“Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.”
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formed from the notions of Bauhaus, that taught him to combine the fields of philosophy art and design … Curator, Writer, Creative Director, Researcher with a primary background in philosophy and critical studies with outputs in contemporary art, fashion, ecology and design
Leonardo Caffo is Professor of Philosophy (tenured Senior Lecturer) at NABA in Milan where is also part of scientific committee of PhD School; he also teaches Aesthetics at IULM University of Milan. He previously taught Theoretical Philosophy at the Polytechnic University of Turin. He writes for the “Corriere della Sera,” holds regular columns in “Internazionale,” “Lampoon” and “Interni,” and has been among the presenters and authors of Radio 3 RAI; he has worked as Curator at Triennale di Milano, was Philosopher in Residence for the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea and was also a Member of the Steering Committee of the MAXXI Museum in Rome. His latest books include A come Animale (Bompiani 2015),Costruire Futuri (Bompiani 2020) and Quattro capanne. O della semplicità (nottetempo 2020). For Einaudi he has published La vita di ogni giorno (2016),Fragile umanità (2017),Vegan (2018) and Velocità di fuga (2022). He directs the magazine “Parola,” the publisher Politi Seganfreddo Edizioni (of the international magazine Flash Art), and the Mater Matuta Master in Curatorial Studies for the Mediterranean at the Abadir Academy of Design in Sicily. He has curated dozens of exhibitions, worked directly on artist installations and design for museums and galleries including the research series on the concept of huts “Cabin-Out” and he was the founder and creative director of Walden Milano. The latest exhibitions as an artist: “Everything that generates light is destined to explode” BIM Research Gallery Milan (2022); “Lì” Vorres Museum Greece (2024). He has written novels and diaries on the border between literature and philosophy including An Art for the Other (Lantern 2015),Il cane e il filosofo (Mondadori 2020),Intromettersi (Eleuthera 2021),Essere Giovani (Ponte alle Grazie 2021),La montagna di fuoco. Etna la madre (Ponte alle Grazie 2022),Animal Liberation Front (Tlon 2023), The Disappearance of the Public (Castello di Rivoli 2023). Every year in May, he holds the experimental Art Residency Program “Rethinking Lampedusa” in collaboration between Northeastern University in Boston, the Made Program and the Moleskine Foundation on the Sicilian island (In 2024 the project was exhibited and hosted at the Malta Biennale of Contemporary Art).
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