Evaluation Jury
Ivan D’Alberto was born in Pescara in 1979. He is a historian and contemporary art critic and is currently the director of YAG/garage. He was director of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Nocciano, Pescara (2009 –2012). He has collaborated with Dartmouth University (Massachusetts, USA), the University of Ferrara, the University of Chieti, and the Academy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila. He taught Art Marketing at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples. Since 2011 he has been curator of CORPO – Festival of Performing Arts and founder of the Archiving and Promotion Center of Performing Art in Pescara. He has curated several exhibitions, including MadeinAbruzzo: ricerche regionali di video-arte (Milan, 2011), Integumenta Angelii: utili ammaestramenti per l’anima e per il corpo (Rome, 2013), audĭentĭa – città in ascolto (Rome, 2014), and several events connected to the Venice Biennale (CORPO 2015; Vitraria Glass + A Museum, Venice 2015; CORPO 2017, Isola di San Servolo, Venice 2017; Young Artist in the Hotel, Isola di San Servolo, Venice 2019). He collaborates with several trade magazines including Artribune, Juliet Art Magazine, and Rivista Segno. He has published several books including CORPO estraneo/straniero. Storia delle Arti Performative in Abruzzo (Verdone, 2015), Il terzo occhio (PrimeVie, 2015), Tutto è iniziato prima (Di Felice, 2017), and the conference proceedings Il corpo che abito. Identità di genere e suoi transiti. Analisi dei linguaggi performativi contemporanei (Nicomp L. E., Florence 2016).
Silvio Maresca was born in Teramo in 1961 and graduated in Political Science at the University “Alma Mater Studiorum” of Bologna. He is General Manager of Bluserena S.p.A., a leading hotel company in Italy, and CEO of Carlo Maresca S.p.A., a group active for forty years in tourist accommodation, residential and commercial real estate and, since 2010, in renewable energy. He is also administrator of Terme di Torre Canne S.R.L., a spa establishment recognized by the Italian national health system, and chairman of My.Ho Casa S.R.L., a tourism company that proposes the “widespread apartment” as a new model of hospitality. In the non -profit sector, he founded and presides over the social promotion association Etipublica, which manages and participates in projects aimed at promoting public debate (Proversi.it), open government (Openpolis), and the analysis of regional public debate (promisechecking.it). Through Bluserena S.p.A., since 2009 he has supported Permicro, a microcredit agency, with offices in Pescara, Palermo and Lecce. In 2018 he launched the “Migrants Project”, offering training and integration programmes within his companies (under which UNHCR awarded the company “Welcome. Working for refugee integration”). His interest in art led him, in 2017 through Carlo Maresca S.p.A., to create I Giardini d’arte di via Caravaggio, a competition open to young artists from Italian Academies of Fine Arts, culminating in an exhibition in the gardens of the company headquarters in Pescara. In 2018, I Giardini d’arte di via Caravaggio was joined by YAG (Young Art Gallery), a project aimed at enhancing and promoting young artists, founded and administered by Silvio Maresca.
Maurizio Coccia was born in Pavia and currently lives in Trevi. He was director of the Trevi Flash Art Museum and is now director of the Center for Contemporary Art Palazzo Lucarini in Trevi. He is an independent critic and curator, and a consultant for numerous institutions working in public art, architecture and museum education. He teaches History of Contemporary Art and History of Art Criticism at the Academy of Fine Arts in L’Aquila and History of Art Criticism at the Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia. H e is a member of the steering committee of Parol – Quaderni d’arte e di epistemologia. He published Una rivoluzione non richiesta (2014, Aracne Editore), Cesare Cesariano. Ricomposizione di un problema critico (2015, Aracne Editore), and Il leone imbrigliato. Artisti Istituzioni Pubblico (2019, Castelvecchi). His texts appear in volumes published by Gangemi, Gli Ori, Postmedia Books and others. In 2016 he served on the scientific committee responsible for the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale.
Alessandra Arnò is an artist, curator, media art lecturer and creative advisor. She is co -founder and art director of Visualcontainer – Italian Videoart Platform (founded 2008), which includes the first Italian video art distributor (2008), VisualcontainerTV International Videoart web channel (2009), and [.BOX] Videoart Project Space in Milan (2010). Since 2008, as Art Director, curator and researcher focusing on experimental audiovisual practices and new media research, she has worked on cultural exchange programmes with international festivals, museums, universities and public and independent art organizations worldwide, representing and curating more than 80 Italian and international artists within the Visualcontainer distributor. She is often invited for lectures and talks on video art, new media, audiovisual distribution and digit al media curatorial paths. As a multimedia artist since 2000, her research is evolving within new digital media aesthetic and philosophical scenarios, alongside art theories grounded in visual culture and collective memory. Since 2014 she has taught Multim edia Languages, Theories of the Audiovisual and Mass Media, and Theories of Creative Video -Editing at ACME – European Academy of Fine Art of Media in Novara, Italy, and as a guest lecturer in many universities and academies in Italy and abroad.
Maila Buglioni (Rome, 1982) lives in Rome and works as an art historian and curator. After completing her master’s degree in History of Contemporary Art at La Sapienza University of Rome, she attended an internship as a didactic operator at the MAXXI Educational Service. She worked with Barbara Martusciello on the Book Corner Arti promoted by Art A Part of Cult(ure), and on the URBAN MEMORIES Street Art Festival in Gaeta and Terracina (2013), as well as the Cinica Gallery project of Palazzo Lucarini Contemp orary in Trevi. She was a member of the curatorial collective ARTNOISE, responsible for creating and curating various exhibitions, projects and its web magazine (artnoise.it). She collaborated with several specialized art magazines and took part in the residency for curators a,m,o – arte, Marche (edition 0), the biennial event dedicated to culture and contemporary art organized by Sponge ArteContemporanea in Pergola. She is the creator and curator of the APPIA ANTICA ART PROJECT, a programme of site-specific events based on an innovative concept along the urban stretch of the Appian Way. She has curated numerous exhibitions of emerging artists throughout Italy and also exhibited as an artist, including La Grande Illusione (curated by Manuela De Leonardis at Temple University Rome), the inaugural exhibition Portafortuna at Spazio Y (Rome), and WOW! curated by the artistic collective 100%contemporary. In 2019 she participated in the convention General States of Art and Contemporary Art Education in Abruzzo Center/Periphery/Center organized by ABAQ in L’Aquila. She collaborates and writes for the print edition of Rivista Segno and is the chief editor of Segnonline.
Verónica Pérez (Santiago, Chile, 1973) is a visual communication designer, micro -sculpture modeler, and manager of design and art projects. She studied in Chile at UTEM University and in Italy at the Arte e Mestieri and Callegari Institute. For several years she developed her work within Art Group Studio, a company dedicated to artistic, one-of-a-kind pieces in the jewellery sector. Her interest in small objects and sculpture led her to specialize in aesthetics, form and volume. She worked in teaching posit ions focused on manufacturing processes, design and specific techniques, before developing her independent project VeroPé studio (@joyas_verope). She has shown her work in fairs and galleries across Latin America, Europe and the United States. Selected exhibitions include: Quiltro (Museo Palacio de la Moneda, Santiago, 2011; Museo Nicolás Hernandez, Buenos Aires, 2012), Delirio y Cordura (Museo Artes Decorativas, Recoleta Dominica, Chile, 2013; Velvet da Vinci, San Francisco, 2013), Aureus Feeling (Sala Suecia 26 Banco Itaú, Santiago, 2014; Creativity Oggetti Gallery, Turin, 2016), SIERAAD Art Fair (Amsterdam, 2016), Bubbles Collection (Creativity Oggetti Gallery, Turin, 2017; A-Quadraat Gallery, Vorden, 2017), Pura Joya (Santiago, 2018), Showroom VeroPé (Santiago, 2019), and PANDEMIA WORD – La Forma del Vacío (2020).