Artissima
(03/11/2017 - 05/11/2017)
http://www.artissima.it/site/
International Fair of Contemporary Art
Oval, Lingotto Fiere Torino
info@artissima.it
As Italy’s leading contemporary art fair, Artissima stands out for its
innovative, experimental approach, making it one of the most charismatic
events on the international art calendar: a must for art professionals and
art lovers who want to know more about the latest artistic and curatorial
practices. The 2017 edition directed by Ilaria Bonacossa includes many new
features, such as a new curated section, Disegni, which joins the
established Back to the Future and Present Future areas, coordinated by
international boards of curators and directors and respectively focused on
the great pioneers of contemporary art and emerging talents. There will
also be established galleries (Main Section), young galleries that have
opened over the last 5 years (New Entries), projects that interface 2 or 3
artists (Dialogue), and a section on contemporary art publications (Art
Editions). The 2017 iteration also features important new digital
initiatives: the paper catalogue goes digital, with the launch of the
platform www.artissima.art where visitors can browse galleries, artists
and artworks in an interactive way, saving their favorite contents.
Artissima 2017 will inaugurate on Thursday
2 November, welcoming visitors from Friday 3 to Sunday 5 November
at the OVAL in Torino. The 24th edition of the fair will take place for
the first time under the guidance of Ilaria
Bonacossa, appointed as director in December 2016.
Artissima confirms its position as a unique
event on the European cultural scene, attract- ing galleries,
artists, collectors and sector professionals from all over the world.
Renowned on an international level for its focus on experimental practices
and constant innovation from one year to the next, in 2017 the fair will
feature a series of new developments that will impact both its programme
and organisation. Besides the recently announced
Disegni (Drawings) section, the revised team
of curators and an innovative digital
platform, Artissima will be enhanced by further ideas and
initiatives: a special exhibition project, the “Deposito
d’Arte Italiana Presente” (Warehouse of Present-Day Italian Art),
a trailblazing programme of talks and a renewed architectural
layout for the fair pavilion.
“The year 2017 – Ilaria Bonacossa explains – marks the 50th anniversary of
the initiatives that were essential to the genesis of Arte Povera.
Artissima attempts to trace back to some of the most unconventional
experiences of that period, which laid the groundwork for Torino’s status
of Italian capital of contemporary art. Artissima, as a hybrid space open
to the future, will investigate the relationships between artistic
practices, the market, collecting and leisure time through the temporary
reconstruction of iconic contexts like the Deposito d’Arte Presente
(1967–68) or the Piper (1966–69) club. The roots of these experiments in
the city led to the birth of important museums and international
institutions for contemporary art, including the fair itself. In
particular, Artissima considers these experiences in terms of their
visionary capacity to reinvent roles and to activate contaminations
between different disciplines, while still remaining a source of
inspiration for many artists today.”
The sections
Artissima 2017 will present a new layout of its spaces designed by the
studio Vudafieri Saverino Partners of Milano, enhancing
the pavilion and the fair’s various projects.
These include the new curated Disegni section, joining
the four existing sections (Main Section, New Entries, Dialogue and
Art Editions) and the curated sections (Present Future
and Back to the Future), for a total of seven.
The Disegni section focuses on the particular nature of
drawing as a form of expression, a technique capable of capturing the
immediacy of the creative gesture and the thinking behind it, hovering in
a space between the idea and finished work. This section is curated by an
exceptional duo: Luís Silva and João Mourão,
directors of Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon.
The new exhibition project
Curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Vittoria
Martini, the “Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente”
(Warehouse of Present-Day Italian Art) is Artissima’s new cultural project
on Italian art. The Deposito will contain remarkable works loaned by Piedmont-based
institutions and private collections,
together with pieces from the galleries taking part in the fair,
acknowledging their outstanding role in shaping the history of
contemporary art in our country.
For this new project, Artissima has taken inspiration from one of the most
innovative experiences in 1960s Torino, a moment of great artistic
vitality: the Deposito d’Arte Presente (1967–68). A place of production
and display of works by emerging artists organised by Marcello Levi
(1922–2014), the Deposito – in the words of the scholar Robert Lumley –
was “an extemporaneous, non-permanent collection … a space for the
present, for a type of art connected to the hic et nunc and stripped of
any sacred character.”
With the “Deposito d’Arte Italiana Presente” Artissima retrieves that
format, shifting it into the present time and using it as a conceptual
setting for a project that absorbs the operative modes of the original.
The Deposito is not really an exhibition, but a place to trigger a
narration on the last 20 years of Italian art, to capture it today and
understand its future developments, creating a dynamic place for display
and discussion.
Artissima therefore is not just a platform for curatorial research, but
also a public manifestation of the space in which gallerists, collectors
and museums conserve works.
Education and speakers’ series
For its 2017 edition, Artissima has imagined a new experimental project
based on Torino’s Piper club, a place in which to narrate contemporary
art, to listen, participate and work side by side with artists and
curators.
The project, coordinated by Paola Nicolin, will adopt
the methods of “the classroom”, an art and education centre founded in
2016 in Milan, which invites artists to conduct an art history course in a
classroom designed for the occasion, transforming a learning space in a
place of artistic production.
In this perspective, Artissima will host an open class where an invited
artist, with students and guests from the programme, will construct a
schedule of lectures, interviews, conversations and film screenings across
all the days of the fair, turning the discotheque into an alternative
school.
Artissima Collectors’ Talks and Walkie Talkies
Artissima launches a new programme of Collectors’ Talks coordinated
by international curator Abaseh Mirvali, focusing on how
collecting is transforming the art world through the views of collectors,
artists, critics, gallerists and museum directors. The talks will be
enriched by exclusive guided tours through the fair – the Walkie
Talkies – a series of short conversations between pairs of
international collectors and curators, launched with the aim of creating
close personal contact between artists and collectors. These conversations
in motion become surprising tours, allowing the speakers to deliver unique
readings of contemporary art through the works shown by participating
galleries.
The digital platform
Artissima’s digital platform will accompany the audience
throughout the year, with moments of in-depth analysis and previews of the
2017 edition through the various social media.
#ArtissimaRewind, a programme of virtual appointments to
explore the last iteration of the fair, was activated in February. Every
Thursday the video gallery of the website (www.artissi- ma.it) and the
social network channels of the fair (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and
YouTube) present a series of performances, interviews, conversations and
guided tours from the last edition.
Furthermore, in 2017 the catalogue of the fair migrates from paper into
digital form, through a platform that will allow galleries to come in
contact with a very large audience of art fans.
Synergies
Artissima 2017 is organised in collaboration with the many culture and art
institutions operating in the city and its territory. Artissima will
operate in synergy with the city’s museums and particularly with Castello
di Rivoli, Fondazione Torino Musei, GAM – Galleria d’Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia, Fondazione
Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Merz, Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella
Agnelli, Collezione la Gaia, Museo Ettore Fico, PAV and the new
OGR Torino. New partnerships will also be launched with
local organisations active in the field of contemporary creativity, like
the Club to Club Festival of Electronic Music, the Lovers
Film Festival of Torino organised by the Museo Nazionale del
Cinema, and the Centro Conservazione e Restauro La Venaria Reale.
Artissima’s dictionary: be prepared
3 key words x 3 sections = 72 artists in the curated sections of Artissima
2017: preview the fair with our summer summary!
cutting-edge: adj. highly advanced; innovative or
pioneering: Present Future has affirmed its role as a
hotbed for cutting-edge talents thanks to the field research conducted by
a team of young curators.
limelight: n. the focus of public attention and
interest: Back to the Future aims to bring international
artistswho have played a fundamental role in contemporary art back into
the limelight.
forerunner: n. something or someone that acts as an early
model for what will appear in the future: by launching the new section Disegni
(Drawings), Artissima confirms itself as a forerunner of the latest trends
on the contemporary art scene.
Present Future
Solo shows by 20 young artists curated by Cloé Perrone (coordinator),
Samuel Gross, João Laia, Charlotte Laubard
Salvatore Arancio, Federica Schiavo, Milan, Rome; Omar
Ba, Daniel Templon, Paris; Bertille Bak, The
Gallery Apart, Rome + Xippas, Paris, Geneva,
Montevideo, Punta del Este; Todd Bienvenu, Sebastien Bertrand,
Geneva; Tina Braegger, Weiss Falk, Basel; Von Calhau!, Pedro
Alfacinha, Porto; Coco Crampton,Belmacz, London; David Douard,
Chantal Crousel, Paris; Eliza Douglas, Air de
Paris, Paris; Genuardi/Ruta,Francesco Pantaleone,
Palermo, Milan; Pakui Hardware, Exile, Berlin;
Invernomuto, Pinksummer, Genova; Nicolás Lamas, SABOT,
Cluj-Napoca; Miriam Laura Leonardi, Maria Bernheim,
Zurich; Niklas Lichti, Emanuel Layr, Vienna, Rome;
Caroline Mesquita, carlier | gebauer, Berlin + T293,
Rome; Catherine Parsonage, House of Egorn, Berlin;
Joanna Piotrowska, Madragoa, Lisbon; Marta
Riniker-Radich, Francesca Pia, Zurich; Cally Spooner, gb
agency, Paris + ZERO..., Milan.
Back to the Future
27 museum-quality solo shows dedicated to the rediscovery of the 1980s
curated by Anna Daneri (coordinator), Zasha Colah, Dora García, Chus
Martinez
Santi Alleruzzo, SpazioA, Pistoia; Rasheed Araeen, Rossi
& Rossi, London, Hong Kong; Luciano Bartolini,Studio
Dabbeni, Lugano; Marion Baruch, Laurence Bernard,
Geneva + Anne-Sarah Bénichou, Paris; Judy Blum Reddy, Twelve
Gates Art, Philadelphia; Anna Valeria Borsari, Studio
G7, Bologna; Philip Corner,UnimediaModern,
Genova; Jaqueline de Jong, Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Den
Haag; Amalia Del Ponte, Galleria Milano, Milan; Nathalie
Du Pasquier, APalazzoGallery, Brescia; Jean Dupuy, Loevenbruck,
Paris; Marianne Eigenheer, von Bartha, Basel; Jorge
Ferré, Senda, Barcelona; Esther Ferrer, àngels
barcelona, Barcelona; Vera Isler-Leiner, balzer
projects, Basel; Vivienne Koorland, Richard Saltoun,
London; Corrado Levi, Ribot, Milan; Sergio Lombardo, 1/9unosunove,
Rome; Elisa Montessori, Monitor, Rome, Lisbon; Beverly
Pepper,Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles; Nicola
Ponzio, Riccardo Costantini, Turin; Marilena Preda Sânc,Eastwards
Prospectus, Bucharest; Àngels Ribé, Ana Mas Projects,
San Juan (Puerto Rico), Barcelona; Diet Sayler, 418 Contemporary,
Bucharest; Joachim Schmid, P420, Bologna; Roberto
Turnbull, Tiro Al Blanco, Guadalajara; Jan Vercruysse, Vistamare,
Pescara + Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice.
Disegni
25 booths dedicated to the most relevant developments in drawing as an
undisputed medium for contemporary artistic practice, curated by João
Mourão and Luís Silva
Charles Avery + Claudia Wieser, Studio Sales di Norberto Ruggeri,
Rome, Vanessa Beecroft, Lia Rumma, Milan, Naples; Ulla
von Brandenburg, Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg;
Guglielmo Castelli, Francesca Antonini, Rome; Mariana
Castillo Deball, Pinksummer, Genova; Céline Condorelli,
Vera Cortês, Lisbon; Tomaso De Luca, Monitor,
Rome, Lisbon; Patrizio Di Massimo, T293, Rome; Mark
Dion, In Situ - Fabienne Leclerc, Paris; Jan Fabre, Mario
Mauroner, Vienna; Rokni Haerizadeh, Isabelle Van Den
Eynde, Dubai; David Haines, Upstream,
Amsterdam; Gary Kuehn, Häusler Contemporary, Zurich;
Lucia Nogueira, Anthony Reynolds, London; Daniel Otero,
SKETCH, Bogotá; Tony Oursler, In Arco,
Turin; Seb Patane, Fonti, Naples; Ferdinand Penker, Daniel
Marzona, Berlin + Nächst St.Stephan Rosemarie
Schwarzwälder, Vienna; Wilfredo Prieto, Nogueras
Blanchard, Barcelona, Madrid; Jorge Queiroz, 3+1,
Lisbon; Camilo Restrepo, Steve Turner, Los Angeles;
Nicolas Robbio, Vermelho, São Paulo; Andrea Romano, Vistamare,
Pescara; Susanne S.D. Themlitz, Ángeles Baños, Badajoz; Julião
Sarmento, Giorgio Persano, Turin.
Artissima is a trademark of the Regione Piemonte, the Città Metropolitana
di Torino and the Città di Torino; by order of these three institutions,
it reports to Fondazione Torino Musei. The 24th Artissima is produced with
the support of the three institutions that hold the trademark, jointly
with Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Compagnia di San
Paolo and the Camera di commercio di Torino. The organisation of Artissima
is entrusted to Artissima srl, the company formed in 2008 to oversee the
artistic and commercial relations of the fair.
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