Art historian, Gaia Bindi (Florence, 1967) teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts in Florence. She has worked at the Marino Marini Museum and the Alinari Archives in Florence and at the Picasso Museum in Paris. She has collaborated with numerous critics (including Jean Clair and Maurizio Fagiolo dell’Arco) for modern and contemporary art exhibitions. She dealt with Italian art of the Twenties and Thirties, with exhibitions and catalogues dedicated to Giorgio de Chirico, the “Italiens de Paris”, Pablo Picasso and Cubism, Salvador Dalí, Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo.
Since 2009 he has been dealing with contemporary art with ecological intent with exhibitions and essays dedicated to these themes and is scientific consultant of PAV – Parco Arte Vivente Centro sperimentale di arte contemporanea di Torino. Starting from her recent book Arte, ambiente, ecologia (Postmediabooks, Milano 2019), the dialogue deals with the following themes: the theoretical reflection on the relationship between man and nature, the artistic practices that investigate it, the practice of the garden, the relationship between art and science, the role of new technologies and the possible developments of artistic research after the Coronavirus emergency.