Davide Quadrio and Claudio Zecchi: Decentering Curatorial Practices
Dear Call for Curators Members,
Join us for our next Members’ Program on Thursday, June 24 at 6.30pm Berlin time for our first Members’ Spotlight with Davide Quadrio and Claudio Zecchi!
The Spotlight series will invite senior curators that are part of the CFC community for an insightful presentation of their practice.
On June 24, CFC Members Davide Quadrio and Claudio Zecchi will discuss their work toward a critical decentering of curatorial practices across different locales, from Shanghai to the South of Italy.
Call for Curators Members’ Program:
Davide Quadrio and Claudio Zecchi: Decentering Curatorial Practices
Thursday, June 24
6.30pm Berlin time
Davide Quadrio is a China based producer and curator. He founded and directed for a decade the first not-for-profit independent creative lab in Shanghai, Bizart Art Center, as a platform to foster the local contemporary art scene. In 2007 Quadrio created Arthub, a production and curatorial proxy active in Asia and worldwide. BizArt and Arthub archives were feature as highlight organizations active in China in the 2000’s in Art and China after 1989: Theatre of the World, Guggenheim New York, NYC and Bilbao. Archives of the 20 years activities of BizArt and Arthub are available in the triplet publication by Mousee Publishing. Hewas hosted by Shanghai Visual Art Institute (2011-2017), curated and produced the monumental City Pavilion Project for the Shanghai Biennale 2012 with 38 global cities represented, five venues spread all around Shanghai with Palermo as the only Italian city presented. He was the curator for contemporary Art in Aurora Museum (2013-2016). In 2015 he founded Kaleidoscope Asia a sibling publication of Kaleidoscope Magazine, with the intention of developed it as an international platform presenting Asia at its best (2015-2017).
With BizArt and its team, and now with Arthub, Quadrio has organized hundreds of exhibitions, educational activities and exchanges in China and abroad, developing relationships with local and foreign institutions worldwide. Among the most recent activities: Visions on the making with Stefania Galegati, Natascia Fenoglio and Marta Roberti, Italian Cultural Institute, New Delhi; Visiting with Alessandro Sciarroni, Andrea Anastasio and Stefano Arienti, Darat Al Funun, Amman, Jordan; Temporary Shelter by Zhang Enli, Galleria Borghese, Rome; Journeys Without Arrivals by Qiu Zhijie (Vanabbe Museum; Centre d’Art Contemporaine de Geneve; Kunstalle Lund); Jingshen contemporary Chinese painting, PAC, Milan; Paola Pivi Tulkus 1898-2018 (Castello di Rivoli; Witte de With; Frac Dijon); Yang Fudong, Toronto Film Festival 2013; Jompet Kuswidanto, Gervasuti Foundation, and the first retrospective in Europe by Xijing Men, Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice.
He produced the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Korea, directing and producing also the Procession: through the Gates, a multi layered performance that kicked off the Biennale (the filmed based of this activation is available on Arthub website http://arthubasia.org/screening). He just won the Italian Council for the project Fluxo, due November 2021 with Alessandro Sciarroni, premier Hangar Bicocca, Milan and May 2022 in Ming Museum, Shanghai. He is currently directing a film on contemporary art between India and Italy as extremes of a complex multi- cultural territory that see Italy and India as metaphorical points of departures and returns. From October 2020 is a visiting professor at IUAV, Venice in the Visual art and fashion department.
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Claudio Zecchi is curator at Ramdom since 2018. His research investigates new visions and readings of the public sphere analyzing the relationship between the processes, the practices, the territory, and the local communities. In 2013 he was part of the curatorial team of Mediterranea 16_Errors Allowed, Young Artists Biennale from Europe and Mediterranean. His research project, which focuses mainly on discoursive formats, took place at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan (2014); Residency Unlimited, New York (2015); New Art Exchange, Nottingham (2016); Pivô Pesquisa, São Paulo (2017); TOKAS_Tokyo Arts and Space, Tokyo (2018). In 2019 he was one of the advisors of the Bonaldi Prize for Art dedicated to curators under 30, conceived by GAMeC with the support of the Bonaldi Group. For Ramdom he has curated, produced and coordinated among others: Until the end of the Sea; Everything escapes us; Default 19; rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me); Mnemoscope; Tools for Imagination; Flu水o (Arthub). Among the main publications: rs548049170_1_69869_TT (MOUSSE Publishing); Sino alla fine del Mare (Viaindustriae); Errors Allowed (Quodilibet). His articles and interviews have been published on: CheFare; ATP; Droste Effect; Arte e Critica among others.
Ramdom is an organization devoted to cultural and artistic production, based in Castrignano dei Greci (Lecce), Italy. It was founded in 2011 with the aim of providing international projection to contemporary art projects produced in dialogue with the local territory of Salento. Over the past seven years, its activities have included exhibitions, public art productions, residencies, and workshops, plus two ongoing research-focused endeavors: Investigation of Extreme Lands and DEFAULT. In 2016 it launched Until the End of the Sea Residency program, dedicated to artists and curators under thirty-five. Winner of the 6th edition of the Italian Council (2019) with the project rs548049170_1_69869_TT (The Other Shapes of Me) by artist Emilio Vavarella and in 2020 the 8th with the artwork Tools for Imagination by artist Céline Condorelli. Ramdom is also a partner of Fluxo project a project by artist Alessandro Sciarroni produced by Arthub and winner of the 9th edition (2020) of the Italian Council.
