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Paolo Bolpagni (born 7 October 1979) is an Italian art historian, critic and curator.
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Life
Bolpagni was born in Brescia, in Lombardy in northern Italy. He graduated in letters from the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Brescia, and then completed a doctorate in history of art at the same university in Milan. Since 2010 he has taught at the Brescia campus of the university. He also teaches at the Università degli Studi eCampus.
From 2008 to 2011, and again from 2013, he was director of the Collezione Paolo VI - arte contemporanea in Concesio, in the province of Brescia, and in 2016 became director of the Fondazione Centro Studi sull'Arte Licia e Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti in Lucca, in Tuscany. He won the Premio Sulmona for history of art in 2013, when he was 33; he is the youngest person to have won the prize.
Work
Bolpagni has written on the twentieth-century artist Mario Ballocco, founder of the Gruppo Origine, and has also published work on the interaction between music and the visual arts. In 2011–2012, he created a channel on YouTube where he presented short videos on the history of contemporary art.