Tommaso Trini Biography
Tommaso Trini Castelli (Sanremo, 1937) works as a historian of the relationships between the arts and technosciences. He was a professor of history of modern art at the Academies of Fine Arts in Urbino and Milan from 1979 to 2007. At Brera he dealt with multimedia training and created (1997) a post-graduate master's degree for training in art therapy, the first of its kind in an Italian art school, recently elevated to a two-year specialization course. He made his debut as a critic in 1964, working in advanced trends (conceptual, poor, minimal art, etc.). He collaborated with the magazine Domus (since '66), Corriere della Sera (since '72 with Maurizio Calvesi) and then L'Espresso (with GC Argan). In 1972 he founded and directed Data Arte, an international bimonthly published until 1978. He was editor of the radio art program "L'arte in question" (Raitre). He held positions at the Venice Biennale from '76 to '93 as curator of the performance cycle "Attivo" ('76), commissioner of the exhibition "Aperto" ('82), curator of the "Laboratorio di arte e Tecnologia" ( '86), assistant director of the 1993 Biennial. Furthermore, he was international commissioner at the Biennale des Jeunes in Paris (1975 and '77), European curator at the Sydney Biennial (1976), and member of the jury at the Saô Paolo Biennial ( Brazil 1977). In 1975 he curated the first Italian video art exhibition, “Artevideo e Multivision”, at the Rotonda della Besana in Milan. From 1982 to '87 he was a member of the Board of Directors of the Gallery of Modern Art in Bologna, carrying out video-documentation activities which culminated in the "Magnetica" exhibition ('83). He would also like to point out among the main exhibitions: “Cara Morte” (Gavirate '78), a “History of automatons and robots” (Bologna '80), “Lucio Fontana” (Messina '88), “Giò Pomodoro” (Messina '89), “Andrea Cascella" (Todi '92), "Italiana, Arte Povera e Transavantgarde" (Yokohama '94). Finally, he published, among other numerous essays, an "Interview with Lucio Fontana" (Domus '68 ), the first extensive monograph on Mimmo Rotella (Prearo '73), the book Interview on the art factory with GC Argan (Laterza '80), the volume Musica Madre by Giuseppe Chiari (Prearo '82), the main monograph on Mimmo Germanà (Prearo '89), and the translation of Meyer Schapiro's essay on the analogies between Relativity and Cubism in Between Einstein and Picasso (Marinotti 2003).
