Martina Corgnati

Martina Corgnati is a Milan-based art historian, curator and critic. She holds the chair of History of Contemporary Art at Albertina Academy, Turin, Italy. Her curatorial practice included contemporary practices and artists from the Middle East in the past decade. She curated Mediterranean Crossroad-Arab artists between Italy and the Mediterranean, Palazzo Montecitorio, Italian Parliment, 2009; Gates of the Mediterranean, Rivoli, Turin, 2008, Arab and Italian Artists around the Mediterranean, Italian Cultural Institutes of Damascus, Beirut, Cairo, Tunis, Algier, Rabat, 2008-2009, South-East: Mediterranean Encounters, Horcynus Orca Foundation, Messina, Italy, 2005. Martina Corgnati is author of over 20 books and 200 artists??? catalogues essays, including a complete outline of modern and contemporary egyptian art in the twentieth century (Egypt, Mesogea Publishing House, Messina, 2009) .

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Around the paths of Syria
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Dress Code
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Emily Jacir
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Fatma Bucak reinterpreting the great archetypes of the Mediterranean.
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Martina Corgnati in conversation with Nermine Hammam
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In The Memory of a friend
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Van Leo from Turkey to Egypt
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Steve Sabella
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