The eighth edition of St.Moritz Art Masters celebrates Italy.
A unique event, declined through an interdisciplinary approach that will involve multiple locations scattered throughout the territory. Thus reaffirming the pivotal role of St. Moritz as a meeting and discussion point for art lovers and major international collectors, who for over half a century have used to choose the Engadine location as a holiday town; thus contributing to his widespread sensitivity and passion for the modern and the contemporary.
From 21 August to 30 August 2015, exhibitions, workshops, meetings, lectures and much more will testify how much Italian creative history influenced the European and world cultural sphere throughout the 900th century, from the industrial revolution to the period between the two world wars. from the economic boom to the affirmation of Made in Italy. After Brazil, China and India, emerging nations by definition, the magnifying glass of St.Moritz Art Masters therefore rests on the Bel Paese: a non-random choice, in the year of Expo, testifying to the curiosity and attention with which the world looks to Italy and to an economic and social revival that cannot fail to pass through art and culture.
St.Moritz Art Masters 2015, conceived by Monty Shadow, will explore the evolution of the artistic movements of the Italian twentieth century, from Futurism to Metaphysics, from Rationalism to Spatialism; focusing in particular on the ferment of the Sixties and Seventies, but reaching up to the most recent instances of the contemporary. Following the concept defined by a scientific committee that counts on Davide Rampello, curator of Padiglione Zero for EXPO 2015, on the art dealers Marco Voena and Luigi Toninelli, on the director of the Fondation Beyeler Samuel Keller, on the director of Vogue Italia Franca Sozzani, on curator Reiner Opoku, on collectors Beat Curti and Roland Berger.
The varied exhibition offer will lead the visitor to follow the affinities and differences between the various expressive media that have followed one another over time and the different themes that have been addressed in over a century of Italian creativity
Arnaldo Pomodoro, Augusto Perez and Giacomo Manzù are called to welcome art lovers, with the installation of some of their most iconic sculptures along the pedestrian area of St.Moritz, transformed for the occasion into a real museum open sky. The investigation into the language of sculpture is amplified by a retrospective on Marino Marini.
Among the scheduled initiatives, the Protestant church of St. Moritz will host an exhibition with works by Lucio Fontana and Piero Manzoni, for a dialogue between the two most important figures of post-war Italian art. From the great masters of the informal we move on to other important seasons that have marked the Italian scene: with the retrospective on Aldo Mondino set up in the Robilant and Voena gallery and with the personal exhibition of Salvo at the French church.
The important contribution of the fashion system will not be forgotten with the solo show that pays homage to Giovanni Gastel, one of the greatest fashion photographers in the world, at the Kempinsky. For the occasion, a comparison with the Italian artist who more than any other has known how to play with the imagination of show-business and with the seduction exercised by the great stars of the cinema: Mimmo Rotella.
As usual, the St.Moritz Art Masters also involves other locations in the Engadine. Like Zuoz, where the Monica de Cardenas gallery offers a solo show by the young Milanese artist Lupo Borgonovo; while at the Chesa Planta in Samedan Paolo Scheggi, Agostino Bonalumi and Enrico Castellani will be protagonists.
St.Moritz Art Masters will be a showcase of the best that has been produced in Italy from an artistic point of view. Among the many masterpieces presented in the exhibition that Gian Enzo Sperone proposes in his gallery in Sent, it will be possible to admire, among others, by Giacomo Balla, Nicolaj Diulgheroff, Fillia, Lucio Fontana, Bruno Munari, Enrico Prampolini, Manlio Rho, Ettore Sottsass, Giulio Turcato.
St. Moritz Art Masters 2015 is supported by the main and title sponsor Cartier, by Montblanc and Perrier-Jouët. With the support of Apple, BMW, Bombardier, Deutsche Bank – Asset & Wealth Management, Ferretti Group, illy, Linea Più, Nikon, Pirelli, Zepter; with the support, consolidated over the years, of Engadin St. Moritz, of Kempinski – Grand Hotel des Bains, Kulm Hotel, Nira Alpina and Survetta House. With the media partnership of Artology, Radio Monte Carlo and Taschen.
Cartier and Linea Più are the protagonists of the special event which, on Thursday 27 August, sees the inauguration of the personal exhibition of Rose de Vauville. An artist who was born into the fashion system – collaborating over the years with the maisons Ungaro, Guerlain and Dior – and who dedicates her photographic compositions to fashion, evoking the sensuality and elegance of the legendary Thirties, Forties and Fifties.
