HA EDITORIAL BOARD
Maurizio Barberis has been active in the world of art and art-design since the 1980s, producing solo shows and installations (included the exhibitions at Dilmos Milano and Morat Institut in Friburg), and collaborations (including Galleria Nilufar in Milan). He has also taken part as an author to two editions of the Milan Triennale, the art and design musuem in Milan. He has worked with the Murano Glass Museum and the Fortuny Museum in Venice, organizing many conferences and workshops, and designed the installation of the exhibition for the 50th anniversary of the death of Mariano Fortuny. Maurizio Barberis has published photography books and an essay on Color Theory. He won a prize for best photography at the Venice Architecture Biennale of 2012. He has worked as photographer and critician with the magazine Interni and AD France for many years. His most recent works were shown at Fondazione Levi in Venice in September 2018. He is among the founders of HoperAperta.
Patrizia Catalano. Architect and journalist, she was responsible for the design and architecture section of the weekly magazine "Io Donna," attachment of the "Corriere della Sera". She currently collaborates with Interni Magazine, where she coordinates the “Interni Annual” attachments and the magazine's international events in Barcelona, London, Madrid, Miami and New York. She has published an assortment of books on interior design and livingfor Rizzoli Italia, Rizzoli New York, Mondadori, Mondadori Arte, and Electa. She also oversees the organization of Art Design exhibitions and is among the founders of HoperAperta.
Silvio Fuso. Venetian, he studied philosophy and aesthetics in Padova with Dino Formaggio and Massimo Cacciari (to whom he was an assistant), then graduated with the art historian Giuseppe Mazzariol. He directed the International University of Art in Venice and, since the early 1980s he's been curating the exhibitions of the Fortuny Museum in Venice of which he became curator and director in 1994. From 2000 to 2010 he served as director of the Murano Glass Museum, where he lead an effort to relaunch and refurbish the museum with the support of the city's administration. Since 2007 he has directed Ca 'Pesaro in Venice, creating important art and design exhibitions, including "Bertozzi & Casoni. The lies of art "," Marcello Morandini. Art Architecture Design " and the great exhibition dedicated to Tony Cragg: "Bernardi Roig".
Luca Violo studied the History of Medieval and Modern Art in Florence with Mina Gregori. After his studies he carried out extensive historical and artistic research, and began consulting as an expert and dealer of 16th-19thcentury Italian painting and sculpture for collectors, antique dealers, and public and private institutions. Chasing his curiosity, he collaborated in the conception and realization of the TV program Art'è in 1997, broadcast on RAI 3 and directed by Giovanni Minoli. From 2000 to 2003 he curated the conception, installation and catalog of the exhibition on behalf of the 3M Italia Foundation, in the prestigious locations of Villa Reale in Milan, the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and the Palazzo Ducale di Sabbioneta.
HA MAGAZINE CONTRIBUTORS
Pablo Llorca is professor of History of Photography and History of Cinema at Salamanca University (USAL), Spain. He has curated many exhibitions on History of Art, Photography, Cinema and Documents. Among them “Alfred Hitchcock, Más allá del suspense" (Spain and México), "Arte Termita contra Elefante Blanco. Comportamientos actuales del dibujo" (Madrid) and "El mundo descrito" (Madrid).
Serena Guardabassi has been dealing for over twenty five years with a different approach to artistic dissemination, combining quality and clarity of content with an exhaustive and passionate simplicity in communication, as Henri Bergson understands it when he used to say that: “Communication takes place when, in addition to the message, there is also a soul supplement ”.
Author of television programs as Art'è - first weekly column dedicated to art and aired from 1997 on Rai3 - she participated in the conception, development and creation of historical-artistic web-magazines such as "Standard Review" (2007-2012 ) and "InOpera" (2014 - 2018).
Steve Piccolo. He began his career in the 1970s playing bass in jazz groups and doing sound/performance in New York art spaces. In 1979 he started the Lounge Lizards with the Lurie brothers, a project which continued for about five years. Active on an international level since the mid-1970s in music, theater, performance art, sound installations, video and film soundtracks. Co-founder and curator of the ERRATUM listening room in Milan.
Andrea Schubert was born in Milan from Alberto Schubert and Adele Lilloni. Alberto, gallerist and antiquarian, son and grandson of antique dealers and Adele, the eldest daughter of Umberto Lilloni, gave birth in 1967 to the Schubert Gallery. After studying architecture at the Politecnico di Milano, Andrea took the direction of the Gallery in the 1987.
Alberto Vannetti – a graduate of the Accademia di Belle Arti of Rome, he began his career as a visual artist and dedicated himself to divulging modern and contemporary art. In 1986, he created the Sottotraccia Cultural Association, curating three monographic numbers for the homonymous periodical (Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Roberto Pace). In 1987, he founded Opening magazine and ran it for 12 years, promoting new exhibitions and editorial initiatives. He also oversaw a contemporary art writing lab at the 1° Liceo Artistico in Rome, which created the Album Contemporaneo magazine (2000/2001 Rome). Since 2015 he has been the artistic director for contemporary art at the Area Archeologica Arte Contemporanea Museum of Cisternino, in Puglia. He promotes cultural exchange and exhibitions with institutions in Italy and abroad, including his latest collaboration with Santa Monica Art Studios of Los Angeles. Many of his works grace public and private collections across Italy and Europe.
Ico Migliore, three-time Compasso d’Oro Award winning architects and co-founder of Migliore+Servetto Architects with Mara Servetto, designs identity and communication spaces for companies and cultural institutions. Their works are characterized by the expressive use of light and new technologies, and range from interior architecture to retail, museums to installations, urban design to visual identity and multimedia. They are currently working on the construction of new ADI Design Museum in Milan with Italo Lupi. Ico Migliore is Professor at Politecnico di Milano and Chair Professor at Dongseo University in Busan (South Korea).
Olivia Cremascoli - After attending IULM College Studies in Modern Languages, and UC Berkeley, she started her journalistic activity collaborating with newspaper editorial staffs of La Repubblica and Il Giorno, which followed press offices of International Furniture Fair in Milan and Milanovendemoda. For thirty years she was an employee of Arnoldo Mondadori Publisher and she is now dealing with landscape and eco-friendly tourism.
Martina Barberis studied literature and philosophy in Milan, with a thesis in aesthetic, followed by a Master in Brand Management (focusing on Made in Italy), a specialisation in Digital Marketing at the Journalism Study Center and a second specialisation in Art Direction at Central Saint Martins. As first work experience, she made an internship at the Karla Otto communication agency in London. Subsequently, she worked with the fashion brand Aspesi, focusing on image and digital, and for the photography direction cabin at the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. She works for some cultural associations and art/design companies in the marketing & communication fields. She maintains a column for the Design Museum, where she produces text and photos. She is co-founder of HoperAperta.
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Michela Davo, who graduated in Philosophy and subsequently in Philosophical Sciences at the Università degli Studi di Milano, focusing her research on French existentialism (Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre) with constant references to the Middle Eastern world. In December 2019, defending a project work entitled Islam and Modernity. A philosophical dissertation(supervisor Prof. Massimo Campanini), she completed her training obtaining the diploma of the master MIMES, Middle Eastern Studies of ASERI, Università Cattolica; at the same time she undertook the study of the Arabic language, first by participating in the Summer School di Studi dell’Africa e dell’Asia (Università degli Studi di Pavia) dedicated to the teaching of Modern Standard Arabic and, subsequently, attending private lessons at the Language Academy of Milan. She is fellow at the Istituto Italiano di Studi Filosofici (Napoli) for the attendance of the seminar Tra Rinascimento ed età moderna. Her research interests mainly revolve around the influence exerted by Islamic thought on the birth and development of modern Western philosophy.
Eloisa Zendali, who reads Foreign Languages and Literature at Università Statale di Milano. In 2017 she became President of the cultural association Il Resto del caffé, which, in collaboration with the Municipality of Milan and other local associations, organizes cultural events at La Dogana di Milano.
Carlo Biasia, 1982. Lives and works in Milan. Trained at IUAV, faculty of architecture in Venice, he studied photography, housing and urban planning; He has been working for years in contemporary art, fashion and product design. He has a Master in Industrial Archeology. Currently he is working for Interni Magazine FuoriSalone Event for Mondadori Media as Special Projects Architect and internationally working for the promotion for Interni Magazine. He occasionally writes articles for the Annual Special Issues.