Andrea Sirio Ortolani is the new president of ANGAMC

ANGAMC - National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries has a new president: he is Andrea Sirio Ortolani, owner of Osart Gallery in Milan, who will chair the main body representing modern and contemporary gallery owners for the four-year period 2022-2026. Ortolani succeeds Mauro Stefanini. The first official engagement for the new president will be the ceremony to present the ANGAMC 2021 Lifetime Achievement Award to Antonio Tucci Russo, scheduled for Saturday, May 14, at 6:45 p.m., inside Pavilion 15 (North entrance) of Arte Fiera Bologna (access to the award ceremony will be free for fair visitors and by invitation for outsiders).

As part of the General Assembly, held Wednesday, May 11, in Bologna, the new Board of Directors was also elected, consisting of Antonio Addamiano, Giovanni Bonelli, Claudia Ciaccio, Marco Niccoli, Andrea Sirio Ortolani, Pietro Vallone, and Paola Verrengia. At the subsequent meeting, the seven new board members, in consultation with the seven territorial delegates, then elected Andrea Sirio Ortolani as ANGAMC president, designating Giovanni Bonelli and Claudia Ciaccio as vice presidents.

“Special thanks to outgoing president Mauro Stefanini for his dedication and work during his term,” Ortolani said. “We want to continue and increase, thanks to the foundations laid previously, the dialogue with the institutions to ensure that Italian galleries can find conditions and tools to grow and compete internationally and face this post-pandemic moment that has created so many difficulties for the whole sector by setting us new challenges, to transform a negative event into an opportunity for the future.”

Andrea Sirio Ortolani graduated fromBocconi University inMilan with a degree in Economics of Financial Institutions and Markets. For the past four years, he has served as national advisor for ANGAMC, with specific delegations regarding relations with SIAE and the Apollo Group. After working for leading financial institutions, he founded Osart Gallery in 2008, giving space to prominent figures of the second avant-garde and maintaining a focus on the international contemporary scene.

ANGAMC - National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries(www.angamc.com) was founded in 1964 at the Union of Commerce, Tourism and Services of Milan as the National Union of Modern Art Dealers; in 2001 it assumed its current name. Its primary objective is to promote and protect the art market sector by stimulating its potential through the professionalism of its operators, including through legal and administrative interventions. ANGAMC, organized in seven delegations distributed throughout the national territory (Campania and Southern Italy - delegate Alfonso Artiaco; Emilia-Romagna and Marche - delegate Paola Forni; Lazio and Central Italy - delegate Sara Zanin; Lombardy - delegate Christian Akrivos; Piedmont and Liguria - delegate Giuseppe Filippo Biasutti; Tuscany - delegate Simone Frittelli; Triveneto - delegate Giordano Raffaelli), aims to represent and defend, in every forum, the moral, economic and cultural interests of the category. In the international arena, ANGAMC is a member of FEAGA - Federation of European Art Galleries Association.

Pictured: Andrea Sirio Ortolani. Photo by Fabio Fantini

Andrea Sirio Ortolani is the new president of ANGAMC

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