Giancarlo Politi
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Giancarlo Politi is the founder of Flash Art Magazine
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, where he started his own art magazine, called Flash, and then changed it to Flash Art. In the mid-70s he moved to Milan and founded Giancarlo Politi Editore, publisher of art books, catalogues, and Art Diary, a directory to artists studios, art galleries, art critics and art institutions.
Flash Art Museum. The museum has hosted several exhibitions featuring international artists, including Maurizio Cattelan
, Vanessa Beecroft
, Damien Hirst
, Miltos Manetas
, Piero Golia
, Andres Serrano
, Paola Pivi, Karen Kiliminik, and Mark Kostabi
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, but then, for institutional reasons (there were conflicts with the some art institutions in Tirana), he opted for Prague
. The third edition of the Prague Biennale 3 was planned for June 2007.
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By now a particular story is messing up his magazine editorial offices (Flash Art), owing to the case of an intern candidate who was mocked and offended after she has been denied a fair compensation. As, apparently, irrelevant, the episode raises some interest in Italy, due to a permanent situation of exploitation of youth work and skills of young graduates. A trial will soon take place, in order to assess and verify those facts.
Flash Art Magazine
Flash Art is a bimonthly magazine focusing on contemporary art. It was founded in Rome in 1967 by Italian publisher and art critic Giancarlo Politi. The magazine has been based in Milan, Italy since 1971...
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Magazine
In 1967 he moved to RomeRome
Rome is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, on the Tiber River within the Lazio region of Italy.Rome's history spans two and a half...
, where he started his own art magazine, called Flash, and then changed it to Flash Art. In the mid-70s he moved to Milan and founded Giancarlo Politi Editore, publisher of art books, catalogues, and Art Diary, a directory to artists studios, art galleries, art critics and art institutions.
Museum
In 1993, Giancarlo Politi, founded the TreviTrevi
Trevi is an ancient town and comune in Umbria, Italy, on the lower flank of Monte Serano overlooking the wide plain of the Clitunno river system. It is 10 km SSE of Foligno and 20 km north of Spoleto....
Flash Art Museum. The museum has hosted several exhibitions featuring international artists, including Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan is an Italian artist based in New York. He is known for his satirical sculptures, particularly La Nona Ora , depicting the Pope John Paul II struck down by a meteorite....
, Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft
Vanessa Beecroft is an Italian contemporary artist living in Los Angeles.-Artistic practice:Beecroft's work is a fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models...
, Damien Hirst
Damien Hirst
Damien Steven Hirst is an English artist, entrepreneur and art collector. He is the most prominent member of the group known as the Young British Artists , who dominated the art scene in Britain during the 1990s. He is internationally renowned, and is reportedly Britain's richest living artist,...
, Miltos Manetas
Miltos Manetas
Miltos Manetas is a Greek painter and multimedia artist. He currently lives and works in HighgateManetas has created Internet Art as well as paintings of cables, computers, video games and Internet websites. His work has been collected by Charles Saatchi...
, Piero Golia
Piero Golia
Piero Golia was born in Naples, Italy in 1974.Since 2002 he has lived and worked in Los Angeles, California.His work has been shown in major galleries and museums in Europe and the United States and featured in numerous exhibitions including Gold Standards at P.S.1 in New York and Uncertain States...
, Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano
Andres Serrano is an American photographer and artist who has become notorious through his photos of corpses and his use of feces and bodily fluids in his work, notably his controversial work "Piss Christ", a red-tinged photograph of a crucifix submerged in a glass container of what was purported...
, Paola Pivi, Karen Kiliminik, and Mark Kostabi
Mark Kostabi
Kalev Mark Kostabi is an American artist and composer.-Early life:Mark Kostabi was born in Los Angeles on November 27, 1960 to Estonian immigrants Kaljo and Rita Kostabi. He was raised in Whittier, California and studied drawing and painting at California State University, Fullerton...
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Biennale
In 2001, Giancarlo Politi started the so called "no-budget biennales". The first one was in Tirana, AlbaniaAlbania
Albania , officially known as the Republic of Albania , is a country in Southeastern Europe, in the Balkans region. It is bordered by Montenegro to the northwest, Kosovo to the northeast, the Republic of Macedonia to the east and Greece to the south and southeast. It has a coast on the Adriatic Sea...
, but then, for institutional reasons (there were conflicts with the some art institutions in Tirana), he opted for Prague
Prague
Prague is the capital and largest city of the Czech Republic. Situated in the north-west of the country on the Vltava river, the city is home to about 1.3 million people, while its metropolitan area is estimated to have a population of over 2.3 million...
. The third edition of the Prague Biennale 3 was planned for June 2007.
Personal life
Politi is married to fellow art critic Helena KontovaHelena Kontova
Helena Kontova is an art critic and curator born on November 16, 1955 in Prague, Czech Republic. She has lived in Milan, Italy since 1977 and has been the editor of Flash Art International since 1979...
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By now a particular story is messing up his magazine editorial offices (Flash Art), owing to the case of an intern candidate who was mocked and offended after she has been denied a fair compensation. As, apparently, irrelevant, the episode raises some interest in Italy, due to a permanent situation of exploitation of youth work and skills of young graduates. A trial will soon take place, in order to assess and verify those facts.