Achille Bonito Oliva, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Achille Bonito Oliva

Italian art critic

Date of Birth: 04-Nov-1939

Place of Birth: Caggiano, Campania, Italy

Profession: writer, poet lawyer, university teacher, art historian, journalist, academic, art critic

Nationality: Italy

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Achille Bonito Oliva (born 1939) is an Italian art critic and historian of contemporary art.
Since 1968 he has taught history of contemporary art at La Sapienza, the university of Rome.
He has written extensively on contemporary art and contemporary artists; he originated the term Transavanguardia to describe the new direction taken in the late 1970s by artists such as Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente, Enzo Cucchi, Nicola De Maria and Mimmo Paladino.
He has organised or curated numerous contemporary art events and exhibitions; in 1993 he was artistic director of the Biennale di Venezia.