Carrara's civic museums finally have their directors: Barreca at CAP and Ciampolini at CARMI

Normalcy finally arrives for Carrara’s civic museums, which to date were still without a scientific director: CAP (Centro Arti Plastiche), the city’s contemporary art museum, and the new CARMI (Museo Carrara e Michelangelo), the museum that tells the story of Michelangelo(opened in June 2018) have their directors. And despite the fact that the appointments fill a serious gap after years of discussion especially among insiders, for Mayor Francesco De Pasquale it is nevertheless a “revolutionary choice compared to the past, aimed at guaranteeing identity, continuity and coherence to museum programming, in the conviction that the museum should represent a cultural reference between past and present not only for tourists but also for all citizens of all ages.” The term of the new directors will expire on Dec. 31, 2020.

For the CAP, the choice went to Laura Barreca, an art historian and curator from Palermo, who since 2014 has been director of the Civic Museum of Castelbuono (Palermo) where she has led a research project related to Mediterranean identity and the reinterpretation of contemporary languages. A participant in the Forum of Italian Contemporary Art, she has been teaching Media Phenomenology at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo since 2011, and is also professor of Contemporary Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara. His experience includes several notable experiences: a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York in 2008, teaching experiences abroad, curating exhibitions (such as Palermo’s City Pavilion at the 9th Shanghai Biennale in 2012), and collaborations with institutions such as PAN-Palazzo delle Arti Naples, Riso-Museo Regionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Sicilia, MAXXI, the Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, Fondation Ariane de Rothschild in Paris, the Italian Cultural Institute in New York, and Fondazione Pastificio Cerere in Rome.

Instead, the new director of the Carmi is Marco Ciampolini, a Sienese art historian and professor of Modern Art History at the Academy of Fine Arts in Carrara since 2005. His many experiences include the reorganization, together with Fabio Bisogni, of the Civic Museum of Siena and the curatorship of several exhibitions, beginning with the 1987 monograph onBernardino Mei (Bernardino Mei and Baroque Painting in Siena), also realized together with Bisogni, and continuing with the exhibition L’Arte nella città in the context of the Milan Triennale in 1997, the monograph on the iconography of the Palio di Siena (2001), the first major exhibition on Sienese drawings of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries held in the United States (in Athens, Georgia, in 2002), and the exhibition Pittura fra Toscana e Liguria nel Seicento with works from bank collections rarely shown to the public (2015). He also edited the publication of a substantial repertory Pittori Senesi del Seicento, which came out in three volumes in 2010. He had already worked at CARMI last year, creating the educational section of the exhibition Carrara 1800-1850 Maestri e Studenti in Viaggio verso Roma, set up in the rooms of the Carrara museum.

Carrara's civic museums finally have their directors: Barreca at CAP and Ciampolini at CARMI

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