Roberto Gramiccia

Roberto Gramiccia, doctor, writer, art critic, was born in Rome in 1951. He graduated in Medicine and Surgery in 1976 and specialised in Internal Medicine and Geriatrics. In the course of his career, he divides his time between responsibilities and top positions in the Public Health Service and a curatorial, literary and journalistic activity, relating to artistic, political and humanistic themes in the broadest sense. He gained particular experience in the field of issues relating to the universe of fragility. This experience nourishes his reflections on the relationship between human suffering, creativity and the struggle for social emancipation. They form the basis of his original theory of fragility. The latter takes full form in a book entitled, In Praise of Fragility (2016), the premise and foundation of a Manifesto of Fragility to which numerous eminent personalities from the arts, politics and the professions adhere.

Mario Monicelli writes in the preface to his Fragili Eroi (DeriveApprodi) about the book's qualities: 'The second (...) is the most important one. It coincides with a point of view that I share (...). And that is: in life fragility and strength, fear and courage, the anguish of death and vitality are always mixed. Indeed, often from fragility comes unexpected strength'. And Margherita Hack on the subject of her La strage degli innocenti (Ediesse): 'I think this book is very important to make people aware of the problems - and possible solutions to them - in a society that, thanks to the progress of medicine, is getting older and older but also more vulnerable'.

He has curated numerous important exhibitions. He has published many books and catalogue texts. He has collaborated with numerous magazines, including: Stile e Arte, l'Ernesto, Artribune, Segnonline. Starting in 2000, he wrote regularly about art and medicine in Liberazione for over ten years.