Expand the Support of Institutions for Our Artists

In your experience, which contemporary Italian artists (living) have achieved the greatest visibility abroad, and through which factors (e.g., galleries, biennials, exhibitions, curators, etc.)?
Maurizio Cattelan, Paola Pivi, Roberto Cuoghi, Lara Favaretto, Monica Bonvicini, Francesco Vezzoli. There are many contributing factors: having an international gallery certainly helps, as does having lived abroad. Speaking English, then, never hurts ;-)

In your opinion, which contemporary Italian artists have not yet received adequate visibility despite their artistic value, and what are the causes of this lack of recognition?
I prefer not to name names, but the causes are numerous—see below—as well as the fact that, for instance, many important Italian galleries represent very few Italian artists.

In your experience, what are the steps and elements that support the international career of a contemporary Italian artist? And where is the Italian system lacking in its support of contemporary Italian art on the international scene?
I believe that in Italy we could expand the support we give to our artists, as is done in many other countries. The Italian Council is certainly a very important initiative, but we could also imagine forms of support similar to those of OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway), the Mondriaan Fund, and all those institutions that help artists from their own country to exhibit abroad—supporting them financially on one hand, and also promoting programs that bring curators, museum directors, and critics from all over the world to visit and discover the local art scene. This is an extremely important tool for curators working on large-scale projects such as biennials, and it clearly produces tangible and easily verifiable results. In Italy, as far as I know, there are no institutions—public or private—that promote this kind of work on a broad scale.