The first of the novelties is already the good news: the participating galleries, Italian and foreign, already exceed 150, with an increase of about 20% compared to the previous edition, three months after the event. The selection of artistic curators, completed for some sections of the contemporary art, and still in progress for the part concerning the modern art, had to face a renewed interest from the galleries which applied for participation in a much greater number than in past editions. A sign of renewed interest in the longest-running Italian contemporary art fair which reaches its 38th edition while maintaining its leadership position intact, indeed reinvigorated.
The news of ArteFiera 2014
Among the many innovations of this year, the opening proposed and shared by the artistic directors to the art of the nineteenth century, in a curatorial vision that has focused attention on the ability of many artists of the previous century to anticipate the times to come. Hence the courage to combine the XNUMXth century of the Macchiaioli, De Nittis, Boldini with contemporaneity, in a vision of contemporary art that ignores and even surpasses academic and geographical boundaries.
“A closer look at the origins of what we define as modern art will broaden – say the curators – the fair's interest in galleries dealing with art from the end of the XNUMXth century and the first decades of the XNUMXth century – because there is an ideal continuity with the past that helps us understand the present”.
The consequence of this approach is also opening up to the artistic production of little-explored countries and in particular to Eastern Europe and China and to new sectors, such as artistic photography. Maintaining absolute quality and originality and the search for beauty as the only common denominator, Claudio Spadoni and Giorgio Verzotti, the artistic directors appointed by Bolognafiere, have opted for a greater opening of the event to the multiple sectors of artistic production precisely to respond to a audience that expresses increasingly complex needs.
Art comes from every corner of the world and not just from the West. Arte Fiera highlights it, focusing mainly but not exclusively on the art of Eastern Europe, very fervent worlds of ideas, suggestions and stimuli.
FOCUS ON EASTERN EUROPEAN COUNTRIES
Arte Fiera 2014 will host a Special Focus Section curated by Marco Scotini, independent curator and Director of NABA (New Academy of Fine Arts). This will be a section dedicated to the countries of Eastern Europe, a geographical area selected for 2014, whose emerging economies have given a great impetus to the art market and the cultural scene in general. At the Fair, the galleries of this vast area will be brought together in a specific sector of Arte Fiera, and extensively in the city of Bologna, the exhibition hosted at the "Empty Pedestal" Archaeological Museum will present the works that have entered the patrimony of important private collections Italian, to document the level of contemporary art collecting in Italy.
ARTE AND CHINESE COLLECTIBLES WITH BOLOGNA FIERE SH CONTEMPORARY
The Chinese contemporary art collecting market will receive particular attention within ArteFiera which will collaborate in the new Chinese edition of BolognaFiere Sh contemporary Art, the main contemporary art event in Shanghai, organized by Bolognafiere in Shanghai from 11 to 14 September 2014. The collaboration will take the form of an exhibition at the fair dedicated to the theme of paper and ink in contemporary Chinese art with a particular focus on the avant-garde generations that have marked the last 50 years.
AUTHOR PHOTOGRAPHY
For the first time, an entire section dedicated to galleries offering photography, prints and artist's multiples. In fact, a completely new section of ArteFiera is the one dedicated to artistic photography with the presence of a selection of galleries exclusively engaged in the photographic sector, created by the director of Mia Milan Image Art Fabio Castelli with whom BolognaFiere has signed a multi-year agreement.
Also this edition will have a very attentive eye on the enhancement of Made in Italy and, at the same time, of internationality, recognizing and proposing itself as a privileged place for exchange and knowledge. Aimed at a large number of Italian and international collectors, as is the rest of the vocation of BolognaFiere's events, of art but not only.
Alongside the large sections dedicated to Modern and Contemporary Art, the section reserved for new proposals from Eastern Europe, Arte Fiera confirms, given the success that the proposal obtained in the first edition, "Solo Show", i.e. the small monographs of large contemporary interpreters. The “Photography” section, on the other hand, is a new entry and is highly sought after by the public.
Finally, "New Proposals", a section reserved for galleries that exclusively present artists born after 1979. The Euromobil Arte Fiera Prize promoted by the Euromobil Group, the main sponsor of the event, will also be reserved for the same artists.
ART FAIR CONVERSATIONS AND EXHIBITIONS
The next edition of Arte Fiera will also host a series of round tables on the art market and artistic creation in Eastern European countries. Leading exponents of the international art world will give life to animated debates. The new sectors and new focuses of the 2014 edition will also have particular importance, with close-ups on Eastern Europe, China and the bravest collectors.
ART CITY
In collaboration with the Municipality of Bologna Department of Culture, ART CITY will be re-proposed, the intense calendar of initiatives created by the director of MAMBO and the Institution of the Civic Museums of Bologna Gianfranco Maraniello which will characterize the art places of the city for all the days of the event . Saturday night will then traditionally be dedicated to the proposals of Bolognese commercial and cultural operators With the Art White Night which every year attracts tens of thousands of people to Bologna for the Notte Binaca dell'Arte which this year will be a little more magical .
