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UMBERTO ARTIOLI
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Umberto Artioli
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Umberto Artioli was born in Mantova, on August 19th, 1939.
In 1964, together with Fernando Trebbi, Francesco Bartoli and Gino Baratta, he founded the avant-garde Mantuan journal «Il Portico».
In the same period he started working at the University of Padova as a non-stipendiary assistant, cooperating with Professor Flores d’Arcais and Professor Calendoli.
From the Seventies to 1986 he was a lecturer at Facoltà di Magistero, University of Verona. In 1986 he became tenure professor teaching History the Theatre and Performing Arts at Facoltà di Magistero,
University of Padova, and in 1996 moved to the Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia of the same university.
In 1988 he belonged to the founding committee of the four-monthly theatre journal «Il castello di Elsinore». He also was a member of its editorial group.
1989 witnessed his significant cooperation with the group of scholars called to work at the Biennale Teatro, Venice by Carmelo Bene. The results of Artioli’s
contribution to such workshop were published in La ricerca impossibile. Biennale Teatro ’89 (1990) and in Carmelo Bene. Il teatro senza spettacolo (1990).
He also conceived the theatre programme for Cena delle beffe, directed by the above-mentioned Carmelo Bene.
In 1996 he was conferred the “Silvio D’Amico” award for his essay on D’Annunzio, Il combattimento invisibile. D’Annunzio tra romanzo e teatro (1995), published by Laterza.
Since the same year he started editing (together with Fernando Trebbi) the series Saggi e materiali universitari per la storia del teatro for Esedra publishers, Padova.
Since 2001 he was a member of the editorial board of «Angelo di fuoco», a newly published half-yearly journal by Centro Nazionale di Studi
Pirandelliani.
His role as a Town Councillor at Mantova, where he also was a member of the town committee for culture, started in 1995.
In Mantova he founded the Fondazione “Mantova Capitale Europea dello Spettacolo”, an institution he presided from its birth to the
day of his tragic demise, on July 15th, 2004. Started in 1999 as “Centro Mantova Capitale Europea dello Spettacolo”, turned into a Foundation
in 2000, and bearing the name of Umberto Artioli himself today, the Foundation is mainly concerned with researching –and cataloguing by computer – documents connected
to the spectacular activity supported by the Gonzagas at the climax of their splendour (1480-1630), paying particular attention the Comedy of Art.
Among the activities of the Foundation, he conceived (together with Siro Ferrone) the “Arlecchino d’oro” prize (since 1999), which is yearly conferred to a
world-famous theatre artist during a composite drama festival. The artists awarded until now are: Dario Fo (1999); Marcel Marceau (2000); Ferruccio Soleri (2001);
Paolo Poli (2003); Giorgio Albertazzi e Patrice Chéreau (2004). In 2005 the prize was posthumously awarded to Artioli.
In May 2005, a conference in memory of Artioli, Drammaturgie della quête, took place at the University of Padova.
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