Giorgio Zanchetti, born in
Siena in 1966, lives and works in Milan.
He is Full
professor of
History of Contemporary Art and History and criticism of
verbo-visual art at
Università degli Studi di Milano.
His interests are focused on
Italian sculpture in XIX c. and in contaminations between
different artistic
languages in XX c. (from avant-garde to Intermedia and
Conceptual Art).
Is a member of the Scientific
boards of the journals «L’Uomo Nero» (Contemporary arts
studies, Cultural
Heritage Dept., Università degli Studi di Milano), «Piano
b», «Rsf», «Studi di
scultura»; of the Scientific committee for the Catalog of
Piero Manzoni’s works
(Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milano); of the Scientific
committee of Archivio di
Nuova Scrittura (library, archive and contemporary art
collection dedicated to
verbo-visual researches within the arts of the XX century,
Mart, Rovereto – Museion,
Bolzano); of the Board of Directors of the Museum of
Contemporary
Photography–MuFo-Co (Cinisello Balsamo, Milan).
Is Head of Scientific
committee of Archivio Luciano Caruso, in Florence.
Is the curator of the
relational-art project Progetto Casina (Ministry of Justice,
S. Vittore
penitentiary, Milan).
Works as scientific consultant
for Italian and foreign museum institutions and curated
several exhibitions,
among which: Martino Oberto (ANS, Milan, 1992); L’espace
de
l’écriture (Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Paris,
1994); Fontana, la
Triennale, la luce (Triennale, Milan, 1999); Text-image
(Musée des
Beaux-Arts, La Chaux-de-Fonds – Mart, Rovereto – Museion,
Bolzano, 1999-2000; Lucio
Fontana (Museo della Permanente, Milan, 2000); Piero
Manzoni (Museo
della Permanente, Milan, 2000); Frammenti. La nostalgia
dell’unità perduta
nella scultura del XIX e XX secolo (Museo della
Permanente, Milan, 2001); La
parola nell’arte (Mart, Rovereto, 2007-2008); The
Thirties. Art in Italy
beyond Fascism (Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, 2012-2013);
7 photographers
in Brera (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan, 2014); Yves
Klein Lucio Fontana.
Milano Parigi. 1957-1962 (Museo del Novecento, Milan,
2014-2015); Henry
Moore (Terme di Diocleziano, Rome, 2015-2016); Arnaldo
Pomodoro (Palazzo Reale, Sala delle Cariatidi,
Milan, 2016-2017); 100 anni. Scultura a Milano 1815-1915
(Galleria
d’arte moderna, Milan, 2017); Intermedia (Museion,
Bolzano – Mart, Rovereto, 2019-2020).