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Who is an art curator, and what does he or she do? What is his or her story?
The author of this essay tries to answer these questions, attempting to distinguish the critical function from simple organizational skills.
Central to these pages is the importance of the “staging” of the work, its presentation to the public, and it is precisely from reflection on this aspect that the strategies of “narrative curating” are developed – an intellectual practice motivating and justifying the role of the curator: not a technician, then, but a scholar unafraid of taking the risk of a literary and creative approach.
The book draws on a series of lectures on the Philosophy of Curating that the author has given at the Universities of Turin and Roma Tre.