This edition of "Light Art in Italy 2011 - Temporary installations" is strongly focused on artists of light. My choice responds to a need for clarity, but, working and researching in this field for years, I am aware of the close relationship and overlap of art and design, and in fact, even in my work at the Polytechnic of Milan, I have always promoted active interaction between the two sectors. Considering the difficulty of comprehending by reviewers, who may be professionals , students or readers that approach this art for the first time, I decided to attach a DVD with videos that have been supplied by the artists, in order to understand better some of the published installations.

Gisella Gellini

Gisella Gellini, Architect, graduated in Florence with a study about the refurbishment and museal concept of Schifanoia Palace in Ferrara (XIV century). After that, she attended research courses and masters in experimental aesthetics focused on the space-time-light topics. She went to Sao Paulo in Brazil, where she designed many important buildings, such as the Santa Marcellina Faculty of Fine Arts and Music and history-oriented settings in other brazilian cities. At the same time she carried out a consultancy for the Centre of Study and Research of the Sao Paulo State. A researcher in the field of the light's culture, with a particular reference to Light Art, she obtained the co-operation and consultancy of the great art collector Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. In 2009 she was invited as curator of the exhibition "Dan Flavin in the Panza Collection", set up at the Berardo Museum, Lisboa. then during Euroluce of Milan, she curated the Nicola Evangelisti installation "Light Blade", at Villa Reale. In 2010, on the occasion of Luminale, she was invited as curator of "Luces. Light Art from Italy", a collective exhibition of Italian light's artists, set up at the Archaelo-gical Museum of Franfkurt. At present she is inolved in the organisation of an anthological exhibition of works from the Panza Collection at the Tomie-Ohtake Museum of Sao Paulo, an exhibition within the "Momento Italia-Brasile 2011-2012" major event.