Francesco Maria Spampinato

Senior Assistant Professor (fixed-term)/Tenure-track at the University of Bologna since 2019, conducting researches in the fields of contemporary art history and of visual culture. His latest publications include: the book Art Record Covers (TASCHEN, 2017); the essay Machine, Monument, Mannequin: The New Italian Man for the catalog of the exhibition Post Zang Tumb Tuum. Art, Life, Politics: Italy 1918-1943 curated by Germano Celant (Fondazione Prada, 2018); and the article Choreographies of Power: Public Movement in "PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art", N. 121 (MIT Press, 2019). He currently works on various entries for the Enciclopedia dell'Arte Contemporanea edited by Vincenzo Trione (Treccani, TBA) and is responsible for the cycle of meetings Italia Periodica promoted by Reading Room, Milan, dedicated to the rediscovery of cutting edge magazines published in Italy from the 1950s to today. Go to the Curriculum vitae