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Sergio G Polano
Arch OA.Ud-It Reg.ed
Prof Ord L/art-03 SAC storia arte contemporanea History of Contemporary Art HCA Chair Prof
Principal, and Founder Poison Galore Design sas san Marco 1063 calle dei Fabbri it-30124 Venezia (Italy)
1 . Biography
Born in Leghorn (24.1.1950) under the Aquarius.
Education
Venice (1955-6) and Leghorn (1956-63) Grade and Secondary School, Niccolini-Guerrazzi Leghorn (1963-6) and T Mamiani Rome (1966-8) Classic High School, Rome University (Medicine 1968-9, Architecture, 1969-72), Iuav Venice Architecture Institute University (1972-4).
Architecture Degree, under prof arch M Tafuri, at full votes (110/110 Cum Laude) and academic publication wish, on T van Doesburg and De Stijl (10.10.1974).
Teaching, and Research
History Of Architecture Researcher, Grant-Holder (1.11.1974) and then Tenure, and Assistant Professor (1974-88) to F Dal Co and to M Scolari.
History of Contemporary Architecture Associate Professor (1988–2000).
History of Contemporary Arts Chair Professor (from 2000), one of the 20 in all Italy, the only one in the NorthEast.
Yearly courses held on History Of Contemporary Architecture History Of Modern Architecture History of Gardens Art History Of Art History Of Decorative And Industrial Arts History Of Industrial Design History Of Visual Communications Aesthetics Visual And Typography Design Exhibition And Museum Design, in Venice (1974-88, 1996-) Udine (1989–91) Ferrara (1991–6) Universities, and lecturer on History of Exhibition Design at the Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst Vienna, P Piva Meisterklasse Design (1990-1).
Design & Art Faculty Vice-Dean, Director BA 3 years School of Design Diid/Cladis-Treviso and then MA 2 years Visual Design Clasvem-Venice, University Iuav of Venice (1999-2002).
Chair Professor of Contemporary Art and Design, Architecture Faculty, University Iuav of Venice.
He has written 15 books and more than 250 essays, in italian and international magazines, about history of art, contemporary architecture, industrial, exhibition design, and visual design.
He has been part of the editorial staff of the magazine “Casabella” (1996-2006), and of the editorial committees of other magazines (“Area”, “EXporre”, “TeMa”).
He has regularly lectured and held workshops, in Italy and abroad, for professional bodies, museums (as the Gemeentemuseum in The Hague, for the dutch edition of his book HP Berlage Complete Works, or the Nai in Rotterdam, for an International Conference on Architectural Magazines, as representative of “Casabella”), schools and universities; he has been official speaker at the ATypI Rome (Italian panel2 day organizer) and TypoBerlin (on Escher, Lauweriks and the Dutch Tradition, showing the MCE fonts designed by his son Cesare) international conferences on type design.
He has organized international conferences, and lectures programs, on architecture and design, ia, with speakers as M Ridolfi A Rossi G Aulenti E Sottsass A Branzi J Hochuli E Spiekermann M Carter S Stone A Acerbi.
He has interviewed, with F Dal Co, A Speer on Nazi architecture and art (1977).
He has recovered, restored and published in a cd-audio, attached to “Casabella” (2002), the C Scarpa’s Magistral Lesson for the Iuav Academic Year 1962-3 Opening.
From 1975, he has worked at the ideation, management and production of exhibitions on art, architecture and design.
He speaks fluently english and french, with good knowledge of spanish, german and dutch, and notions of some european/eastern languages.
2 . Professional work
Exhibition designer, organizer, and curator
He has designed/curated exhibitions, ia, for Academy Galleries Venice (C Scarpa) Aia Chapter NYC (C Scarpa, HP Berlage) Attems Museum Gorizia/Gurize (Futurism in FVG) B&B Italia Como (10 Architecs for 10 Chairs) Biennale Venice (Futurist music and poetry, Biennale 80 years of exhibitions, Fisiognomy and Madness) Cini Foundation Venice (Mondrian and De Stijl) la Fenice Theater Venice (200 years of la Fenice, entrance and Apollinee rooms exhibition design) Gam Bologna (L Khan, J Stirling) Guggenheim Foundation Venice-NYC (Mondrian and De Stijl, Dogana preliminary project) Ingram Milan (XIX/XX Century Crossing Underware Fashion) Italcementi Milan (Architecture Dictionary) MM Metro Milan (Metro Stations Renewal) Masieri Foundation Venice (Foundation Celebrative) Mopu Gallery Madrid (C Scarpa) Pac Milan (I Gardella) Permasteelisa Conegliano (Company history and achievements) Reina Sofia Museum Madrid (Italian Art, Great Exhibitions section) Revoltella Museum Trieste (Austrian Contemporary Art) Solari Udine (Solari Prize) Te Palace Mantua (A Alto).
He has designed the museums Pistoia Civic Art Museum The Deruta Regional Ceramics Museum The National Museum Of Architecture Ferrara, and had counselled on strategical planning The Guggenheim Foundatione Venice-NYC The Civic Museums Council Of Venice.
In exhibition design, since 1975 he has been working with C Scarpa (the Samonà exhibition Palazzo Grassi Venice) G Valle (the Art / Environment Venice Biennale ’76) C Dardi (the Function and Meaning Dutch Architecture Exhibition Rome, Venice, Turin) A Castiglioni (the L Khan and the J Stirling Museums exhibitions Gam Bologna, the I Gardella exhibition Pac Milan, the A Aalto exhibition Palazzo Te Mantua) J Stirling (the J Stirling Museums exhibition Gam Bologna) M Botta (the C Scarpa exhibition, Academy Galleries Venice, Mopu Gallery Madrid, and the M Botta exhibition Venice and many towns in Germany) B Podrecca (the C Scarpa exhibition, Academy Galleries Venice, Mopu Gallery Madrid), and collaborating to critics/curators as G Celant (ia, for the Art / Environment Venice Biennale ’76 – I Puni 1917 room reconstruction, J Pollock dripping reconstruction, A Warhol wall, Sol LeWitt room, M Pistoletto and other artists installations in the Italian pavilion, and the Usa pavilion –, the opening of Reina Sofia Museum Madrid, the De Stijl exhibition G Cini Foundation Venice, the Genua 2004 European Culture show) M Cacciari (the Hungary ‘800-‘900 exhibition Venice) F Dal Co (most of the exhibitions above mentioned), and to artists as C Colombo (exhibition in Rome) S LeWitt (installation in Venice) A Warhol (installation in Venice) M Fernandez Arriaga (installation in Lucca).
He has collaborated to cultural national radio broadcasting on photography exhibitions (ia, Venice and XIX Century, Ruskin and Venice).
He has curated/scripted videos for architecture (ia, Nordio and Trieste, 15') and comics (Moebius, 5') exhibitions.
He has reported online on exhibitions and international design conferences, for the portal design_italia.
Visual, and industrial designer
As Lapiswerk design company Founder and Principal in charge, (1987-96, with M Scibilia, Partner in Office), after Zap (1976, with PP Vetta), and Alias (1977-86, with N Marras, I Silic, P Tassinari, PP Vetta) design offices partnerships, he has been working, ia, for Arsenale Venice B&B Italia Como Benini Ferrara Bros’s Udine CerSaie Bologna Consorzio Venezia Nuova Venice Ctu Ferrara Driade Milan Electa / Mondadori Milan Falpa Mantova Italcementi Milan Angelo Masieri Foundation Venice Querini Stampalia Foundation Venice World Expo ‘92 Seville Laterza Rome / Bari, Udine, Ferrara, Padua, Venice Universities, UniOne Veneto Universities Association, and Aicer Culture Regional Agency Bologna.
His first show on Light Design, the Lampade Povere collection (12 prototypes, 60 copies), was held at Verona 2000 Art Gallery (1976), and reported by “l’Espresso” Italian Magazine.
He has collaborated with A Novarese, main XX Century Italian Type Designer, and developed for him the Regista font, for the Morisawa international competition on type design (with M Scibilia).
With his son Cesare (Venice 1982), he has designed fonts: ia, the MCE appreciated by M Carter and E Spiekermann, and on their suggestion first showed at the 1998 TypoBerlin conference.
He has designed many magazines and book series, for Italian publishers (as Alinea, Arsenale, Electa, Laterza, Officina, ia), corporate images and public identities, web sites (including 2 live prototypes for “Casabella” magazine, 1 portal, and 1 blog) and blogs – his blog had 200.000 contacts since January 2007.
He has been University Iuav of Venice Communication & Visual Corporate Designer (1998-2002), after M Vignelli e M Scolari, redesigning identification systems, all printed matter, signage, forms, and stationery, magazines, book series, furniture and exhibitions – the same for the Udine, the Ferrara and the Padua Universities.
He has organized the Iuav New Logo International Competition (on invitation: P Apeloig winner, N Brody / Research Studios, M Carter, G Dumbar / Studio Dumbar, Mevis & Van Deursen, P Scher / Pentagram, M Vignelli).
The Poison Galore Design (1997-2006), now Poison Galore Design sas (2007) team counts on Cesare Polano, Ceo, and Web/It Consultant Sergio Polano, Principal-in-Charge, Senior Designer Léa Brousse, Junior Designer, and stagers.
Main publications
1 . Books, as author, and series curator
Theo van Doesburg Writings on Art and Architecture, Officina (Rome 1979) JJP Oud Dutch Architecture, Angeli (Milan 1981) Hugo Häring The Secret of the Form, Jaca Book (Milan 1984) HP Berlage Complete Works, Electa (Milan 1987, english 1988, and dutch editions 1988, 1997) Carlo Scarpa Abatellis Museum, Electa (Milan 1989) Joze Plecnik, Electa (Milan 1990) Santiago Calatrava Complete Works, Electa (Milan 1996, 1997 ff., spanish and english editions 1996), B Mitchell, City of Bits, Electa (Milan 1997, curator italian version) Achille Castiglioni 1938–2000, Electa (Milan 2001, english translation 2002) abc of the xx century graphic design, Electa / Phaidon (Milan 2002, with PP Vetta, english edition 2003) Michele De Lucchi (Milan 2004, with F Bulegato, english edition 2005)
Architecture series, Arsenale (published: Hoeger, Poelzig, Zani)
2 . Architectural Guides, as author, and series curator
Plecnik and Lubiana Guide, Cluep (Milan 1988) Guide to the Italian Architecture of the 900, Electa (Milan 1991, 1994 augm rev) Critical Guide to the Contemporary Architecture in Friuli Venezia Giulia, Arsenale (Venice 1992, with L Semerani)
World Contemporary Architecture Guides series curator, Electa / Phaidon and Birkhauser (published: Venice Biennale Pavilions, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Vienna-Budapest-Prague, Netherlands, Japan)
Architectural Guides curator, Arsenale (published: Venice, C Scarpa)
3 . On Contemporary Industrial, and Exhibition Design
Mostrare / To Exhibit, Lybra (Milan 1988, 2000) book,
and ia the essays in Modern Italian, Panini (Modena 1990) History of Industrial Design, 2, Electa (Milan 1990) Paolo Piva (Vienna 1991) Kult und Kultur des Ausstellens (Vienna 1992) New Pop (Udine-Venice 1994) Driadebook, Skyra (Milan 1995) Italian graphic designers (Venice 1997), and History of Italian architecture The second 900, Electa (Milan 1997)
4 . Magazine Monographic Issues, as curator
“Rassegna” (Milan) Exhibition Design (1982) The Kröller-Müller (1993)
“A+U” (Tokyo) Italian Architecture 1945-1985 (1988) The 20th Century Milan (1991)
He is part of the editorial committees of the magazines “Area” (Milan) “Exporre” (Milan) “TeMa” (Milan)
5 . Essays
His essays and contributions on art, architecture and design have been published, since 1977, in the magazines: “Abitare” (Milan) “affiche” (Arnhem) “Archis” (Amsterdam) “L’architecture d’aujourd’hui” (Paris) “Area” (Milan) “Arquitectura” (Madrid) “Arte|Documento” (Udine) “Artforum” (New York) “A+U” (Tokyo) “Calligrafia” (Rome) “Casabella” (Milan) “Creative Review” (London) “Domus” (Milan) “emigré” (Sacramento) “Exporre” (Milan) “HQ High Quality” (Heidelberg) “IcamNews” (Rotterdam) “Idea” (Tokyo) “L'Indice” (Turin) “Il Giornale dell’architettura” (Turin) “Lotus international” (Milan) “Materia” (Reggio Emilia) “Multiverso” (Udine) “Oppositions” (New York) “Phalaris” (Venice) “Print” (New York) “Progex” (Milan), and in the daily Italian press, as “Paese Sera” (Rome) “il Piccolo” (Trieste) “Il Gazzettino” (Venezia) “La Nuova” (Venezia).
Main Exhibitions
1 . As curator
Giuseppe Samonà (Italy 1975) Function and Meaning Holland 1870–1940 (Italy 1979) Budapest The Soul and the Forms (Italy 1981) Jean Gir “Moebius” (Italy 1983) Carlo Scarpa 1953–54 (Italy 1989) The Industrial Arts (Italy, France, Usa 1991).
2 . As Section Coordinator
Mondrian and De Stijl (Venice 1990, with E van Straaten) curated by G Celant and M Gowan, G Cini Foundation Venice
Memory of the Future (Madrid 1990, section Great Italian Exibitions) curated by G Celant and Gianelli, Reina Sofia Museum opening
3 . Collaborations to
Photography and Architecture (Italy 1980) De Stijl. Visions of Utopia (Usa, Netherlands 1982) Carlo Scarpa (Italy, Spain 1984) Carlo Scarpa (Usa 1984) Mario Botta (Italy, Germany 1985) Kleur en Architectuur (Netherlands 1986) The Europe of the Rationalism (Italy 1989) Hendrik Petrus Berlage (Usa 1990) Mondrian and De Stijl (Italy 1990) The Museums of Stirling Wilford & Associates (Italy 1990) Memory of the Future (Spain 1990) The Museums of Louis I Kahn (Italy 1991) From Copernico to Tomorrow (Italy 1993) Alvar Aalto (Italy 1998) Carlo Scarpa (Montreal 1998) The Arp (Italy 2006)
[10.2007]