Philippe Daverio


Philippe Daverio is an Italian art critic, teacher, writer, author, politician and television personality.

Biography

Daverio was born in Mulhouse, Alsace in 1949 from an Italian father, builder Napoleone Daverio, and an Alsatian mother, Aurelia Hauss. He is the fourth of six children. Daverio attended the European School in Varese, and then studied economics and commerce at the Bocconi University in Milan. Despite completing his cycle of studies, Daverio refrained from writing his final dissertation. As he said, "I was enrolled at Bocconi in 1968–1969, but I don't hold a degree. In those years you would go to university to learn, not to graduate".
In 1975 he opened Galleria Philippe Daverio in Via Monte Napoleone in Milan, where he mostly focused on the avant-garde movements of the first half of the 20th century. In 1986, he opened the Philippe Daverio Gallery in New York City. In 1989 he opened a second gallery of contemporary art in Milan, Italy. The gallery eventually went bankrupt and closed in 1997.
As a gallerist and publisher, Daverio has organized many exhibitions, including Andy Warhol's Last Supper at Galleria del Credito Valtellinese in Milan; he has also edited a book on Giorgio De Chirico's work between 1924 and 1929 and a catalogue raisonné on Gino Severini's work. Since 2011 Daverio authored many books with Rizzoli, including The Imaginary Museum ; The Long Century of Modernity ; Look far to See near You ; The Broken Century of avant-garde ; The Good Road ; Table Art and Painting Game.
Daverio has collaborated to magazines and newspapers such as Panorama, Vogue, Corriere della Sera, Liberal, Avvenire, Il Sole 24 Ore, National Geographic, Touring Club and Architect and National Daily Quotes.
He is the editor of Art and Dossier magazine and a consultant for Skira Books.
Since 2011 he is an artistic consultant for the Genus Bononiae project of the Carisbo Foundation in Bologna, which launched the "Bologna shows" exhibitions. Daverio also curated the opening show of the new Palazzo Fava Museum.

Politics

From 1993 to 1997 Daverio was councilor with delegations to Culture, Leisure, Education and International Relations in the municipality of Milan. He was subsequently involved in an advisory role in the town council of Salemi in Sicily when Vittorio Sgarbi was mayor. Until 2016 he held the post of professor of art at the University of Palermo.
In 2009, he was appointed a provincial councilor of Milan in the civic list of Filippo Penati. In 2010 he was appointed by the Mayor of Palermo as a consultant to the Santa Rosalia Feast. However, during the celebration he had a verbal altercation with some of the contestants and resigned as a result. In September 2010 he was appointed Director of the Landscape Museum of Verbania, on Lake Maggiore, but resigned controversially after only two months. Since 2004 he holds a summer conference every year at the Colonos farmhouse in Villacaccia di Lestizza in the province of Udine.
In 2011, in conjunction with the celebrations for the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, he founded the movement of opinion Save Italy. The movement, with no organizational structure, aims to raise awareness of intellectuals and citizens of all geographic origin to safeguard the immense cultural heritage of Italy; "The English denomination serves to testify that the cultural heritage of Italy belongs not only to Italians but to the whole world, also because Latin is He studies today much more in Oxford than in Pavia", said Daverio in one of his lectures.

Television

In 1999, he was a special correspondent for the TV show Art'è on RAI. and in 2000 he was one of the authors of Art.tù. From 2002 to 2012 he hosted Passepartout, a series on art and culture on Rai 3. Other TV programs he was involved with include Il Capitale and Emporio Daverio.
In 2008 he was called by Pier Luigi Pizzi to interpret the narrator Njegus in the operetta The Merry Widow by Franz Lehár at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan. In 2009 he presented the Shock, a ballet on the catharsis of capital defences directed by Andrea Forte Calatti at the Teatro degli Arcimboldi in Milan.
In 2016 he began working on a new TV program called Modern Culture.

Selected Books