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Lecturer and essayist, former Councilor for Culture of the Milan City Council, he was 70 years old. “His brother wrote to me this morning to tell me that Philippe passed away tonight,” Shammah told Ansa.
Farewell to Daverio, protagonist of Milanese cultural life then seduced by politics and television
Born on October 17, 1949 in Mulhouse, Alsace, he was also a councilor of the Milan City Council from 1993 to 1997 on the Formentini board, with delegations of Culture, Leisure, Education and International Relations, and was responsible for the reconstruction. of the Contemporary Art Pavilion destroyed after the bomb explosion in via Palestro on July 27, 1993.
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Philippe Daverio has always called himself an art historian. The general public got to know him in 1999 as a correspondent for the Art’è su Raitre program. The following year he was the author and presenter of the Art.tù program, then from 2002 to 2012 author and presenter of Passepartout, an art and culture program that became Il Capitale, and of the 2011 program Emporio Daverio for RAI 5.
As a gallery owner and editor, he has published about fifty titles. His scientific and popular publications are also diverse. Daverio has worked as a professor at several universities: he was in charge of an art history course at the IULM in Milan, a degree in Communication and management of art and culture markets; He has taken several courses in the History of Design at the Politecnico di Milano and since 2006 is a full professor of Industrial Design at the University of Palermo. In 2013 he received from the President of the Republic the title of Knight of Arts and Letters and the Gold Medal of Merit from the Minister of Cultural Heritage; Also in 2013 he was awarded the Lègion d’Honneur by the President of the French Republic.
In September 2014 he became artistic director of the Gran Museo del Duomo in Milan and since 2015 a member of the Scientific Committee of the Pinacoteca di Brera and the National Braidense Library.
He has collaborated as a columnist for “Panorama”, “Liberal”, “Vogue”, “Gente”, and has been a consultant for the Skira publishing house. In 2008 he was appointed director of the art magazine “Art e Dossier” of the Giunti publishing house. In 2010 he was also the author and presenter of “Emporio Daverio” on Rai5, an invitation proposal to travel through the cities of the beautiful country, an introduction to the extended museum and a stimulus to raise awareness about the need for a vast safeguarding plan. He is the author of numerous publications: “The imagined museum” (Rizzoli, 2011), “The long century of modernity” (Rizzoli, 2012), “Looking far to see close. Curiosity exercises and art history” (Rizzoli, 2013 ).
Daverio has often gone hand in hand with politics: the first time with the council of the Northern League Formentini in Milan, then he was a “librarian” with Vittorio Sgarbi on his council of the Municipality of Salemi, he was a candidate in the province of Milan in 2009 on the list by Filippo Penati and in 2010 he was, for a time, a consultant for the Feast of Santa Rosalía in Palermo on the board of Cammarata. The volcanic art critic was transversal: “Right and left? They don’t make sense anymore,” he said.
