Book cover for Claudio Abate by Ilaria Bernardi and Carlos Basualdo
2023 Released
608 Pages
10-15 Hours
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Silvana EditorialeISBN 9788836648528

A posthumous survey of an Italian photographer with close ties to the international art scene

This monograph is the first to trace the life and career of Italian photographer Claudio Abate (1943-2017), whose practice ranged from photographs of works, artists and exhibitions of Arte Povera to fashion photography, photo-documentary and personal artistic photographic experimentations.

Ilaria Bernardi

Ilaria Bernardi holds a Ph.D. in art history and is a curator. She has worked with leading figures in the art world, including Germano Celant and, at the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. She has organized exhibitions for major exhibition spaces in Italy and abroad. Ilaria Bernardi has also worked with public institutions and devised exhibitions for Italian cultural institutes in several cities around the world. She has published monographs, essays in exhibition catalogues and articles in art magazines, in which she focuses on Arte Povera artists and Italian art from the 1960s to the present, in general. She currently teaches at Milan's IULM University and has run "Progetto Genesi. Art and Human Rights", a traveling exhibition and educational project developed by Associazione Genesi, since 2021.

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