Marco Goldin

Marco Goldin (* 1961 in Treviso ) is an Italian art historian , art writer, exhibition curator , lecturer and entrepreneur.

Life

Marco Goldin was born in Treviso in 1961. After completing his school education, he studied art history at the Università Ca 'Foscari di Venezia in Venice and graduated in 1985. At the end of the 1980s, he began working as an artistic consultant for the Fondazione Cassamarca banking foundation in his hometown and curated exhibitions on Italian art of the 20th century in the Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso, which is part of the foundation, and in the Villa Foscarini Rossi in Stra . In 1988 he also took over the management of the Galleria Comunale di Palazzo Sarcinelli (municipal art gallery in the Palazzo Sarcinelli ) in nearby Conegliano . Here he organized numerous exhibitions with works by Italian artists, mostly from the period after 1945. There was also a retrospective by the British painter Graham Sutherland . In 2002 he finished his activity in Conegliano. At the same time he worked as an art critic for the newspapers La Tribuna di Treviso , Il Mattino di Padova , La Nuova Venezia and Il Giornale, which appears in Milan . He also worked for the publishing house Mondadori Electa , where he contributed to numerous monographs on Italian modern artists.

In 1996, Goldin founded the Linea d'ombra company , the purpose of which is to organize art exhibitions. Since 1998 Marco Goldin has organized blockbuster exhibitions with high public interest in various cities in northern Italy . The catalogs for the exhibitions have been published by Linea d'ombra Libri, the company's own art publisher, since 1999 . In the past, historical palaces such as the Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso, the Palazzo Ducale in Genoa , the Palazzo della Gran Guardia in Verona , the Basilica Palladiana in Vicenza , the Castel Sismondo in Rimini , the Villa Manin in Codroipo and the Museo served as exhibition venues di Santa Giulia in Brescia and the Palazzo SUMS in the neighboring country of San Marino . In 2012 the Palazzo Fava in Bologna was added as a further exhibition space . Goldin often put together shows with French paintings from the second half of the 19th century. These overview exhibitions, on loan from international museums, mostly focused on Impressionist and Late Impressionist painters. The exhibitions were advertised by names such as Claude Monet , Pierre-Auguste Renoir , Vincent van Gogh , Paul Cézanne and Paul Gauguin . Sometimes he took over entire exhibitions from the holdings of a single museum. This included Gauguin-Van Gogh. L'avventura del colore nuovo ( Gauguin-van Gogh, The Discovery of the New Color ) with loans from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston or Van Gogh. Disegni e Dipinti ( Van Gogh, paintings and drawings ) from the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands . Further topics of the exhibitions curated by Goldin were Da Hopper a Warhol - American painting of the 20th century from Edward Hopper to Andy Warhol or loans from Jan Vermeer to Rembrandt van Rijn from the Mauritshuis in The Hague .

As a lecturer at the Libera Università di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM in Milan, Goldin taught about his experience as a curator. He also gives lectures at the University of Venice.

Web links

• Marco Goldin's biography at www.zam.it (Italian)
• Marco Goldin's biography at www.arte.rai.it (Italian)