Martina Rossi, Ph.D.

Martina Rossi earned her Ph.D. in History of Art at the Sapienza University of Rome. As a postdoctoral fellow, she participated in the PRIN 2020 (Research Projects of National Relevant Interest) - Italian Feminist Photography: Identity Policies and Gender Strategies (Sapienza University), and worked for the Lionello Venturi Archive, with which she still collaborates. Her research focuses on the relationship between the theater and the visual arts in post-war Italy, which was the topic of her dissertation and later monograph entitled Dalla superficie pittorica allo spazio scenico. La neoavanguardia artistica a Roma tra 1960 e il 1967 (De Luca Editore, Rome 2022). She has also worked extensively on the interaction between publishing houses and the world of art, studying the role of Fabio Mauri in Bompiani, as well as the exhibition activities of the Feltrinelli bookshops in the 1960s. Her studies also cover the history of Italian art exhibitions and art criticism after the Second World War (E. Genovesi, M. Rossi, Giovanni Carandente alla Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma (1955-1961), Silvana Editoriale 2022). She is currently curator of the exhibition Pino Pascali – Leoncillo. Convergenze (1957-1968) (Teatro Kursaal Santalucia, Bari), in collaboration with the Electa Mondadori publishing house and the Fondazione Pino Pascali.