Philippe Daverio

Philippe Daverio (born October 17, 1949 in Mulhouse, France) is an Art critic, teacher, writer, author, politician and Italian television personality.

Biography

Born in Mulhouse, Alsace, October 17, 1949 by Italian father, Napoleon Daverio, builder, and Alsace mother Aurelia Hauss. He is the fourth of six children. After studying in college, where he received nineteenth-century education, he first attended the European School in Varese, and then studied economics and commerce without graduating (he did not write the final thesis despite passing all the exams) at Bocconi in Milan. Daverio himself says: "I am not a doctor because I did not graduate, I was enrolled at Bocconi in 1968-1969, in those years went to university to study and not to graduate".

In 1975 he opened a gallery in his name "Galleria Philippe Daverio", in Via Monte Napoleone in Milan, where he mainly occupied the avant-garde movements of the first half of the 20th century. In 1986, the "Philippe Daverio Gallery" was opened in New York in the 20th century. In 1989 he opened a second gallery of contemporary art in Milan, Italy.

As a gallerist and publisher he has done many exhibitions and has published some fifty works, among which we remember: A reasoned catalog of Giorgio De Chirico's work between 1924 and 1929; General and reasoned catalog of Gino Severini's work .

From 1993 to 1997 he was in the Formentini junta of the municipality of Milan, where he held the position of councilor with delegations to Culture, Leisure, Education and International Relations.

In 1999, he was special envoy of the transmission Art'è on Rai, and in 2000 he wrote Art.tù . From 2002 to 2012 comes the Passepartout series on Rai 3, art and culture program, followed by Il Capitale. In 2011 for Rai 5 leads Emporio Daverio, a proposal for a travel invitation through Italy.

He has collaborated with magazines and newspapers such as Panorama, Vogue, Liberal, Avvenire, The Sun 24 Hours, National Geographic, Touring Club , Architect and National Quotidian Quotes.

He is director of the Art and Dossier magazine and consultant for the Skira publishing house. He also collaborates with a column on art in the Monthly Magazine of Corriere della Sera.

With the publishing house Rizzoli published in 2011 the book The museum imagined in 2012 The long century of modernity in 2013 Watch out far to see near and end 2014 The broken century of avant-garde. For the same publishing house, the Good Road, Table Art and Painting Game were released in 2015.

He was involved with Vittorio Sgarbi in his junta of Salemi as a librarian. Until 2016 he held the post of professor at the University of Palermo.

In 2008 he was called by Pier Luigi Pizzi director to interpret the narrator Njegus in the operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár, staged at the Teatro alla Scala. In 2009 he presented the Shock show, ballet on the catharsis of capital defenses, conceived and directed by Andrea Forte Calatti, on stage at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi.

In 2009, he was appointed a provincial councilor of Milan in the civic list of Filippo Penati. In 2010 he was appointed by the Mayor of Palermo as a consultant to the Santa Rosalia Feast. However, during the celebration he had a verbal altercation with some of the contestants and resigned as a result.  In September of 2010 he was appointed Director of the Landscape Museum of Verbania, on Lake Maggiore, but resigned controversially after only two months. Since 2004 he holds a summer conference every year at the Colonos farmhouse in Villacaccia di Lestizza in the province of Udine. 

In 2011, in conjunction with the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, he founded the movement of opinion Save Italy. The movement, with no organizational structure, aims to raise awareness of intellectuals and citizens of all geographic origin ("the English denomination serves to testify that the cultural heritage of Italy belongs not only to Italians but to the whole world, also because Latin is He studies today much more in Oxford than in Pavia, "Daverio said in one of his lectures) to safeguard the immense cultural heritage of Italy.

He is an artistic consultant of the Genus Bononiae project of the Carisbo Foundation in Bologna, which launched the "Bologna shows" exhibition with four exhibitions in 2011  and curated the opening of the new Palazzo Fava museum Palace of Exhibitions.

In 2016 he began the Italian TV program 1 Modern Culture.

Works

• Graphic and glass works. With a work by Gio Ponti and a testimony by Aldo Salvadori , edited by and with Paolo Baldacci , Milan, Galleria Philippe Daverio, 1977.
• Rome between baroque expressionism and tonal painting. 1929-1943 , edited by and with Maurizio Fagiolo dell'Arco and Netta Vespignani , Milan, Mondadori-Philippe Daverio, 1984.
• Amazing art. From Dada to Cracking art , Milan, Mazzotta, 2004. ISBN 88-202-1711-2 .
• The design was born in Milan. History of Kids of Good Family , Milan, Poli.Design, 2005. ISBN 88-87981-75-2 .
• Another Story of Design and a Modest Interpretation , Milan, Poli.Design, 2005. ISBN 88-87981-74-4 .
• 13x17. 1000 artists for an eccentric investigation into art in Italy , edited by and with Jean Blanchaert , Milan, Rizzoli, 2007. ISBN 978-88-17-01895-1 .
• Art is the ship , Milan, Skira-Costa, 2008. ISBN 978-88-572-0010-1 .
• Constellations. Cannavacciuolo. Jori. Massini , Bononia University Press, 2009. ISBN 978-88-7395-424-8
• The Millennium Adventure. Garibaldi's expedition through the redesigned designs by Giuseppe Nodari , edited by, Milan, Rizzoli, 2010. ISBN 978-88-17-04567-4 .
• Giorgio Milani. The Book of Letters , Milan, Skira, 2010. ISBN 978-88-572-0837-4 .
• Giuseppe Antonello Leone , Milan, Skira, 2010. ISBN 978-88-572-0434-5 .
• The imaginary museum , Milan, Rizzoli, 2012. ISBN 978-88-17-05223-8 .
• The art of art , Florence-Milan, Giunti artedossier, 2012. ISBN 978-88-09-77425-4 .
• The long century of modernity. The imagined museum , Milan, Rizzoli, 2012. ISBN 978-88-17-06011-0 .
• Watch Far To See Near , Rizzoli, Necklace: Illustrated, 2013. ISBN 978-88-17-06892-5 .
• Calm and quiet. Subliminal Projects by Alessandro Mendini, Michele De Lucchi and Angelo Micheli , Bononia University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-88-7395-620-4
• Thinking of Art , AlboVersorio , 2013. ISBN 978-88-97553-60-1 .
• The Long Century of Modernity. The museum imagined . Milan Rizzoli 2013.
• Lois Anvidalfarei , Milan, Skira, 2013. ISBN 8857220178
• The broken century of avant-garde. The imagined museum , Milan, Rizzoli, 2014. ISBN 978-88-17-07663-0
• In good spirits. Products, Producers, Territories, Communities , Photos o

f Luca and Pepi Merisio , Cantù, Ecra , 2015. ISBN 978-88-6558-162-9

• The good road. 127 walks in Milan, Lombardy and the surrounding area , Rizzoli, 2015. ISBN 978-88-17-07108-6
• Painting game. Stories, Ties, Inventions , Rizzoli, 2015. ISBN 978-88-17-08370-6
• The good road. 150 walks in Milan, Lombardy and the surrounding area (extended edition with new destinations), Rizzoli, 2016 ISBN 978-88-17-08739-1

Video 

• 2005 - The Museum: Communication and Design (Poly Design, DVD)

Television

• Art.tù (Rai 3)
• Passepartout (Rai 3)
• The Capital of Philippe Daverio (Rai 3)
• Emporio Daverio (Rai 5)

Honors

• Knight of the Order of the Legion of Honor (France)-  Rome, September 10, 2013 
• Gold Medal for the Benefits of Culture and Art-  Rome , March 25, 2013 . Initiative by the President of the Republic
• Toson d'Or National Award by Vespasiano Gonzaga - Rotary Club Casalmaggiore Viadana Sabbioneta "For the commitment in spreading the culture and enhancement of historic and artistic Italian."  -  Sabbioneta 12 November 2015