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Demetrio Paparoni, art critic and essayist Demetrio Paparoni was born in Siracusa in 1954. He lives in Milan. An art critic, essayist and exhibition curator, he is the author of monographs and books on contemporary art theory. In the early 1980s he created the Tema Celeste magazine, which he directed until April 2000. He was, amongst other things, commissioner for the Italian pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 1993. He teaches the History of Contemporary Art at the Faculty of Architecture in Catania.