Curatorial Team
Giacomo Santucci
Giacomo Santucci is a nuclear engineer and art historian who has held executive positions in the fashion and luxury industries and has been listed as one of the fifty most influential people in the world. He received his Bachelor's degree in Nuclear Engineering with honors from the Università Sapienza di Roma, followed by a Master's degree in Business Administration from the Università Bocconi di Milano.
Thereafter, he devoted himself to the study of the commissioned art of the Medici family in the 16th and 17th centuries, culminating in a Master's Degree in Art History with honors and two research doctorates at the University of Florence. During his career, Giacomo Santucci held the following positions:
- Gucci: Global President and CEO, Vice President of the Gucci Group - Prada: President and CEO Asia Pacific - Salvatore Ferragamo: International Marketing Director - Dolce & Gabbana: Chief Operating Officer (COO) - McKinsey & Company: Senior Manager - Mittel: Moncler business transformation.
Santucci is not only committed to academic research, but is also actively involved in the field of education as well as cultural promotion and popularization, disseminating knowledge through publications, conferences, seminars, and lectures in public and private institutions and universities.
Stefano Antinari
Stefano Antonelli is an art curator and scholar interested in the relationship between art and everyday life. Based on a multidisciplinary approach, he works in sociology, philosophy, communication and cognitive sciences, and is one of the pioneers of curatorial practices in public spaces, such as the construction of systematic urban museums in Italy.
He is the founder and artistic director of 999Contemporary, where he curates some of the most outstanding public artworks created related to Italian and international artists. He is the founder and curator of projects such as MAGR, Museo Abusivo Gestito dai Rom (Rome), Museo Ostiense District (Rome), Museo QM San Paolo (Bari), Museo Condominiale di Tor Marancia (Rome), (which at the Venice Biennale (which represented Italy at the Venice Biennale) and founder and curator of projects such as the 15th Architecture Exhibition.
In 2016, he conceived and curated War, Capitalism and Freedom, the first Banksy thematic retrospective organized by the Museums Foundation of Rome, and has curated thematic and thematic exhibitions for the MACRO, the Palazzo della Signoria, the Palazzo della Diamondi, the Fairgrounds, the Palazzo Venaria, the Galeria del Barclay, the House of the HDLU, the Center for the Arts in Minsk, and other public and private museums in Rome. public and private museums, curating thematic and thematic exhibitions.
Together with Gianluca Marziani, he directs the Matsutake Books Lab editorial series at Sagep Editore, and he founded and directs SAM, the City Museum of Art and Expression, and the School of Higher Education at the New School of Art in Rome.
He is a cultural consultant for public administrations and enterprises, actively involved in theoretical research and creative work, cultural dissemination through publications, conferences, seminars, workshops and teaching in institutions and universities such as Luiss Guido Carli, La Sapienza, IULM, Roma Tre, Macro and Milan PAC.
He is the author of critical essays, articles and art catalogs, the monograph Banksy published by Giunti/Rizzoli International and The Urban Curator's Handbook - Volume 1, Aesthetics of Public Space published by Sagep Editore, as well as a director, author, screenwriter and playwright.
Gianluca Mazziani
Gianluca Marziani is a renowned Italian art critic and curator, currently in charge of several art projects. He was Artistic Director of the Palazzo Collicola Arti Visive art space and curatorial advisor for several international exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale. He is also the curator of the MetaMorfosi art program and has published several books on Banksy in collaboration with Stefano Antonelli.
