One hundred galleries, the best of international artists, an entire hall, four days of exhibition: MiArt is back, the contemporary art exhibition at Fiera Milano aiming evermore at the very best in the art world by a further selection of art galleries.
Scheduled from the 8th – 11th April 2011 at FieraMilanoCity (opening event by invite only on Thursday 7th April and the exceptional opening on Saturday until 9pm), MiArt means to be a top-level cultural event, involving all different members of the sector: artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators, critics, museum directors, institutions, sector press and specialised bookshops.
The aim is to offer food for thought in order to visualise the next direction that art will take, future interests, starting out from the excellencies that today’s market can offer.
The catalogue and MiArt Magazine will be issued for this edition too. The catalogue, in reality a proper art book by Giorgio Verzotti, will contain a second essay that means to reconstruct the story of Italian art through the galleries. There will be two issues of The MiArt Magazine, one to discover meanings associated with “100” regards the Italian context, and the other devoted to 100 replies using images and texts on art, culture and change in Italy.
The programme of conventions and conferences within the exhibition will be managed by Peep-Hole (Vincenzo de Bellis and Bruna Roccasalva): a series of forays into the relation between art and fashion, art and design, art and architecture and into the worlds of art collecting, museum spaces and NFPs.
A special programme will be devoted to foreign collectors: with guided tours, exclusive meetings, a dedicated VIP lounge, plus a special event organised by the ACACIA – Associazione Amici Arte Contemporanea (Association of Friends of Contemporary Art) – which will allow international guests to visit some private residences in Milan of members who are collectors.
Alongside all of this, there will be a series of events inside and outside the trade-fair centre, by public and private businesses. The Rotary Club Milano Brera will be the promoter, for the third edition, of the Rotary Award for contemporary art and young artists, which consists in the purchasing of a work of an under 30 artist to donate to the growing Museo d’Arte Contemporanea.
Finally, the collaboration between MiArt and NABA (New Academy for Fine Arts in Milan) will continue and give rise, on the evening of 9th April, to the “100 di 50”, event managed by Giacinto Di Petrantonio and Marco Scotini, during which there will be a live presentation or documentary presentation of a large number of performances (100) from the last 50 years.
