Farewell to art critic Marco Vallora

Marco Vallora, one of Italy’s most respected art critics, passed away from a sudden illness while traveling by train to visit an exhibition. He was 69 years old: born Jan. 1, 1953, in Turin, he had graduated in philosophy in 1976, with supervisor Gianni Vattimo and co-advisors Claudio Magris, Gianni Rondolino, Cesare Acutis and Lionello Sozzi with a thesis on metaromance and self-image in the arts.

He began his career as a film critic and then devoted himself totally to art: he had collaborated with several magazines, including Paragone, La Rivista di Estetica, Nuovi Argomenti, L’Indice, Art e Dossier, Il Terzo Occhio, and Arte. He had also collaborated with generalist newspapers such as Repubblica, Panorama and L’Europeo, as well as for the cultural inserts of Il Giornale and Il Sole 24 Ore. He had finally moved on to La Stampa of which he had become the main signature for articles on art.

As an art historian, he had dealt with the phenomenology of styles and the aesthetic problem of the relationship between the various arts: painting and writing, music and painting, cinema and the novel, architecture, and the visual arts. He had also curated exhibitions, demonstrating varied, in-depth and eclectic interests that the whole environment always acknowledged to him, on artists such as Salvator Rosa, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Alberto Giacometti, Féix Vallotton, Carlo Carrà, Felice Casorati, Giorgio de Chirico, Alberto Savinio, Filippo de Pisis, Mino Maccari, Giacomo Manzù, Alberto Burri, Arturo Martini, Piero Guccione, Gianfranco Ferroni, Domenico Gnoli and many others. Several books he has also written, including a volume, co-written with Gae Aulenti, on the relationship between architecture, set design, and dramaturgy in relation to the structures of melodrama(Il Quartetto della Maledizione, published by Ubu Libri) and an essay on the epistolary between Van Gogh and Gauguin for Abscondita. He has taught History of Contemporary Art at the University of Urbino and History of Cinema, and has taught courses in art history and history of art criticism and architecture, at the Faculty of Architecture in Parma, as well as at the Politecnico di Milano where he taught Aesthetics.

Farewell to art critic Marco Vallora

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