artissima 18

international fair
of contemporary art oval, lingotto fiere
Torino (IT)
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The distance 161 galleries
of 26 nationalities have to
travel to reach Artissima 18.
The thickness of each line
represents the amount of
galleries in that city and each
country has its own colour
reference.
4–6 November 2011
11am–19pm
www.artissima.it
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ARTISSIMA 18
INDEX
General Press Release
Galleries
Main Section
New Entries
Back to the Future
Present Future
The curatorial programme INSIDE THE FAIR
Simple Rational Approximations – curated by Lara Favaretto and Francesco Manacorda
Other initiatives and events at the Fair
Exhibiting Museums
Listen to the One Who Writes
Collectors’ Walk
Meeting Point Borsalino
Book Corner
The curatorial programme IN TOWN
Artissima LIDO – curated by Christian Frosi, Renato Leotta and Diego Perrone
Publishing Projects
Artissima 18
The Selection Committees
Francesco Manacorda
Practical information
Press Release
ARTISSIMA 18
International Fair of Contemporary Art
3 November 2011
4/5/6 November 2011
Presentation to the Press, collectors’ preview, opening
Open to the public
Oval, Lingotto Fiere, Turin
Artissima 18, International Fair of Contemporary Art, for the second time under the artistic direction
of Francesco Manacorda, runs from 4 to 6 November 2011 (preview on 3 November) in the Oval, Lingotto
Fiere, Turin.
Over the years Artissima has made a name for itself in the world of contemporary art, in Italy and around
the world, as a leading observatory of the finest research being carried out in the visual arts, and as a great
cultural event followed with great interest by specialists, the general public, and the Press. This can be seen
in the attendance figures of Artissima 17, which attracted over 48,000 visitors and 1300 accredited
journalists. In 2011, Artissima intends to raise its level of quality and international scope even further, while
also giving new impetus to the strongly experimental approach that characterised it last year, consolidating
its success.
Many of its real strengths, the new features introduced last year, are back again with increased vigour in
Manacorda’s project for Artissima 18.
For the second consecutive year, the fair takes place in the spectacular premises of the Oval, an
architecturally innovative pavilion with 20,000 m² of naturally lit space made for the Winter Olympic Games
of Turin 2006, which proved to be an extremely effective setting for the event.
The Fair
Artissima 18 hosts 161 galleries (58 Italian and 103 foreign) in four sections:
•
Main Section, which includes the most representative galleries on the international art scene,
chosen by the Selection Committee.
•
New Entries, the most interesting young galleries that have been working for less than five years,
and that are taking part in Artissima for the first time, chosen by the Selection Committee. This year,
25 galleries from 11 different countries have been admitted. During the fair, an international jury will
confer the Guido Carbone Award upon the gallery in the New Entries section that has worked
best to discover and promote young artists.
•
Present Future, devoted to 16 emerging artists invited by a team of international curators, and
presented by their galleries. This section is being set up with the cooperation of illycaffè, which will
be offering the illy Present Future Award to the artist considered to be the most interesting by a
jury of three eminent experts.
•
Back to the Future, which was launched in 2010 with the aim of focusing on artists who worked in
the 1960s and ’70s and who have enjoyed little recognition in recent decades, but whose work is
particularly significant today. This is an authentic museum-style exhibition of works by a group of
artists chosen by an international Committee. Back to the Future, which right from its debut was
greeted with great interest by galleries, collectors and the Press, shows 20 artists in 2011.
The Curatorial Project
Artissima 18 continues its research into the future scenario of museums, which started up last year with the
Casa delle contaminazioni (The House of Contamination). This year the programme consists of two
different projects, which are independent and yet inextricably linked one to the other: the first will take
place inside the fair, while the other will be held outside, in the evenings only. Both projects concentrate on
new models and formats for the production, interpretation and circulation of contemporary art. For the first
time at a fair, they are curated by artists.
Simple Rational Approximations
At the centre of the Artissima pavilion, Simple Rational Approximations is a project for a museum invented
by the Turin-born artist Lara Favaretto working with Francesco Manacorda. The title of the project is taken
from a mathematical model that defines an interpolation – in other words, the approximate calculation of
values of magnitude using known values – which uses rational functions. An approximation, which derives
etymologically from “to come near”, also suggests the underlying theme of the project, which brings
together different ideas and attitudes, proposing a fictitious, ephemeral, nomadic organisation that will exist
only for the four days of the fair. This “provisional institution” is modelled on some of the traditional
functions of contemporary art museums – a permanent collection, a temporary exhibition, a bookstore, an
auditorium, an educational department, and a storage – rethinking their way of working through a selection
of existing projects or new proposals submitted by individuals, collectives, and institutions, who will be
selected from the international art world for their inventive ability to re-imagine operational and planning
methods.
Artissima LIDO
For the first time, this year Artissima organises a programme of exhibitions and events in the centre of
Turin, outside the fair and outside of its opening hours. In the mediaeval district of the “Roman
Quadrilateral”, a number of not-for-profit spaces run by artists from all over Italy will temporarily move out
to a series of city spaces, where they will work on their various experimental activities, at the same time and
in the same place. The project intends to create a network of spaces and collectives that are often the only
organisations that actively promote artistic experimentation in their areas. The aim is to put the international
spotlight on a relatively unknown aspect of Italy and of its hidden artistic scene. Imagined as a group
exhibition of experimental spaces, Artissima LIDO is curated by three Italian artists, Christian Frosi,
Renato Leotta, and Diego Perrone, and it offers a very full, varied calendar of exhibitions, performances,
screenings, concerts, and conversations in specially chosen places. The starting point for a walk through the
neighbourhood is the Artissima Social Club, a temporary bar where the art world and visitors to the fair
will be able to meet each evening.
‘We’re working on the experimental mission, and on the innovative potential and international dimension of
Artissima through a meticulous curatorial format that builds on last year’s project’, says Francesco
Manacorda. ‘Our policy is one of continuation and in-depth examination, without depriving the Fair of its
many innovative and spectacular elements. The aim is to create an up-to-the-minute project that can bring
out the very best in Artissima, the combination of business and cultural values, which makes this event a
powerhouse of the contemporary arts and the ideal meeting place for all those involved.’
ARTISSIMA is a brand name of Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino and Città di Torino. On behalf
of these three authorities, it is promoted by Fondazione Torino Musei, which has been set up by the City
of Turin to foster and promote the artistic and museum heritage of the city. The eighteenth ARTISSIMA is
being put on with the support of the three brand-owning authorities, together with Camera di commercio
di Torino, Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
The event is also made possible by:
Main Partner:
Partners:
Media Partner:
In-Kind Sponsors:
UniCredit
Fiat, Fondazione Borsalino, illycaffè, Iren, Lauretana, Open Care
RCS Pubblicità
Ceretto, essent’ial, Expo-Rent, Ferrero Rocher, Gaggenau, Galliano Habitat/Museo
del Design, K-Way/Robe di Kappa, Valcucine
ARTISSIMA 18: THE GALLERIES
161 young and established galleries of contemporary art from Europe, the Americas and Asia present in the
spectacular venue of the Oval, new and important works from some of the most acclaimed and cutting edge
artists. The pavilion also hosts the cultural programme with all its many events, complementing and ensuring
close interaction with the fair.
MAIN SECTION
This section includes a selection of some of the most representative galleries on the international art scene.
The Selection Committee consists of:
Daniele Balice, Balicehertling, Paris
Isabella Bortolozzi, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Mario Cristiani, Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin
Darren Flook, Hotel, London
Casey Kaplan, Casey Kaplan, New York
Norma Mangione, Norma Mangione, Turin
Gregor Podnar, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Ljubljana
for the Main Section it has selected 102 galleries from 21 different countries (45 from Italy and 57
from abroad).
1/9unosunove, Rome, Milan; A Palazzo, Brescia; annex14, Bern, Artericambi, Verona; Alfonso
Artiaco, Naples; Enrico Astuni, Bologna; Balicehertling, Paris; Laura Bartlett, London; Niklas
Belenius, Stockholm; Bonomo, Bari, Rome; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Bugada&Cargnel, Paris; Cardi
Black Box, Milan; carlier|gebauer, Berlin; Carreras Mugica, Bilbao; Chert, Berlin; Conduits, Milan;
Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin; Pilar Corrias, London; Raffaella Cortese, Milan; Guido
Costa, Turin; Thomas Dane, London; Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam; Monica De Cardenas, Milan, Zuoz;
Massimo De Carlo, Milan, London; Dépendance, Brussels; Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno; Umberto Di
Marino, Naples; Duve, Berlin; Figge von Rosen, Cologne, Berlin; Konrad Fischer, Berlin, Düsseldorf;
Fonti, Naples; Enrico Fornello, Milan; Carl Freedman, London; Fruit & Flower Deli, Stockholm; Gaudel
de Stampa, Paris; Gentili, Prato; González y González, Santiago; Green On Red, Dublin; Grimm,
Amsterdam; Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart; Hollybush Gardens, London; Hotel, London; Andreas Huber,
Vienna; Hussenot, Paris; Ibid Projects, London; In Arco, Turin; Kalfayan, Athens, Thessaloniki; Kamm,
Berlin; Casey Kaplan, New York; Georg Kargl, Vienna; kaufmann repetto, Milan; Leto, Warsaw;
Lisson, London, Milan; Magazzino, Rome; Norma Mangione, Turin; Kamel Mennour, Paris; Francesca
Minini, Milan; Massimo Minini, Brescia; Monitor, Rome; Franco Noero, Turin; Nogueras Blanchard,
Barcelona; Noire, Turin; Lorcan O’Neill, Rome; Opdahl, Stavanger, Berlin; Francesco Pantaleone,
Palermo; Parrotta, Stuttgart, Berlin; Alberto Peola, Turin; Peres Projects, Berlin; Giorgio Persano,
Turin; Photo&Contemporary, Turin; Photology, Milan; Pinksummer, Genoa; Gregor Podnar, Berlin,
Ljubljana; prometeogallery, Milan, Lucca; RaebervonStenglin, Zurich; Raucci/Santamaria, Naples; Lia
Rumma, Milan, Naples; S.A.L.E.S., Rome; Sabot, Cluj-Napoca; Federica Schiavo, Rome; Esther
Schipper, Berlin; schleicher+lange, Paris, Berlin; Suzy Shammah, Milan; Franco Soffiantino, Turin;
SpazioA, Pistoia; Sprovieri, London; Steinek, Vienna; Steinle, Munich; Diana Stigter, Amsterdam;
Super Window, Kyoto; Supportico Lopez, Berlin; TaiK, Helsinki, Berlin; The Third Line, Dubai;
Caterina Tognon, Venice; Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice; Tim Van Laere, Antwerp; Martin van Zomeren,
Amsterdam; Vistamare, Pescara; Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; Wentrup, Berlin; Workplace, Gateshead
NEW ENTRIES
This showcase of the very latest creativity is reserved for the most interesting young galleries, which have
been up and running for less than five years, and which are taking part in Artissima for the first time.
The Selection Committee consists of:
Daniele Balice, Balicehertling, Paris
Isabella Bortolozzi, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Mario Cristiani, Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin
Darren Flook, Hotel, London
Casey Kaplan, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Norma Mangione, Galleria Norma Mangione, Turin
Gregor Podnar, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Ljubljana
for the New Entries it has selected 25 galleries from 11 countries (2 from Italy, 23 from abroad).
Samy Abraham, Paris; amt_project, Bratislava; Christian Andersen, Copenhagen; Balice Hertling &
Lewis, New York; BolteLang, Zurich; collicaligreggi, Catania; Lisa Cooley, New York; Crèvecoeur,
Paris; Hilary Crisp, London; Elastic, Malmö; Selma Feriani, London; Honor Fraser, Los Angeles; Laurel
Gitlen, New York; Grey Noise, Lahore; Laveronica, Modica; Josh Lilley, London; Limoncello, London;
Ignacio Liprandi, Buenos Aires; MOTInternational, London, Brussels; On Stellar Rays, New York;
ribordy contemporary, Geneva; SAKS, Geneva; Gregor Staiger, Zurich; Untitled, New York;
Weingrüll, Karlsruhe.
During Artissima an international jury will assign the Guido Carbone Award, which was set up in 2006 and
is reserved to the New Entries section, selecting the gallery considered to be most noteworthy in terms of its
search for, and promotion of, young artists.
The 2011 Jury consists of the following:
Florence Derieux, Director, FRAC, Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
Peter Eleey, Chief Curator, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Stefan Kalmár, Executive Director and Curator, Artists Space, New York
Laura Viale, artist, permanent member representing the family of Guido Carbone, Turin
BACK TO THE FUTURE
First launched in 2010, Back to the Future presents a series of solo displays of works by Italian and
foreign artists who, after making a name for themselves in the 1960s and ’70s, once again deserve special
attention for the relevance of their work for the most contemporary developments in art.
The selection of artists has been entrusted by:
Massimiliano Gioni, Associate Director, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and Artistic Director,
Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Christine Macel, Chief Curator of Contemporary Art at the Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges
Pompidou, Paris
The Committee’s selection focused on artists whose practice has an experimental and research-based nature
that also parallels Artissima’s contemporary sections.
20 galleries from 7 different countries (10 from Italy, 10 from abroad) are taking part in the section:
ALEXIS AKRITHAKIS, Kalfayan, Athens, Thessaloniki; WILLIAM ANASTASI, Anita Beckers, Frankfurt;
TOMASO BINGA, Wunderkammern, Rome; RENATA BOERO, Cardelli & Fontana, Sarzana; GIUSEPPE
CHIARI, Il Ponte, Florence; GIORGIO CIAM, Mummery + Schnelle, London; GIUSEPPE DESIATO, Delloro,
Rome, Berlin; JOHN DIVOLA, Laura Bartlett, London; GIOSETTA FIORONI, VAVA, Milan; GIORGIO GRIFFA,
Giampiero Biasutti, Turin; PETER HUTCHINSON, P420, Bologna; GARY KUEHN, Häusler, Zurich, Munich;
KETTY LA ROCCA, Martano, Turin; LYNN HERSHMAN LEESON, Waldburger, Brussels; NATALIA LL, upp,
Venice; JAKOB MATTNER, 401 Contemporary, Berlin; FRANCO MAZZUCCHELLI, Repetto, Acqui Terme;
BRUCE MCLEAN, Tanya Leighton, Berlin; DMITRI PRIGOV, Sandmann, Berlin; NIL YALTER, Hubert
Winter, Vienna
Back to the Future offers the general public, art world professionals and collectors the opportunity, within
a single area, to shift from an experience of the most recent artistic research to one of works made in the
1960s and ’70s, on a disorienting journey through a past that can now be seen to be highly relevant and of
huge expressive impact. This is a unique opportunity to gain an understanding of some of the leading
innovators of modern-art forms, in a context devoted to the latest experiments in contemporary art.
Together with some international names of particular interest, the show also includes a substantial number
of Italian artists and galleries as well as a significant, inspirational presence of top-level female artists known
for their social and political commitment.
PRESENT FUTURE
The long partnership between illycaffè and Artissima continues once again, for the eleventh year running,
with Present Future, the special section of the Fair devoted to international emerging art, which has
established itself over the years as a successful launching pad for the latest generation of talented artists.
Somewhere between a group exhibition and a series of unprecedented solo shows, the 2011 Present Future
displays the works of a group of artists from around the world, selected by a Curatorial Committee.
The 16 artists who have been invited will be shown by their galleries in a special exhibition space inside the
Fair. The outcome of many months of discussion between artists and curators, Present Future includes a
number of works specially made for the fair and projects being shown for the first time in Europe and Italy.
During Artissima, a jury of international museum curators and directors will award the 11th illy Present
Future Award to the most significant project. The winner will receive a €10,000 prize and will have the
opportunity to present a design for the “illy Art Collection” of auteur coffee cups.
For almost twenty years now, illycaffè has been actively committed to the promotion of contemporary art,
giving its support to international exhibitions and artists. One result of this undertaking is the “Present
Future” illy Award, which over the years has proved to be an exceptional breeding ground of talent. This can
be seen in the names of many artists, such as Phil Collins, Mateo Tannatt, Patricia Esquivias, Luca
Francesconi, Shizuka Yokomizo, Padraig Timoney, Michael Beutler, and Melanie Gilligan, who are all past
winners of the Award and who are now internationally established and acclaimed.
Selection Committee for Present Future – ARTISSIMA 18
Luigi Fassi, (Coordinator), Art Director, ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano
Chris Fitzpatrick, Independent Curator, San Francisco
Christophe Gallois, Curator, MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Antonia Majaca, Art Director, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
Jury of the illy Present Future Award – ARTISSIMA 18
Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Tessa Giblin, Curator of Visual Arts, Projects Art Centre, Dublin
Beatrix Ruf, Director, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich l
Artists and Galleries at Present Future – ARTISSIMA 18
LUPO BORGONOVO, Fluxia, Milan; KATINKA BOCK, Jocelyn Wolff, Paris; MICHAL BUDNY, Johnen, Berlin;
Nächst St.Stephan-Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna; DINA DANISH, Jeanine Hofland, Amsterdam;
IGOR GRUBIĆ, Škuc, Ljubljana; VLATKA HORVAT, Zak | Branicka, Berlin, Cracow; ROB JOHANNESMA, Roma
Publications, Amsterdam; ALEK O., Gallery Vela, London; JULIEN PRÉVIEUX, Jousse Entreprise, Paris;
YANN SÉRANDOUR, gb agency, Paris; MISHA STROJ, Kerstin Engholm, Vienna; MILICA TOMIĆ, Charim,
Vienna, Berlin; NICOLINE VAN HARSKAMP, NON, Istanbul; ZAPRUDER, Caterina Tognon, Venice; RAPHAËL
ZARKA, Michel Rein, Paris; WALDEMAR ZIMBELMANN, Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe, Berlin
PUBLISHERS
Arskey/Teknemedia - Edizioni Arsvalue srl, Asti
ARTE - Cairo Editore Spa, Milan
Arte e Critica, Rome
ArteSera, Turin
Artforum International, New York, N.Y.
Artribune, Rome
Cura.Magazine - Moving Produzioni, Rome
Drome Magazine - Phlegmatics, Rome
Exibart - Emmi Srl, Florence
Fantom - Boiler Corporation Srl, Milan
Flash Art - Politi Editore, Milan
Il Giornale dell’Arte - U. Allemandi Editore & C. Spa, Turin
Inside Art - Guido Talarico Editore, Rome
Juliet Art Magazine, Trieste
Kaleidoscope, Milan
Leap, Beijing
Mousse - Mousse Magazine and Publishing, Milan
Nero Magazine - Produzioni Nero, Rome
Segno - Sala Editori, Pescara
Zerodeux, Nantes
Zéroquatre, Villeurbanne
OTHER EXHIBITORS
Castello di Rivoli.Tv, Rivoli
Club to Club, Turin
Galliano Habitat / Museo del Design, None
Kunstverein, Amsterdam, NL / Milan, I / New York, N.Y.
Lauretana, Graglia
Open Care, Milan
RCS Pubblicità, Milan
UniCredit Studio, Milan
Whitechapel Gallery, London
THE CURATORIAL PROJECT INSIDE THE FAIR
This year the programme consists of two different projects, which are independent and yet inextricably
linked one to the other: the first – ‘Simple Rational Approximations’ – takes place inside the fair, while
the second – ‘Artissima LIDO’ – is held outside, in the area of the “Roman Quadrilateral”, in the evenings
only. Both projects concentrate on new models and formats for the production, interpretation and circulation
of contemporary art. For the first time at a fair, they are curated by artists.
SIMPLE RATIONAL APPROXIMATIONS
Curated by Lara Favaretto and Francesco Manacorda
‘Simple Rational Approximations’ are mathematical functions that form part of a group of interpolations.
In non-technical terms, an interpolation is a method used to estimate an approximation of the position of
certain data points on a Cartesian plane on the basis of known points. ‘Interpolation’, in literature, means
the introduction of extraneous words or sentences in a text altering its meaning. In Italian ‘to interpolate’ is
synonimous to interpose, to insert, to interfere but also to paraphrase and to revise. The project proposes to
public the hypothesis of a museum which tries to be at odds with the traditional permanent structure which
acquires, catalogues, preserves and organizes. On the contrary, it presents itself as a temporary organism
which appears, dispers, shares, publishes ad then disappears again.
This temporary museum is realized through isolation and the throwing off tracks of the conventions
inharitated from the different functions of the musum institurtion: each department of the museum is
entrusted to curators and artists to whom it has been asked to subvert its rules and traditions.
The result is a project in which both the container and the content are transitory experimentation. The
temporary aspect of the content is obtained thanks to the fact that each section does not show works, as
they are traditionally intended, but screenings, versions, manipulations and interpretations whose aim is
producing further knowledge. For each component has been conceived a proposal of temporary architecture,
semplified and reduced, in its structural part, to its essencial function, using building materials deprived from
their final finishing. Conceived as an answer to the projects developed inside, together they constitute a
replicable, precarious format.
The model includes a number of interconnected elements:
•
•
a permanent collection inspired by Eat Art with masterpieces of contemporary art made in the form
of cakes;
a temporary exhibition devised by Pierre Bal-Blanc in the form of a series of performances
followed by a conversation;
•
an auditorium with the screening of films recently produced by the Chisenhale Gallery of London,
followed by three days of conferences, debates, and screenings on the circulation of knowledge, and
more besides, organised by Bétonsalon, Triple Canopy, and Salon Populaire;
•
a bookshop arranged in accordance with the bizarre taxonomy of the Bureau of Loose
Associations;
•
a storage of fundamental exhibitions of the twentieth century, which will be on display in the
Hypnotic Show curated by Raimundas Malašauskas;
•
an education department which is also a scientific laboratory for the production of ink, created by
France Fiction;
•
a publishing department which gives real-time data on the Fair and on the curatorial project, created
by the Artissima 18 graphic designer Sara De Bondt studio.
PERMANENT COLLECTION
Permanence on Demand
Inspired by Eat Art, the collection consists of a complete series of 80 works of art reproduced as cakes.
Exhibited in four groups of 20 cakes on each day of the fair, the pieces start out complete at the beginning
of the day and are freely available for the public to eat, thereby making visitors accomplices in organising
their disappearance. Each morning, 20 new works appear. In this manner, they are dispersed as a
gastronomic and cultural experience within the memories and bodies of those visitors who decide to take
part in the ritual.
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
Draft Score For An Exhibition (2010)
Score Played by an Escort Boy or by the Author
by Pierre Bal-Blanc
Independent Curator and Director CAC-Brétigny, Brétigny s/Orge
An oral presentation given by Pierre Bal-Blanc to a jury of professionals in 2010, as part of his application to
curate the 7th Berlin Biennale, is reiterated for the public of the fair. Devised as an exhibition in acts, the
session adheres to the rules of a score performed by its author or by a third party.
AUDITORIUM
Chisenhale Gallery Moving Image 2008-2011
curated by Polly Staple
Director of Chisenhale Gallery, London
Chisenhale Gallery presents for the first time together a programme of the 5 moving-image works
commissioned by and exhibited in London between 2008 and 2011. Although originally presented as solo
projects, all the works share an interest in narrative structure, economic crisis and the status of the image as
material. The video screened the first day can be seen by public for all the four days on a monitor inside the
Auditorium.
WITH: Duncan Campbell, Melanie Gilligan, Anja Kirschner & David Panos, Simon Martin & Ed Atkins, Hito
Steyerl
AUDITORIUM
CONFERENCES ON
5 FILM TRACKS
The Mr. Freedom Summit
curated by Anna Colin
Associate Director, Bétonsalon, Paris
in dialogue with Kodwo Eshun
The Mr. Freedom Summit presents a series of contributions by artists, theorists and curators around William
Klein’s anti-imperialistic satire Mr. Freedom (1969). Live or recorded, formal or informal, in the form of
conferences, poetic readings, vox pop or video, these contributions reflect over the formal and political
vocabulary of the movie as well as over the practice of experimental and militant cinema.
WITH: Eric Baudelaire, Matthew Biederman, Nicole Brenez, Kodwo Eshun, Nicole Fernández Ferrer, Olivier
Hadouchi, Shanay Jhaveri, Wayne Koestenbaum, Lars Bang Larsen, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson, Uriel
Orlow, Marko Peljhan, Brian W. Rogers, Thibaut de Ruyter, Marco Scotini, Marina Vishmidt with Melanie
Gilligan, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Florian Zeyfang et al.
AUDITORIUM
CONFERENCES ON 5 FILM TRACKS
Volume Number 1: Factual Decoys
curated by Triple Canopy, New York, Los Angeles, Berlin
Triple Canopy presents a magazine in action, with a table and chairs in place of pages. All articles are worksin-progress, subject to revision by participants, and circling around a single object. Attention, All Users
explores the interface and the technological object at the core of our information economy. International Art
English asks how we have come to think and speak in the language of the art-world press release. Where
We’re Going We Don’t Need Roads considers the DeLorean automobile, its iconic status and material history,
as shown in Back to the Future and Duncan Campbell’s Make It New John. We Are All Anonymous looks at
online message boards and hacker culture: how have those forums given rise to the ad hoc politics of
groups like Anonymous?
WITH: 4CHAN (Gabriella Coleman & David Auerbach), David Levine, Taraneh Fazeli, Alexander Provan, Alix
Rule, Caleb Waldorf
AUDITORIUM
CONFERENCES ON
5 FILM TRACKS
THE T-I-T-L-E-E-R – TITLE (to be specified)
curated by Salon Populaire, Berlin
with Daniel Tyradellis
In cooperation with the German–Greek philosopher of science Daniel Tyradellis, Salon Populaire organizes a
day at the intersection of production and knowledge mediation that is conducted and experimented with by
all participants who are invited to create a configuration of images, texts, and sounds that initiates a
discussion on common concerns. ‘THE T-I-T-L-E-E-R’ intentionally transcends traditional disciplinary and
institutional borders to fathom the potential of art and the museum as a place for social self-understanding
in the age of knowledge-based society.
WITH: Sonia Arribas, Bernd Krauss, Savina Neirotti, Howard Rouse
EDUCATION DEPARTMENT
The Ink Factory
by France Fiction, Paris
France Fiction has decided not to produce information as content but rather as substance – ink – which
potentially contains all the information and knowledge that can be expressed through language. The ink
produced is packed in cartridges that are handed out to the public during guided tours to the factory.
BOOKSTORE
Bookstore of Loose Associations
by Bureau of Loose Associations, Warsaw
The sections refer to bookstore departments – History of Art, Economy of Art, Music & Sound, and
Magazines & Newspapers – but the sections are arbitrarily shuffled and juxtaposed against each other. It is
up to the visitor to map and generate the overall meaning, rather than get it enforced through a rigid
structure. The bookstore, created by Bureau of Loose Associations, functions as a visual composition – a sort
of cloud of (loose) associations, where visual factor is the determining criterion applying to all sections.
PUBLISHING DEPARTMENT
Office for Statistics
by Sara De Bondt studio, London
Office for Statistics is a site for research, data production and exchange and information: from the gender of
curators, staff, and artists, to the price of artworks acquired by public funds, to the food served at the
opening events and the nationalities of fair exhibitors. Office for Statistics tags these and many more facts,
combining them in different configurations to produce unique renderings, diagrams and infographics. The
public is invited to participate not only to learn about the noteworthy details of the fair but, above all, to
contribute information and ideas likely to be translated into visual form.
STORAGE
Hypnotic Show
curated by Raimundas Malašauskas
Writer and curator, Paris
conducted by Marcos Lutyens, artist, Los Angeles
and Annalisa Fruttero, psychologist, Turin
The Hypnotic Show is an exhibitions in the mind of the beholder. For Artissima 18, for the first time, writers
rather than artists have been asked to take part at the project: Sofía Hernandez Chong Cuy, Angie Keefer,
John Menick and Robert Snowden have written some 30 scripts helping the hypnotist to lead her audience
through some of the most significant and fundamental exhibitions of the XX century.
In collaboration with
Compagnia di San Paolo
Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
OTHER INITIATIVES AND EVENTS AT THE FAIR
EXIBITING MUSEUMS
Artissima is continuing the project started up in 2010, involving at the fair museums, foundations and art
institutions from the region in an exclusive event that illustrates what is on offer in terms of contemporary
art displays in Turin and Piedmont. Each institution has been invited to show one work from its own
collection, or a work associated with the exhibition it is putting on during the days of Artissima. This will
constitute an authentic museum space, where visitors can discover previously unseen works and have a
preview of exhibitions and events being put on in the region.
This year, the initiative is enriched by the collaboration of the Education Departments of the network zonarte
The display with workshop, laboratories, meetings and a discussion area open to all different types of public
(children, students, families, professionals, and experts) ‘to reconsider art spaces as places for encounter
and interaction, as well as of knowledge’.
INSTITUTIONS
Accademia Albertina delle Belle Arti
Associazione ArteGiovane
Barriera
Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea
CeSAC Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee
Città di Torino
Cittadellarte/Fondazione Pistoletto
CRAA Centro Ricerca Arte Attuale Villa Giulia
Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
Fondazione Merz
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo
Fondazione 107
Fondo Giov-Anna Piras
GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
PAV Parco Arte Vivente
Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli
Provincia di Torino / Eco & Narciso
Regione Piemonte
Resò
ARTISTS
Michael Bauer, Maurizio Cattelan, Dina Danish, Angiola Gatti, Gilbert & Georg, Gioberto Noro, Oleg Kulik,
Gabriel Kuri, Mario Merz, Amilcar Packer, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alessandro Quaranta, Tobias Rehberger,
Thomas Schütte, Sophie Usunier, Nadir Valente, Cai Weidong, Sisley Xhafa
LISTEN TO THE ONE WHO WRITES
For the seventh year, Artissima offers an initiative, dedicated to the public, which every year increased its
success. Art and economy critics and journalists from leading national publications will guide visitors through
the fair, as exceptional ‘guide’, on a specially created tour around gallery stands, following different themes,
typologies of artworks or artists, different tendencies, languages or expressive means.
Friday 4 November
11.30 am Manuela Gandini, La Stampa
1 pm Cristiana Perrella, RAI – Artnews
3 pm Pia Capelli, Il Sole 24 ore / Elle
5 pm Michele Bonuomo, Arte
Saturday 5 November
11.30 am Chiara Zampetti, Il Giornale dell’Arte
1 pm Marco Carminati, Il Sole 24 Ore
3 pm Alessandra Mammì, L’Espresso
5 pm Vincenzo Trione, Corriere della Sera
Sunday 6 November
11.30 am Elena Del Drago, Rai Radio 3, "A 3 Il Formato dell’Arte"
12.30 pm Elena Volpato, Il Fatto Quotidiano / Saturno
3 pm Valentina Tanni, Artribune
5 pm Ludovico Pratesi, Venerdì – La Repubblica
To book your free visit call +39 011 19744106 or email [email protected]
COLLECTORS’ WALK
For the first time, events for visitors to Artissima include a special series of guided tours of the fair pavilion.
They are led by important international collectors who comment on the works in terms of their own personal
passion for contemporary art.
Friday 4 November
2 pm Angela Missoni in conversation with Mariuccia Casadio, Italy
4 pm Flavio Albanese, Italy
5.30 pm Matt Aberle, United States *
Saturday 5 November
2 pm Wilhelm Schürmann, Germany *
4 pm Josef Dalle Nogare, Italy
5.30 pm Rebecca Fiorini, Italy
Sunday 6 November
2 pm Alex Sainsbury, Great Britain *
To book your free visit call +39 011 19744106 or email [email protected]
*English spoken tour
MEETING POINT BORSALINO
Friday 4 November
11.30 am
The Galliano Habitat Corporate Museum: communication and cultural politics, 2008-2011
Case Study: The memorandum of agreement DEGUCRE : DEsign – GUsto – CREatività.
Speakers: Riccardo Bedrone, President OAT Ordine degli Architetti di Torino; Marco Miscioscia, President ADI
Delegazione Piemonte e Valle d’Aosta; Alessio Stefanoni, Head of Communication CNA Torino; Monica
Nucera Mantelli, Director Museo del Design GH and deviser DEGUCRE.
1pm
CECI N’EST PAS DU CINEMA!
Conversation on the young Italian video art with the artists taking part in video show organised by Castello
di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea in collaboration with Museo Nazionale del Cinema, curated by
Marcella Beccaria, Andrea Bellini, Francesco Bernardelli, Beatrice Merz, and Marianna Vecellio.
Speakers: Alis/Filliol, Patrizio di Massimo, goldiechiari, Isola e Norzi, Rä di Martino, Marzia Migliora, Diego
Perrone, Andrea Salvino, Lorenzo Scotto di Luzio, Elisa Sighicelli.
Welcome by: Ugo Nespolo, President, Museo Nazionale del Cinema.
Moderator: Marcella Beccaria.
2.30 pm
Karen Wright, white dot art, interviews Jimmie Durham
4 pm
Contemporary Art Initiatives in Morocco: Dar al-Ma'mûn Residency and the Marrakech Biennale
Speakers: Redha Moali, Founder Dar al-Ma'mûn International center for artists & translators; Carleen
Hamon, Associate Director Dar al-Ma'mûn, International center for artists & translators; Nadim Samman,
Curator, 4th Marrakech Biennale; Mario Cristiani, art dealer.
5.30 pm
Diane, Ad and Tupperware
Lecture by artist Pierre Leguillon
Within the GAM project Ritardo di Vetro, curated by Eva Fabbris.
Followed by the launch of MAG 3, the new issue of GAM magazine.
Saturday 5 November
11.30 am
The Urethra Postcard Art of Gilbert & George
Presentation of the exhibition at Pinacoteca Giovanni e Marella Agnelli.
With: Gilbert & George, the Curator Mirta d’Argenzio and Michael Bracewell, novelist and critic.
1 pm
A Videoinsight® experience by the public, in relation to an artwork selected from the fair
Speakers: Rebecca Luciana Russo, psychologist - psychoterapist and collector of contemporary art, Founder
of Centro Videoinsight® and author of the book Videoinsight®. Curare con l’arte contemporanea, ed.
Silvana (2010)
2.30 pm
Karen Wright, white dot art, interviews Lara Favaretto and Francesco Manacorda
4 pm
EXERCISES ON CONTEMPORANEITY: Corporate Culture through History, Art and Education
Speakers: Elisa Fulco, Curator Fondazione Borsalino; Anila Rubiku, artist; Francesca Appiani, Curator Museo
Archivio Alessi and Vice President, Museimpresa; Deborah Caré, Director, Fondazione Ermanno Casoli and
Brand Marketing Manager, Gruppo Elica.
Moderator: Elisa Fulco, Curator Fondazione Borsalino.
5.30 pm
6 ARTISTA art forming art
Presentation of 6 artista project and winners award ceremony of the 3rd edition.
Speakers: Riccardo Villari, Under Secretary of State for Cultural Heritage and Activity; Fabio Dal Boni,
Communication Director Allianz; Albino Ruberti, Secretary-General Associazione Civita; Marcello Smarrelli,
Artistic Director Fondazione Pastificio Cerere; Vincenzo De Bellis, Curator in residence Fondazione Pastificio
Cerere 2010-11; Adelita Husni-Bey and Elisa Strinna, winners of the 2nd edition of 6 artista.
Sunday 6 November
11.30 pm
Benvenuti in Italia: Art Against Mafia
Presentation of the project.
Speakers: Davide Mattiello, National Coordinator Benvenuti in Italia; Alvise Chevallard, President
Associazione ArteGiovane; Angelo Chianale, collector; Luigi Mainolfi, artist; Francesco Poli, critic; Tucci
Russo, art dealer.
Moderator: Giulio Sapelli, University lecturer and collector.
1 pm
Lomography meets Artissima: Special Workshop
2.30 pm
Karen Wright, white dot art, interviews Michelangelo Pistoletto
4 pm
LET’S TALK RESÒ
Presentation of the second edition of the project for artists’ residencies.
Speakers: Fulvio Gianaria, President Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT; Gail Cochrane,
Director Fondazione Spinola Banna per l’Arte; Paolo Naldini, Managing Director Cittadellarte/Fondazione
Pistoletto; Estelle Nabeyrat, collaborator Palais de Tokyo; Sunil Vallu, artist; Irene Pittatore and Francesca
Macrì, artists.
5.30 pm
Artists’ contracts
Speakers: Gianmaria Ajani, Dean, Law Faculty, Turin; Alessandra Donati, Teacher Law Faculty, Università
Milano-Bicocca; Ettore Favini, Maddalena Fragnito, Linda Fregni, Alessandro Nassiri, artists, and a number of
artists of Gruppo Vladivostock.
In collaboration with
Fondazione Borsalino
BOOK CORNER
Friday 4 November
3 pm
Presentation of the book La Credenza, The new season, ed. Gribaudo
Speakers: Giovanni Grasso & Igor Macchia, chef Ristorante La Credenza; Carlo Vischi, edizioni
Gribaudo/Feltrinelli.
Moderator: Rocco Moliterni, critic and journalist
4.30 pm
Presentation of the book Room for a void
curated by Galleria Laveronica, Modica, ed. Mousse Publishing, Milan
Speakers: Roberto Pinto, art historian and curator; Adelita Husni-Bey, artist.
6 pm
Presentation of the exhibition catalogue Vedere un oggetto, vedere la luce
ed. Mousse Publishing, Milan
Final exhibition of the fifth edition of the young curators residency programme, Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, Torino.
Speakers: Ginny Kollak, Pádraic E. Moore, Pavel S. Pyś, and Stefano Collicelli Cagol.
Saturday 5 November
12 pm
Presentation of the book curated by Art For Business
Che cosa me ne faccio dell'arte? Al lavoro e nella vita quotidiana. La parola al pubblico e agli
artisti, ed. Umberto Allemandi & C.
Speakers: Catterina Seia, Cultural Manager and member of the Scientific Committee of Art For Business and
the artist Emilio Fantin together with some of the artists who took part in the research.
Introduction by: Valeria Cantoni, President Art For Business
1.30 pm
Presentation of the book L’economia dell’arte contemporanea. Mercati, strategie e star system
by Alessia Zorloni, ed. Franco Angeli.
Welcome by: Francesco Manacorda, Director Artissima.
Speakers: Alessia Zorloni, Associate Researcher, The Boston Consulting Group and author of the book;
Federico Lalatta Costerbosa, Partner and Global Coordinator, Arts and Culture Network, The Boston
Consulting Group; Jean Claude Mosconi, Head of Artistic and Curatorial Advisory, UniCredit; Stefano Baia
Curioni, Director Master ofi Economy for art and culture (CLEACC-Acme), Università Bocconi; Francesco De
Biase, Head. Contemporary Art Department, Città di Torino.
Moderator: Marilena Pirrelli, journalist, Il Sole 24 Ore.
3 pm
Presentation of the exhibition catalogue Stefano Arienti – ALL'APERTO 2011, Fondazione Zegna
Speakers: Stefano Arienti, artist; Barbara Casavecchia & Andrea Zegna, Curators of the project ALL’APERTO;
Luca Cerizza, critic and independent curator.
4.30 pm
Presentazione del libro / Presentation of the book L’arte di collezionare arte contemporanea,
by Ludovico Pratesi, ed. Castelvecchi
Speakers: Michele Spinelli, collector; Adriana Polveroni; critic, Benedetta Spalletti, art dealer.
6 pm
Presentation of the exhibition catalogue Anna Scalfi Eghenter. Katalogos, ed. Andrea Viliani,
Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di Trento, Silvana
Editoriale, Milano, 2011
Speakers: Andrea Viliani, Director Fondazione Galleria Civica – Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità di
Trento (moderator); Angelika Burtscher, Studio Lupo&Burtscher and Lungomare, Bolzano; Cecilia Canziani,
Head of Programme Nomas Foundation, Rome; Roberto Pinto, researcher for History of art at University of
Trento; Cesare Pietroiusti, artist; Anna Scalfi Eghenter, artist.
Sunday 6 November
12 pm
Presentation of the book Opere di Pistoletto. Massimo Melotti a colloquio con Michelangelo
Pistoletto, ed. Allemandi & C. In collaboration with cittadellarte.
Speakers: Michelangelo Pistoletto, artist; Massimo Melotti, critic.
1.30 pm
Presentation of the artist’s book If Mind Were All There Was, by Victor Man, ed. Transmission
Gallery, Glasgow and Kaleidoscope, Milan.
Speakers: the artist Victor Man and the book editor Alessandro Rabottini, Curator at Large, GAMeC Galleria
d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo together with some of the book contributors: Massimiliano
Gioni, Associate Director, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and Artistic Director Fondazione
Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Martin Herbert, critic; Francesco Manacorda, Artissima Director.
3 pm
Contemporary art and related fields: New formats in Cultural Publishing.
Maria Cristina Didero, design professional and independent curator interviews Daniele Perra, Editor, unFLOP
paper.
4.30 pm
Presentation of the book Museums, Galleries, Homes and other stories
Rainer Ganahl, Vlatka Horvat, Paolo Parisi, Steven Pippin, David Shaw, Kamen Stoyanov
curated by Lorenzo Bruni
The curator Lorenzo Bruni and other art professionals discuss about the role of cultural institutions in the
present media society drawing inspiration from the book published on the occasion of the exhibition having
the same title at Galleria Astuni, Bologna.
THE CURATORIAL PROGRAMME IN TOWN
Artissima LIDO
Curated by Christian Frosi, Renato Leotta, and Diego Perrone
For the first time, this year Artissima will be organising an evening programme of events outside the fair and
outside of its opening hours, in the centre of Turin. In the mediaeval district of the ‘Roman Quadrilateral’, a
number of artists and collectives from all over Italy will temporarily take over a series of city spaces, where
they will work on their various experimental activities, at the same time and in the same place.
Curated by three Italian artists, Christian Frosi, Renato Leotta, and Diego Perrone Artissima LIDO will
offer a very diverse, wide-ranging series of exhibitions, performances, screenings, concerts, books and
conversations, in shops, restaurants, cafes, studios, workshops, and courtyards in the district.
The starting point for a walk through the neighbourhood will be the Artissima Social Club, a temporary
establishment where the art world and visitors to the Fair will be able to meet each evening.
The collectives involved in Artissima LIDO are:
Anonima Nuotatori (no space)
BOCS, Catania
Brown, Milan
La Collezione di Carrozzeria Margot, Milan
Chan, Genoa
Cherimus, Perdaxius (CI)
Codalunga, Vittorio Veneto (TV)
Cripta747, Turin
DNA, Venice
Flip, Naples
GiuseppeFrau Gallery, Gonnesa (CI)
GUM studio, Carrara
Lungomare, Bolzano
MOLTO (no space)
Motel Lucie (no space)
Temporary Black Space, Bergamo
Another 25 collectives from all over Italy have also been invited to Artissima LIDO to present their activities,
through videos, conferences, and publications, in a space especially designed by Graham Hudson, Progetto
Diogene's artist in residence 2011.
Collectives invited at Artissima LIDO DOC: Amarelarte, Bari; Archiviazioni, Lecce; BASE, Florence;
C.A.R.S., Omegna (VB); C.o.C.A., Modica (RG); CRAC, Cremona; Eventoarea, Reggio Calabria; Fosca,
Florence; Gasconade, Milan; Largo Baracche, Naples; L'A Art Project Space, Palermo; Le Dictateur,
Milan; Lucie Fontaine, Milan; MARS, Milan; Mr. Rossi, (no space); neon (no space); Occulto Magazine
+ AC Galerie, Berlin; PHOS, Turin; Progetto Diogene, Turin; Radical Intention, (no space); SP333,
Tribogna (GE); Superfluo, (no space); Vessel, Bari; Vladivostok, (no space); WE, Turin.
Marco Bruzzone, an Italian artist who lives and works in Berlin, has been invited by the curators to design
a special pasta for Artissima LIDO. During the days of the Fair, it will be possible to taste a dish of LIDO
pasta, cooked in as many different ways as there are establishments in the Roman quadrilateral of Turin
taking part in the project.
A special catalogue will be published for Artissima LIDO, in collaboration with UniCredit Studio. It will contain
texts by the curators, illustrations, and information about the collectives taking part in the event.
In collaboration with
Camera di commercio di Torino
Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT
Partners
Associazione Riquadrilatero
ChicChicken.cc
Club to Club.
PUBLISHING PROJECTS
The Catalogue of the Fair and other pubblications
Consistent with the Artissima communication project, this year an ‘Annual Report’ will bring together the
texts, essays, images, and statistics about the galleries and the various sections, as well as about the
curatorial projects and the events at the Fair and at other venues in the city. The volume has practical
pockets which will also contain an easy-to-use address book with full information about the exhibitors, a
map, and a diary of events.
The Catalogue of ARTISSIMA LIDO
A special catalogue will be published for Artissima LIDO, in collaboration with UniCredit Studio. It will contain
texts by the curators, illustrations, and information about the collectives taking part in the event.
iPhon and iPad app
This year Artissima is going onto a multimedia platform for the first time in collaboration with Mousse
Magazine. Full information about Artissima 18 are available for the iPhone and iPad from November 3.
The application is completely free of charge.
ARTISSIMA 18
International Fair of Contemporary Art
ADVISORY BODIES
The Selection Committee
Main Section and New Entries
Daniele Balice
Balicehertling, Paris
Isabella Bortolozzi
galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Mario Cristiani
galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin
Darren Flook
Hotel, London
Casey Kaplan
Casey Kaplan, New York
Norma Mangione
Norma Mangione gallery, Turin
Gregor Podnar
galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Ljubljana
THE SELECTION COMMITTEE
Back to the Future
Massimiliano Gioni
Associate Director, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York;
Artistic Director Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan
Christine Macel
Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Centre National d’Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris
CURATORIAL COMMITTEE
Present Future
Luigi Fassi
Artistic Director ar/ge kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano
(coordinator)
Chris Fitzpatrick
Independent Curator, San Francisco
Christophe Gallois
Curator MUDAM, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Antonia Majaca
Artistic Director, Galerija Miroslav Kraljevic, Zagreb
ARTISSIMA 18
International Fair of Contemporary Art
Francesco Manacorda
Director
Francesco Manacorda, born in Turin, aged 37, is an art critic and independent curator.
He is a Visiting Lecturer in Curatorial Studies and Art Theory at the Curating Contemporary Art department
of the Royal College of Art in London, where he lived and worked from 2001 to 2010. After graduating in
Education Science specialising in the Conservation and Promotion of Cultural Heritage at the University of
Turin, in 2003 he graduated from the two-year Master course in Curating Contemporary Art at the Royal
College of Art in London.
After working as a freelance curator from 2007 to 2009, he was appointed Curator of Contemporary Art at
the Barbican Art Gallery, where he put on two large group shows – Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art
(2008) and Radical Nature (2009) – as well as several solo exhibitions with emerging artists.
He has also worked with a number of institutions in Italy and abroad, including Fondazione Sandretto Re
Rebaudengo, for which he also devised and curated the Young Curators Residency Programme in Guarene
d’Alba, the Serpentine Gallery, where he organised the Interview Marathons with Hans Ulrich Obrist and
Rem Koolhaas (2006) and a cycle of performances by artists in the summer pavilion, the Lyon Biennale
(2007), T1 – Triennale Torino (2005), and the Slovenian (2007) and New Zealand pavilions (2009) at the
Venice Biennale.
He was a member of the illy Present Future Award (2007) and of the selection committee for the
Premio Furla (2008).
He contributes regularly to Italian and international periodicals: Domus, Flash Art, Kaleidoscope, Mousse, Art
Review, Frieze, Metropolis M, Piktogram, Untitled.
In January 2010 he was appointed Director of Artissima.
With Artissima 17, Manacorda achieved record results in terms of attendance, with over 48,000 visitors, and
in terms of public and critical acclaim. Artissima 18 is his second event in the series.
ARTISSIMA 18
International Fair of Contemporary Art
4-5-6 November2011
OVAL – Lingotto Fiere
ARTISSIMA is organised by Artissima srl, a company incorporated in 2008 to manage the artistic and
commercial relations of the fair.
ARTISSIMA
www.artissima.it – [email protected]
T +39 011 19744106 – F +39 011 19746106
Via Bertola 34 - 10122 Torino
ARTISSIMA is a brand name of Regione Piemonte, Provincia di Torino and Città di Torino. On behalf
of these three authorities, it is promoted by Fondazione Torino Musei, which has been set up by the City
of Turin to foster and promote the artistic and museum heritage of the city. The eighteenth ARTISSIMA is
being put on with the support of the three brand-owning authorities, together with Camera di commercio
di Torino, Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
The event is also made possible by:
Main Partner:
Partners:
Media Partner:
In-Kind Sponsors:
UniCredit
Fiat, Fondazione Borsalino, illycaffè, Iren, Lauretana, Open Care
RCS Pubblicità
Ceretto, essent’ial, Expo-Rent, Ferrero Rocher, Gaggenau, Galliano Habitat/Museo
del Design, K-Way/Robe di Kappa, Valcucine
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
3 November 2011
12 pm – Presentation to the Press
12 pm / 6 pm – Collector’s preview (invitation only)
6 pm - Opening (invitation only)
4-5-6 November 2011
Open to the public
Every day
11 am – 7 pm
Tickets
Full: € 15,00
Reduced: € 10,00 *
* Ages 12-18. Over 65 anni. University students, upon presentation of university student record book.
Military, in uniform.
Free admission upon presentation of the Torino Musei card and Torino Piemonte Card, from 4 to 6
November. Free admission for persons with disabilities and one accompanying person.
Info
Artissima – T +39 011 19744106 – [email protected] – www.artissima.it
Catalogue
Euro 18
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