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EDUCATION |
From October 2000 |
Goldsmiths College (University of London)
MA in Creative Curating
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1997-1998 |
Birkbeck College (Centre for Extra-Mural Studies)
Diploma in Arts Management
Pass with Distinction
Final dissertation: Arts in Prison, policies, strategies and projects.
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1990-1994 |
University of Rome «La Sapienza»
BA Hons (First Class) Humanities (110/100 e lode)
Special subjects: Contemporary Arts & Literature
Final dissertation: Antonio Pizzuto and the 70s experimental novels.
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1984-1989 |
Lyceum «Socrate» of Rome
Classical Studies
'A' Level with distinction (58/60) |
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EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
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Since August 1997 |
BARBARA WEISS ARCHITECTS LTD. |
Title |
Office Manager (part-time) |
Duties |
PR & production of portfolios and presentations
Book-keeping (cashflow, banking, personnel, etc.)
Secretarial management
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January - July 1997 |
CONSOLO INTERNATIONAL LAWYERS |
Title |
Personal Assistant to the Senior Partner (full-time) |
Duties |
General administration and secretarial support
Book-keeping
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December 1994 - December 1996 |
ITALARTE S.R.L. & ITALARTE FINE PRINT S.R.L. |
Title |
Personal Assistant to the Managing Directors (full-time) |
Duties |
Organisation of exhibitions
PR & media relations support
Catalogues and brochures production support
General gallery administration (full secretarial support, book-keeping,
updating database information)
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November 1994 - December 1996 |
DOMENICO PURIFICATO CULTURAL ASSOCIATION |
Title |
Personal Assistant to the Managing Directors (part-time) |
Duties |
Organisation of events
PR & media relations support
General administration (full secretarial support, book-keeping, membership scheme)
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December 1993 - February 1994 |
DEPARTMENT OF ITALIAN STUDIES, UNIVERSITY OF ROME «LA SAPIENZA» |
Title |
Office assistant (scholarship) |
1991 - 1994 |
Private lessons in Italian and Latin (Grammar & Literature) as well as Art History and Philosophy |
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INTERESTS |
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Creative writing,visual arts & cinema |
Present |
Setting up of an exhibition of young emerging artists on the relationship between art and fashion and on the adoption in art of experimental languages and strategies taken from the fashion world. |
June-July 1999 |
Support, as member of the co-operative The Glue Factory, in the setting up of the show «In Quarentine»: 12 multimedia artists exhibit in a vacant office building in Vauxhall, London.
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January 1996 |
My novel «L'Elefantessa» was chosen for an anthology of young European writers, published by Edizioni Scriptorium. The anthology, presented in the Turin Books Exhibition, was translated in French and English.
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September 1995 |
Partecipated in the Literature Award «Serenissima» in Venice with the book of my poems «Qualche storia urbana», which received the recommendation of
the Jury. |
Winter 1993-1994 |
Partecipated in the Literary University Review «Oltremedusa» with articles on avant-gard literature («Allegory in Dino Campana», «Federico
Tozzi's Bestiario», «Dadaism and Surrealism according to Walter Benjamin», «Active intellectuals»").
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Languages |
Bilingual Italian and English, adequate French |
Computer |
Computer literate on both Mac and PC: Windows 98, Microsoft Office, Lotus SmartSuite
Wordprocessing: Word, WordPerfect, WordPro
Fogli di lavoro: Excel, Lotus 1-2-3
Database: Access, Lotus Approach
Graphics: Powerpoint, QuarkXpress, Photoshop
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