What is your education and/or training?

Mattia Patti is Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Pisa, where he is is President of the Master Degree Course in History and Forms of the Visual and Performing Arts and New Media. Coordinator of the project FUTURAHMA. From Futurism to classicism (1910-1922). Research, Art History and Materials Analysis (MIUR, 2013-2016), Patti obtained his Ph.D. at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, with a dissertation on Osvaldo Licini. Since 2008 he has collaborated with the Opificio delle Pietre Dure and the CNR-National Institute of Optics in Florence, where he deals with diagnostics applied to the cultural heritage and the conservation of modern and contemporary art. He has been involved in several campaigns, and published contributions on Beato Angelico, Carlo Crivelli, Vincenzo Foppa, Osvaldo Licini, Piero Manzoni. Between 2010 and 2014 he has taken part in the MOLAB, Mobile Laboratory for the European project CHARISMA.