Valerio Rocco Orlando (Italian pronunciation: [vaˈlɛːrjo ˈrɔkko orˈlando]) (born in 1978 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian artist, Professor of Multimedia Dramaturgy at Brera Academy in Milan and PhD candidate in Engineering-based Architecture and Urban Planning at Sapienza University of Rome. His collaborations include working with French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, English composer Michael Nyman, artists Gilbert & George, Ugo Rondinone and Liam Gillick, jazz singer Amalia Grè, supermodel Eva Riccobono, actors Saleh Bakri, Alba Rohrwacher, and psychoanalyst Luigi Zoja. Valerio Rocco Orlando has exhibited widely and represented Italy at the 11th Havana Biennial (2012). Recent solo institutional exhibitions include: The Reverse Grand Tour, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome (2013); The Sphere of the Between, Korea Foundation, Seoul (2015); What Education for Mars?, Museo Marino Marini, Florence (2015); Portami al Confine, MUSMA, Matera (2016); Valerio Rocco Orlando, Santiago Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago (2017); Dialogue with the Unseen, MUDEC Museo delle Culture, Milan (2019). Thanks to the Ministry of Culture (Italy)’s support within the Italian Council program, in 2021 Valerio Rocco Orlando founded an independent and transdisciplinary school in the heart of UNESCO Heritage Sassi di Matera, in the South of Italy; he created a digital platform and started the restoration of a building granted to him by the city of Matera for thirty years (South of Imagination, 2021-ongoing). Orlando's works have been featured in Artforum, ArtReview, Contemporary (magazine), Corriere della Sera, Domus (magazine), Flash Art, Frieze (magazine), Il manifesto, La Repubblica, L'Uomo Vogue, Modern Painters (magazine), The Korea Herald, Vogue Italia and W magazine. (en)
Valerio Rocco Orlando (Italian pronunciation: [vaˈlɛːrjo ˈrɔkko orˈlando]) (born in 1978 in Milan, Italy) is an Italian artist, Professor of Multimedia Dramaturgy at Brera Academy in Milan and PhD candidate in Engineering-based Architecture and Urban Planning at Sapienza University of Rome. His collaborations include working with French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, English composer Michael Nyman, artists Gilbert & George, Ugo Rondinone and Liam Gillick, jazz singer Amalia Grè, supermodel Eva Riccobono, actors Saleh Bakri, Alba Rohrwacher, and psychoanalyst Luigi Zoja. (en)