The 2010 Whitney Biennial, the nation’s signature survey of contemporary American art, will be curated by Francesco Bonami in collaboration with the Whitney’s Gary Carrion-Murayari, who will be associate curator. Bonami is currently Senior Curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago, Artistic Director of the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo per l'Arte of Turin, Artistic Director of Pitti Immagine Discovery in Florence and Artistic Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art Villa Manin. In the ’90s Bonami was the US editor of Flash Art International.
In 2003, he curated the 50th Venice Biennale under the title “Dreams and Conflicts. The Dictatorship of the Viewer” and at the moment he has curated the show “Italics: Italian art between Tradition and Revolution, 1968-2008” — running until 22 March at the Palazzo Grassi in Venice and from 11 July to 25 October at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), Chicago.
The 75th in the series of Annual and Biennial exhibitions inaugurated in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the 2010 Biennial goes on view from March through May 2010.
Flash Art and its staff wish Francesco Bonami all the best for this new project.
