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CURRICULUM VITAE

Valentina Lacinio (Como, 1989) lives and works between Como and Venice.ongoing Communication & Events Manager | We Exhibit S.r.l.– Services for Art, Venice ongoing Curator | Melepere Contemporary Art Gallery, Verona

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY2015Logistic, Communication & Guerrilla Marketing | Pavilion of Mexico, Possessing Nature, exhibition, Sale d'Ar-mi, Arsenale, 56th Venice Art Biennale, Venice Italian Assistant | Tania Candiani & Loui Felipe Ortega, Pavilion of Mexico, Possessing Nature, exhibition, Sale d'Armi, Arsenale, 56th Venice Art Biennale, Venice Logistic & Setting up supervision | Tesla Revisited, exhibition, VITRARIA Glass + A Musem, Official Collateral Event of 56th Venice Art Biennale, Venice (curated by Eva Mayr)Logistic & Setting up supervision | Fluxbooks. From the Sixties to the Future, Artist's books from the Luigi Bo-notto Collection, exhibition, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, VeniceLogistic & Setting up supervision | Precious: from Picasso to Jeff Koons, Diane Venet Collection, exhibition, VITRARIA Glass + A Musem, Venice 2014Assistant | Alberto Garutti and Caterina Rossato, Visual Arts Laboratory, IUAV, VeniceStage, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, VeniceLogistic & Setting up supervision | Venice International Performance Art Week 2014, Palazzo Mora, Venice (curated by Vest&Page)Logistic & Communication | Hiroshi Sugimoto. Modern Times, exhibition, Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilac-qua La Masa, VeniceLogistic & Communication | Axel Hütte. Fantasmi e realtà, exhibition, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice 2013Assistant, Collaborator | Archivio Paresce curated by Rachele Ferrario, Milano 2012Creator and director | Didactic LaboratoryPrimo approccio alla Fotografia, Via Perti, Primary School, ComoCreator and director | Didactic LaboratoryNon lo potevo fare anch'io? L'arte di vedere l'Arte Contemporanea, Association Muretto Culturale, Como

CURATORIAL PROJECTS ongoing Curator | Academy Awards 2015, Viafarini DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan

2015Curator | Hotel Universo, nella notte Transluminosa, exhibition, Palazzo Michiel, VeniceCo-Curator | Doppio concentrato, exhibition, Galleria Frediano Farsetti, Firenze

2014Art Director | Difesa della Natura – Joseph Beuys, Project Room by Fondazione Bonotto, Venice International Performance Art Week 2014, Palazzo Mora, Venice (a cura di Vest&Page)Curator | verde | zelená (artwork of Valentina Furian), AiC | heARTbreaker 2014, collective exhibition, Špillar Brothers Gallery, Domažlice, Czech RepublicCurator | Abbaiare alla luna, exhibition, Magazzini Ligabue IUAV, Venice (with Claudio Piscopo)Curator | Elvis ha lasciato l’edificio, exhibition, Plazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (with Ra-chele Burgato, Giulia Morucchio)

2013Assistant Curator | L’enigma di Isidore Ducasse (omaggio a Lautréamont), exhibition, Villa Santini, Verona ( with Patrizia Silingardi)Curator | The curator is present / curatori.al Party - vernissage, Viafarini DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, MilanCurator | Academy Awards IUAV, Viafarini DOCVA, Fabbrica del Vapore, MilanCurator and Editor | Etimo, indipendent editorial project, with Rachele Burgato

EDUCATION2014Master Degree of Visual ArtsIUAV, VENEZIACLAVES – VISUAL ARTS 2012 Undergraduate DegreeCommunications and Visual Arts Academy of Fine Arts, Brera, Milan

VOLONTARIATO | VOLUNTEER2006Volounteer | Childrens in Romania, Association ONLUS, Como 2009-2010 Volunteer | voice’s giver, International Centre of spoken books, Association ONLUS, Feltre ART RESIDENCES2014 AiC Česká Bříza | Heartbreaker 2014, Czech Republic project: verde | zelená artist: Valentina Furian curator: Valentina Lacinio WORKSHOP2014 Workshop Swiss Summer School - curated by H.U. Obrist, Swiss Pavillion, 14. Biennale di Venezia, Venice2011 Intensive Workshop of Visual Knowledge – curated by Claire Tancons, IUAV, Venezia2009Workshop Lo stereotipo in Fotografia, Coordinator: Marco Meneguzzo, Fondazione Stelline - Gruppo Credito Valtellinese, Milan

PUBLICATIONS2015Curator | Hotel Universo, nella notte Transluminosa, exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Michiel, Venice (contributes by Pietro Rigolo, Patrizia Silingardi) 2014Curator | verde | zelená (artwork of Valentina Furian), artwork’s publication, AiC | heARTbreaker 2014, collecti-ve exhibition, Špillar Brothers Gallery, Domažlice, Czech RepublicCurator | Abbaiare alla luna, exhibition catalogue, IUAV, Venice (with Claudio Piscopo)Curator | Elvis ha lasciato l’edificio, exhibition catalogue, Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Veni-ce (with Rachele Burgato, Giulia Morucchio)

Editing | Modern Times. Hiroshi Sugimoto, exhibiton catalogue, Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, VeniceEditing | Axel Hütte. Fantasmi e Realtà, exhibition catalogue Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Fondazione Bevilac-qua La Masa, VeniceEditing | Visioni per un inventario. Una mappa del navegar pitoresco, exhibition catalogue, Galleria di Piazza San Marco, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, VeniceEditing | In forma di ceramica. Arte Contemporanea dal Museo Carlo Zauli, exhibition catalogue, Palazzetto Tito, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice 2013Curator Assistant | René Paresce: Catalogue Raisonné, curated by Rachele Ferrario, Skira, Milan, 2013Editor of technical details of artworks | Catalogue Raisonné, Lorenzo Commisso, curated by Rachele BurgatoCurator and Editor | Catalogue Sarah de Teliga, graphic: Marta MuschiettiCurator and Editor | Etimo, indipendent editorial project, with Rachele Burgato

2011Editor | Model of storage for artist’s book, MUD art Foundation, Milan

AWARDS 2014 Finalist Contest CXC Young Curators, Galleria Civica e MART -Contemporary Art Museum, Rovereto CONTRIBUTES 2014 Critical text, Valentina Furian portfolio, Artist Critical text, Domenico Laterza portfolio, Artist

SPOKEN LANGUAGES ITALIAN native speaker ENGLISH fluent

valentina lacinioportfolio september 2015

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

hotel universo. nella notte transluminosaEXHIBITION

2015

palazzo michiel, venice19 - 29 march 2015

vernissage 18 march 2015

EDOARDO ARUTA | FILIPPO BERTA | LUDOVICO BOMBEN | ROBERTA BUSECHIAN | HILARIO ISOLA & ENRICO ASCOLI | LEONARDO MASTROMAURO | CORINNE MAZZOLI | FABRIZIO PERGHEM | FABIO RONCATO | CATERINA ROSSATO | ALBERTO SCODRO | MIRIAM SECCO | ELISA STRINNA | SERENA VESTRUCCI

Galleria Melepere Arte Contemporanea, Verona:FRANKO B | SIMONE PELLEGRINI | SIMONE RONDELET | MUSTAFA SABBAGH

As if they were guests in the same hotel, different artists are invited to search the night sky from their own bedroom windows.

In the firmament that we observe at night , the stars shine brightly, surrounded by a thick darkness. The darkness that we see in the sky is something that, according to scientists, demands an explanation. In an expanding universe, the most remote gala-xies move away from us at a speed so great that their l ight is never able to reach us. To perceive, in the darkness of the present, this light that st rives to reach us but can not-this is what it means to be contemporary. The contemporary is he who firmly holds his gaze on his own time so as to perceive not its light, but rather its darkness.

From posing one of the great cosmological questions, the exhibition Hotel Universo, in the Transluminous darkness endeavors to question the very concepts of darkness, wi-thin the luminous night. Concepts like the unknown, or partially known, lucid dreams, foreseeing the future or clairvoyance, are used to take us on an exploration to make us reflect on the role of the artist, as a visionary that designs lenses that allow us to see the world, using the "entanglement method". There where the eye cannot see, the so called "blind spot", where the retina does not hold light receptors, is where art acts as a compass, guiding us on the side-path to ordinary knowledge.

photo credits: from the top Ludovico Bomben, Pala 9/Serie dei Bianchi/Rovesciata 1, 2015; Simone Pellegrini, Aoristo, 2015 (detail);

Mustafa Sabbagh, Senza titolo, 2014; Franko B, Senza titolo, 2013 (detail); Fabrizio Perghem, 21.01.15/18.30/marghera 2015;Serena Vestrucci, Notte in bianco, 2015 (detail)

www.hoteluniversoexhibition.comcatalogue

CURATOR

joseph beuys: difesa della natura PROJECT ROOM

2014

palazzo michiel, venice13-20 december 2014

Joseph Beuys (1921 –1986) was a German Fluxus, happening and performance artist as well as a sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art. His extensive ouvre is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in the idea of social sculpture as a Gesamtkunstwerk, for which he claimed a creative, participatory role in shaping society and politics.

At the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK will be shown In difesa della Natura, one of the most important actions carried out by the German artist during the last fifteen years of his life. An operation that placed at the centre of attention Natu-re, agriculture and its sustainable development in anticipation of themes, which have been so widely discussed in the recent years and which will be the focus of the Expo Milano 2015 “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life”.

The homage, organized by Fondazione Bonotto in collaboration with Lucrezia De Do-mizio Durini, will rebuild a part of the Abruzzo countryside where the visitors can walk among the Beuysian trees (Olive, Oak, Laurel and Rosemary) and immerse themselves in a highly evocative atmosphere due to the presence of some objects and historic ma-nifestos used during the actions, as well as the extensive photographic documentation by Buby Durini. To complement and support this exhibition some videos by Beuys will be presented.

Curated by Fondazione Bonotto in collaboration with Lucrezia De Domizio Durini.

photo credits: Joseph Beuys, In difesa della Natura. Exhibition view at the Venice International Performance Art Week (2014). Photograph by

Samanta Cinquini.

www.veniceperformanceart.org

ART DIRECTOR

performance art week 2015DURATIONAL EXHIBITION

2015

palazzo michiel, venice13-20 december 2014

The VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK is the independent on-going biennial live art exhibition project conceived, initiated and curated by artist duo Ve-stAndPage, and co-organized by Studio Contemporaneo non-profit cultural association, We Exhibit, Venice Open Gates, Live Arts Cultures and Global Art Affairs Foundation, which hosts the event in its premises. The project aims to promote the practices of performance art on a local, national and international scale, with an event exclusively dedicated to them, and the related for-mative Learning Program organized along the year, both locally in Venice, and abroad in cooperation with the hosting local cultural institutions.The event takes place every two years in the month of December in the city of Venice, Italy. In respect of the ethical principle of trans-national cultural collaboration, since its first edition in 2012, the VENICE INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCE ART WEEK has become a recognized platform where the propositive dialogue and the open confrontation among different cultures and artistic expressions could flourish.The core of its mission is, in fact, to strengthen the importance of the concepts of mobility, art nomadism and temporary community; to offer moments of fruitful en-counters and exchange to lay the foundations for future professional opportunities for artists and cultural operators; and, finally, paying attention to the creation of a broader audience for performance art. Being a gathering reunion among artists and people “who looked for the pearls in the rivers of human civilizations to came to share what they found” (Lee Wen), the event works also as a think tank for outlining conceptual visions which de-clearly overcome imposed and external human conditioning, generating further propositive reflection on topics such as poetic and civil sovereignty, the whole and the ineffable, time, space and existence.

photo credits:from the top Olivier de Sagazan, Transfiguration. Venice International Performance Art Week (2014); Enrique Ježik, Círculos

Concéntricos [Concentric Circles]. Venice International Performance Art Week (2014); Andrigo & Aliprandi, vacuum, Venice Inter-national Performance Art Week (2014); Regina José Galindo, Voz Humana. Poetry Reading. Venice International Performance Art

Week (2014). All photographs by Monika Sobczak.Week (2014). All photographs by Monika Sobczak.

www.veniceperformanceart.org

SET-UP SUPERVISOR

verde | zelená CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2014

galerie sam83, česká bříza (prague)14 - 19 may 2014

vernissage 19 may 2014

Valentina Furian project presentation /resident curator: Valentina Lacinio

Česká Bříza has never heard the sound of the sea, it’s ear trained to the delicate rustle of leaves as the wind brushes through the trees. It is the ‘genius’ of the forest com-municating, and its breath resounds without interruption. The water of the Adriatic is 900km away and tunes to the song in the same language as the waves, the sea knowing that delicate whisper that is the air itself. The distances so clearly defined by geographi-cal proximity suddenly seem to dissappear, the magical sound that freed from it’s cage rises and fills the air.verde is a reflection about gift, the existence of a reciprocal relationship: “to givegifting is important, but why? To establish relationships”. It is effectively through this mutual exchange that the artist becomes the seas, the forest’s, the water’s and the wind’s accomplice, creating boundaries where these elements interact, where the bounda-ries are lost. With this meeting the clear, original differences between elements, and places, become blurred, acquiring a new shape. This union becomes the fulcrum of the work, as a medium and figurehead of an encounter otherwise impossible.

photo credits:AiC Česká Bříza,heARTbreaker 2014, Galerie Sam83.

www.sam83.cz/galerie/vystavy/greenzelenaverde/CATALOGUE

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CURATOR

abbaiare alla lunaEXHIBITION

2014

iuav, magazzini del sale, venicemay 2015

MARZIA AVALLONE | LORENZO COMMISSO | LUZ MARIA FERNANDEZ | MELANIA FU-SCO | FEDERICA GLAUSO | LEONARDO MASTROMAURO | CATERINA MORIGI | LUCIA PINZANI | FILIPPO SOFFIATI | FABIO VALERIO TIBOLLO | LINDA VIGIANI | ANNALISA ZEGNA

Make something useless, without reason and without effect: the work is a gamble , anattempt, the white glove of challenge between the young artist and the giants of thepast..

Showcasing twelve works which problematize the difficult comparison between con-temporary artist and the great works of the past , the interminable meeting / clash with the visionary teachers who were able to take wing to eyes and mind, creating works which today are incredibly current.

Twelve artists accept this challenge, at the cost of ending up like dogs during full moonnights to “barking at the moon“.

photo credits:from the top Federica Glauso, Roles Hypothesis, 2014; Melania Fusco, Untitled, 2014; Filippo Soffiati, Autoritratto. col tempo,

2014; Caterina Morigi, 30 pasti, 2014; Leonardo Matromauro, Studio per innesto #3, 2014.

www.abbaiareallaluna.com

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elvis ha lasciato l’edificio EXHIBITION

2014

palazzetto tito, fondazione bevilacqua la masa, venice29 january - 9 february 2014

vernissage 28 january 2014

SUSANNA ALBERTI, EDOARDO ARUTA, MARZIA AVALLONE, PIETRO BONFANTI, GAIA CE-RESI, LORENZO COMMISSO, VALENTINA FURIAN, YULIA KNISH, LEONARDO MASTRO-MAURO, GRAZIANO MENEGHIN, GUIDO MODANESE, FRANCESCO NORDIO, SERENA OLIVA, FABIO VALERIO TIBOLLO, LAURA TINTI

“Ladies and Gentlemen ... Elvis has left the building, thank you and goodnight.”Al Dovrin, official speaker of the concerts of Presley, invites the audience to leave the room : Elvis will not return. It is already on his limousine, ready for the next date .

ELVIS HAS LEFT THE BUILDING collects the work of fifteen artists coordinate by three young curators ( Rachel Burgato , Valentina Lacinio , Giulia Morucchio).The “show of Art”happens as a magic trick: the artist and the audience seal a pact, it is the sharing of a particular moment. This moment is the time of the show, in which the audience asks to be amazed and which at the end of this everybody just have to “go home“.

photo credits: from the top Gaia Ceresi, Conciliazioni, 2013; Valentina Furian, RGB 128, 128, 128, 2013; Pietro Bonfanti, Monumento a quell’a-

narchico, 2013; Leonardo Mastromauro, Sotterrare la terra, 2013; Edoardo Aruta, Tra terra e cielo, 2013; Graziano Meneghin,Nella notte, quel che non sfugge rimane, 2013.

elvishalasciatoledificio.tumblr.comCATALOGUE

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l’enigma di isidore ducasse (omaggio a lautréamont)EXHIBITION

2013

galleria melepere, veronavilla santini

23 november - 23 december 2013 vernissage 23 november 2013

SIMONE PELLEGRINI, CUOGHI CORSELLO, ETTORE FRANI, ANDREA BRUNO, NICOLASAMORÌ, MUSTAFA SABBAGH, FRANKO B, STEFANO W. PASQUINI, CHRISTIAN RAINER,KARIN ANDERSEN, ADRIANO PERSIANI, GILDA SCAGLIONI, SIMONE RONDELET, CHIA-RA SOLDATI, ROBERTO PAPAVERO CRUSCA, EDDY CORVAGLIA , MATTEO SERRI, CHIARAFORTI, STEFANO RICCI, CLAUDIA COLLINA

Lautreamont remains an author still unappreciated despite his undisputed masterpie-ce, the visionary Chants de Maldoror (1870), has exercised its charm on Symbolists and Surrealists.The text of the Chants, full of obscure symbolism, bizarre metamorphosis and aber-rant follies, inspired Man Ray in 1920 realizing the picture riddle (or The Enigma ofIsidore Ducasse), where he portrays an ambiguous shaped object covered by a canvasbag and closely linked with a rope. The author, who has hidden the object, destroy itafter it was photographed, perhaps to let the riddle unresolved and play with the ambivalence and double meanings of which Lautreamont was master.The work of Man Ray’s declines intent of our project to a formal definition (artistic)Enigma, the mystery, the haze, the unconscious, of something of which there is prohi-bited contemplation and understanding objectively soothing.In respect of suggestive environments curatorws asked to each artist to create a site-specific work that dialogues with such impressive backgrounds.

photo credits: from the top Villa Santini’s room; Simone Rondelet, 2013, Chiara Soldati, 2013; Matteo Serri, 2013; Cuoghi Corsello, 2013;.

www.melepere.com

ASSISTANT CURATOR

valentina lacinio

valentina.lacinio@gmail.com+39 3388575537skype: valentina.lacinio address: Cannaregio 3027, 30121, Venice, Italy