Rome, young Luca Lo Pinto is the new director of MACRO. He succeeds Giorgio de Finis

The era of Giorgio de Finis, the director who had revolutionized the MACRO in Rome by giving life to the MACRO Asylum project, comes to an end: the parenthesis, which lasted two years (de Finis had in fact been presented in December 2017 and in December 2019 will end his mandate: at this link the interview we had done with him) ended with the announcement that appointed the new artistic director, identified in the figure of Luca Lo Pinto.

Born in 1981, Luca Lo Pinto divides his time between Rome and Vienna, where he is part of the curatorial team at the Kunsthalle. He is also founder of the magazine and publishing house Nero. He has curated several exhibitions between Italy and Austria (the XVI Quadriennale d’Arte at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, held in 2017, stands out in particular), and at MACRO he will inaugurate the project Museum for Preventive Imagination. The project, they explain from Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, the Roma Capitale entity that manages MACRO, will contribute to “an even greater involvement of diverse audiences and simultaneously ensure a high level of quality of the offer,” with the aim of “enhancing openness, plurality, discursive practices, enhancing the figure of the visitor as an active proponent of content, encouraging the presence of students and promoting national and international artistic research and experimentation with particular importance given to collaboration with the Academies and Institutes of Culture present in Rome. Great importance will be given to forms of collaboration with the Capitoline Superintendence in the aim of enhancing the collection, library, and archives of the Macro.”

Thirty-eight-year-old Luca Lo Pinto, comments artist Cesare Pietroiusti, who is also president of Azienda Speciale Palaexpo, “is a personality of proven experience in the field of curating exhibitions and organizing cultural activities with numerous and qualified collaborations with institutions and organizations in Italy and abroad, who has presented a cultural project that fully corresponds to the guidelines required by the call. Contextually with the appointment of Lo Pinto, I cannot fail to extend a big thank you to Giorgio de Finis, for the extraordinary work that, together with the entire staff of Macro Asilo, he has done and is doing.”

Pictured: Luca Lo Pinto

Rome, young Luca Lo Pinto is the new director of MACRO. He succeeds Giorgio de Finis

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