This year, now in its eighteenth edition, the fair finally enters fully among the main European contemporary art events since 40% of the exhibitors come from 15 foreign countries and over half of them participate in MIART for the first time.
The section established brings together 94 international modern and contemporary art galleries, carefully selected by the MIART 2013 Committee among the most established on the international scene.
Emergent is reserved for 20 young avant-garde galleries, born after 2007, and is curated by Andrew Bonacina, curator International Project Space, Birmingham.THENnow is an invited section – curated by Florence Derieux, director of FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims and Andrea Viliani, director of the MADRE museum in Naples – which compares 9 pairs of artists of different generations, one already historicized and a young artist, in order to express the two worlds, modern and contemporary, through these 16 artists.
Object, among the novelties of miart 2013, is a new section – curated by Michela Pelizzari and Federica Sala, Partners PS design consultants, Milan – with a selection of galleries offering modern and contemporary design objects conceived in a limited edition in the concept of a true artwork.
The fair is accompanied by numerous curatorial projects linked to the exhibition sections to underline the coexistence between the two souls of the fair, the economic one together with the cultural profile. The program of miartalks – curated by Alessandro Rabottini, external curator GAMeC, Bergamo and Fionn Meade, writer and curator, New York – is a platform for conferences, conversations and interviews involving 25 speakers, representing the most influential voices in contemporary art and international design such as Chus Martínez, Chief Curator El Museo del Barrio, New York, Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator Architecture & Design Museum of Modern Art, New York and Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-Director Serpentine Gallery, London.
Furthermore, a cycle of conversations on the theme of travel with artists such as Carsten Höller, Simon Starling, Goshka Macuga is created in collaboration with Humboldt. Studio enlivens the days of the fair with meetings on current affairs related to their special publication dedicated to Milan.
Miart 2013 hosts this year the bookshop specializing in art, photography and design by Walther König, the great German bookseller and publisher. Many editorial partnerships including the book, edited by Francesco Garutti and Vincenzo de Bellis and published by Walther König, on the current format of international art fairs and a new series, published by Johan & Levi dedicated to personalities and themes of art with four titles a year: the first, dedicated to Andrea Branzi, is presented during miart 2013.
Miart 2013 intends to be a collector of different areas, structures and experiences: a meeting place between the various professionals linked to the world of contemporary art and not only an economic but also a cultural exchange, and Milan with its history of modernity in art, architecture and design represent the ideal place.
There are various public and private institutions joining the Miart program this year: among these the PAC-Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, the Galleria d'Arte Moderna, the Museo del Novecento, Palazzo Reale, thanks to the collaboration with the Municipality of Milan, together with the Prada Foundation and the HangarBicocca, while for design the Triennale, the Castiglioni Foundation and the Portaluppi Foundation open their exhibitions and present special events always in conjunction with the fair.
Galleries list
Image:
David Maljkovic
Missing Colors, 2010,
slide show, 80 slides
Courtesy Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
