Palazzo Ducale in Genoa does not renew appointment of director Bertolucci. New announcement coming soon

The Board of Directors of the Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura at yesterday’s meeting resolved to start the selection of the Director who will take up the post from January 1, 2024. The Board therefore decided not to renew the position of director of the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa to Serena Bertolucci, who has led the Genoese institution for five years.

Palazzo Ducale let it be known in a note that “the procedure will trace the one already used by the Foundation five years ago, with an articulated path of pre-selection and evaluation entrusted to specialized advisors and a commission of experts that will allow the Board of Directors to identify a suitable figure within an appropriate timeframe. This activity is necessary due to the end of the five-year contract of the Director, Dr. Serena Bertolucci, in office through December 31, 2023.” “The Council,” the note continues, “expresses appreciation and gratitude for the work to date done by Dr. Bertolucci - who has not yet withdrawn her reservation about her participation in the upcoming notice - and the staff of the Doge’s Palace: the upcoming cultural and organizational deadlines are indeed to be addressed with great commitment by administrators, director and managers, operational staff and consultants. The notice, which will be finalized in the coming days, will be published on the websites of Palazzo Ducale, the City of Genoa and the Region of Liguria in the period August 10 to September 15, 2023.”

Director Bertolucci’s non-renewal is in addition to the October 2022 reappointment of former institution president Luca Bizzarri, who commented on the news in a Facebook post with these words: “’You should make an exhibition that teaches people to put the paper in the paper and the wet in the wet,’ a Genoese politician told me one day. Inside I thought that was civic education, not art history, he had mixed up the hours, the books. The result is this, the result is that an excellence like Serena is being escorted to the door. I can already hear the litany of ’due act’. All baloney. And I’m curious to read the ’call for a successor’ because with the curriculum she has, if she shows up, I would really like to see by what criteria she would be excluded.” “If the Ducal Palace in recent years has withstood tragedies and pandemics,” Bizzarri continues, “if our exhibitions have received praise and awards, if the Grimaldina tower will soon be able to be returned to the city, it is only thanks to Serena Bertolucci and how all the collaborators of the Palace have worked with her. The result is this.” “We hope that her successor will inherit her competence, professionalism, and cockiness,” he concludes.

Palazzo Ducale in Genoa does not renew appointment of director Bertolucci. New announcement coming soon

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