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Professor Vincenzo Trione

Vincenzo Trione, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Tourism and Markets and coordinator of the PhD in Visual and Media Studies, is a scientific member of the School of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism promoted by the Ministry of Cultural Heritage. For the period between 2016 and 2018, he was appointed Director General of the new Treccani Encyclopedia of Contemporary Art. Read here the article of the Corriere della Sera.

On 30 December 2020, he was appointed ‘Cavaliere al merito della Repubblica Italiana’ (Knight of Merit of the Italian Republic) by Italian President Sergio Mattarella.

Prof. Vincenzo Trione was also appointed by the President of the National School of Administration, Prof. Paola Severino, as a member of the SNA Management Committee, representing the Ministry of Culture. Founded in 1957 as an integral part of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, the National School of Administration (SNA) is the institution in charge of selecting, recruiting and training civil servants and public managers and represents the central hub of the Single Public Recruitment and Training System, set up to improve the efficiency and quality of the Italian Public Administration.

At the end of December 2022, Prof. Trione's book Artivismo (Einaudi) was named essay of the year by Artribune, in the ‘Best of 2022’ ranking, the most eagerly awaited in the Italian art world. His essay was awarded for ‘the fact that art cannot be sufficient for itself is a fact that cyclically returns to present itself at the gates of that walled garden that is the artworld. This awareness has come back powerfully in the pandemic years and again in this period, with the war still going on at Europe's doorstep and climate change increasingly showing its urgency. Vincenzo Trione's essay recounts all this very well'.

In July 2024, Prof. Trione's volume Prologo celeste. Nell'atelier di Anselm Kiefer (Einaudi, 2023), won the prestigious Viareggio-Rèpaci Literary Prize for the non-fiction section. ‘Compared to works of art,’ Trione writes in Prologo celeste, ‘ateliers hold the same value that prologues have for books or portals for cathedrals’. In fact, the book delves into the enormous spaces of the atelier-workshops that the German artist ‘created’ in France and boasts a rich iconographic apparatus.