Luca Beatrice (Turin, 1961) began his career as an art critic in the late 1980s, with exhibitions on Futurism in Turin (Franco Costa, Enrico Allimandi, Alberto Sartoris). He was a student of Enrico Crispolti at the School of Specialisation in Art History at the University of Siena. He began writing about art in the magazine 'Tema Celeste' and later in 'Flash Art'. Since the 1990s, he has been curator of numerous exhibitions related to new Italian figuration. He was curator of the Prague Biennale (2003-2005) and commissioner of the Anteprima section of the XIV Quadriennale in Rome (2004). In 2005, he presented Natale Addamiano in the exhibition organised at the Paestum Archaeological Museum in his honour. In 2009, he was chosen as curator of the Italian Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Art Biennale. The starting point of the exhibition, entitled Collaudi, is a homage to Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Futurism, the first and only Italian avant-garde movement of the 20th century. He taught contemporary art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo and, for over ten years, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan. Since autumn 2009, he has been teaching at the Accademia Albertina in Turin. Since July 2010, he has been president of the Circolo dei lettori in Turin, a public space dedicated to reading. On the occasion of the 25th edition of the Turin International Book Fair (May 2012), he curated the exhibition La Città Visibile. Torino 1988-2012 on the 25 objects that have represented the change of the Piedmontese capital in recent years. He is curator of the Cairo Prize from 2010 to 2013 and the Michetti Prize in 2012. In addition to critical texts on Italian artists who are now historicised, such as Mario Schifano or Mimmo Rotella, and others belonging to the new generations, he is the author of several books on the history of art, with a particular focus on its relationship with music and cinema. It was precisely on the relationship between visual arts and music that in 2006 he curated the first major Italian exhibition dedicated to the subject in Perugia: Sound & Vision. He collaborates with Juventus Channel as a columnist and fan. He collaborates with 'Il Giornale' and writes for the weekly 'Torino Sette' of 'La Stampa', as well as the magazines 'Arte', 'Rumore', 'Raiders' and 'Max'.