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VALERIO GRIMALDI

Journalist and Art Critic
Italy and foreign Correspondent

Director of “Art Life”
Director of “Prospettive”
Columnist for “ARTjournal”
Art Director of “ArtexArte” Foundation – Milan

He lives and works in Bologna.

Bachelor of Art in Fine Arts
Master Degree in Science of Communications
ALMEDA UNIVERSITY – U.S.A
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Free lance Journalist and art critic from 1968

He worked with some Italian newspapers like “Il Resto del Carlino”, “Carlino Sera”, “Nazione Sera”.

Correspondent for “La Vernice”, art magazine from Venice in the Seventies.

Collaborator of Renzo Margonari at “The Italian naïf” book.

Collaborator of Franco Solmi ( who was the Modern Art Gallery of Bologna Manager at that time).

Since 1990 he has been the Art Critic for the monthly art magazine “La Ribalta”, from Bologna.

He has presented, through essays and catalogues, Italian and European artists.
Director and columnist of “Arte Più” Magazine.

He’s present in bookstores with books and essays about artists and artistic movements.

Collaborator and columnist for the art magazine “Art Journal”.
He wrote articles on “ARTE” Mondadori, on ”The spectacle journal” and further sectional publications.

He’s present on “Art Diary Italia” and on “Art Diary International”.

He’s author of books and monographs of Italian and foreign artists.

He presides over important Prizes both in Italy and aboard: he recently cured the First International Art Prize.

“S.VALENTINO” in Vico del Gargano ( Foggia ) – The Barletta “BIENNALE D’ARTE” – The PICTURE GALLERY of the Trani Castle – “Emotions in Motion” International Exhibition at the Estense Castle of Ferrara – “L’immagine liberata/The free image” at the Svevo Castle of Barletta.

At the moment he’s working on two volumes by the following titles:
“La finzione naturalista/The naturalist fiction”
and “XX Secolo: 100 anni di pittori e scultori a Bologna/ XX Siecle : 100 years of painters and sculptores in Bologna”.
He recently published:
The Ivan Dimitrov monograph titled “IL MACEDONE/THE MACEDONIAN”.