MIA Fair
(2015年04月11日 - 2015年04月13日)
http://www.miafair.it/milano/
MIA Fair
The Mall, Milan | 11 -13 April, 2015
MIA FAIR PHOTOGRAPHS EXPO
The fifth edition of the Italian art fair dedicated to photography is ready
to open its doors to the 145 exhibitors expected in the new location at
Porta Nuova Varesine.
In homage to Expo 2015, we are pleased to present a section on the main
themes suggested by EXPO 2015.
145 booths set up with great curatorial care, two purchase awards, a broad
cultural programme that includes a presentation of some great European
photography festivals and specific talks inspired by the 100th anniversary
of the birth of Roland Barthes; an exhibition dedicated to the invaluable
photographic archives of Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo and a special
exhibition on artist’s book; the debut of the performance, the now
traditional scouting occasions conducted by international personalities, the
round table on the legal aspects that affect the world of the image. This
year sees the richest and most wide-ranging edition of MIA Fair, the
photography art fair conceived and directed by Fabio Castelli, which
celebrates its fifth edition at The Mall, in Milan, from 11th to 13th April.
THE FAIR – MIA Fair lands at the renewed district of Porta Nuova Varesine, a
symbol of the forward-looking Milan. The Mall, a multi-functional centre
nestled among the skyscrapers that have changed the city skyline, has been
chosen to welcome the 145 exhibitors of the 2015 edition, with more than
twenty artists in the section MIA Proposal, a unique occasion for galleries
to discover new talents, and a dozen or so photography publishers from Italy
and abroad. In addition to the previous years formula by which each gallery
exhibits exclusively the works of one artist per booth, the Fair also
focuses on the theme of EXPO 2015, for which galleries are invited to
present a group show inspired by the following main themes: “Production and
Planet”, “Feeding”, “Women&Expo and “Education: nourish knowledge to
feed the planet”.
CULTURAL PROGRAMME – La chambre claire, the extraordinary essay by Roland
Barthes is the starting point and the main topic of a series of conferences
organized during MIA Fair opening days.
An investigation on the image as it is perceived and experienced in
contemporary life, in that tension between reality and pretence, filtered
through the mass media, which Roland Barthes analysed with such
extraordinary lucidity and incredible perspicacity (this was in 1980) in his
La chambre claire. It is precisely this fundamental text, on the 100th
anniversary of the birth of the French intellectual, that provides stimulus
and comparison for the programme schedule devised by writer and essayist
Gianluigi Ricuperati, cross disciplinary curator at MIA Fair and one of the
most promising intellectuals of the Italian new generation, who proposes a
rich calendar of meetings, debates and in-depth analyses.
MIA Fair cultural programme will also welcome interesting foreign projects
in photography, such as the creators of some of the most important festivals
of Europe who will bring to the Fair their ideas, experiences and visions:
Oliva Maria Rubio, artistic director of PhotoEspaña Madrid, and Krzysztof
Candrowicz, founder of the International Festival of Photography in Lodz,
artistic director of the Triennial of Hamburg and creator of the
PhotoFestival Union network. To celebrate the first thirty years of the
Musée de l’Elysée in Lausanne, one of the most important institutions in the
world dealing exclusively with photography, MIA Fair will host the museum’s
director, Tatyana Franck. Lastly, the heads of the MoRE Museum, a virtual
museum preserving the memory of artistic projects that have never been
completed will present a virtual catalogue of unrealised photographs.
Cristina Manasse is a lawyer specialized in art law and intellectual
property and Joe Baio is an American art collector and lawyer. Starting with
the Morel vs. AFP/Getty Images case, they will discuss some of the most
famous cases of use and misappropriation of images, as well as the effect of
selfies, social networks and privacy on photographic world.
PARTNERS – For the fourth consecutive year BNL BNP PARIBAS Group is the
event’s Main Sponsor, confirming its interest for the development of
contemporary art in Italy.
After the success of the past editions, the Bank once again will assign the
“BNL BNP Paribas Group Award” to the best artist, selected by a qualified
jury, among those showing their works by galleries.
The selected artwork will be acquired by the Group and will enhance the
artistic heritage of the Bank which, to date, has approx. 5,000. works.
Among these there are masterpieces of classical and modern art, as well as
works by young contemporary talents included "NIAD, The small Crater, 2000"
realized by Ohad Matalon, "Paesaggio # 7" by Luigi Erba and Roberto Bernè
and the work "Untitled" by Luca Gilli, winners respectively of the first,
second and third “BNL BNP Paribas Group Award”.
Official Partner of MIA Fair since the first edition, in 2015 Lavazza
confirms its support as Main Sponsor. Next April, MIA Fair visitors will be
welcomed by the Caffè Artistico Lavazza, a unique space enriched by the
exhibition of the Dutch duo Exactitudes, composed of the artists Ari
Versluis and Ellie Utyttenbroek. Lavazza thus reaffirms its inseparable link
with fine art photography, a universal language that represents the
Company’s identity in the world, with its calendars and advertising
campaigns created by the best-known artists in contemporary photography.
My LifeStyle – a brand which embodies a new concept of living in the real
estate industry – chooses MIA Fair for making its debut and for showing its
innovative real estate projects: Pomaseiuno and Maestri Campionesi 16. MIA
Fair will be the occasion for launching the project of supporting and
enhancing the value of emerging artists in the field of contemporary art
through the My LifeStyle Award, dedicated to talents participating in the
MIA Proposal section. Three works will be selected by the Jury and displayed
in the My LifeStyle’s booth, but the final winning art work will be chosen
by MIA Fair public through a shared selection process and acquired by My
LifeStyle.
EXHIBITIONS – MIA Fair proposes two in-depth analyses accompanied by ad hoc
exhibitions. One is a focus on the artist book, from the ‘70s up to today,
featuring a selection of projects by artists including Olivo Barbieri, Luigi
Ghirri, Paolo Gioli, Francesco Jodice, Nino Migliori, Franco Vaccari and
Italo Zannier.
The other is a study on a 19th Century Italian artist who, more than any
other, recognised and adopted the potential of the brand new art of
photography as a tool for enriching his painting: Giuseppe Pellizza da
Volpedo. The special edition of the ‘Tempo ritrovato – fotografie da non
perdere’ Archives Award promoted by Eberhard & Co. and Io Donna will be
hosting the exhibition ‘Pellizza da Volpedo and Photography’ featuring works
from the Pellizza da Volpedo archive. Right from its first editions, the
Award has introduced an important new aspect to photography competitions:
that of bringing out into the light works created in the past, overriding
the custom of orienting the awarding to works in progress or contemporary
projects. The first and second editions of the Award, which focuses on the
private archives of Italian artists who have carried out important work in
all the forms of photographic language, were dedicated to the ’50s and ’60s
respectively, and awarded the archives of Federico Garolla and Tranquillo
Casiraghi. On the occasion of EXPO 2015, Eberhard & Co. and Io Donna
will be celebrating one of the works identified as being iconic of the
Universal Exposition – the Quarto Stato, which is housed in the Museo del
Novecento of Milan; the competition dedicated to the archives of the ‘70s is
thus postponed to MIA Fair 2016 edition. On show a rich collection of
original prints that are today preserved in the archive of the artist, an
invaluable legacy that has recently been restored and enhanced. The
exhibition bears witness, on one hand, to the versatility and curiosity of
the author of the Quarto Stato, and on the other hand to the dual nature of
photography: a tool of art if not art itself.
PERFORMANCE – Making its debut in Italy, within the scope of MIA Fair, is
the project Economic Body, a performance conceived and directed by Swedish
choreographer Anna-mi Fredriksson for the Fluxum Foundation from Geneva. The
performance represents an original attempt to portray social sciences
through forms of participatory art, such as dance. It creates a non-verbal
language that involves the audience in the sharing of concepts relating to
subjects such as economy, politics and demography, which are often perceived
as heavy, even impenetrable to the general public, making them accessible
and immediate through the freshness of art.
CODICE MIA – MIA Fair continues to look to the future through CODICE MIA, a
project conceived by Enrica Viganò as a highly original form of portfolio
review. The artists selected by the Jury will have the opportunity to
discuss their own works with:
Joe Baio, collector, New York, USA
Katy Barron, art advisor and curator, London, UK
Paolo Brodbeck, collector and President of the Brodbeck Foundation ,
Catania, Italy
Thierry Cattoir, collector, Ghent, Belgium
Giorgio Fasol, collector, Verona, Italy
Chiara Massimello, Christie's advisor and collector, Turin, Italy Anthony E.
Nicholas, collector, Los Angeles, USA
Claudio Palmigiano, collector, Milan, Italy
Dan Solomon, collector, Monarch Beach, USA
Sofia Vollmer de Maduro, collector and Director of the Alberto Vollmer
Foundation, Caracas, Venezuela
The jury will award the best portfolio and the winner will have the chance
to exhibit at MIA Fair 2016 edition.
Milan, February 2015
MIA – Milan Image Art Fair
Friday 10 April: Opening (upon Invitation)
Saturday 11 April: 11 am – 9 pm
Sunday 12 April: 11 am – 8 pm
Monday 13 April: 11 am – 7 pm
The Mall - Porta Nuova
Piazza Lina Bo Bardi, 1, Milan
Viale della Liberazione corner Via Galileo Galilei
Yellow Line M3 Repubblica
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Via San Vincenzo 22 – 20123 Milan
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Via San Vincenzo 22 – 20123 Milan
Tel. / Fax +39.0283241412
info@miafair.it - www.miafair.it
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