Episode 8: Claudio Gulli at Palazzo Butera on the art of curating
Episode 8: Claudio Gulli at Palazzo Butera on the art of curating
Season 3 Sicily
At Palazzo Butera in Palermo, director Claudio Gulli reveals how curating can itself be a form of art.
Through the private collection of Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi, displayed as though in a lived-in home, visitors make connections across centuries.
The Valsecchi’s love for the artworks and objects they have collected, combined with bold curatorial choices and a majestic Palermo palazzo museum setting, is reshaping how we experiece ancient and contemporary art.
In this episode:
How Palermo’s Palazzo Butera bridges the city’s layered history with a global dialogue
The challenges and freedoms of curating outside the conventions of a traditional museum
Why juxtaposing the old and the new can spark fresh ways of thinking about art
Insights into the collector’s vision that transforms a private passion into a public dialogue
BIOGRAPHY
Claudio Gulli studied Art History at the University of Siena and at the Scuola Normale Superiore.
Between 2009 and 2011, he worked at the Département des Peintures of the Louvre: his contributions on Leonardo da Vinci concerned the literary fortune of Saint John the Baptist (Skira, 2009) and Leonardo da Vinci's Saint Anne (Officina Libraria, 2011).
Since 2016, he has been working as an art historian at Palazzo Butera in Palermo, where collectors Francesca and Massimo Valsecchi have opened a new centre for ancient and contemporary art.
