Flavio Fergonzi

Flavio Fergonzi was born in Pavia in 1963.

He studied at the Scuola Normale, where he attained a PhD in Art History in 1991. He has taught at the University of Saõ Paulo in Brazil (1992), the Accademia di Brera in Milan (1993-1998), the University of Trieste (1998-2003), and the University of Udine (2003-2015). Since 2015, he has been a full professor of Contemporary Art History at the Scuola Normale.

He has been a member of the scientific committees of the Museo del Novecento of Milan, the  Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna of Rome, the Musée Rodin of Paris and the Center for Italian Modern Art of New York.

He has dealt with nineteenth and twentieth century sculpture (Rodin and Michelangelo. A Study in Artistic Inspiration, 1997; La scultura monumentale negli anni del fascismo, 1992), the history of twentieth century Italian art criticism (Lessicalità visiva dell'Italiano. La critica dell'arte contemporanea 1945-1960, 1996), international sources for the Italian artistic avant garde (La Collezione Mattioli. Catalogo scientifico, 2003; Filologia del 900. Modigliani, Sironi, Morandi, Martini, 2013) and the relationships between post-Second World War American and Italian art (Una nuova superficie. Jasper Johns e gli artisti italiani 1958-1966, 2029). He is in the process of publishing a monograph on Ugo Mulas's American photo reportage (1964-1967) and is studying the topic of naming in nineteenth- and twentieth-century artworks.