Italian curator selected for Onufri competition

TIRANA, Nov. 26 – Italy’s Daniele Capra has been selected as the curator of this year’s Onufri international visual arts competition, the National Art Gallery says. A curator, art critic and journalist, Capra, 36, has curated over 50 shows in Italy, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel. He worked with Dena Foundation in Paris, Zoology and Comparative Anatomy Museum of Bologna, Dolomiti Contemporanee, Fondazione Galleria Civica of Trento, City of Milan, the Dada Museum in Haifa and the Tina-B Contemporary Art Festival in Prague. He worked as a curator for the Young European Artist Trieste Contemporanea Award in 2008 and 2009, and was member of the jury for the Tirana Onufri Prize.
The 2012 Onufri exhibition will open on December 24 at the National Arts Gallery in Tirana.
Last year’s “The Painting of Modern Life’ Onufri topic was named after Charles Baudelaire’s essay published in 1863 in Paris. The annual exhibition is named after Onufri, Albania’s 16th century most important icon painter whose works are on display at the iconographic museum in the southern town of Berat, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008. In many of its previous editions, Onufri has been held as international exhibition bringing together artists from all over the world.