Workshop CRRI 2023. Collection management and registration methods. Techniques and working practices

BIOGRAPHIES

Coordinator

CLARENZA CATULLO

Independent consultant

Venice

Clarenza Catullo graduated from the School for Translators and Interpreters in Trieste, then earned a degree in Foreign Languages and Literature at Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice. In 1981 she joined Amici dei Musei di Venezia and became a member of the VAMI (Volontari Associati per i Musei Italiani). In this capacity she collaborates as a volunteer with the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice since February 1981, creating the educational section of the Museum that was then reopening after Peggy Guggenheim’s death. She worked steadily as a volunteer with the Peggy Guggenheim until 1986. In 1986 she was hired by Palazzo Grassi spa (FIAT Group) as assistant to the artistic director (Pontus Hulten/ Paolo Viti). During this period she created the exhibition office and managed all exhibitions organized there as exhibition officer and registrar. In 2004 she was appointed branch director of SATTIS/Arteria (national art transportation company) creating the Venice office where she worked until 2006 when she was called to the MART in Rovereto as technical curator. In 2008, following a specific competition announced by the museum, she held the position of registrar and then collections manager, coordinating the museum’s temporary exhibitions on site and externally. Since 2022 she has been offering consulting services as a freelancer.

Speakers (in alphabetical order)

MARCELLA BECCARIA

Deputy Director, Chief Curator, Curator of Collections and Head of CRRI

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin

Art historian, curator and author, Marcella Beccaria is Deputy Director of the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and Head of the CRRI – Research Institute. She has also held the position of Chief Curator and Curator of the Museum’s Collections since 2012. She is Vice President of AMACI and Professor at NABA, Milan. She holds a degree in History of Art Criticism from the University of Turin, and an MA in Art History and Museum Studies from the Graduate School of Arts and Science, Boston University. She began her curatorial career in the United States, at the Museum of Fine Arts and The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, where she collaborated on exhibitions such as Inside the Visible (1996) and Gothic (1997). At the Castello di Rivoli she helped develop the collection, curated numerous exhibitions and related catalogs. Beccaria has curated exhibitions at national and international institutions, including The ICA, London; Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; OGR, Turin; Gallerie d’Italia, Milan; The Centre for the Less Good Idea, Johannesburg; San Francesco, Cuneo; ExpoChicago, Chicago. Beccaria is also the author of essays in catalogs published by La Biennale di Venezia; Guggenheim Museum, New York; Museu Serralves, Porto; Stedelijk Museum, Ghent; Istanbul Biennial; Kunstmuseum Winterthur; FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims; SAM-Singapore Art Museum, Singapore; Centre Pompidou, Metz; Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg. She is the author of Olafur Eliasson, Tate, London (2013).

VIRGINIA BERTONE

Chief Conservator

GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

After graduating in Medieval Art History with Enrico Castelnuovo at the University of Turin, she went on to specialize and collaborate on cataloguing campaigns for the Soprintendenza ai Beni Artistici. She has worked since 1984 at the GAM in Turin, where she assumed the role of Conservator and then Chief Conservator of the permanent collections. In 2009-13 she worked on thematic rearrangements of GAM’s Permanent Collection, and in 2009-18 she was responsible for exhibitions in the “Wunderkammer,” dedicated to the Museum’s graphic collections. In 2013, she coordinated the creation of GAM’s “Drawing and Print Cabinet.” Since 2022, for the Fondazione Torino Musei, she has been Head of Management of the Museo Civico d’Arte Antica a Palazzo Madama. In 2016 at GAM, with Xavier Rey and Guy Cogeval, she curated Monet. From the Collections of the Musée d’Orsay and, with Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Organisms. From Émile Gallé’s Art Nouveau to Bioarchitecture. Past exhibitions include: Massimo d’Azeglio: a portrait and a mystery revealed, GAM, 2018; I Macchiaioli. Italian Art Toward Modernity, with Cristina Acidini, GAM, 2018-19; Antonio Fontanesi and His Legacy. From Pellizza da Volpedo to Burri, with Elisabetta Farioli and Claudio Spadoni, Palazzo dei Musei, Reggio Emilia, 2019. Recent curatorships include: An Infinite Beauty. Landscape in Italy from Romantic Painting to Contemporary Art, with Guido Curto and Riccardo Passoni, Reggia di Venaria, 2022; Fattori, Masterpieces and Openings on the 1900s, with Silvestra Bietoletti, GAM, 2021-22; Ottocento. GAM Collections from the Unification of Italy to the Dawn of the Twentieth Century, GAM, 2022-23.

SOFIA BIONDI

Registrar

Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin

Sofia Biondi lives in Turin. She graduated in Art History from the University of Turin in 2017. In 2018 she collaborates with the Exhibitions Office of the Musei Reali di Torino for several projects including Spanish Still Life from Sánchez Cotán to Goya (2018); All the Isms of Armando Testa (2018); Van Dyck court painter (2018). In the same year she attended the Registrar Workshop organized by the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea. Since 2019 she has been working as a registrar at the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea for both the permanent collection and temporary exhibitions including Harald Szeemann. Museum of Obsessions (2019); Michael Rakowitz. Imperfect Binding (2020); Facing the Collector. Uli Sigg’s Collection of Contemporary Chinese Art (2020); A.B.O. THEATRON. Art or Life (2021); Anne Imhof. SEX (2021); Olafur Eliasson: trembling horizons (2022).

FABIO CAFAGNA

Archivist, Researcher and Catalog Coordinator of the Cerruti Collection

Fondazione Cerruti, Rivoli

He studied at the Universities of Turin and La Sapienza in Rome, and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at CIMA – Center for Italian Modern Art in New York. He has been an Adjunct Lecturer in Contemporary Art History at the University of Insubria – Como and the University of Florence. Among his publications: Il disegno del corpo. Anatomia Artistica all’Accademia Albertina di Torino (1829-1899) (Rome 2017) and Indizi, sintomi, impronte. Esperienze artistiche e scientifiche nell’Ottocento (Rome 2010).

DANUSA CASTRO

Collection Manager

Collezione Koelliker, Milan

With a degree in Communication Sciences and a post-graduation in Marketing, in 1998 she specialized in Museology and Museography. For more than 25 years professionally linked to the world of museums and collecting, since 2000 she has been working at the Koelliker Collection, one of the most important private collections in Europe, where she is in charge of the management of the collection and library holdings – cataloguing, handling, organization of exhibitions and publications. A member of ICOM – International Council of Museums, since 2022 she has been Co-Chair of ICAMT – International Committee for Architecture and Museum Techniques. She is also part of the Sustainable Exhibitions Working Group of ICOM Lombardy, which is developing interesting elaborations related to environmental sustainability practices, raising interest nationally and internationally. She is a consultant for FTG-Arte (digital content production for culture) and Associate Freelancer/Project Manager for HOXBY, England.

CLAUDIO CERVELLI

Lighting Designer, Montecchio Maggiore (Vicenza)

He began dealing with museum lighting 40 years ago. He currently oversees the lighting design of temporary exhibitions and permanent museum installations, also performing the installation of materials already at the exhibition venues if required. His experience has also led him to create new lighting products and teach professional courses dedicated to the lighting of works of art. He is a member of AILD and Design For All Italia.

CARLO MASSIMILIANO CURZEL

Branch Manager

Errek S.r.l., Trento

Massimiliano Curzel, trained in law, specialized in international law with a master’s degree at SDA Bocconi. Since March 2023, he has been Branch Manager of Errek srl, where he has been employed since 2000, first in logistics, then as a Executive Director, and finally as Sole Director and Managing Director. Errek is a company founded in Trento in 1969 specializing in services to support customs operations. Errek also has offices in Bolzano and Vicenza and has clients from various sectors. The company operates as a customs declarant and delegated party for Intrastat forms.

ANTONIO D’AMICO

Conservator

Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan

Antonio D’Amico art historian and critic, lives and works in Milan. Since October 2021 he has been Conservator of the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi in Milan. From 2017 to 2021, he was Conservator and Director of the Musei Civici Gian Giacomo Galletti in Domodossola; he is Conservator and Artistic Director of the Museo Diocesano di Arte Sacra of the Diocesi of Nicosia in Sicily; Curator of the Permanent Collection of the works of Salvatore Incorpora whose museum site is located in Linguaglossa, at the foot of Mount Etna. He teaches at the Free Academy of Art Novalia in Alba and is co-founder of ARTedISTAgione association that deals with cultural tourism in Italy and Europe.

URSULA ESPOSITO

Registrar

GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Turin

She graduated in Medieval Art History at the Università Orientale in Naples, with Professor Francesco Abate, later specializing in History of the Renaissance in Bologna with Professor Mauro Lucco. She has been working since 2012 at GAM – Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin, where she is Registrar of the permanent collections and manages the movements and outgoing loans, in Italy and abroad, of the museum’s works. In Bologna she began working in the field of publishing by editing encyclopedic entries for the multimedia project Enccyclomedia edited by Umberto Eco. In 1999 in Turin she starts editorial collaborations as editor and as iconographic researcher for UTET. For the GAM Library, she catalogues video works in SBN and works on the cataloguing of the phototypes of the photographic plates of the Photographic Archive of the Musei Civici in Turin. As an art historian she collaborates in the editing of the cards for the catalog of the exhibition Futurism 1909-2009 Velocità+Arte+Azione, Palazzo Reale, Milan, 2009. In 2011 she collaborated with Palazzo Madama on the cards for the catalog of the exhibition Fables and Magic. The Guidobono painters of the Baroque; in 2011-12 she coordinated the archiving and online publication of the four albums of Filippo Juvarra, containing 542 drawings, kept at Palazzo Madama.

CHRISTEL FEGHALI-SANGUINETTI

Head Registrar

Musée Maison Gustave Moreau, Paris

Christel Sanguinetti has a Master’s degree in art history from the University of Aix-en-Provence and a diploma in museology from the École du Louvre. Since 2004, she has been the registrar of works at the Gustave Moreau museum. She is responsible for the management of over 25,000 works in the museum’s collection. She manages loan requests from an administrative and technical point of view. For major exhibitions involving between 60 and 280 of the museum’s works, she is the curatorial assistant. She is also helping to computerize the collections and is responsible for preventive conservation at the museum. During the 2013 renovation of the Gustave Moreau Museum, she managed the movement of over 14,000 works, participated in the creation of new storerooms, the opening of new visitors’ rooms and the reconditioning of 10,400 drawings.

FRANCESCA FILIPPI

Architectural Officer

Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per le province di Alessandria, Asti e Cuneo

Architect, graduate of the Politecnico in Turin, specialist in “Architectural and Landscape Heritage,” with study experiences at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Academy of San Luca in Rome. She has worked on architecture of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, collaborating with various institutions, including Palazzo Madama – Museo Civico d’Arte Antica, the State Archives of Turin and the Soprintendenza della Regione Autonoma Valle d’Aosta, in the context of interventions for the conservation and restoration of historic buildings or for the design of museographic layouts and cataloging of architectural drawings. Since 2018, she has been an Architectural Officer at the Soprintendenza archeologia, belle arti e paesaggio per le province di Alessandria, Asti e Cuneo, with the role of Head of Architectural Heritage Area. She is the author of several scientific and popular publications, including Palazzo Madama. The Apartments of the Royal Madames of Savoy, 1664 and 1724, Turin 2005; Castel Savoia in Gressoney-Saint-Jean. The Enchanted Retreat of Queen Margaret, Aosta 2020.

CLAUDIO GULLI

Director

Palazzo Butera, Palermo

Claudio Gulli, Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, since 2016 Curator and since 2022 Director of the Museo di Palazzo Butera – Collezione Francesca e Massimo Valsecchi in Palermo, studied Art History at the University of Siena and at the Scuola Normale Superiore. Between 2009 and 2011, he worked at the Département des Peintures of the Louvre: his contributions on Leonardo da Vinci covered the literary fortune of Saint John the Baptist (Skira, 2009) and Leonardo da Vinci’s Saint Anne (Officina Libraria, 2011).

SHARON HECKER

Creator The Hecker Standard, Milan

Sharon Hecker received her BA from Yale University and her PhD from the University of California at Berkeley. She is an art historian and curator specializing in Italian art, an expert on Medardo Rosso, on whom she has written more than 30 publications including books, essays and exhibition catalogs. She has curated exhibitions, including Rosso’s retrospective at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (2016-2017). She is the author of numerous essays and volumes on Italian artists such as Lucio Fontana, Luciano Fabro, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone and Francesco Lo Savio, and has published critical volumes on topics related to 19th- and 20th-century Italian art. At the 1990 Venice Biennale she coordinated the U.S. Pavilion for American artist Jenny Holzer, which won the Leon d’Oro prize. She has worked at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, where she is currently organizing the first museum exhibition devoted to Lucio Fontana’s ceramics (2025). Creator of a due diligence method for artworks “The Hecker Standard,” Hecker provides due diligence advice to collectors, law firms, wealth managers and family offices. She is a founding member of ICRA (International Catalogue Raisonné Association), and is on the Vetting Committee of the international art fair TEFAF (Maastricht and New York). She coordinates the pool of experts for the Court of Arbitration for Art (CAFA) in The Hague. She teaches courses at the Universities of Pavia and Milan, Luiss University in Rome, and the Università Cattolica in Milan, where she is currently Adjunct Professor.

PASQUALE LUPARELLI

Owner ArtinDep, Moncalieri (Turin)

Pasquale Luparelli is the owner of ArtinDep, a company that provides art transportation for museums, art galleries, antique dealers and private collectors nationally and internationally. ArtinDep deals with: Pickup and delivery anywhere in the world; Construction and supply of custom-built, climate-controlled and fireproof crates; Lightweight packaging; Customs and Fine Arts paperwork; “nail to nail” insurance coverage; Storage in climate-controlled areas with high-security systems; Courier service; Exhibition set-ups; Specialized personnel; Air-suspension and climate-controlled vehicles; Special equipment: pianoplan and gantry; Groupage service.

ROBERTA MAGAGNINI

Head Registrar

MAXXI Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome

Roberta Magagnini lives and works in Rome. A graduate of Università La Sapienza in History of Contemporary Art, during her studies she worked in university press offices and publishing houses. Since 2005 she has been working at the Art Department of the MAXXI Foundation, and is in charge of the Registrar’s Office, dealing with the coordination of temporary exhibitions and the management of works from the collection in storage and exhibition activities. As registrar, she has supervised some major monographic exhibitions such as Alighiero Boetti and Rome, Galleria Vezzoli (2013); Ettore Spalletti. A Day So White, So White (2014); Baton Serpent. Huang Yong Ping (2015) and group exhibitions such as Bellissima. The Italy of Haute Couture 1945-1968 (2015), Transformers (2015).

STEFANO MARSON

Head of Registration and Loan Office

Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome

Graduated and specialized in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in Viterbo, since 2000 he has been working at the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea where, as Senior Registrar, he collaborates on exhibitions and installations and is responsible for loans of works in Italy and abroad. He has curated exhibitions, written essays and published Setting up and showing paintings in Italy and France between the 16th and 18th centuries (2012), with Cecilia Mazzi 1950s museums: space form and function (2009) and with Paola Pogliani Franco Minissi: the museographer, the architect, and the layouts of the Civic Museum of Viterbo (2022). He has taught museology, museography, and the history of collecting and art exhibitions at the School of Specialization in the Protection and Enhancement of the Historical-Artistic Heritage of the Università della Tuscia, at the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of La Sapienza, and at the European Institute of Design in Rome and Venice. He has been an ICOM member since 2012 and a member of the Museology Thematic Commission.

LUISA MENSI

Restorer

Turin

Luisa Mensi studied Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the Faculty of Arts in Udine. In the 1980s she collaborated with restoration studios Adriana Cantù (Tortona), Studio Nicola (Aramengo), Giovanna Zaniroli (Turin) and Soc. Rava snc (Turin-Rome). She opened her own workshop in Turin in 1992. She has been working for the Soprintendenza ai Beni Storico Artisti Etnoantropologici del Piemonte since 1988. Since 1990 she has collaborated with the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, for which she is responsible for the conservation and maintenance of the permanent collection. She has collaborated since 1998 with the GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Turin, since 2001 with the Fondazione Prada, Milan and Venice, since 2002 with the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, and since 2006 with the Francois Pinault Foundation. She collaborates with the Fondazione Giovanni e Marella Agnelli, Pinacoteca del Lingotto, Turin. Since 2002, she has, as an appraiser, a parternship contract with Axa-Art Italia, an insurance company specializing in artworks. She is in close collaboration with the Piero Manzoni Archive in Milan and the Giovanni Anselmo Archive in Turin. She has been teaching Materials for the Arts and Fashion Design at the IUAV University of Venice since 2012-1013. She is a member of several professional associations such as IGIIC, Gruppo Italiano dell’IIC, Cesmar7 and Registrarte.

VALERIA MORATTI
Art Historian Officer – Export Office Director

Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la Città Metropolitana di Torino

Born in Genoa, she conducted classical studies and graduated in Letters with a focus on art from the University of Genoa, later specializing in medieval and modern art history at La Sapienza in Rome. After cataloguing experience with the Soprintendenze of Genoa and Turin, she worked at the Cultural Heritage Office of the Diocesi of Tortona, cataloguing the ecclesiastical heritage of that territory and holding the position of bishop’s delegate of the sector from 2006 to 2009: in that role she was in charge of the realization of some exhibitions and the planning of the exhibition itinerary of the erecting diocesan museum. A teacher of literary subjects and art history in high schools from 1998 to 2008, since 2009 she has been an art historian’s official at the Soprintendenza di Torino, where she has directed the Export Office since 2015 and is currently in charge of the protection of the territories of the Valsusa, Pinerolo area and half of the city of Turin. She has published articles related to monastic architecture, Piedmont’s artistic heritage and on the topic of restoration and conservation.

ANA MUÑOZ MARTÍNEZ

Head Registrar

Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Ana Muñoz in 2019 joined the Victoria & Albert Museum in London as Head Registrar, where she leads the Loans Section. At the V&A, she is responsible for ensuring that the care and handling of museum objects during loan activities adhere to best standards, in line with national and international museum standards. Ana Muñoz has extensive experience in exhibitions and loans project management, working with a diverse range of museum objects and fine art, including historical and archaeological collections, old masters, and contemporary art. Prior to joining the V&A in 2019, she worked over six years at the British Museum, where she coordinated loans and exhibitions. Her previous work experience also includes positions in cultural institutions in Spain, the United States, and Ecuador. Ana Muñoz holds a Bachelor’s degree in Art History, a Master of Arts in Cultural Management, and postgraduate studies in Art History from Universidad Complutense de Madrid, as well as a certificate in Arts Administration from New York University. She is an active member of the UK Registrars Group, and is a regular speaker at events, having recently presented on topics such as virtual couriering practices and the return of cultural objects in museum collections.

ANDREA PIZZI

Lawyer

Studio Legale Pizzi, Bologna

Andrea Pizzi, lawyer, is a consultant to museums, foundations, artists, artists’ archives, collectors and art galleries on art law matters. He is legal advisor of AMACI – Associazione Musei d’Arte Contemporanea Italiani and Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Law at the Master in Art Management at LUISS, Rome. From 2000 to 2013 he was a member of the international forensic organization Union Internationale des Avocats (UIA), based in Paris. In 2005, he founded the UIA Art Law Commission, of which he was chairman from 2005 to 2010. In addition to participating as a guest speaker at numerous seminars and meetings, he organizes legal conferences and study days on art law in Italy and abroad, including the most recent, in Bergamo in 2021, for AMACI entitled Study Day on Copyright – Museums and Copyright. He writes for the column Il legale dell’Arte on “Flash Art – Italian Edition” and for scholarly publications: his latest contribution is for the volume Defenseless Art: the fate of artists and collections after the enactment of racial laws, edited by P. Dragoni and C. Paparello, Edifir, Florence 2022.

CRISTINA RESTI
Art Expert and Art Network Manager ARTE Generali, Milan

Cristina Resti, Art Expert and Art Nework Manager, has a degree in Conservation of Cultural Heritage from the University of Pisa, after a specialization in Cataloguing of Cultural Heritage and a Master in Museology and Museography at the Politecnico in Turin, she worked initially in the Museums Office of the Regione Lombardia and since 2002 in AXA Art as Art Expert and Senior Art Loss Adjuster. Since 2015 she has been a lecturer in “Economics and the Art Market” at the Università Cattolica in Milan, and in several master’s programs in the field of Cultural Heritage Management. She is a member of the Commission for Safety and Emergency in Museums of ICOM Italia. In 2020 she joined the Generali Group.

GIULIA TOSETTI

CEO Promemoria Family, Turin

Giulia Tosetti graduated with honors from the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy at Università La Sapienza in Rome, has a Master’s degree in Conceiving and Designing Cultural Events at the Università Cattolica in Milan and a Master’s degree in Art Market Management. After experiences between Venice and London in the contemporary art and culture system, as part of the Tosetti Value multi-family office, she founded the Art division in 2013, which, alongside family assistance and consulting activities, is responsible for “Perspectives. The Economy of Images,” a project between art, economics and finance that combines the birth and development of the Tosetti Value corporate collection with the production of a program of meetings between artists, intellectuals, economists and entrepreneurs. Committed for years to studying the world of private collecting and its dynamics, in 2018 she creates and launches, within the Family Office, “Family Data,” an archiving and cataloging service that aims to build informed collecting. Experience that led her in 2020 to co-found the company Promemoria Family, of which she is CEO, specializing in collection management and enhancement. Today she is a member of the boards of CAMERA – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia and Fondazione Francesco Federico Cerruti per l’arte ETS.

LORENZO VANDA

Registrar

Museo Bagatti Valsecchi, Milan

Born in Sondrio in 1995, he lives and works in Milan. He is an art historian. Since 2022 he has been Registrar of the Museo Bagatti Valsecchi and Head of teaching and educational services. He teaches at the ITS Academy Innovaprofessioni. He is an author for “Artribune” since 2020.