Alessio de’Navasques

Bio

Fashion critic and curator, Alessio de’Navasques focuses his research on the intersections between fashion and contemporary art, working with archives, museums, and private galleries.

Since 2024, he has been the curator of the cultural program at the newly reopened Galleria at 10 Corso Como, where he curated the following exhibitions: “Glen Luchford. Atlas”, the first retrospective dedicated to the English photographer; “The Waves. Featuring ALL-IN, Duran Lantink, Hodakova, Vaquera, zomer”, spotlighting emerging talent; “Andrea Branzi. Civilizations without jewels have never existed”, the first exhibition celebrating the Italian architect and theorist following his passing; “Yohji Yamamoto. Letter to the Future”, developed in collaboration with the legendary Japanese designer; and “Pietro Consagra. Ornamenti”, curated with the Pietro Consagra Archive and centred on a series of jewellery works stemming from the artist’s relationship with Carla Lonzi.

Among his research projects, he curated the international conference and workshop “Fashion & Antiquity” for the Museo Nazionale Romano and Sapienza University of Rome, which marked the first time the main spaces of the archaeological museum were involved in such a project. In 2023, he curated the performance SI/LENZIO for the Museo Nazionale Romano (Terme di Diocleziano) and /gal-le-rìa/ at the French Embassy at Palazzo Farnese.

His curatorial work also includes numerous photography exhibitions, such as: “Ruediger Glatz. Reflecting Pasolini” (2022) and “Jeff Bark. Paradise Garage” (2019) at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, and “Dialoghi. Pino Pascali e Ugo Mulas” for the Ugo Mulas Archive and the Pino Pascali Foundation Museum in Polignano a Mare (2022).

Since 2012, he has founded and co-curated the project A.I. Artisanal Intelligence, focusing on the reactivation of costume and fashion archives within exhibitions, research initiatives, and cataloging. Highlights include the exhibition “Lazio, Land of Cinema – The Land of Magic Handcraft” (2021) for the Italian Pavilion at Expo Dubai.

In the field of heritage management, he collaborated on the Romaison project and exhibition on the relationship between fashion and cinema, promoted by Zètema and the Museo dell’Ara Pacis in Rome. He also contributed to the performance “Embodying Pasolini” by Tilda Swinton and Olivier Saillard (2021) that reactivated Pier Paolo Pasolini’s costume archive.

He teaches Fashion Archives at Sapienza University of Rome and regularly writes for publications such as Vogue, Dust, i-D Italy, and Artribune.