{"id":131448,"date":"2022-11-02T10:49:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/docenti\/prof-manuela-pacella\/"},"modified":"2022-11-02T10:49:27","modified_gmt":"2022-11-02T09:49:27","slug":"prof-manuela-pacella","status":"publish","type":"docenti","link":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/docenti\/prof-manuela-pacella\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Manuela Pacella"},"content":{"rendered":"

Art historian and critic.<\/span>She obtained a four-year degree (under the old system) in Art History from La Sapienza University in Rome, with a monographic thesis on David Tremlett, and qualified as an art historian at the School of Specialisation in Art History at the University of Siena, under the supervision of Enrico Crispolti, with a thesis on the history of photography and the relationship between art and early photography.<\/span><\/p>\n

After a decade working for ministerial institutions such as the National Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art, the Central Institute for Graphics and the Central Institute for Catalogues and Documentation, she has focused more on her work as an independent curator and art critic.<\/span>
\n<\/span>In her curatorial work, she focuses on cultural exchanges between Italy and certain Central and Northern European countries. She is particularly well versed in the art scene in Northern Ireland, where she has been working since 2011 and where, in 2013, she took part in the ICI (Independent Curators International, New York) intensive curatorial course held at the CCA in Derry and in the international residency at Flax Art Studios in Belfast. As guest curator at the MAC in Belfast, she curated the exhibition <\/span>Lost in Narration. Riccardo Giacconi, Invernomuto and Luca Trevisani<\/span><\/i> and coordinated the second Curatorial Directions event, which focused on the importance of text and narrative within the curatorial process, with workshops and seminars held in Belfast and Milan.<\/span><\/p>\n

In 2015 and 2016, she was a researcher and editorial coordinator for NERO (Rome).<\/span>
\n<\/span>In addition to exhibition catalogues, she regularly writes for ‘Flash Art’ (Italy and International), ‘The Visual Artists’ News Sheet’ (Dublin) and ‘NERO Editions’ (Rome); her essay on Bertille Bak, <\/span>La fiaba del reale<\/span><\/i>, was published (in Italian and English) in 2018 by Postmedia books, Milan.<\/span>
\n<\/span>She currently teaches at IED (Rome campus), the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, the American University of Rome and NABA (Rome campus), and is the creator and editor of the online column <\/span>Tell me stories!<\/span><\/i> for \u2018Flash Art\u2019 and of the writing platform <\/span>ruth.onl<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":120214,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-131448","docenti","type-docenti","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti\/131448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/docenti"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/docenti"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abaroma.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}