Riccardo Dalisi ‘71-’74

Disappeared in recent weeks during the preparation of the exhibition Riccardo Dalisi '71-'74. The Traiano District of Naples and participation as a project, Riccardo Dalisi has dedicated himself intensely to creating a complex and creative relationship between architecture and design, sculpture and painting, art and teaching, keeping the focus on human development through dialogue and the potential of creativity.

Fifty years after the experience of the Traiano district of Naples, Dalisi can be read today as a figure of historical importance and foresight towards the future, which has understood how disciplines merge into fluid, hybrid, experimental boundaries.

With: Luca Beatrice, Michele Bonuomo and Susanna Parlato

Luca Beatrice

Born in 1961 in Turin, he is curator and contemporary art critic among the most famous on the Italian scene, teaches Art History at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, at the IAAD in Turin and at the IULM in Milan. In 2009 he was chosen as curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Art Biennale. He has published numerous essays on art and music criticism: What art are you from? Ten lessons to understand the contemporary (Rizzoli); the biographies of Renato Zero and Lucio Dalla for Baldini & Castoldi. The manual Sguardi. Cittadini con l'arte (Lattes) aimed at middle school students will be released in April 2022. He collaborates with Libero, Tuttosport, Linkiesta and Corriere Torino.

Michele Bonuomo

Born in Deliceto (FG) in 1951, he lives and works in Milan. After the university architecture studies (degree thesis with Riccardo Dalisi) began in 1980 the profession of journalist at «Il Mattino», in Naples, where he worked until 1988, first in the culture editorial office and then as head of the front page and responsible for art services. From 1988 to 2005 he was editor-in-chief of current affairs and culture at the weekly «Grazia» of Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. Since 2005 he has been at Cairo Editore, where he currently directs the monthly magazines «Arte» and «Antiquariato». From 1970 to 1994 he collaborated with the activities of the Lucio Amelio Gallery in Naples: he is the director of the foundation of the same name and curated the Terrae Motus project, which ended with the 1986 exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris. He written essays and organized exhibitions on some of the Italian and international protagonists of contemporary art (Warhol, Beuys, Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly, Kounellis, Fabro, Merz, Paolini, Paladino, Cucchi, Boetti, Tatafiore, Schifano, Keith Haring, Mapplethorpe, Plessi, Isgrò, McDertmott & McGough, John Lurie, Nino Migliori, etc.). He is an expert and collector of photography.

Susanna Parlato

Architect and PhD student in design at PDTA – (Sapienza) of Rome. Since 2020 she has been a research fellow at DiARC (Federico II). She is the founder and president of the APS ReMade Community Lab. Her main research interests concern the design for social innovation, design for communities, design for ecological transition.