Artribune Podcast: Curator Danilo Eccher and Geologist Elisabetta Erba in Dialogue

The Artribune podcast 'Contemporaneamente', hosted by Mariantonietta Firmani, features a conversation between art curator Danilo Eccher and geologist Elisabetta Erba. They discuss intersections of art and earth science, museums and geology, and the role of curation in staging artworks. Erba notes that oceans cover 70% of the planet and have absorbed 40% of CO2 since the Industrial Revolution, while Eccher describes contemporary museums as 'great culture factories'. The episode explores how increased interdisciplinary interaction makes curation essential. Eccher, a former director of major Italian museums (Galleria Civica di Trento, GAM Bologna, MACRO Rome, GAM Turin) and commissioner for the 1993 Venice Biennale, has curated shows for artists like Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, and Cecily Brown. Erba, a professor of paleontology at the University of Milan and specialist in Mesozoic calcareous nannofossils, has participated in oceanographic cruises and published extensively. She is a member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei and Academia Europaea, and recipient of the Jean Baptiste Lamarck Medal (2022). The podcast is available on Spreaker.