Vincenzo Trione is the new president of MiBACT's School of Cultural Heritage and Activities

Contemporary art critic and historian Vincenzo Trione is the new president of the Scuola Beni e Attività Culturali, the MiBACT’s school of high specialization that trains heritage professionals with a two-year course reserved for those who have already completed an advanced university education (access is granted only with a PhD): Trione received the appointment from Cultural Heritage Minister Dario Franceschini and his tenure will run for four years starting Sept. 1. Trione, who was already part of the School’s scientific council, will be tasked with bringing the institute, which was born in 2016, to full maturity.

A full professor of Art and Media and Contemporary Art History at IULM in Milan (where he is dean of the Faculty of Arts and Tourism and coordinator of the PhD program in Visual and Media Studies), Trione (born in Sarno in 1972, graduated in modern literature in 1994 from the Federico II University in Naples, and became a PhD in Art Theory at the University of Salerno) has a distinguished resume: his positions include commissioner of the 14th edition of the Quadriennale di Roma (2003) and curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale (2015). Since 2013 he has directed the Department of Research and Education of the Madre Museum of Contemporary Art in Naples, which led to the publication ofAtlas of Contemporary Art in Naples and Campania: 1966-2016 (2016). Trione is also Director General of the Treccani Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art (he was also a member of the Treccani Scientific Council in the past). He has curated exhibitions in Italian and foreign museums (of particular note are those on Salvador Dalí and Alberto Savinio between 2010 and 2011, both at the Palazzo Reale in Milan), is the author of several books on 20th- and 21st-century artists, and collaborates with Corriere della Sera.

“The school,” said Minister Franceschini, “was created with the mission of training and enhancing the many professionals in the protection and management of cultural heritage with a strong orientation to the international dimension. In thanking architect Carla Di Francesco, commissioner of the school for the past year, I wish Vincenzo Trione well in his work, who, I am sure, will be able to give further impetus to the school and ferry it toward what is its original purpose, which is to become one of the main tools for recruiting officials and managers of the Mibact and to strengthen cultural diplomacy as a tool for dialogue with other cultures.”

“I have just been appointed president of the Mibact’s Heritage School by Minister Dario Franceschini,” Trione comments. “It is the highest level of post-Phd training in Italy, preparing the future ruling class in our country’s museums and cultural institutions. I succeed two distinguished jurists, Sabino Cassese and Marco Cammelli. I thank Minister Franceschini for this opportunity. A high, demanding, ’civil’ challenge.”

Vincenzo Trione is the new president of MiBACT's School of Cultural Heritage and Activities

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