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20 July 2020Oreste Casalini, artist, sculptor, curator at the Biennale, died last night in Rome where he was hospitalized at the IDI. He had long been battling lung cancer and his wife Ekaterina Pugach had also launched a fundraiser for a very expensive combination therapy.

Born in Naples in 1962, but for years in the capital, Casalini had graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome and during his career he has made numerous permanent installations in private and public spaces.

Over the years he has lived and worked in New York, Berlin, Dubai, Naples and in southern India.

In 2010 he created permanent installations in Milan and Berlin, he participated in the 12th Venice Architecture Biennale as part of the "E-picentro" project as artist and curator of the "In curtain" section.

Last December his last exhibition, "Forever" at the Kou Gallery in Rome.