Francesco Bonami

Francesco Bonami (n. Florencia , 1955) es un curador de arte y escritor italiano. Vive en Milán y Manhattan, Nueva York . ^{[ 1 ]}

Bonami nació en Florencia . Estudió escenografía y diseño teatral en la Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze . Tras una breve etapa como artista en Milán , Bonami se trasladó a Nueva York en 1991, donde fue nombrado editor para Estados Unidos de la revista Flash Art , cargo que ocupó hasta 1998. De 1999 a 2008 fue curador principal Manilow en el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Chicago y director artístico de la Fondazione Pitti Discovery en Florencia y de la Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo en Turín. ^{[ 2 ]} De 2004 a 2008 fue director artístico del Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Villa Manin en Codroipo , Italia. Dirigió la segunda edición de la Bienal SITE Santa Fe en 1997, la 50.ª Bienal de Venecia en 2003, ^{[ 3 ]} y fue uno de los curadores de Manifesta 3 (2000) y la Bienal Whitney de 2010. ^{[ 1 ]}

Bonami también ha organizado exposiciones en la Whitechapel Art Gallery (Londres), la Hayward Gallery (Londres), la Pinault Collection ( Venecia ), el Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), el Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris , el Hara Museum of Contemporary Art de Tokio, la Qatar Museums Authority de Doha , Mudam en Luxemburgo y la JNBY Foundation de Hangzhou .

In 2013 Bonami wrote in La Stampa that the Venice City Council decision to remove the "Boy with Frog" sculpture by Charles Ray from the front of the Punta della dogana was "administrative cowardice" and that the lamppost which replaced it represented "a moment of cultural darkness".^[4] In 2019, he started the new column on ARTnews, Ask a Curator.^[5] In 2021, as a controversy sparked about the dominance of white men at senior positions in Chinese museums, Bonami responded with a rant challenging racial and gender stereotypes about white men: "Under the new identity rules and laws, this article assumes, by how we look, that inside of ourselves, we feel always like white, ageing, western man. And this is not true, for example in my case, I often, often, felt inside myself, to be, sometimes, a thirty-five-year-old Iranian lesbian. So they don’t know what I feel inside."^[6] His rants on social networks also targeted far-right populism in Italy.^[7] In 2021, he launched his own NFTs.^[8]

Bonami has authored monographs on the work of Doug Aitken, Gabriele Basilico, Vanessa Beecroft, Glenn Brown, Maurizio Cattelan, Dan Colen, Thomas Demand, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Luisa Lambri, Albert Oehlen, Gabriel Orozco, Marjetica Potrč, Carol Rama, Rudolf Stingel and Jeff Wall, amongst others.

In October 2014, Bonami presented a partially available for sale exhibition of contemporary sculpture at Phillips in London. The following year, he organised an auction of 50 works of Italian art at Phillips New York, including Paola Pivi, Roberto Cuoghi and Maurizio Cattelan.^[9]

• Gagosian Gallery, Member of the Board of Directors (since 2022)^[10]