Germano CelantGermano Celant is the author of more than one hundred publications, and has curated exhibitions at preeminent museums and institutions around the world. He holds numerous curatorial posts, including Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at New York's Soomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Artistic Director of Milan's Fondazione Prada; and Director of Milan's Fondazione Aldo Rossi. In 1997 he was named curator of the 47th Venice Biennale; he has also served as artistic director of the Biennale di Firenze (in 1996) and of GeNova2004, European Capital of Culture (in 2004). Celant's many curatorial projects over the past four decades include: Identité italienne (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, 1981); The European Iceberg (Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 1984, which included work by Ghirri); The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968 (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1994); New York, New York: Cinquante ans d'Art, Architecture, Cinéma, Performance, Photographie et Vidéo (Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, 2006). Celant has written monographs and curated exhibitions on Joseph Beuys, Piero Manzoni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mariko Mori, Ugo Mulas, Andy Warhol, Joel-Peter Witkin, and many other artists. His writings and theories on arte povera since the 1980s were instrumental in defining the genre for the art world. Celant is a contributing editor to Artforum and Interview magazines, and a regular columnist for the Italian magazines L'Espresso and Interni. Read More Read Less