Participating exhibitors
ALBICOCCO, Udine APALAZZOGALLERY, Brescia BABS ART GALLERY, Milan CAPUTOCOLOSSI INCONTRO D’ARTE, Brescia COLOPHONARTE, Belluno DANILO MONTANARI EDITORE, Ravenna GALLERIA SCARCHILLI, Rome GALLLERIAPIÙ, Bologna LITOGRAFIA BULLA, Rome MONTRASIO ARTE, Milan, Monza, Piacenza PARADISOTERRESTRE, Bologna TONINI EDITORE, Gussago (BS), Milan Opus Novum #6: Luisa Lambri

Every year since 2019, Arte Fiera has commissioned a well-known Italian artist to create a new work to be presented at the Fair. So far, Opus Novum (as the series is named) has commissioned works from Flavio Favelli (2019), Eva Marisaldi (2020), Stefano Arienti (2021), Liliana Moro (2022), and Alberto Garutti (2023).

In 2024, the commission will go to Luisa Lambri, an internationally famous Italian artist whose medium is the photographic image. Known mainly for her images of modernist architecture, so essential that they approach abstraction, Lambri does not photograph architecture any more than Morandi painted cups and bottles: just like the Bolognese master, she investigates relations among space, time, and light by means of an engrossing series of variations.

For Arte Fiera, Lambri focuses on an important but almost unknown building: Alvar Aalto’s Church of Santa Maria Assunta (Assumption of Mary) in Riola, in the Bolognese Apennines. Designed in 1966 and built 10 years later, this is the Finnish architect’s only work in Italy. Lambri’s new images, concentrating on a few isolated details of the church, will be exhibited along with others that she created previously and matched with the new ones by similarity, in another jewel of modernist architecture in Bologna: the Padiglione de L’Esprit Nouveau (1977), the replica of a temporary architectural work by Le Corbusier from 1925. Built to honour the French master, it is so faithful to the original that it has been added to the Le Corbusier Foundation’s heritage list. Lambri’s project therefore unites two superb examples of Bologna’s architecture from the ‘70s - two outstanding instances of the city’s creativity in those years.

Collaborations and partnerships

The collaboration between Arte Fiera and the Furla Foundation for performance has been renewed. Arte Fiera 2024’s programme of live performances will be curated by Bruna Roccasalva, the Foundation’s Artistic Director. For many years, Furla Foundation has promoted a business model based on institutional synergies, and its renewed partnership with Arte Fiera confirms its participation in the cultural life of Bologna, its native city.

We have also renewed our partnership with Mutina. This famous ceramics brand, with creations by the world’s top designers, is known for its strong links to contemporary art. After its 2023 partnership with Mousse, the Milanese art book publisher, in whose books Mutina’s ceramics dialogued in an ad hoc presentation, Mutina will again be at Arte Fiera with a special project to be announced soon.

Arte Fiera and BPER

Arte Fiera is proud to announce that BPER Banca has strengthened its commitment to the event and has become the Main Partner of Arte Fiera 2024. With this important step, the primary fair for art and Italian galleries is now linked to a national bank with strong ties in its home territory: a bank that actively promotes and supports art and culture, convinced that they are essential for both local development and social inclusion.

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