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CLAUDIO ZAMBIANCHI
Studied at Rome’s Sapienza University and at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He is professor of contemporary art history at Sapienza. His research focuses on English art, American art, Italian art after 1945 and French art of the second half of the 19th century. He has written for catalogs, magazines, newspapers and periodicals. He has taught at the Turin and Milan art academies. He co-edits the magazine Piano B. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Doctorate in Art History at La Sapienza University.

BARBARA SAFAROVA
Is a film producer and holds a doctorate in literature and aesthetics, with two theses, one devoted to Unica Zürn and Achilles G. Rizzoli. She is president of the abcd association, and was program director at the Collège international de philosophie. Author of numerous publications on art brut and co-curator of several exhibitions in France and abroad. She has just completed an anthology of texts by American authors on art brut (to be published by JRP Éditions, coll. “Lectures maison rouge”). She is a member of the steering committee for the Bruno Decharme donation to the Kandinsky library. She teaches a seminar on Art Brut at the École du Louvre.

LISA ROSCIONI
Teaches modern history at Rome’s Sapienza University. Her research interests include the social history of medical institutions and knowledge, and the history of justice and its representations between the 17th and 19th centuries. Her publications include, Lo smemorato di Collegno. Storia italiana di un’identità contesa Torino, Einaudi 2009, Il governo della follia. Ospedali, medici e pazzi nell’Età moderna Milano, Bruno Mondadori 2011, pp. XXI-358; La badessa di Castro. Storia di uno scandalo Bologna, il Mulino 2017 (tr.fr. L’Abbesse de Castro. Le scandale qui inspireira Stendhal, Paris, Tallandier 2020).

GUSTAVO GIACOSA
Is an actor, director and independent curator. Since 2005, he has been developing research into the relationship between art and otherness in the visual arts. This research also includes discovering and promoting the work of artists from the margins of the art system, staging shows and performances inspired by their universe, and building up a collection of art brut and contemporary art on permanent display at the SIC12 ART Studio in Rome. In 2012, he moved to France and, together with pianist and composer Fausto Ferraiuolo, founded a multidisciplinary platform in Aix-en-Provence that brings together the diversity of his productions: SIC.12.

SARAH LOMBARDI
is an art historian and has been Director of the Collection de l’Art Brut since 2013. Since her arrival at the head of the Lausanne institution, she has focused on enhancing the museum’s collections, creating the biennales de l’art brut – thematic exhibitions presenting works exclusively from the museum’s holdings – and a new bilingual editorial series entitled Art Brut, la collection – Art Brut, the collection. She curates numerous exhibitions within the institution and internationally, and has edited a large number of books on Art Brut authors, as well as theAlmanach de l’Art Brut (2016) – a publishing project initiated by Jean Dubuffet in 1948 – which is a key work in the history of Art Brut, and the Albums photographiques de Jean Dubuffet (2017).

CELINE GAZZOLETTI
Is an art historian, trained at the École du Louvre. Her work is based on art brut, and in particular on the Bruno Decharme donation to the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou. She wrote her Master’s thesis on mediumistic women, took part in the Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky and contributed to the Journal de l’Université d’été de la Bibliothèque Kandinsky (n°8, 2022). Curator of the exhibition Les femmes médiumniques, issues de la donation Decharme, presented at the Centre Pompidou (2023), she has also published an essay in the Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne : “Femmes médiumniques: de femme-sujet à femme-objet, histoire d’un retournement”, as well as a forthcoming article in theOsservatorio outsider art. She is continuing her research into the representation of beliefs in outsider art.

FIORELLA BASSAN
Has taught artistic hermeneutics in the Philosophy Department at Rome’s Sapienza University. Her research focuses on image theory and the relationship between artistic representation, creativity and marginality. She has published several articles devoted to the thought of Freud, Warburg, Bataille, Artaud, and in general to French culture in the first half of the 20th century, characterized by a unique interaction between philosophical, psychoanalytical and artistic instances. His publications include Beyond psychiatry and aesthetics. A study of Hans Prinzhorn (Lithos, Rome 2009) translated into French in 2012.

CRISTINA AGOSTINELLI
is an art historian working at the Musée national d’art moderne – Centre Pompidou, as curator and program manager. A specialist in Iris Clert and Yüksel Arslan, she will be curating these exhibitions in 2019 and 2022. Since 2020, she has been in charge of the Art brut – Bruno Decharme donation. Curator of the donation’s permanent room rotations: Sous le signe du bricolage, Autour d’un ailleurs and Écrits dissidents, she works to preserve, promote and enrich the Art Brut collection. She is a member of the steering committee for the research program on Art Brut – Bruno Decharme donation at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky.