GIOVANNI BAI: THE NEW OFFICIAL PORTRAIT

GIOVANNI BAI (Milano, Italia, 1952) Sociologist and artist, publisher, performer and independent curator, Bai concentrates on the issues of communication and functioning of media. In 1990 he founded Museo Teo, an atypical institution for the diffusion of contemporary art, «a museum without a location and without works of art», which publishes since 1991 Museo Teo Artfanzine, a creative and alternative magazine (free hand for the graphics and therefore always a different format and graphic layout). He also teaches Sociology and Economics at The Multimedia Communication Institute ITSOS Steiner in Milan and he has written the books Manuale per il giovane artista (1996), Immagini della società (2005), Leggere la società (2012), Indice analitico della letteratura universale. Volume primo. I fatti della vita (2018). Sociologue et vidéo-peintre, il s'intéresse aux problèmes de la communication et du fonctionnement des médias. En 1990, il fonde l'association culturelle "Museo Teo", musée sans siège et sans oeuvres, qui publie la revue Museo Teo Artfanzine. Il a exposé dans les principales villes italiennes, ainsi qu'à Paris, Londres, Berlin, Tokyo et Shanghai.