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An unmistakable voice, with its “r” markedly from beyond the Alps, cultured and provocative, but always with grace and fine irony. The bow tie, the jacket, the round glasses, an image that has become an “icon” in the dissemination of art history and artistic heritage. Philippe Daverio it is dead last night a Milan, at age 70, crushed by the “bad” disease that had consumed him in recent years.
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Philippe Daverio, art historian and television broadcaster before the death of Alberto Ángela
An art historian, television popularizer (long before Alberto Angela), writer and essayist, Daverio had gained popularity thanks to his brilliant television strip Passepartout on Rai3. A great gift, hers, to be able to tell the public about the art and culture of the image with clear, intriguing and brilliant language. Never boring, but ingenious. Antagonist, in the good sense of the term, of celebrities of communication such as Vittorio Sgarbi and Achille Bonito Oliva.
In his career he has also intertwined the direction of a series of galleries between Milan and New York and political parentheses, culminating in the appointment as Cultural Counselor in Milan on the Formentini board, between 1993 and 1996.
Civil battles
Its “civil” battles are famous for heritage, against the risk of a landfill at the gates of Villa Adriana, or for the pedestrianization of the Imperial Forums. Born in 1949, he was born in Mulhouse in France, on the border with Germany and Switzerland, to a French mother and an Italian father.
Bocconi Escape
Daverio grew up between Varese and Milan, studying at Bocconi (where he never graduated). Art was his great passion. Especially the contemporary of the neo-avant-gardes that immediately breathed. Not in vain, the image that was the fixed background of its broadcast was the work of Emilio Isgro ‘. Mel 1975 opened his first gallery in via Monte Napoleone 6 in Milan, dedicated to the 20th century.
Teaching and books
He has been a professor at the IULM and at the Milan Polytechnic and at the University of Palermo. A long list of books written on art. Among the latest posts is I finally understood Italy. Small treatise for foreigners (and Italians), Great Tour of Italy in small steps. More than 80 places and itineraries to discover, My Europe in small steps, everything for Rizzoli. But the broken century of the avant-garde is also unforgettable. The imagined museum, The design born in Milan. History of boys from good families, The art of looking at art.
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