Nicholas Cullinan is the director of the National Portrait Gallery in London. He has curated the exhibition 'Paraventi', at the Fondazione Prada in Milan.
The screen is a fossil of bourgeois decoration that, paradoxically or precisely for this reason, has proven irresistible to many artists. “Luckily, the notion of an artist is expanding and when we talk about art we no longer just think of a heterosexual man with a paintbrush,” he says.