2024-05-11 20:59:14
TRENTO. “Forced” by controversies and investigations to leave the post of undersecretary for culture, Vittorio Sgarbi however, he remains president of the Mart of Trento and Rovereto. This was decided by the provincial council of Trento despite harsh criticism from the opposition on several occasions, the latest for the homophobic and sexist phrases uttered last month by Sgarbi in a video shot with some boys in Riva.
The art critic, candidate for the European elections with Fratelli d’Italiatherefore maintains the leadership of the main museum institution in Trentino.
«I am happy – he comments – to be able to continue my activity, as intense as it is exciting, as president of the Mart of Rovereto, with a board of directors that, in addition to the proven ability to Silvio Cattaniis enriched by the specific expertise and experience in the museum of Nicoletta Boschieroto whom my best wishes go, as the active and capable Daria Macii takes leave.”
Sgarbi announces that shortly «we will install the new council and appoint the new study committee». Meanwhile, before announcing the next exhibitions, «I am happy to communicate the special initiatives already with the aim of expanding the Mart’s activity to cinema and theatre, after the success of ‘Margherita Sarfatti’ by Massimo Mattioli. The first, scheduled for June 12th, will be representation on Giacomo Matteotti, on the occasion of the centenary of his death: ‘The body’ with a text by Riccardo Nencini. We will return to Matteotti with Maurizio Donadoni’s show: ‘Matteotti Midley’. The show is also scheduled as part of the great exhibition on ‘Art and Fascism’ ‘Giuseppe Tucci, Travel excerpts. The country of women with many husbands’, edited by Marta Bifano and Roberto Lucifero.
But the most pertinent news for the Mart collections is the donation, together with some paintings from the great exhibition on contemporary Chinese painting, of sculptures by Chinese artists already exhibited at the Venice Biennale, at the Center Pompidou, at the Barbican in London, for an initiative coordinated by Vincenzo Sanza, on which we will deliberate in the first settlement council, on June 13th”.
2024-05-11 20:59:14