27/01/2016
Lindsay Kemp, the great mime artist, director and choreographer from Great Britain and mentor to David Bowie, contributing to the success of the young and then unknown singer by teaching him the art of mime and performance, will inaugurate the 40th edition of ArteFiera that is set to open with a tribute to the late great rock star and musician. The event will take place on the main stage at the Service Centre of BolognaFiere with an intense show of video art and a musical reinterpretation of Bowie’s most famous works by the great Italian concert pianist Maurizio Baglini.
The show is the result of the reinvigorated collaboration with the Teatro Comunale, thanks to which BolognaFiere was able to bring to the city the national premiere of River of Fundament, the film/opera by Mathew Barney set to take place at the theatre on the 29th January. The event is already almost completely sold out thanks to the hugely positive response from visitors to Arte Fiera, who in one week snapped up all of the tickets on special offer on the event website. The inauguration will combine music, art, theatre and video art and will mark the opening of the 40th edition of the Arte Fiera, which will be dedicated to the best of Italian art over the last century. There will be special events both at the fair, thanks to the participation of 190 galleries, and with the special exhibition Arte Fiera 40, which will be held at MAMbo and the Pinacoteca Comunale, dedicated to the most important artists of the last century and those still to come.