Riccardo Venturi

Riccardo Venturi, born in Rome, has lived and worked in Paris since 2002 as a contemporary art historian and critic. After obtaining a PhD in art history and aesthetics at the Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Phillips Collection Center for the Study of Modern Art and at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and a resident at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA) in Paris (2012-2016).

His publications include Mark Rothko. Lo spazio e la sua disciplina (Electa 2007), Black paintings. Eclissi sul modernismo (Electa 2008) and Passione dell’indifferenza. Francesco Lo Savio (Humboldt Books 2018). On Lo Savio he also co-organized the recent retrospective at Rovereto’s MART. He writes regularly for “Artforum”, “Alias – Il Manifesto” and www.doppiozero.com.

The project leading up to the Villa, “Porosity. The crisis of Italian modernism in the light of the Anthropocene” aims to reconsider Italian art and visual culture of the 1960s and 1970s through the notion of “porosity”, between visual and environmental humanities.