Federico Nicolao

Federico Nicolao
Period: 2005-2006
Profession: Writer Writer Writer and philosopher, Federico Nicolao was born in 1970 in Gênes and lives between Paris, Rome and Sori in Liguria. He founded and directs the journal “Chorus a Constellation” and has translated into Italian numerous authors (Jean-Christophe Bailly, Edmond Jabès, Alain de Libera, Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Roger Laporte, Michel Leiris, Tomas Maia, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jean-Marie Pontevia), as well as, in French with Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, the stories about Auschwitz by Italian poet Giorgio Caproni “Postcards of a Journey to Poland” (Bordeaux, 2004). Nicolao is the author of several essays on the arts and literature. His latest releases include “La convocation” (Paris, 2004) in collaboration with philosophers Federico Ferrari and Tomas Maia and “The same shadow,” a work of poetry and painting conceived with French artist Raphaël Thierry ( www.medesima.com ). For the past few years he has been participating in a policy of direct collaboration with authors and for this reason he is involved in several artistic projects (with Laura Erber, Koo Jeong-a, Eryk Rocha, Claude Dityvon, to name but a few). Director of programming in 2004 at the Musée d’Art Moderne in the city of Paris, and then in 2005 at the Musée Ricasso in Antibes, he has collaborated as exhibition curator or discussion moderator with numerous international institutions: among others, the Musée National Marc Chagall in Nice, the Académie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart , the CCA in Kytakyushu, Japan, and the Centre International d’Art et du Paysage in Vassivière.