Davide after managing BizArt Art Centre in Shanghai the first not for profit independent creative lab in China for a decade, created in 2007 Arthub (www.arthubasia.org) a platform to support artistic endeavors in Asia. Arthub is now one of the 12 worldwide network partners of Prince Claus Fund (the Netherlands) for South East Asia (2008-2010). With BizArt and its team and now with Arthub, he organized hundreds of exhibitions, educational activities and exchanges in China and abroad, developing relationships with local and foreign institutions worldwide. Quadrio has been consulting Bund18 Creative Space (2005-2008) curating shows such as Vivienne Westwood’s Exhibition together with V&A, the Droog Design exhibition tour China (Shanghai, Shenzhen and Beijing) and the solo exhibition by Olivo Barbieri, Site-specific during the 2006 Shanghai Biennale. In the international arena he curated shows worldwide and most recently Artissima Cinema in the Museum of Cinema, Turin (2007/2008) and in Florence at Palazzo Strozzi with the show China!China!China which will tour to Sainsbury Art Center (2009). Davide organized a 5 days public art event for the Eart festival, October 2008 in heart of Shanghai, Xujiahui district. In 2009, following the financial crises, Davide creates an art production company called Far East Far West LTD to finance new artworks by artists in China and Asia (first production Cao Fei’s “RMB City Opera” in Turin, November 2009). On the cultural development side Davide has been working with ASEF and international governments consulting among others Pro Helvetia, the Foreign Ministry of the Netherlands, of Ireland and UK. Davide has been often invited by Universities such as Leiden University (the Netherlands), La Sapienza (Italy) and East Anglia University (UK), Academy of Fine Arts of Seoul (Korea), just to mention few for lectures, workshops and presentation. Articles by Davide appeared in various magazines, newspapers and catalogues worldwide, such as Yishu Journal, Flash Art, Artforum etc. and several academic publication due in 2009.
