Biography
Roberto Girardi was born in 1962 in Turin , a booming city and in great turmoil for the workers' revolt and the visit of Pope John XXIII , in the year of the first exhibition of Andy Warhol in New York, the debut of the Rolling Stones in London, James Bond in the cinema , Spiderman in the comics and the Cuban Missile Crisis , the year that Marilyn Monroe died .
The son of a professor of ancient literature and an official of the then SIP is passionate about everything that is related to automation and electricity , disassembles and assembles hair dryer, toaster , lamps , razors and everything that has to do with a power plug , but also loves to read and does consulting the many tomes in the library homemaker , assisted by her mother, browse daily many volumes , but it is the encyclopedia Universal Curcio magnet that most his attention, and it is there that understands to be very attracted by painting , admiring the pictures of the masters of art that are proposed in the pages of the nine volumes , although many black and white and that will remain indelibly imprinted in the memory.
In the 70's at the tender age of 12 , is passionate about communications by joining together with a group of guys a lot bigger, a small radio station in those years, along with other private broadcasters still looks dated in transistor receivers if not yet in valves, beginning to offer something different in the radio landscape compared to only RAI channels available at that time.
The radio will become a constant companion and I attend a lot over the years, both in the regional scenario in which the national becoming , a passion and a job that will never abandon it , and ensure that after several interviews , programs and cultural information , to become a journalist, thanks to the advice and support of the great master Vittorio de Giorgio and work , when it becomes radio voice of the Mondadori Group , with big names like Victor Felts , Umberto Brindani , Giorgio Mule , Giancarlo d'Adda , Laura Terzoli and many other prominent journalists .
The contrast between the humanities and technology leads the latter to ensure that they are studies related to electronics to prevail and give it a title that does not really ever use , because shortly after graduation he was hired by a company linked Polygraphic Institute and Mint state that assigns the role of sole agent of northern Italy for the artistic production of the school of the Art of the coin and where in fact he started his artistic career.
These were the years of the economic boom and the Art gives him great satisfaction both economic and cultural , allowing him to learn the masters of Italian painting and sculpture as Giacomo Manzu , Greek Emilio and Francesco Messina , which also feed a great love for mergers in bronze.
The nineties were also the years in which it is aware of his current partner, Joseph Magnotta , with which it forms Artinvest Ltd., a company that will carry hundreds of exhibitions, trade fairs and exhibitions which currently lists the great artists of national and international fame , and with which he made a collection of works of art of great level with paintings by Pablo Picasso , Fernand Leger , Marc Chagall, Wassily Kandinsky , Giorgio de Chirico, Mario Schifano, Ottone Rosai and many other artists that are currently offered free viewing in a room gallery , in addition to the constant search for new talent.
In 1999, aware that the art is still considered a marginal branch of our lives, and thanks to the development of the Internet, began the construction of a portal of Art where images are collected and biography of the greatest masters of national and international , and that thanks to the collaboration of his future wife , Stephanie, in a few months became one of the most popular websites with over 10 million page views per month , is called " Artinvest2000 " just like the year in which he made his debut on the web with Google which today is a partner.
He writes reviews and articles , but only to artists for which he feels a strong and positive emotional transport , such as Giorgio Flis , Bissacco Martino , Vittorio Varrè , Joseph Menozzi , Roberto Tigelli and dozens of other artists with whom he establishes a working relationship as well as a contact emotional that allows him to present them to the public and collectors with emphasis and feeling that they deserve, telling their jobs for what they really are and not for reviews buckled at random.
After many years in the office of Rivoli, in the prestigious Tower of the Spinning Mill , he decided with his partner , to enable a growing number of people to share the space with works of art , to open the first true ArtRestaurant in Italy , in the heart of Turin, where customers could eat interacting and coexisting with the works of the masters of art on display.
At the same Artinvest began collaborating with Prof. Giammarco Props that in 2013 he was appointed director of Spoleto International Art Fair , becoming the first address of the event, thanks to the fact that Roberto Girardi was appointed Director-General of Expo Spoleto in 2014 and awarded a important prize awarded by the chamber of Deputies , for artistic merit in the field of journalism .
Charles Bukowski said : " The difference between art and life is that art is more bearable ," perhaps as never before , for this I can be calm and confident , knowing that art will never die and that I can, thanks to my contributions , leaving a trace in this fabulous world.
Robert Girardi
