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MORE ABOUT ARTE FIERA 2020
Arte Fiera 2020 confirms its eagerness to offer new, ambitious, high-quality projects
In addition to the Main Section there will be three sections by invitation, with new curators; Photography and Moving Images will return
Focus, a new section devoted to art from 1900 to 1950, and Pittura XXI, a section devoted entirely to 21st century painting, will also debut in this edition
ARTE FIERA OBSERVATORY MORE ABOUT OSSERVATORIO
Nico Vascellari was born in Vittorio Veneto (TV) in 1976. Nico currently lives and works in Rome. He is considered to be one of the most important Italian artists of his ...
Marcorea Malià (real name Marco Zanardi) opened his "creative cave," a studio-salon-laboratory and meeting place for art, in 1978. Since then, he has dictated ...
Silvia Grandi is an art historian and curator. A Professor in the History of Contemporary Art at the University of Bologna, she focusses primarily on performance art and ...
Massimo Cirulli began his collection in the early ‘80s in New York by frequenting the NY art scene with his wife Sonia. In 1984 they created the Massimo and Sonia Cirulli ...
Enrico Paroletti, a graduate of Bologna University and a GIOCA master, is Chairman of the Friends of the Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti Onlus, one of the most active ...
Giovanni Egidio, 55, has been the editor-in-chief of Repubblica Bologna since 2010
Cesare Pietroiusti (born 1955 in Rome) is a visual artist, founder and coordinator of many art research, design, and conference centres. Since 1977 he has exhibited in numerous ...
Massimo Mezzetti, 57, was born in Rome. He moved to Modena 30 years ago and now lives in Bologna. He studied humanities and theology, and became involved in politics at ...
Giancarlo Tonelli (Bologna, 1960) received the Italian Order of Merit for Labour in May 2018. In March 2013 he was appointed a Director of the Chamber of Commerce Industry ...
Maria Morganti, Milan 1965, lives and works in Venice. Her work focuses on the experience of colour, understood as matter and trace of existence. Among her personal exhibitions ...
Matteo Zauli is a cultural manager and curates shows, events, residences and festivals related specifically to the use of ceramics in contemporary languages in Italy and ...
Federica Schiavo is the director (with Chiara Zoppelli) of the Federica Schiavo Gallery, founded in Rome in 2009 and based in Milan since 2016. She has been a member of the ...
Selva Barni founded Fantom and is a photography curator and editor. In addition to her work as a curator, she lectures in the Master in Photography and Visual Design course ...
Fabiola Naldi is an art historian and curator. She teaches Art Appreciation at Bologna University, Problemi Espressivi del Contemporaneo at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts, ...
Mauro Stefanini became a collector because he is passionate about art. Bolognese by birth, he founded the Open Art Gallery in Prato (where he has lived for over 40 years) in 2000.
Stefano Collicelli Cagol (b. Padova, 1978) is the curator of the Rome Quadrennial and teaches in the 2nd Level Specialising Master’s programme in Design for Arts at ...
Alessandra D'Innocenzo Fini Zarri è is Chairman of the do ut do Commission. A work from the do ut do collection was exhibited in “Solo figura e Sfondo”, the first show in ...
Giangi Fonti has been a member of the Arte Fiera Selection Committee since May 2019
Sissi (Bologna, 1977) lives and works in Bologna and London. She graduated from the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts and now teaches at the Department of Visual Arts of the Florence ...
Maura Pozzati is an art historian and art critic, and a professor of History and Methodology of Art Criticism at the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. She specialises in contemporary ...
In late 2005, curiosity led him to leave his family’s company and take over Mutina to try his hand at ceramics, quickly making it a material loved by the world’s ...
Carlo Repetto, Director of the Repetto Gallery in London since 2015, began his career at the Repetto and Massucco Gallery in Acqui Terme in 1983. In 2006, he opened the Repetto ...
Francesco Zanot, photography critic and historian, has curated exhibitions and written monographs of artists such as Olivo Barbieri, Mark Cohen, Linda Fregni Nagler, Luigi ...
Fulvio Macciardi is the Superintendent of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna. A chamber-music and orchestral violinist up to 2003, he then worked as the artistic director of ...
Gianluca Ranzi has worked mainly with Fluxus, Mono-Ha, Happening and Gutai, and has curated exhibitions and projects for artists such as Yoko Ono, Cèsar, Daniel Spoerri, ...
Paolo Giacomin, journalist, age 53. Managing Director of the newspaper “il Resto del Carlino” after having directed Quotidiano Nazionale (Qn).
Ludovica Carbotta lives and works in Barcelona. Together with Lara Favaretto, Ludovica Carbotta is the only Italian artist chosen by Ralph Rugoff, curator of the 58th ...
Andrea Viliani has been Director of MADRE, Naples since 2013. For Arte Fiera 2019 he was a member of the Jury for the “Arte e progetto” Award, Jacobacci ...
Ilaria Speri is a curator and producer of exhibitions and publications. A correspondent at Il Giornale dell’Arte, she writes for books and magazines, and collaborates ...
Sara Piccinini is Senior Coordinator of the Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia, where she has worked since before it opened to the public in 2007. Works from the Collection ...
Sara Piccinini is Senior Coordinator of the Maramotti Collection in Reggio Emilia, where she has worked since before it opened to the public in 2007. Works from the Collection ...
Laura Cherubini, critic, curator and art historian, known especially for her contributions to the study of 1960s and ‘70s Italian art, is the curator of the new FOCUS ...
Laura Trisorio, director of the Studio Trisorio Gallery in Naples and of Artecinema - International Film Festival on Contemporary Art, talks us about Maurizio Finotto ...
Letizia Ragaglia, the director of Museion, a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bolzano, talks about her experience during Florian Hecker's sound performance in Bologna ...
A multi-disciplinary artist, Cristian Chironi’s different expressive languages blend and dialogue. His site-specific installations and performative artworks are always ...
Cecilia Canziani, independent and historical art curator, tells us about 'The Lamentation of the Dead Christ' by Niccolò dell'Arca, the terracotta group kept ...
Tania Bruguera, internationally renowned artist, will be in Bologna on March 1st with a lecture/debate at the DAMSLab to inaugurate the ten-day projects (1-10 March) that ...
Stefano Cortesi of Cortesi Gallery, member of the Arte Fiera Selection Committee, tells us how much he appreciated during this year's edition, at the fair and in the city
Eva Brioschi, art historian and member of the Jacobacci & Partners Award jury at Arte Fiera 2019, tells us about her 'encounter' with the works of Carlo Benvenuto
Matteo Lepore, Bologna’s City’s Counsellor for Culture, talks about how the city promoted and developed Writing and Street Art, among the most interesting expressive ...
Cristiano Raimondi tells us how in 2001 he was fascinated by the beauty and drama of "come se" by Francesco Gennari; a work that, sixteen years later, has become ...
Editor in chief and director of Flash Art, Gea Politi talks about a memorable exhibition/ work held at the Prada Foundation in 2017: an immersive, transmedia ...
Flavio Favelli comes to Arte Fiera 2019 with his installation “Hic et Nunc” , a very personal take on the fountain by Quinto Ghermandi in front of Bologna’s ...
Marino Golinelli, founder and Honorary President of Alfasigma and the Golinelli Foundation, presents Pierre Huyghe’s UUmwelt exhibition at London’s Serpentine ...
Massimo Di Carlo, director of the Scudo Gallery and member of the Selection Committee of Arte Fiera, proposes a tour of Venice between the exhibitions by Renzo Piano, ...
Roberto Grandi, President of the Bologna Museums Institution, takes us to the city’s Certosa Cemetery to discover the monument to Letizia Murat Pepoli by Vincenzo ...
Davide Ferri, who be curating the first edition of the ‘Courtesy Emilia Romagna’ exhibition entitled Solo figura e sfondo , tells an amusing anecdote ...
Fabrizio Padovani, Director of the P420 Gallery and member of Arte Fiera's Selection Committee, talks about Franco Vaccari and a journey to Bologna that became a ...
Performing arts curator and programmer, Silvia Fanti talks to us about the ‘W’s by Kinkaleri: 4 signs that overturn the underground or subway ‘M’ ...
Massimo Torrigiani of Fantom - the association to curate the PHOTOGRAPHY AND MOVING IMAGES section of Arte Fiera 2019 - talks about Why Art Museums? , ...
Lorenzo Balbi, director of MAMbo, has the task of launching our new column, in which every week we will host a character from the art world who has a link to Arte ...
