On the occasion of the opening of the Festival of Two Worlds, Mezz’ora dopo la chiusura dedicates the meeting of Friday 24 June to late art critic Giovanni Carandente, a key character of XXth-century art. The meeting will start at 19.30 and will focus on the unique experience sprung from the meeting between the art historian and the city of the festival.
The evening will go on with a tasting of typical products at the Caffè Collicola. The event is organized in collaboration with Con Spoleto – the Spoleto hotel managers’ association.

Participation fee: Full fare – € 7,00 | Reduction – € 5,00 for Spoleto Card holders | Aperitive-dinner – € 5,00

Reservation is strongly encouraged, deadline h 13:00 of Friday: news.spoletomusei@sistemamuseo.it – 0743.46434
GIOVANNI CARANDENTE was born in Naples in 1920. After graduating there, he moved to Rome to specialize in Art History, thus getting in touch with the greatest maestroes who enlivened the post-war Roman artistic scene. After various appointments in superintendencies across Italy, he became central inspector in Rome. From 1988 to 1992 he was Visual Arts Director at the Venice Biennale, while also being exhibitions’ inspector at the Roman Modern Art Gallery, director of the Palazzo Barberini Ancient Art Gallery and of the Palazzo Venezia National Museum. Friend to most of the contemporary artists and art merchants, his fame reached Paris, Berlin, New York and the Soviet Union. In 1989 he was appointed Commander of the Order of British Empire, and in 2002 he received a gold medal for art history by the president of the Republic of Italy. He passed away on 7 June 2009 in Rome; the funeral service was held at the Duomo in Spoleto, the city where he now rests.