Likely Massimiliano Di Battista provides Chandler a studio:
https://www.managementartists.com/casting/midland-agency
https://www.businessoffashion.com/articles/news-analysis/with-super-agency-plans-on-hold-management-artists-adds-consulting
"To that end, the agency group established a talent incubator division called Art+Yard in September specifically for developing young talent."
Exactly what you'd expect for a gay mafioso - exotic travels, queer-lib politics, obsessed with beautiful people (especially men) and innocent children…
https://www.instagram.com/24mao/?hl=en
MASSIMILIANO DI BATTISTA
TALKS ABOUT MANAGEMENT+ ARTISTS NEW CONSULTING ARM
https://theimpression.com/massimiliano-di-battista-talks-about-management-artists-new-consulting-arm/
Management+Artists Group (“M+A Group”) announced the launch of its newest brand, MA+Creative, a modern talent consultancy with the ability to provide full project management capabilities and connect clients with the best creatives in the industry. The Impression’s Kenneth Richard sat to talk with Massimiliano Di Battista about the newly formed agency, why it was created and its relevance in today’s creative environment.
Kenneth Richard: Mao, congrats on the recent launches of Art+Yard and the newly formed MA+Creative. Let’s start with the former, what made you want to take a risk on new talent and how is this operation different from your traditional one? Massimiliano Di Battista: In our early days, we broke into the talent representation business by developing young photographers and stylists. Over the years, we’ve obviously expanded our talent base and now represent a broader array of talent – both in age and experience. ""We wanted to develop a protected space to focus specifically on developing the next generation of young talents — a generation of talents whose visual work is based on emotions, personal experiences, intimacy and intuition"". For decades, the art of photography and moving image was accessible only to professional or enlightened amateurs. Nowadays, photography is embedded in our lives, so most of the work of this new emerging generation, both in pictures and video format, is created for personal work and distributed on social media rather than through the traditional channels of editorial commissioning. The new generations have a complete familiarity documenting themselves and their surroundings in ways we just didn’t. They create their own scenarios and independently self-produce their images; there is a full confidence in the whole process; they use the images as their language. This freedom of expression allows them to interpret fashion and portray people with a spirit that is connected to a message. This is a very different way to look at fashion and lifestyle that deserves its own voice and area of representation.
Kenneth Richard: We’ve noticed that several modeling agencies have branched into ‘life-coaching’ their younger talent. Is any of that built into the model of Art+Yard?
Massimiliano Di Battista: Yes, absolutely – and frankly, it’s always been incorporated into our approach to representation. When we founded Management+Artists Agency back in 1999, its purpose was to pioneer an entirely new concept of representation in the creative world.
Beginning with a focus on photographers, we believed it was important to expand the role of representation beyond purely business and contractual obligations, and provide talent with the support and guidance needed to foster greater creativity and success in the industry.
At the time, this evolved approach to representation was wholly absent across the industry and incredibly innovative. This approach and perspective, which called for a deeper investment in the careers of our talent, set us apart from competitors and earned us a reputation in the industry that attracted a multitude of artists, directors, designers and creatives looking for a different type of agency partner. Art+Yard is an extension of this philosophy, a development section for new and visionary talent, where we take a keen eye to nurturing artistic creativity and the next generation of creatives. It is a way to guide young talents and ensure they don’t lose their sense of ‘pure’ creativity and individuality in a fast-paced, commercialized world."
Other worthwhile digs?
Boyfren Christopher Kane
https://www.instagram.com/kanechristopher82/?hl=en
Financial backer Marco Fincato (not the cyclist)
Marco Fincato - President - Chelsea West 22nd LLC
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marco-fincato-568825a
Management Artists Limited | ZoomInfo.com
https://www.zoominfo.com/c/management-artists-limited/24789118
In 1999, Marco Fincato, an accomplished finance scholar, and Massimiliano Di Battista, an art enthusiast and public relations businessman, created …