Alain Chivilò

Photo of the art critic and curator Alain Chivilò, Venice 2016

Alain Chivilò based in Venice and Milan is an Italian contemporary art curator, critic and writer. He began his studies on art during childhood with lessons held by Master Eugenio Da Venezia, teacher at Accademia di Belle Arti in Venice and at the same time starting from 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 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”,^{[n 1]} “Marco Novati Volti Vissuti”^{[n 2]} and "Gigi Candiani Atmosfere Rarefatte"^{[n 3]} triggered in Italy a debate about the importance of these figurative artists in modern Italian art. ^{[n 4]}

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, Marc Quinn, Shozo Shimamoto, Hermann Nitsch, Jacques Villeglé, Fabrizio Plessi, Gianni Berengo Gardin, Riccardo Licata, Eugenio Carmi, Rabarama, Achille Perilli, Luca Alinari, Alberto Biasi, Xu Deqi, Helidon Xhixha. On June 2017 all these art contacts, that involved him, have been published in a new book: "Tracce Segni Macchie Bruciature Concetti Scatti Tagli Buchi".^{[n 5]}

As art critic a simplicity of expression (not banality) is a fundamental feature of his texts. ^{[n 6]} 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 (Venice), Casa dei Carraresi (Treviso) and in other different Italian locations as Milan and Rome.

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 deepening 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: "Materials: Pino Pinelli, Elio Marchegiani, Mario Ceroli, 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, Pietrsanta, 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 Cinemart: Omaggio al Cinema Italiano" (Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, 2013).

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External links

• Alain Chivilò
• Cinzia Pellin
• Paolo Vegas
• Paolo Vegas I quattro elementi
• Sergio Comacchio Fuggenti bellezze
• Stefano Benazzo
• Marco Novati
• Gigi Candiani