Anton Giulio Onofri

Anton Giulio Onofri was born in Rome on the penultimate day of 1959. Writer and director, for Rai and Mediaset, of various televised cultural broadcasts in the '90s (A tutto volume, L'Angelo, Le Notti dell'Angelo, Onda anomala, Cenerentola), with the start of the new century he decided to dump the fleeting world of show schedules and independently make videos and documentary films about music, art and literature, which would not spoil once broadcast: a film about the Palio di Siena (Visioni di Palio), a film about the Roman symphonic poems by Ottorino Respighi with Sir Antonio Pappano and the Orchestra dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia (The Sound of Rome), and a film on the greatest conductor of all times (Franco Ferrara, il Maestro caduto dal podio). He is the author of a novel, Lo Splendore e la scimmia (2013) and a collection of short stories, La prima estate e altri racconti (2019). From 2013 to 2019 he presented the programme 'La Classica Domanda' on Sky's Classica HD channel. He works with the magazines Close-Up and Artslife, for which he writes about cinema, music and miscellaneous current events. During Manifesta 12 he exhibited a series of photographs, In ascolto (Magneti Cowork, Parlermo, 2018). In 2019 he took part, with h...

Collective exhibitions

- Paesaggi d'Italia
curated by Vittorio Sgarbi
Cortina d'Ampezzo, Museo d'Arte Moderna Mario Rimoldi
25.06 - 3.10 2021

- Ritratto di famiglia
Roma, Galleria Nazionale, 18.06 - 29.09 2019

- #SwitchTheRules
contest organized by Fondazione Ermanno Casoli
a cura di Alessandro Dandini da Sylva
Roma, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, 25 - 27.10 2018


Solo shows

- Non mi troverai (You woun't find me)
Roma, Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, 15.12.2022 - 31.01.2023
Milano, Fondazione Mudima, 17.02 - 31-03.2023

- PU.Ra Pesaro-Urbino Razionalista
Pesaro, Musei Civici, 24.06.2022 - 31.01.2023

- Roma Città Chiusa
Roma, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
8.03 - 5.06.2021

- In ascolto
Palermo, Magneti Cowork, dal 9 al 23 giugno 2018