Fabrizio Modina
President / Artistic Director
Fashion Heritage Academy
Torino, Italy
I'm the President of Fondazione M-Cube and Artistic Director of Fashion Heritage Academy
My organisation
About me
Fabrizio Modina is an artist working at the same time as teacher of fashion design and historian of Modern Mythology, a subject he teaches at the Politecnico of Milan, HTW Berlin and at the University of Turin. As collector and expert on Sci-fi and japanese animation, has participated in the creation of the exhibitions Watch Me Move! at the Barbican Art Gallery in London and Things from Another World at the National Cinema Museum in Turin for which he also co-curated Manga Impact, the world of Japanese Animation. He was among the scientific committees of the exhibitions Kyoto-Tokyo, from Samurais to Manga at Grimaldi Forum in the Principality of Monaco and Japan: from Samurai to Mazinger at Casa dei Carraresi in Treviso, Italy. He also worked on Female Warriors from the Rising Sun for the Museum of Oriental Art in Turin, Lady Diana, a free spirit at Venaria Royal Palace and Guerre Stellari Play, event-exhibition on the history of Star Wars, at Vittoriano Complex, Rome. Some of his most recent works are the exhibitions Manga Heroes for the National Archaeological Museum of Naples and Robot - The Human Project at MUDEC, Milan_, The Myth of Superheroes_ for Comic-Con Museum of San Diego, U.S.A. and Superheroes for NRW Forum, Düsseldorf, Germany. His first book, Super Robot Files 1963/1978, which brings together the encyclopedic information about the world of the steel giants of japanese animation, has become sold out in the first five months of sales and was shortly followed by the chapters two and three. From 2022 he’s the promoter and President of the M-Cube Foundation in Turin. In 2025 he created the Fashion Heritage Academy.
Skills
- artist
- Fashion Designer
- curator
- Lecturer
- writer
Interests
- Fashion
- Modern Mythology
- Pop Culture
- Music
- Animation
- Comics
- Cinema