Here, you can find a series of newspaper articles and videos about my work as the coordinator of the Jinling Program. In this occasion, with your resident artists, I was visiting an Art Institute in Wuxi -- a Chinese city between Nanjing and Shanghai.

This video was broadcasted the same day we visited Wuxi with the resident artists of the Jinling Program.

In this interview, I talk about the Jinling Program, Nanjing University's and Jiangsu Province's project of cultural exchange between Nanjing and Tuscany. Prof. Zhou Xian, director of the Art Institute of Nanjing University, also shares his views. The interview was held at the Museo Ugo Guidi in Forte dei Marmi. The MUG and its director, Vittorio Guidi, have been crucial partners in creating the program.

Here you can download both the article that appeared in the Italian natioanl newspaper La Nazione and the piece I originally wrote.  

In this video, you can see my public lecture on how public art can contribute to the urban regeneration of Massa City Center. I start by discussing a recent episode of vandalism that interested Bella Ciao (generally known as "the artichoke"), a monument dedicated to the memory of WWII freedom fighters. I then suggest that such an episode is better understood as a consequence of generalized disregard for that monument rather than a mere act of disrespect. I finally offer my views on how to maximize the value of Bella Ciao in ways that may very well improve the well-being of Massa City Center. 

In this video, you can see my talk at the City Symposium on Pino Castagna's "In pietra alpestra e dura." After its installation, Castagna's monumental sculpture was received with harsh criticisms. In my talk, I discuss some of those criticisms in light of my understanding of public art and its value(s).

The moderator (in the center) is Umberto Martini, journalist of RAI television. The person on the left is Massimo Bertozzi, invited as artistic director of Castagna's project.