Jury
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, after graduating in business studies and economics at the University of Turin, she first started collecting contemporary art in the early nineties.
What started as a hobby, rapidly became a full time career when she founded the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in 1995, of which she is President. The Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo set up its first gallery at the Palazzo Re Rebaudengo in Guarene in 1997 and officially opened its current headquarters, a centre for contemporary art in Turin, in September 2002. The Turin space is a flexible structure that can put together exhibitions quickly and efficiently to respond to today’s trends, working with artists, critics, curators collectors and institutions from around the world to promote and support the production and exhibition of contemporary art at an international level.
Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo is an extremely active patron of the arts. She is a Member of the International Council, Museum of Modern Art, New York (since 1996); Member of the Friends of Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York (since 1996); Member of the International Council, Tate Gallery, London (since 1997); Member of the Leadership Council, New Museum, New York (since 2007); Member of the Advisory Committee for Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art (since 2008); Member of the Amici Sostenitori, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin (since 1993); patroness Italian Red Cross (since 1992); founder and dir. National Association of the Tree of Dreams (assistance and therapeutic support to children undergoing intensive medical treatment); Member of the Confindustria Nazionale Cultural Commission (since 2008); Member of the “Giuria dei Letterati” for the “Premio Campiello – Confindustria Veneto”.
Among other Italian honors and awards for her work in the art world, she also received the Mont Blanc Arts Patronage Award for her dedication to contemporary art in 2003 and was awarded the title “Chevalier dans l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres” by the French Ministry of Culture in 2009.
Francesca Baboni lives in Correggio (Re). Graduated in classical studies with art history program from the University of Bologna, she is an art critic, art historian and independent curator. For several years she has been curating solo and group exhibitions of contemporary artists for private spaces, with a particular focus on painting and photograph. She has been a contributor to many art periodicals and she is currently editor for Artribune magazine. She collaborates with Correggio Art Home, a study center dedicated to the painter Antonio Allegri known as Correggio, and she is a member of the board of directors of Fondazione Il Correggio, which oversees its activities.
Filippo Maggia started his curatorial activity in Modena, where he was curator of photography at Galleria Civica from 1993 to 2005.
Since 1998, he is curator of Italian photography and manager of the historical photographic collection at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo of Turin.
From 2001 to 2004 he took part in the Comitato Scientifico of Galleria d'Arte Moderna of Bologna.
In Biella, his hometown, he was curator of the collection of Fondazione Sella between 2002 and 2006 and curator of photography at Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa of Venice, from 2006 to 2008.
Since 2007 he worked again in Modena, firstly as chief curator and then as head of projects of the contemporary photography collections of Fondazione Fotografia Modena, a project promoted by Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena.
He was jury president of the Hasselblad Award 2004, in which he already took part in 2003.
In 2007 he received a fellowship from the Royal College of Art of London, where is currently a visiting researcher in the Photography Department.
From 2000 to 2009, he taught History of Contemporary Photography and Design at the Istituto Europeo di Design of Turin.
Since 2010, he teaches photographic documentation at the Accademia di Belle Arti of Catania and since 2012 he is the director of the Master of Fine Arts in Imaging Arts of Modena.
Between 1998 and 2004 he was editor at Baldini Castoldi Dalai for the series Fotografia come Linguaggio.
Since 2006 he is editor of Skira and he regularly writes for periodicals specialized in art, such as Aperture (USA), Exit (Spain), Il Giornale dell’Arte and Io Donna/Corsera (Italy).
Since 2001 he also collaborates with Radio Rai 3 RAI, as radio presenter of many programs devoted to photography.
Andrea Bruciati (Corinaldo, 1968), received his degree in Contemporary Art History after writing his thesis on Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni. Since 2002, he has been the artistic director of the GC. AC of Monfalcone, in northeastern Italy. He contributes to several specialist magazines and plays an active role in the debate regarding a national network for research and training in the field of contemporary art. He is also interested in this regard in the international promotion of the younger generation of Italian artists who work on the peninsula, with the establishment of the MOROSO Prize for Contemporary Art, the network Argonauti, and the dissemination of new media. His work for the museum includes designing the program formats: lab. it, videoREPORT, prima visione, 40, L’immagine sottile, Fruz, Past Forward, On Stage, Message in a Bottle; So Fresh!, studiovisit. it, and Where the West Ends. Among the exhibitions he has organised are: Ouverture: Art from Italy (2002); Painting Codes (2006); Arrivals and Departures_ Europe: a new generation of artists (2010); 00 ITALIA: 100 masterpieces for a hypothesis of History (2012).
Alberto Salvadori graduated from the University of Pisa, where he also earned his Specialisation degree in History of Modern and Contemporary Art of European Countries. He obtained a second level Master degree in curatorial studies at Brera Academy of Fine Arts. He worked at the City Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art of Turin and he curated the general catalogue of the Gallery of Modern Art of Pitti Palace in Florence. Since 2009 he has been the director of Marino Marini Museum of Florence and since 2007 he has been guiding the Contemporary Arts Observatory by Ente Cassa di Risparmio of Florence and he is a board member of Istituzione Musei Bologna. In 2011 he co-curated Tudo è, a project on the new artistic Brazilian scene for Fondazione Pitti Discovery. Among the projects he realised in recent years, there are those on Andrea Zittel, Mark Lewis, Joao Maria Gusmao e Pedro Paiva, Yuri Ancarani, Matthew Brannon, Deimantas Narkevicius.
He is now preparing exhibitions on Esther Klas, Jonathas De Andrade, Silke Otto Knap, Francesco Gennari e Luca Trevisani and three big monographic exhibitions on Marino Marini at the Iberê Camargo Foundation of Porto Alegre, the Mac of São Paulo and the Pinacotheca of the State of São Paulo.
Stefano Taddei was born in Vignola (MO) and he lives in Albinea (RE). He gained a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage - Contemporary Field from the University of Parma. He is an art critic and an independent curator.
