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Flaminio Gualdoni

Born in Cuggiono, Milan, in 1954. Since 1980, he has taught Art History at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, where he served as Dean of the Department of Communication and Art Didactics from 2010 to 2012; from 2001 to 2003, he also taught Contemporary Art History at the University of Ravenna-Bologna. He directed the Galleria Civica di Modena from 1988 to 1994, the Musei Civici di Varese from 1995 to 1999, and the Arnaldo Pomodoro Foundation in Milan in 2005 and 2006.

He was a commissioner for the 44th Venice Biennale (1990) and an exhibitor at the 49th Venice Biennale in 2001 (with the [epidemiC] group). He has curated museum exhibitions featuring Osvaldo Licini, Gastone Novelli, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Mario Mafai, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Enzo Cucchi, Urs Lüthi, George Grosz, Piero Manzoni, Marino Marini, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giacomo Manzù, Massimo Campigli, Renato Guttuso, and Antoni Tàpies, among others.

From 1985 to 2011, he contributed to the cultural pages of Corriere della Sera, and since 2006, he has written the column Il criptico d'arte for Il Giornale dell'arte. Between 2003 and 2009, he served as editor-in-chief of the magazine FMR. He has also contributed art columns to Il Giorno, La Domenica del Corriere, Italia Oggi, Gente, RAI Radio 2, and RAI Radio 3. In 2002, he was awarded the "Premio Venezia alla Comunicazione" at the 6th Cultural Heritage and Activities Exhibition in Venice for his work on the RAI Radio 3 program Appunti di volo.

Among his books are Turcato (Ravenna 1982 and Cinisello Balsamo 2002), Dadamaino (Leonberg 1984), Arte a Roma 1945-1980 (Milan 1988), Modena. Galleria Civica. Raccolta del disegno contemporaneo (Bologna 1994), Le forme del presente (Turin 1997), Ico Parisi. La casa (Milan 1999), Arte italiana del Novecento (Milan 1999), Arte in Italia 1943-1999 (Vicenza 2000), Il trucco dell’avanguardia (Vicenza 2001), Nanni Valentini (Cinisello Balsamo 2005), Arte classica (Milan 2007), Arnaldo Pomodoro. Catalogo generale (Milan 2007), Una storia del libro (Milan 2008, Italian and UK editions), Art. Tutti i movimenti del Novecento (Milan 2008, Italian, French, Spanish, and UK editions), Dizionario Skira dei termini artistici (Milan 2010), Storia generale del Nudo (Milan 2012, Italian, French, and UK editions), Piero Manzoni. Vita d’artista (Monza 2013, UK edition New York 2019), Corpo delle immagini, immagini del corpo. Tableaux vivants da san Francesco a Bill Viola (Monza 2017), Storia dell’arte europea (4 volumes, Turin 2018), and Grecia with Pino Musi (Turin 2019).

In 2024, he was elected Academic Fellow (Accademico Cultore) of the Accademia di San Luca.