What is your background?
I have a degree in Art History and a MA Master’s Degree for Curator of Contemporary Art and Architecture Museums, both from the “La Sapienza” University of Rome. I worked in archiving and cataloguing at the ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) before becoming a gallery assistant. For several years I was curator of Giovanni Giuliani’s collection, before he set up the Giuliani Foundation.
When and how did you open your gallery?
I opened my gallery in 2008 in Salerno, the city where I was born and where I remained for seven years. My family has always supported me. My father is an entrepreneur, and thanks to him I came to understand that I could do business, respecting the family tradition, but through the promotion and support of art. The gallery is the synthesis of the experiences I have lived: professional, but also human.
Tell us about the space you chose for your gallery and the context in which it is located.
My gallery is on the first floor of Palazzo De Sangro di Vietri, in the historical center of Naples. It is close to the Madre, the Fondazione Morra Greco and the Fondazione Morra, to mention only the contemporary art institutions. On the second floor, in the same building, there is the Alfonso Artiaco Gallery. The artists love the space and the context in which it is located, and this is the most important thing for me.
Your program: what kind of art do you deal with?
I work mainly with artists of the latest generations with an aptitude for experimentation and research. I am interested in interferences between visual arts and other fields of knowledge. I search for artists through residency programs and exhibitions. It’s often the artists I represent who suggest others to me, whose work I never fail to look into.
Do you remember your first visit to an art gallery?
It was in 1993, at the Galleria Paola Verrengia for the exhibition dedicated to Achille Perilli. My high school art history teacher had advised me to go see it. She told me that the artist would probably be there. I had never met an artist. I was a little embarrassed, so I made a classmate accompany me. It went very well, even if Perilli, unfortunately, was not there.
