Demetrio Paparoni, art critic and essayist Demetrio Paparoni was born
in Siracusa in 1954. He lives in Milan. An art critic, essayist and
exhibition curator, he is the author of monographs and books on
contemporary art theory. In the early 1980s he created the Tema
Celeste magazine, which he directed until April 2000.He was, amongst
other things, commissioner for the Italian pavilion of the Venice
Biennale in 1993. He teaches the History of Contemporary Art at the
Faculty of Architecture in Catania from 1996 to 2008.
GIANNI MERCURIO
Gianni Mercurio, Italian curator, lives in Rome.
GM curated preeminent contemporary art group shows and solo shows in important
European museums.
He worked as guest curator at the Ludwig Museum Cologne, MOCA Lyon,
MACRO Rome, various museums in Milan, Belgium, Finland, among others,
He has been director of :
Chiostro del Bramante in Rome, 1995– 2000
Galleria Comunale di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (at present MACRO)Rome, 2000– 2001
Museo Carlo Bilotti in Rome, 2006–2008
recent exhibitions
2010 – Roy Lichtenstein, Meditations on Art
Milan, Triennale Museum – Cologne, Museum Ludwig
2011 – Tony Oursler, Open Oscura
Milan, PAC Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea
current exhibitions
Anish Kapoor, Milan, two venues, until January 8th, 2012
Surreal vs Surrealism in Contemporary Art, group show, IVAM, Valencia, from October 6, 2011