Danilo Eccher
Danilo Eccher is an Italian art critic and curator.
Biography
Eccher is the former director of Galleria Civica d'Arte Contemporanea di Trento in Trento, GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna in Bologna, MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, GAM Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Turin.As a curator, Eccher focused on contemporary painting, working with Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown, Francesco Clemente, Roy Lichtenstein, Jenny Saville, Sean Scully, Julian Schnabel, Ettore Spalletti, and Tom Wesselmann. He curated solo exhibitions of Tony Cragg, Wolfgang Laib, Marisa Merz, and Hermann Nitsch. At GAM Turin he was the first Italian director adopting a thematic display.
In 1993 Eccher was a member of the artistic committee of the 45th Visual Arts Venice Biennial, co-curating the international exhibition 'La Coesistenza dell'arte'.
From 2002 through 2006 Eccher was co-director of the Master Class for “Contemporary Art and Architecture Curators”, Sapienza University of Rome.
From 2009 through 2011 Eccher was president of the Fondazione Galleria Civica di Trento.
Since 2015 Eccher has been working as an independent curator, realizing solo exhibitions of Jannis Kounellis, Albert Oehlen, Sean Scully, Christian Boltanski and the group exhibitions Love, Enjoy, and Dream at the Chiostro del Bramante, in Rome. He is teaching "Philosophy of curatorship" at university of Turin