Luca Beatrice, 63, former President of the Circolo dei Lettori in Turin and President of the Rome Quadrenniale, has died: an essayist and art critic, he had been hospitalized in serious condition at the Molinette Hospital in Turin following a heart attack suffered in recent days. Beatrice was a professor of art history at the Accademia Albertina in Turin, where he also taught courses on the history of design and television, and he contributed to the cultural pages of “Il Giornale”. He was considered a right-wing intellectual and had curated major exhibitions in Italy and Europe: among them, monographs of Andy Warhol, Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper and a group show on Warhol and the 1980s in New York. In 2009 he was curator of the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. His exhibitions include "Easy Rider. The Myth of the Motorcycle", staged in 2018 at the Reggia di Venaria. A passionate Juventus fan (among his countless assignments was also that of art curator for the memorial to the Heysel victims, entrusted to him by the Juventus club) and lively polemicist, Beatrice in recent weeks had focused on organizing and promoting the Rome Quadriennale, for the first time under his presidency, entitled "Fantastica" with the aim, he had explained, "of putting Italian art back at the center of the cultural debate”.