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Gabriele Reina, PhD.
Milan, Italy
Phone. + 39 339 6027287
gabriele_reina@yahoo.it
www.gabriele-reina.com
Objective & Overview: Consultative position as professional advisor to and curator of private or institutional collections of European Old Masters, specializing in Italian and French Baroque painting; in Italian and EU export licensing laws and regulations; restoration and conservation; authenticity, provenance, and forgeries; 'sleeper' categories and art as investment. More than 20 years experience in top positions with leading institutions in the fine arts sector and fine arts publishing, as well and prominent individual art owners. Two Masters degrees from the University of Milan, a PhD from the University of Lausanne, multi-lingual (French, Italian, English, Spanish, German, Portugese), with Residence in Milan and Washington DC. Internationally exhibited artist (Rome, Monaco, Turin, Loire Valley, etc) specializing in the classical methods of large-scale heraldic painting.
Professional Background
September 2004 to Present
The Luigi Koelliker Collection
Director & Curator
Milan, Italy
Collection development and management of one of the world's largest private collections of Old Masters and specialized contemporary painting. Serving as the "right-arm" of this prominent collector, responsibilites include: extensive European travel to auctions and galleries/dealers for the purpose of art purchase counsel and recommendations to Mr. Koelliker directly; managing requests from world's top museums seeking inclusion of works from the collection and overseeing all aspects of loan conditions, export exigencies and delivery involved in those loans; meeting with international clients seeking to purchase works and managing these relations both professionally and socially; responsible for knowing all legal issues or potential controversies pertaining to Italy's complex export licensing laws and their relation to EU regulations; the overseeing of general-to-severe conservation and restoration projects; the organization of transportation and delivery to exhibitions; responsible for impeccable scholarly research and provenance investigation. In addition, this work entailed the maintenance of excellent, long-term relationships with museums, auction houses, various European Ministries of Culture/governmental regulatory agencies, cultural institutions, influential press, and universities. Also responsible for the organization and preparation of exhibitions (venue, environmental controls, catalogues, advertising, etc.)
September 1996-September 2004
FMR/Franco Maria Ricci, Milan, Italy
--Editor-in-Chief (2002-2004)
--Managing Editor/Writer (1996-2002)
At one point the most famous art publishing house in the world through its multi-lingual flagship magazine "FMR" and luxury hardcover publishing imprint, was hired as the in-house art scholar and historian, eventually promoted to Editor-in-Chief. Responsible for conception and researcher of rare themes in literature, history, painting and aesthetics; author and co-author of two dozen commissioned books or specialty publications under the FMR imprint for major clients in banking and various social societies. Responsible for external relations with major corporate sponsors.
Author
Forthcoming publication of 600-page PhD thesis on the history of the heraldic arts by the Milanese arts publisher Nicolas Orsini. Author of numerous books and essays for FMR/Franco Maria Ricci, Electa Mondadori, White/Star National Geographic, etc including Palazzo Altieri; Bologna; Castles of the world; Superga segreta. A literary and aesthetic history of the British cultural presence in modern Italy will be published as The British In Italy in 2023 by London publisher
Art & International Exhibitions:
A pupil of futurist master Sibò (Pier Luigi Bossi, 1907-2000), who was a disciple of Sienese painters Arturo Viligiardi (1869-1936) and Dario Neri (1895-1958), my specialization includes heraldic art, portraiture, a 'blue Limoges' pigment technique in portraiture based upon Renaissance tradition, landscapes as well as stone and marble masonry. International exhibitions of heraldic art, notebook sketches and portraiture include Milan November-December 1994 - Solo exhibition, Heraldry, Franco Maria Ricci Library, Via Durini; Milan 21 March-3 April 2013 - Solo exhibition "Motti & Stemmi"; Venice 23 April-9 May 2014 Solo exhibition "The winged lions of Saint Mark". Palazzo Cornoldi; Trieste 8-19 June 2015. Solo exhibition "Visages from the Austrian Empire", Generali Palace; Milan 15 September-15 October 2015: Solo exhibition "Sketchbooks and books of drawings". Galleria Spaziotemporaneo; Vézelay 7 July-1 September 2018: Solo exhibition, "La Mémoire du Symbole, Etendards héraldiques". Musée Viollet-le-Duc. 4 October-12 Janvier 2020-2021: Solo exhibition "The key of History: heraldic standards". Villefranche-sur-Mer. Villandry April-27 July 2022. Solo exhibition, "Heraldry and portraits". Chateau de Villandry. These exhibitions have been featured in such media as Corriere della Sera, Piedmontese Magazine, Loire Valley, Cote d'Azur press.
Education
2013-2018
Doctorate in Art History, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
1995-1997
Master's Degree, Art History, University of Milan
1988-1994
Masters Degree, Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Milan
Personal Qualities:
Calm and diplomatic manner; discretion, well-spoken and multi-lingual, high discipline, excellent team spirit, cosmpolitan education with positive command of all social situations and environments.
Additional:
Honorary member Society of Heraldic Artists, London; Member of the Dalmatian Society of Storia Patria (Venice)
Member of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club and Scottish (Edinburgh). Endurance athlete with participation in two Triathlon events in just over two decades.
Milan, Italy
Phone. + 39 339 6027287
gabriele_reina@yahoo.it
www.gabriele-reina.com
Objective & Overview: Consultative position as professional advisor to and curator of private or institutional collections of European Old Masters, specializing in Italian and French Baroque painting; in Italian and EU export licensing laws and regulations; restoration and conservation; authenticity, provenance, and forgeries; 'sleeper' categories and art as investment. More than 20 years experience in top positions with leading institutions in the fine arts sector and fine arts publishing, as well and prominent individual art owners. Two Masters degrees from the University of Milan, a PhD from the University of Lausanne, multi-lingual (French, Italian, English, Spanish, German, Portugese), with Residence in Milan and Washington DC. Internationally exhibited artist (Rome, Monaco, Turin, Loire Valley, etc) specializing in the classical methods of large-scale heraldic painting.
Professional Background
September 2004 to Present
The Luigi Koelliker Collection
Director & Curator
Milan, Italy
Collection development and management of one of the world's largest private collections of Old Masters and specialized contemporary painting. Serving as the "right-arm" of this prominent collector, responsibilites include: extensive European travel to auctions and galleries/dealers for the purpose of art purchase counsel and recommendations to Mr. Koelliker directly; managing requests from world's top museums seeking inclusion of works from the collection and overseeing all aspects of loan conditions, export exigencies and delivery involved in those loans; meeting with international clients seeking to purchase works and managing these relations both professionally and socially; responsible for knowing all legal issues or potential controversies pertaining to Italy's complex export licensing laws and their relation to EU regulations; the overseeing of general-to-severe conservation and restoration projects; the organization of transportation and delivery to exhibitions; responsible for impeccable scholarly research and provenance investigation. In addition, this work entailed the maintenance of excellent, long-term relationships with museums, auction houses, various European Ministries of Culture/governmental regulatory agencies, cultural institutions, influential press, and universities. Also responsible for the organization and preparation of exhibitions (venue, environmental controls, catalogues, advertising, etc.)
September 1996-September 2004
FMR/Franco Maria Ricci, Milan, Italy
--Editor-in-Chief (2002-2004)
--Managing Editor/Writer (1996-2002)
At one point the most famous art publishing house in the world through its multi-lingual flagship magazine "FMR" and luxury hardcover publishing imprint, was hired as the in-house art scholar and historian, eventually promoted to Editor-in-Chief. Responsible for conception and researcher of rare themes in literature, history, painting and aesthetics; author and co-author of two dozen commissioned books or specialty publications under the FMR imprint for major clients in banking and various social societies. Responsible for external relations with major corporate sponsors.
Author
Forthcoming publication of 600-page PhD thesis on the history of the heraldic arts by the Milanese arts publisher Nicolas Orsini. Author of numerous books and essays for FMR/Franco Maria Ricci, Electa Mondadori, White/Star National Geographic, etc including Palazzo Altieri; Bologna; Castles of the world; Superga segreta. A literary and aesthetic history of the British cultural presence in modern Italy will be published as The British In Italy in 2023 by London publisher
Art & International Exhibitions:
A pupil of futurist master Sibò (Pier Luigi Bossi, 1907-2000), who was a disciple of Sienese painters Arturo Viligiardi (1869-1936) and Dario Neri (1895-1958), my specialization includes heraldic art, portraiture, a 'blue Limoges' pigment technique in portraiture based upon Renaissance tradition, landscapes as well as stone and marble masonry. International exhibitions of heraldic art, notebook sketches and portraiture include Milan November-December 1994 - Solo exhibition, Heraldry, Franco Maria Ricci Library, Via Durini; Milan 21 March-3 April 2013 - Solo exhibition "Motti & Stemmi"; Venice 23 April-9 May 2014 Solo exhibition "The winged lions of Saint Mark". Palazzo Cornoldi; Trieste 8-19 June 2015. Solo exhibition "Visages from the Austrian Empire", Generali Palace; Milan 15 September-15 October 2015: Solo exhibition "Sketchbooks and books of drawings". Galleria Spaziotemporaneo; Vézelay 7 July-1 September 2018: Solo exhibition, "La Mémoire du Symbole, Etendards héraldiques". Musée Viollet-le-Duc. 4 October-12 Janvier 2020-2021: Solo exhibition "The key of History: heraldic standards". Villefranche-sur-Mer. Villandry April-27 July 2022. Solo exhibition, "Heraldry and portraits". Chateau de Villandry. These exhibitions have been featured in such media as Corriere della Sera, Piedmontese Magazine, Loire Valley, Cote d'Azur press.
Education
2013-2018
Doctorate in Art History, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
1995-1997
Master's Degree, Art History, University of Milan
1988-1994
Masters Degree, Foreign Languages and Literature, University of Milan
Personal Qualities:
Calm and diplomatic manner; discretion, well-spoken and multi-lingual, high discipline, excellent team spirit, cosmpolitan education with positive command of all social situations and environments.
Additional:
Honorary member Society of Heraldic Artists, London; Member of the Dalmatian Society of Storia Patria (Venice)
Member of the Robert Louis Stevenson Club and Scottish (Edinburgh). Endurance athlete with participation in two Triathlon events in just over two decades.
References Available Upon Request