Staging exhbitions is a way of breathing life into a reality that can have many viewpoints on both the visual and the conceptual levels, offering the observer a broad repertoire of possibilities and countenancing the existence of multiple narratives. Curatorial practice is a way of calling various interrelated works into question in an attempt to discover potential outcomes. What does applying such an approach to the museum environment entail?
Born in 1981, Luca Lo Pinto is the Art Director of the MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in Rome. From 2014 to 2019 he was curator of the Kunsthalle in Vienna. He is co-founder of the NERO magazine and publishing house. He has organised a series of one-man shows with such artists as Simone Forti, Nathalie du Pasquier, Jason Dodge, Tony Cokes, Camille Henrot, Olaf Nicolai, Pierre Bismuth, Babette Mangolte, Lawrence Weiner, Gelatin&Liam Gillick, Charlemagne Palestine and collective exhibitions entitled Time is Thirsty, Publishing as an artistic toolbox 1989-2017, More than just words, Individual Stories e Function Follows Vision and Vision Follows Reality. His other curatorial projects include Luca Vitone – Io, Luca (PAC); XVI Quadriennale d'Arte (Palazzo delle Esposizioni); Le Regole del gioco (Fondazione Achille Castiglioni); Trapped in the Closet (FRAC Champagne Ardenne); Antigrazioso (Palais de Toyko); AnderSennoSogno (Museo H.C. Andersen); D’après Giorgio (Fondazione Giorgio De Chirico); and Conversation Pieces (Museo Praz). His written work has been published in numerous catalogues and international periodicals. He has also edited publications with various artists, including Emilio Prini, Alexandre Singh, Mario Diacono and Mario Garcia Torres. In 2012 he edited a publication named Documenta 1955-2012.