Jacopo Veneziani is the new president of Piacenza's Ricci Oddi Gallery

Jacopo Veneziani has been named the new president of Piacenza’s Ricci Oddi Gallery, succeeding Fernando Mazzocca: the board of directors unanimously elected him today.

Acultural divulger known to television audiences for his weekly participation in the program hosted by Massimo Gramellini Le parole della settimana on Rai3, in which he holds a column on art history, Jacopo Veneziani, born in 1994, is a doctoral candidate in modern art history at theUniversité Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne in Paris, where he graduated in modern art history (2018) and where he taught between 2018 and 2020 art-historical research methodology, Renaissance art history and 18th-century art history. He has also lectured at universities in Milan, Berlin, London, Oxford, Edinburgh, and Montreal. He published for Rizzoli in 2020 #Divulgo. The histories of art history and Symmetries. Observing yesterday’s art with today’s gaze.

“It gives me particular pleasure to be able to extend to the new president of the Ricci Oddi Gallery Jacopo Veneziani a sincere wish of good work on behalf of the city of Piacenza, in synergy with all the board members whose valuable role I emphasize, as well as with the cultural institutions of the territory,” commented Mayor Katia Tarasconi. “With the same, generous willingness, in recent weeks,” she continued, “she had accepted the nomination as representative of the City of Piacenza on the Cda of the Gallery, alongside Professor Valeria Poli. I renew my warm thanks to both of them, certain that President Veneziani will be able to interpret his role with the strategic vision, dynamism and capacity for involvement that an already vast audience recognizes in him as a lecturer, writer and popularizer: qualities that represent an added value for the important position he now holds. Knowing how to tell the story of art with immediacy, conveying passion, means making it increasingly accessible and opening the doors of museums and art galleries to an increasingly wide and diverse audience, investing planning and ideas particularly on the younger generations. This Administration strongly believes in the need to cultivate the future, and it is a privilege to be able to count with trust and esteem on the sensitivity of those who have always shown that they have grasped and shared this challenge.”

“I have found confidence, and I want to thank all the councilors for this honor,” Veneziani said. “It will be a pleasure for me to contribute to the growth and the journey of the Ricci Oddi, which I find like so many Italian museums with great potential and I hope together with the other councilors, in a team effort, to make the most of in the coming years. At this time to start with the grit and enthusiasm I want to stay focused on the potential that is numerous and you will already see in the coming weeks.”

Jacopo Veneziani is the new president of Piacenza's Ricci Oddi Gallery

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