April 3, Stratford-on-Avon, England (1948). Educated in Rome, and the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. A Post-Graduate Lecturer, Slade School, University of London, and Sotheby’s Institute, Masters Programmes (accreditation University of Manchester). The President of AICA UK and World Vice President, the co-organiser of the World Congress of the Association International des Critiques d’Art, Tate Modern (2000). A curator of many international art exhibitions, including a Paul Klee: Adult Memories of Childhood exhibition at CAAM, Las Palmas (2008), and German Art since the 1960s exhibition Elective Affinties/Wahlverwandschaften, National Museum of Latvia Riga (2016) There are numerous museum publications including three hundred book and catalogue essays. Recent projects include 500th anniversary exhibition of Lorenzo Puglisi in in Bramante’s Sacristy, Santa Maria delle Grazie, Milan, alongside Leonardo’s ‘Last Supper’ refectory; B.A.R.O.C.K., at Schloss Caputh, Potsdam. An overview from the postwar The Leipzig Connection: Painting in Leipzig Since the Late 1960s, HDLU (Kunsthalle of the Association of Artists), in Zagreb. His monograph-based essays include Tony Cragg (Museo Nivola), Adrian Ghenie, Thomas Huber, Magdalena Jetelová, Carmen Calvo, Sabine Hornig, Ann Wolff and many others. In collaboration with Christoph Tannert (Director, Künstlerhaus Bethanien) is Dissonance: Platform Germany, painting in post-reunification Germany. Recent themes include publications on Constructivism and Abstraction in Central Europe (from 1960s), Senses (On the Sixth Sense and Mediums), and Myth (Myth and the Modern Mind), special project exhibitions in Prague.
