It’s hard for me not to think of the Roman myth of Cura when I speak of “curatorship”: the deity who shapes man out of clay, without claiming to possess him, but accompanying him throughout his entire life.
This is the image that inspires my work.
I began working in curatorship in 2021, when, at the proposal of contemporary video artist Claudia Quintieri, I undertook to curate her solo exhibition: a project strongly marked by spirituality, which I designed passionately down to the smallest details. The exhibition, however, to my deep regret, never took place due to a lack of funds.
Since then, I have chosen to devote myself mainly to emerging artists and to others who are already established but have remained on the margins of criticism. This is happening in a historical moment in which art has often become the preserve of a market that favours immediate impact, special effects and psychedelic lights over style and depth of content.
My selection follows my intuition and my deepest sensibility: I am interested in those who, through their research, touch on essential questions about the human being, the body, time, fragility, and its surprising transformative and evolutionary capacity.
I do not seek to impose a path, but to “take care” of the creative process: to listen, observe, and create the conditions for the artist’s soul to reveal itself, first to itself and then to others. I believe that the task of a curator is not only to organise an exhibition, but to accompany a journey: that of the artist, of the public, and of anyone who wishes to learn how to see – and to see themselves – through art.
The exhibitions that follow are some of the experiences born from this way of understanding care.
