Claudio Crescentini
Born in 1961 in Rome (Italy)
Lives and works in Rome (Italy)
Claudio Crescentini is an art historian, critic and author of numerous essays and books. His primary interest is in the cultural changes of the 20th and 21st centuries in art languages and new media. He also has a keen interest in art in relation to urban planning and architecture. He has curated many international exhibitions, including “NOW: The Art Before the Future” (Contemporary Art Festival 2013-2014); Marisa and Mario Merz (2015), William Kentridge (2016), Pop Art in Rome (2017). He also curated, with Paolo De Grandis, the concept art project “From La Biennale di Venezia to MACRO: International Perspectives” (2016-2017). Since 2014, he has been a curator at MACRO (Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma) and was a member of the public committee that selected Giuseppe Penone for the location of a large sculpture in the center of Rome (2017).
Claudio Crescentini writes of his project for KB17: “Three artists and a poet start from the ‘hybrid’ concept. Their view is now overturned. The three videos are not evidence of something that happens once, but the recording of what continuously happens in the artist’s brain: An uninterrupted and gratuitous flow of images. The natural and urban elements melt the specificities of the three works presented: Ironic ‘Nature’ – but not natural – by Candy Candy with a poetic concept by Patrizia Chianese; a wild ‘Urbanization’ vision by #MIH Made In Heaven; and ‘Emotion’ in motion by Laura Federici. Each artist is lost in reality, but their reality is a different thing from what you actually see.”
