genoa in 2014, together with Ilaria Bonacossa, and that of Tino Sehgal at the OGR in Turin in 2018. THE ART OF MASSIMO BARTOLINI AT THE 2024 ART BIENNALE The artist who will represent Italy in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere is Massimo Bartolini. Born in Cecina in 1962, he is currently a professor of Visual Arts at NABA. His research focuses on the relationship between man, nature and space, often through the creation (or revisiting) of multi-sensory and immersive environments. Bartolini has had numerous solo exhibitions (including those at the Massimo De Carlo gallery in Milan, but also those at museum institutions such as the Henry Moore Foundation in Leeds, 1996, the MoMA PS1 in New York, 2001), just to name a few. It is not his first time at the Biennial: he had already participated on several occasions, in 1999, in 2009 and again in 2013.[Immagine in apertura: Padiglione Centrale, Giardini. Photo by Francesco Galli]