Dalí / Duchamp
A two-day symposium
3 November 2017 1 - 5pm4 November 2017 10am - 5pm
The Reynolds Room, Burlington House, Royal Academy of Arts, Piccadilly
£120 for two days. Includes early bird entry into the exhibition on Saturday morning, refreshments throughout and a drinks reception at the end of day one.
Dalí / Duchamp
Terms and conditions
This symposium explores the extraordinary relationship between Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp, and the legacy of two of the 20th century’s greatest artists.
The symposium aims to further explore and debate the key themes of the Dalí / Duchamp exhibition, including the relationship and shared interests of Salvador Dalí and Marcel Duchamp, two of the 20th century’s greatest artists.
Although often positioned as opposites, the artists enjoyed a long friendship and spent time together in Cadaqués and Portlligat on the Costa Brava in Spain. They shared an enduring interest in themes such as eroticism, optics, language and science and were united by humour as well as a scepticism of established convention which led them to challenge norms and offer innovative alternatives in their artistic practice and lives.
During this two-day interdisciplinary symposium, international scholars and speakers are invited to explore the relationship between Dalí and Duchamp, as well as a range of themes central to the exhibition including (but not limited to):
• Identities – demonstrated through both the artworks themselves and the artists persona
• Eroticism and the object – a discussion of both surrealism and ready-mades as well as the relationship between them
• Science, religion and language
• Chess and games
• The personal or public relationship between Dalí and Duchamp
• The artistic and philosophical links between the artists
The symposium is aimed for academics, students and those interested in the art and ideas of the period.
This symposium coincides with the Dalí / Duchamp exhibition organised by the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and The Dalí Museum, St Petersburg, Florida, in collaboration with the Gala-Salvador Dalí Foundation and the Association Marcel Duchamp.
Speakers include:
Dawn Ades
Professor Emerita
University of Essex
Dawn Ades is Professor Emerita at the University of Essex, Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy, a Fellow of the British Academy, a former trustee of Tate and was made CBE in 2013 for her services to art history. She has been responsible for some of the most important exhibitions in London and overseas over the past thirty years, including Dada and Surrealism Reviewed, Art in Latin America and The Colour of my Dreams: the Surrealist Revolution in Art. She is the curator of Dalí / Duchamp at the Royal Academy this autumn and has published standard works on photomontage, Dada, Surrealism, women artists and Mexican muralists.
William Jeffett
Chief Curator of Exhibitions
Dalí Museum
William Jeffett is Chief Curator of Exhibitions at the Dalí Museum. He is a specialist in Surrealism and Spanish art and has published extensively on these subjects. As well he works on contemporary art with a focus on Spain. Recently he curated Miró and the Object for the Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona and CaixaForum, Madrid. He is currently preparing Dalí and Duchamp as co-curator with Dawn Ades for the Royal Academy, London and the Dalí Museum.
Cathie Pilkington
RA
Royal Academy of Arts
Cathie Pilkington is a London-based sculptor and a figurative artist, renowned for crafting increasingly ambivalent forms. Her sculptural practice combines the interrelated and antagonistic worlds of fine art and craft. She carefully creates pieces from a vast array of materials, adopting ready-made elements, which are freely assembled, as well as incorporating modelling, carving, painting and other finishes to her works. Pilkington studied BA Silversmithing at Edinburgh College of Art (1985–91) and was awarded the first John Watson Prize for Art upon graduating in 1991, with a show at the Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh. She went on to study Sculpture at the Royal College of Art (1995–97) following which she was awarded the Cheltenham Fine Art Fellowship in 1998. Pilkington has previously showed with Bruton Gallery, Bath (1992) and was in the 1st RWA Open Sculpture Exhibition (1993). She is currently represented by Marlborough Fine Art, where she had solo shows in 2007, 2010 and 2014. She also recently had an exhibition The Value of the Paw at the V&A Museum of Childhood in 2012. Her work is held in the collections of the Deste Foundation, Athens, Manchester City Art Gallery and the David Roberts Collection.
Deborah Bürgel
Assistant Curator
Staatliches Museum Schwerin
Dr. Deborah Bürgel completed her studies of art history, philosophy and German studies in 2015 with a doctorate on fictional artists and Marcel Duchamp’s creation Rrose Sélavy at the University of Cologne. Since August 2016 she has been undertaking a traineeship at the Duchamp Research Center and the Cabinet of Prints and Drawings of the Staatliches Museum Schwerin, the Schwerin Museum of the Federal State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. She has published essays on the art of the 20th century as well as on contemporary artists, curated exhibitions of contemporary art (in preparation: Endre Tót: Zer0 makes me glad sad mad) and gives lectures on art history (next at the Marcel Duchamp – Serge Stauffer public workshop, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart). Her specialism is the art of the 20th century and her research interests concern the invention of fictitious artists and vitality in art.
Barnaby Dicker
Independent researcher
Dr Barnaby Dicker is a researcher, lecturer, artist-filmmaker and curator. His research revolves around conceptual and material innovations in and through graphic technologies and arts, including cinematography and photography, with particular emphasis on avant-guard practices. He sits on the editorial board of Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal and is a member of the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded International Research Network Film and the Other Arts: Intermediality, Medium Specificity, Creativity. Barnaby has taught at the Royal College of Art, University of South Wales, University for the Creative Arts, Royal Holloway, University of London, Kingston School of Art, and Cardiff School of Art and Design.
Carme Ruiz González
Senior Curator
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (FGSD)
Carme Ruiz González, Senior Curator of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (FGSD) since 2017. Former Coordinator of the Centre for Dalinian Studies of FGSD in Figueres. The relationship with the FGSD begins in 1993 when the artist’s legacy was still pending to be inventoried and catalogued. The first major task was to approach and study the inherited documents to be organized according to archival and librarian criteria. Related to exhibition’s field, she has acted as assistant curator to the Dalí’s Museums director. One of the most relevant projects she has coordinated is the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí. At this point, they have studied the paintings since the year 1910 up to 1964. The next update, Paintings produced 1965-1983, will be released in December 2017. Besides the daily tasks of coordinating the department, she has participated in symposiums, written texts for catalogues and studied in depth the work of the Empordà genius.
Paul B. Franklin
Indipendent Scholar
Paris
Paul B. Franklin earned his doctorate in art history from Harvard University. Based in Paris, he is an independent scholar, specialist on Marcel Duchamp, and editor in chief of the scholarly journal Étant donné Marcel Duchamp, one of the most highly respected publications devoted to the artist. He also has lectured and published widely on Duchamp. Some of his most recent publications include Marcel Duchamp, ses maîtres et ses pirouettes autour de la peinture for the catalogue of the 2014 exhibition Marcel Duchamp: la peinture, même at the Centre Pompidou, Paris; The Artist and His Critic Stripped Bare (2016), a bilingual edition of the correspondence of Duchamp and Robert Lebel published by the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles; and Can one make works that are not works ‘of art’?: Marcel Duchamp’s Bottle Rack for the catalogue of the 2016 exhibition Marcel Duchamp: Porte-bouteilles at the Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris.
Margaret Iversen
Professor Emerita
University of Essex
Margaret Iversen is Professor Emerita at the University of Essex. Her books include Alois Riegl: Art History and Theory (MIT Press) and Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes (Penn State). She edited a special issue of Art History, Photography after Conceptual Art, and another for Critical Inquiry called Agency and Automatism: Photography and Art since the Sixties, both with Diarmuid Costello. She also edited the Documents of Contemporary Art volume on Chance (MIT/ Whitechapel Gallery) and Writing Art History (Chicago, 2010), written in collaboration with Stephen Melville. Her latest book Photography, Trace and Trauma has just appeared from Chicago.
Irene Civil
Head of Conservation
Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali
Irene Civil is Head of Conservation of the Fundació Gala-Salvador Dali with a MA in Art Conservation of the Queen’s University (ON, Canada). She has wide-ranging professional previous experience as a conservator of modern and contemporary paintings for different museums and institutions, such as Antoni Tàpies Foundation and Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona (Spain). She has worked with active museum exhibition and loan programs, and her scholarly insight and knowledge of materials, combined with the capacity for setting priorities for treatment and preventive care, were key elements for her selection in 2001 as a Head of Conservation of the Fundació Dalí. At the foundation, among her daily tasks as a responsible for conservation, she is coordinating long-term research projects on Dali’s technique, and she is involved in the Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings by Salvador Dalí. She has also participated in international symposiums on art conservation and her interest in artists’ materials, studio practice and artistic intention has been reflected in her latest written text Gli anni ottanta di Salvador Dalí: pura espressione. Materiali, tecnica e metodo di lavoro impiegati dal pittore nell’ultima fase della sua carriera for the catalogue Dalí. Il sogno del classic, 2016.
Charles Saumarez Smith
Secretary and Chief Executive
Royal Academy of Arts
Dr. Charles Robert Saumarez Smith CBE is Secretary and Chief Executive of the Royal Academy of Arts in London. A British cultural historian specialising in the history of art, design and architecture, he is known for his contributions as a cultural commentator, an author of books and articles, a lecturer, and an academic, with regular appearances on television and radio. For updated information on his activities you can follow his blog at: www.charlessaumarezsmith.com/blog. From 2002 to 2007 Charles was the director of the National Gallery, responsible for many major exhibitions including Titian, Rubens, El Greco, late Caravaggio and Velazquez. Charles’ most celebrated success in his directorship at the National Gallery was the purchase of Raphael’s Madonna of the Pinks in 2004 for £22 million. From 1994 to 2002 he was the Director of the National Portrait Gallery where he rose to prominence for staging exhibitions by contemporary photographers, including Annie Leibovitz, Richard Avedon, Bruce Weber and fashion photographer Mario Testino, and where he presided over the building of the critically acclaimed Ondaatje Wing. He joined the staff of the Victoria and Albert Museum as an Assistant Keeper with special responsibility for V&A/RCA MA in the History of Design and in 1990, he was appointed Head of Research. In 2008, Charles was awarded a CBE. He is also a visiting Professor of Cultural History at Queen Mary, University of London, an Honorary Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge and a Trustee of the Royal Drawing School.
Hank Hine
Director
The Dali Museum
Hank Hine directs The Dali Museum in St. Petersburg. The Dali holds an unparalleled collection of Dali’s work from each area of his practice and exhibits its collection together with related thematic and historical material. The Museum’s exhibition program has included the Spanish Baroque, Surrealist Prints, Warhol at The Dali, Dali and Picasso, Dali and Disney, Frida Kahlo, and currently Dali and Schiaparelli. Dali Duchamp is produced jointly with the RA. Hine is an educator and poet with keen interests in text / image relationships and new media. He is a specialist in artist books. As an author and founder of The Dali Museum Innovation Labs, he is committed to exploring the ways in which art may reframe conceptual attitudes and enable desired personal and institutional change. Hine earned his undergraduate degree at Stanford University and his masters and doctoral degrees at Brown University, and has served as a visiting professor at California College of the Arts, Stanford, and the University South Florida St. Petersburg.
David Hopkins
Professor of Art History
University of Glasgow
David Hopkins is Professor of Art History at the University of Glasgow. His specialisms include Dada, Surrealism, Duchamp, Ernst and selected aspects of post-1945 art and photography. His books include the Blackwell Companion to Dada and Surrealism (edited: Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford and Boston, 2016); Virgin Microbe: Essays on Dada (co-edited with Michael White, Chicago: Northwestern University Press, 2014); Dada’s Boys: Masculinity After Duchamp, (Yale University Press, 2007); After Modern Art : 1945-2000, Oxford University Press ( Oxford History of Art, 2000 ), Marcel Duchamp ( co-edited with Dawn Ades and Neil Cox, London:Thames and Hudson, 1999 ) and Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst: The Bride Shared (Oxford University Press: Clarendon Studies, 19980). He is currently preparing a study of toys and childhood in surrealism and post-1945 art.
Francesco Miroglio
Independent Researcher
Francesco Miroglio old has a Master degree in Art history and cultural heritage and a Postgraduate degree in Art History from the University of Genoa. Both his dissertations were focused on the French artist Marcel Duchamp. In 2015 he won the fourth scholarship of the Duchamp-Forschungszentrum of Schwerin. His research project analyses the relationship between Marcel Duchamp's Large Glass and Raymond Roussel's play Impressions d’Afrique. The outcome of this research is the series Lecture Notes and the forthcoming monograph, The bizarre world of Raymond Roussel and Marcel Duchamp’s Large Glass: the impact of the play 'Impressions d'Afrique' on 'The Bride stripped Bare by her Bachelors, even', to be published by Staatliches Museum Schwerin/Ludwigslust/Güstrow press.
Pilar Parcerisas
Independent art critic
Pilar Parcerisas is an art critic, essayist and exhibition curator with a PhD in Art History and an MA in Communication. She has been curator of the following exhibitions: Ideas and Attitudes around Conceptual Art in Catalonia, 1964-1980 (1992), Joseph Beuys: Manresa Hbf (1994), *Agnus Dei: Romanesque art and 20th Century Artists (1996), Dalí: Elective Affinities (2004), Man Ray: Lights and Dreams (2006), Viena Actionism (2008), Illuminations: Visionary Catalonia (2009), Dalí, Duchamp, Man Ray: A chess game (2014-2016), Joan Ponç (2017) and Adolf Loos: Privatespaces (2017), among others. She has published a selection of her articles in the book Art & Co (2003) and the book Conceptualismo(s): El arte conceptual en España, 1964-1980 (2007) and Duchamp in Spain (2009). She is an art critic at the newspaper El Punta Vui in Barcelona, and has been director for the Contemporary Art Documentation Centre Alexandre Cirici in Barcelona. She has written screenplays for cinema and was the vice president of the Nacional Council for the Arts and Culture (2009-2012).
David Stent
Subject Leader in Visual Arts and Chair of the Research Committee
West Dean College
Dr. David Stent is an artist, writer, curator and performer. His interdisciplinary practice draws on various media including drawing, photography, digital and print publishing, film and video, and sonic and sculptural installation. His most recent work has been concerned with the role of writing in art practice, particularly in association with artists' publications, relations between image and text, and the use of theory and philosophy in contemporary art. He holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of Reading and is currently Subject Leader in Visual Arts and Chair of the Research Committee at West Dean College, part of the Edward James Foundation.
Haim Finkelstein
Emeritus Professor Department of the Arts
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Haim Finkelstein is a Professor (Emeritus) in the Department of the Arts at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His ongoing work in the field of Surrealism had begun with his doctoral dissertation in the 1970s, continuing with the book Surrealism and the Crisis of the Object (UMI Research Press, 1979). He went on to publish numerous articles on Surrealism and the work of Salvador Dalí. His major publications include: Salvador Dalí’s Art and Writing 1927-1940: The Metamorphoses of Narcissus, Cambridge University Press, 1996; The Collected Writings of Salvador Dalí, Edited and translated By Haim Finkelstein, Cambridge University Press, 1998; and The Screen in Surrealist Art and Thought. Aldershot, Hampshire and Burlington VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2007. A new edition of The Collected Writings of Salvador Dalí is currently being published by The Salvador Dalí Museum, St. Petersburg, FL. A Hebrew edition of the Collected Writings of Salvador Dalí will be published in Israel in the coming months. He is currently working on an introduction to Surrealism, to be published in Israel in 2019.
Miguel Escribano
Director
Konstverket Arts Centre
Dr Escribano's wayward existence as an itinerant artist and sometime scholar began in the UK in 1966. After completing a degree in Spanish and Latin American Studies, Miguel lived a lazy life on a roof in Sevilla for 8 years, painting and exhibiting, and very occasionally working. This was followed by eight years in London, working front of house at the Royal Academy, Tate, Hayward and National Gallery, while taking an MA and PhD at the University of Essex, with theses on Dalí supervised by Professor Dawn Adès. Miguel now lives in Tyresö, Sweden, where he runs the Konstverket Arts Centre.
Tim Marlow
Artistic Director
Royal Academy of Arts
Tim Marlow joined the Royal Academy of Arts in 2014 as Artistic Director. His remit includes the RA’s exhibition programme and Collection, as well Learning, Architecture and Publishing. Prior to this Marlow was Director of Exhibitions at White Cube (2003-2014). He has worked with many of the most important and influential artists of our time including, Antony Gormley RA, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume RA, Anselm Kiefer Hon RA, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Chuck Close, Tracey Emin RA, Gilbert & George, Julie Mehretu and Doris Salcedo. Marlow is an award-winning radio and television broadcaster who has presented over 100 documentaries on British television. He was the founder editor of Tate magazine and is the author of numerous books and catalogues. He has lectured, chaired and participated in panel discussions on art and culture in more than forty countries.
Désirée de Chair
Curator
Royal Academy
Dr Désirée de Chair is a curator at the Royal Academy and has co-curated the exhibition Dalí/Duchamp since joining the RA in the summer. Previously at Hamburger Kunsthalle in Germany she worked on different exhibition projects including the tri-national collaboration ‘Surreal Encounters’ with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh and Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam. Her essay for the exhibition catalogue focused on Edward James, the well-known British collector of Surrealist art. In the past, Desiree has worked on numerous exhibition and research projects at Tate Britain, Leighton House Museum, the Henry Moore Institute, the Sculpture Department at the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Royal Collection. Desiree studied History of Art and Southeast Asian Studies in Berlin, Paris and London and gained a PhD on 19th century sculpture from the University of Warwick.
Anna M. Dempster
Head of Academic Programmes
Royal Academy of Arts
Dr. Anna M Dempster is Head of Academic Programmes at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and is a College Research Associate at Wolfson College, University of Cambridge. Anna was previously Associate Professor in Art Business at Sotheby's Institute of Art, responsible for the Art Business, Finance and Management department. She was Director of Research, Creative Industries Observatory, University of the Arts and Founding Director of the MSc/MA in Creative Industries at Birkbeck College, University of London. She has worked in leading academic institutions including the University of Cambridge, London Business School and Rotterdam School of Management and she regularly consults for practitioners and policy-makers. She holds a BA and MPhil in History from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD from the Judge Business School, Cambridge, UK. Her current research interests focus on the creative industries and visual arts and specifically Risk and Uncertainty in the Art World - with a book of this title published in 2014.
Lewis Kachur
Professor of Art History
Kean University of New Jersey
Lewis Kachur is Professor of Art History at Kean University of New Jersey. He received his doctorate from Columbia University, and is a specialist in 20th century and contemporary European and American art. A pioneer in the field of exhibition history and artists as curators, Kachur completed a study of 50 years of exhibitions at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He is the author of Displaying the Marvelous: Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí and Surrealist Exhibition Installations (MIT Press, 2001), likely the first extended study to juxtapose Dalí and Duchamp. He is also co-author of Masterpieces of American Modernism from the Vilcek Collection (Merrell, 2013). His essays include Intrusion in the Enchanters' Domain: Duchamp’s exhibition identity, in aka Marcel Duchamp: Meditations on the Identities of an Artist. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Press, 2014, and Five Rauschenberg Transfer Drawings and Their Times, in Robert Rauschenberg Transfer Drawings from the 1950s and 1960s, London, Offer Waterman Gallery, 2016.
Sharon-Michi Kusunoki
Executive Director
Surrealism and the Arts
Dr Sharon-Michi Kusunoki has contributed to several international publications and has lectured and written extensively on Edward James, his archives and his collection. She was curator of the highly acclaimed exhibition, A Surreal Life, Edward James at the Brighton Museum & Art Gallery (1998) and has also curated exhibitions on British Surrealism, Lee Miller, Man Ray and Ana Maria Pacheco as well as having curated a number of exhibitions on contemporary artists. Dr Kusunoki was responsible for the formation of what is now known as The Edward James Cultural Archive, having sourced, identified, and amalgamated fragments of James's correspondence left in suitcases, packing cases and trunks throughout the world. Dr Kusunoki is currently working on an anthology of the letters of Edward James with Professors Dawn Ades and Christopher Green. Dr Kusunoki received her doctorate from the Courtauld Institute of Art and is currently the Executive Director of Surrealism and the Arts, an art curation and consultancy firm.
Elliott H King
Assistant Professor of Art History
Washington and Lee University
Elliott H King is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Washington and Lee University (Virginia, USA). Educated at the University of Essex and the Courtauld Institute of Art, his research focuses on post-war Surrealism with an expertise in Salvador Dalí’s 'late' art and writing. His publications include Dalí, Surrealism, and Cinema (Kamera Books, 2007), Dalí: The Late Work (High Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2010), and Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting (Art Gallery of Ontario, 2012), as well as catalogue contributions to Dalí exhibitions at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Tate Modern, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Adina Kamien-Kazhdan
Senior Curator of Modern Art
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Dr. Adina Kamien-Kazhdan is Senior Curator of Modern Art at The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, and lecturer in modern art and curating at the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design. She has curated numerous exhibitions and authored catalogues and articles on Dada and surrealism, Duchamp, Man Ray, Miro, among others. Curator in charge of the Vera and Arturo Schwarz Collection of Dada and Surrealist Art, her book Duchamp, Man Ray, and the Conundrum of the Replica will be published by Routledge this year. Adina's most recent exhibition No Place Like Home focused on the transformed domestic object returned to a quasi-home within the museum, and her next exhibition on replication from Rome to the digital age is scheduled for 2020.
David Lomas
Professor of Art History
University of Manchester
David Lomas is Professor of Art History at the University of Manchester. From 2002 to 2007, he was Associate Director (with Dawn Ades and Jennifer Mundy) of the AHRC Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies. His publications on surrealism include the books The Haunted Self: Surrealism, Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity (2000) and Simulating the Marvellous: Psychology, Surrealism, Postmodernism (2013). Lomas’s current book project on modern artists and botany, to which his talk relates, arose out of an exhibition he curated on the Narcissus theme in surrealist and post-surrealist visual art and film at the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, in 2011, under the auspices of an AHRC-funded project on surrealism and same-sex desire.
Gavin Parkinson
Senior Lecturer
The Courtauld Institute of Art
Dr. Gavin Parkinson is Senior Lecturer in European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art and editor of the Routledge series Studies in Surrealism. He lectures and writes on European and American art, culture and criticism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries and is particularly interested in art and science, art historiography, comics and science fiction, with an emphasis on the long history of Surrealism (1922-69). His books are Futures of Surrealism: Myth, Science Fiction and Fantastic Art in France 1936-1969 (Yale University Press 2015); Surrealism, Art and Modern Science: Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, Epistemology (Yale University Press 2008); and The Duchamp Book (Tate Publishing 2008). He is also the editor of the collection of essays Surrealism, Science Fiction and Comics *(Liverpool University Press 2015). His book on the Surrealist reception of late 19th-century art, titled *Enchanted Ground: André Breton, Modernism and the Surrealist Appraisal of Fin de Siècle Painting, will appear through Bloomsbury in 2018.
Megakles Rogakos
Independent art historian
Megakles Rogakos is an art historian and exhibition curator. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History from The American College of Greece (1997); a Master’s degree in Arts, Policy & Management from the City University, London (1998); another Master’s degree in Art History & Theory from Goldsmiths College, London (1999); and a PhD in Philosophy & Art History from the University of Essex (2016). From 2000-2004 he worked as an information officer at the Tate Gallery, conducted scholarly research and curated a series of multimedia exhibitions, in London and abroad, featuring international contemporary artists. In 2004-2012 he held an appointment as ACG Art Curator at the American College of Greece. In that capacity, he organized the art collection into what became known as “ACG Art”; he created the www.acgart.gr web site for the collection; he increased the collection from 865 to 3,427 works; he initiated the ACG Art Gallery that opened in 2008; he curated 12 ACG Art exhibitions; and he collaborated with the college departments for developing and implementing educational programs.Since 2012, he has worked as an independent curator, continuing to curate exhibitions and supervise cultural projects while pursuing his PhD research in art history at the University of Essex. The majority of the aforementioned exhibitions are accompanied by a catalogue, for which he contributes the texts in Greek and English, and of which he supervises the design. He also publishes reviews of exceptional art exhibitions on the website of www.elculture.gr.
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