Biography

Eugenio Viola (Naples 1975) is an art critic and the current curator of Project Room of Madre Contemporary Art Museum in Naples. He specializes in the artistic experiences and aesthetic theories related to the contemporary poetics of the body. He is getting his PhD in “Methods and Methodologies of archaeological and historical-artistic research” at University of Salerno, focussing on Post Human and the relationship between art and biotechnologies. On this subject he has curated the new monograph dedicated to Orlan (ed.Charta, 2007), and a number of essays, among others: “Itinerari del Post-Human”, (Ed.Modo, Milan, 2005) and “Geografie Corporali” (Ed.Plectica, Salerno, 2008). He collaborates on a regular basis with “Flash Art”, “artforum.com” and “Segno”. He has published several essays and curated various exhibitions such as: V.I.P.\ Very Important Portraits of David LaChapelle (Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, 2006), conceived as the contemporary link of the exhibition about Titian and the portraiture in the Renaissance age; Orlan, Le Rècit (Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France, 2007), the biggest retrospective never realized about artist’s work; Art and Homosexuality. From von Gloeden to Pierre et Gilles (Palazzo della Ragione, Milan, 2007), the first big Italian exhibition about this topic that it was censored, closed and reorganized at Palazzina Reale di Santa Maria Novella (Florence, 2007); Carlos Garaicoa for “Fate Presto” (Complesso Monumentale di S.Sofia, Salerno, 2008) exhibition inspired by the rubbish emergency in Campania region; Orlan: Post Identity Strategies (Tallinn Art Hall, Estonia, 2008); Sistema Binario (Stazioni di Mergellina, Napoli / Belgrade Railway Station, 2008) and Camera Con Vista (PAN | Palazzo delle Art Napoli / Italian Cultural Institute, Belgrade).