Marco Palmieri, (Naples, 1969), trained as an architect, returned to Milan, Italy, after working in Paris and Dublin, where he became one of Ettore Sottsass’s final collaborators.
Throughout his creative career, he has maintained an interdisciplinary approach spanning art, architecture, photography, and museum design.
In 2008, he opened his first watercolor exhibition at the Galleria Antonia Jannone, followed by solo shows in Paris at Agnès b.’s Galerie du Jour, in Naples at the Castel dell’Ovo, and at the Art Basel Miami Collectors Lounge, as well as group exhibitions in public museums and private galleries, including Studio La Città, Assab One, Paola Sosio Contemporary Art, and the Italian Cultural Institute in Paris. He has designed several museum exhibitions, including those for the Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin, the Museion in Bolzano, and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.

Giacinto Di Pietrantonio, is an art critic and curator who is “addicted to art.”
A former professor at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts, co-director of Flash Art, and director of GAMEC—the Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art in Bergamo—from 2000 to 2017, he was the founder of AMACI, the Association of Museums of Modern and Contemporary Art. He has curated numerous exhibitions in Italy and abroad, including the exhibition of Russian art in the “Landscapes of the East” section (Venice Biennale 1993), several editions of “Fuori Uso” (Pescara), and “Over the Edges” with Jan Hoet (Ghent, 2000). Among the awards he has received are the Lifetime Achievement Award from the AMA (Alma Matris Alumni Association) in Bologna and the Capitani della Cultura Award (2016). He is the author of monographs on Enzo Cucchi and Jan Fabre, as well as the volumes Design in Italia and Incontri con l’architettura e il Design.