{"id":8379,"date":"2018-10-12T12:30:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T16:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=8379"},"modified":"2018-10-22T17:29:28","modified_gmt":"2018-10-22T21:29:28","slug":"alessandro-facente","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/alessandro-facente\/","title":{"rendered":"Alessandro Facente"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_2686\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-8379-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AlessandroFacente2.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AlessandroFacente2.mp3\">https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AlessandroFacente2.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><div><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ortizherrera.com\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8381 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alessandro-Facente.jpg?resize=225%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alessandro-Facente.jpg?resize=225%2C300&amp;ssl=1 225w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alessandro-Facente.jpg?resize=768%2C1025&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alessandro-Facente.jpg?resize=767%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 767w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alessandro-Facente.jpg?resize=696%2C929&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alessandro-Facente.jpg?resize=315%2C420&amp;ssl=1 315w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Alessandro-Facente.jpg?w=914&amp;ssl=1 914w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/>Alessandro Facente<\/a> is a New York-based art critic and independent curator, and currently curator at Artists Alliance Inc. Facente holds an M.A. in Art History and Contemporary Art from La Sapienza University in Rome.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: georgia, serif;\">His research focuses on the crossover and interplay of art criticism and curatorship through a concept that he refers to as \u2018curaticism\u2019. Different all the time in solutions and arrangements, &#8216;curaticism&#8217; has the goal of \u2018curatorially\u2019 identify the political and social position that the artist\u2019s practice occupies within the current time, and to \u2018critically\u2019 investigate how the artwork\u2019s visuality makes the piece to be politically and socially questionable.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\">Facente was<span class=\"gmail_default\"> recently\u00a0<\/span>selected for the <span class=\"gmail_default\">&#8216;<\/span>CPR 2018<span class=\"gmail_default\"> &#8216;<\/span>, a curatorial program for research in Iceland, Faroe Islands, Finland, Norway, and Sweden,<span class=\"gmail_default\"> in<\/span><span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/span>August 2018.\u00a0 He has curated solo, group exhibitions, independent projects<span class=\"gmail_default\">, and\u00a0<\/span>talks<span class=\"gmail_default\">\u00a0<\/span>in non-profit spaces, foundations, <span class=\"gmail_default\">and <\/span>galleries, including HVCCA, <span class=\"gmail_default\">Cuchifritos Gallery, <\/span>NARS Foundation, Italian Institute of Culture, Residency Unlimited, in New York, HIAP in Helsinki and Ateli\u00ea397 in S\u00e3o Paulo. His articles, interviews, and essays have appeared in art magazines such as Artribune, TemporaryArtReview, <span class=\"gmail_default\">DROME, <\/span>and DOMUS, as well as in exhibition catalogs for major museums such<span class=\"gmail_default\"> as\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0MADRE in Naples and GAMEC in Bergamo. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: georgia, serif;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8382\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8382\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8382 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=640%2C452&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=1024%2C723&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=300%2C212&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=768%2C542&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=100%2C70&amp;ssl=1 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=696%2C491&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=1068%2C754&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?resize=595%2C420&amp;ssl=1 595w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Artists-Alliance-Inc.-studios-4th-floor-the-Clemente-Soto-Ve%CC%81lez-Cultural-Educational-Center-Lower-East-Side-New-York.jpeg?w=1313&amp;ssl=1 1313w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Artists Alliance Inc. studios, 4th floor, the\u00a0Clemente Soto V\u00e9lez Cultural\u00a0&amp; Educational\u00a0Center, Lower East Side, New York<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div><figure id=\"attachment_8383\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8383\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8383 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=640%2C481&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=1024%2C770&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=768%2C577&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=80%2C60&amp;ssl=1 80w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=265%2C198&amp;ssl=1 265w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=696%2C523&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=1068%2C803&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?resize=559%2C420&amp;ssl=1 559w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/The-S-ao-Paulo-Episode-G-AM6-curaticism-Spoken-Word-exhibition-at-Atelie%CC%82397-S-ao-Paul-Brazil.jpg?w=1183&amp;ssl=1 1183w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The S\u00e3o Paulo Episode &#8211; GAM6 [curaticism] &#8211; Spoken-Word exhibition\u00a0 curated by Alessandro Facente,\u00a0with artists Renata de Bonis, Flora Leite, \u00a0Maura Grimaldi, Beto Shwafaty, Daniel de Paula, and Guest curator Thais Rivitti,\u00a0at Ateli\u00ea397 &#8211; S\u00e3o Paul (Brazil)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/interview\/AlessandroFacente2.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listAlessandro Facente is a New York-based art critic and independent curator, and currently curator at Artists Alliance Inc. 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