Robert Mapplethorpe

Germano Celant is a renowned art historian, critic, and theoretician; he has served as the curator of hundreds of exhibitions worldwide and has published more than one hundred books and catalogs. Director of the Fondazione Prada, Milan, since 1995, Celant is also the curator of the Fondazione Aldo Rossi in Milan and the Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova in Venice. A longtime contributing editor to Artforum and Interview magazine, he writes regular columns for the Italian magazines l'Espresso and Interni.