Carlo Sisi confirmed as president of Florence Academy of Fine Arts until 2025

Professor Carlo Sisi is confirmed as president of theFlorence Academy of Fine Arts for the next three years, until 2025. His first tenure as president of the Florentine art education institution dates back to October 2018. His appointment was confirmed by a decree of the Minister of University and Research, Maria Cristina Messa, who valued Professor Sisi’s high professional and managerial qualifications, as well as his previous experience in managing cultural institutions.

“In expressing my satisfaction with the renewed appointment,” comments Carlo Sisi, “I assure the commitment already shown in my previous term, both in terms of supporting the work of the Director of the Academy and the constant attention paid to the cultural situation of the city and the institutions that operate in it.”

In the three-year period just concluded, Sisi paid particular attention to the reorganization of the Academy’s representative spaces, the restoration of the Sala Ghiberti (now the Academy’s exhibition hall) and thefunctional adaptation of the collections of the 19th-centurylibrary. He gave impetus to greater openness of the institution by initiating new institutional collaborations. Finally, he oversaw negotiations for the acquisition of new spaces for teaching purposes, such as the Oratorio dei Pretoni, former Leopoldine, the Carnielo Foundation, and the Manifattura Tabacchi).

“I am very pleased with the renewal of the appointment of Professor Carlo Sisi, with whom over the past three years I have had a perfect harmony and collaboration that has led to unexpected and valuable results,” explains Academy of Fine Arts Director Claudio Rocca. “I’m thinking of the acquisition of new spaces, but also of all those initiatives that combine teaching and promotional activities that have allowed us to bring the Academy back to the center of the city’s cultural debate, reinvigorating relations with territorial and museum institutions.”

Carlo Sisi has been director of the Gallery of Modern Art and the Costume Gallery of the Pitti Palace in Florence, where, in parallel with his activities as conservator, he has been engaged in promoting, through exhibitions and other initiatives, knowledge of 19th- and 20th-century art. Of the same galleries he oversaw the entire rearrangement with the edition of the general catalog. He was, until 2016, president of the Marino Marini Museum and from 2006 to 2016 board member of the Ente Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze now Fondazione CR Firenze. He curated the layout of the Gallery of Modern Art in Palermo and the new itinerary of the Chigi Saracini Collection in Siena. He is currently a board member of the Bardini and Peyron Foundation; president of the CTA (Technical Art Commission of the CR Florence Foundation); scientific curator of the Primo Conti Museum in Fiesole; conservator of the Ivan Bruschi Foundation in Arezzo. He especially studies Italian and European art of the 19th and 20th centuries, to which he has devoted several essays of an interdisciplinary nature. He has edited, among other things, the series L’Ottocento in Italia. The Sister Arts (three volumes: Neoclassicism, Romanticism, Realism) published by Electa. Among the exhibitions recently curated, with accompanying catalog: Americans in Florence. Sargent and the New World Impressionists (2012, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi); Les Macchiaioli. Des impressionistes italiens? (2013, Paris, Orangerie); Corcos. I sogni della belle époque (2014, Padua, Palazzo Zabarella); Bellezza divina (2015, Florence, Palazzo Strozzi); 1927, il ritorno in Italia (2016, Florence, Ferragamo Museum); La mirabile visione (2021, Florence, Bargello Museum).

Carlo Sisi confirmed as president of Florence Academy of Fine Arts until 2025

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