London Art Fair 2019 - Tutto quello che dovete sapere.

Dal 16 al 20 gennaio, London art Fair è pronta ad aprire le porte della sua trentunesima edizione. Fondata nel 1989 dal Business Design Centre londinese di Islington, la fiera si svolge ancora nello stesso edificio, dove da 36 gallerie iniziali ospita oggi oltre 130 espositori nazionali e internazionali, con circa 20.000 visitatori nel 2018.

Visitors at London Art Fair 2018. Credit - Mark Cocksedge

Gallerie emergenti e affermate presenteranno i loro artisti ad un pubblico sempre più eterogeneo di curatori, collezionisti, compratori ed amatori, desiderosi di scoprire le nuove tendenze e di comprendere le dinamiche di un mercato dell'arte in continua evoluzione.

La sezione di successo di Art Projects, alla sua quindicesima edizione, si apre con 33 gallerie provenienti da 11 paesi e presenta le ultime, più originali e innovative creazioni d'arte moderna e contemporanea. Tra i temi che emergono dalle opere d'arte ci sono alcune tematiche contemporanee comuni, come l'identità nazionale e culturale con ARTCO Gallery che presenta artisti come Raphael Adjetey Mayne, Evans Mbugua e Saidou Dicko; politica e conflitti globali con Brocket London con Roshna Qorbanee e Armand Voyeux. Shtager Gallery presenta l'artista russo Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai e AUROOM ART l'artista kazako Said Atabekov, con una serie di opere focalizzate sul nazionalismo, il capitalismo e la migrazione.

Tra le solo show ci saranno Xiao-yang Li con una serie di sculture in ceramica che reinterpretano i suoi dipinti; Kimathi Donkor presentato da Ed Cross Fine Art e la vincitrice del Solo Award 2019, Yoon Ilkwon con le sue opere incisorie su concetti di permanenza, memoria e valore, presentata da Chiara Williams Contemporary.

Meno Parkas, Fragment Gallery e Art Gallery 0-68 mostreranno nuovi e unici approcci all'arte con artisti che utilizzano mezzi inusuali.

Evans Mbugua, Je T_Aime Un Peu, 2017. ARTCO

La curatrice e scrittrice indipendente Kiki Mazzucchelli, che opera tra San Paolo e Londra, sarà la curatrice di Dialogues, una caratteristica di Art Projects lanciata 6 anni fa quando la già collaboratrice Sarah Monk divenne direttrice della fiera. Dialogues mira a stabilire uno scambio culturale e quest'anno l'obiettivo è quello di creare collaborazioni tra artisti latino-americani ed europei collegando e unendo 6 gallerie. Attraverso queste collaborazioni si evidenziano la sovversione dei canoni modernisti e i nuovi approcci degli artisti alla pittura come principali temi di crescente attenzione. Le gallerie che espongono saranno Domobaal (UK) con Nicky Hirst e l'artista tedesco Lothar Götz con una pittura murale commissionata per Dialogues; Galerie Emmanuel Hervé (Francia) con Sergio Sister con un lavoro su Concrete and Neoconcrete art; Anima Mundi (UK) con Rebecca Harper; Square Art Projects (UK) con Goia Mujalli; Cob Gallery (UK) con Katja Angeli e Alba Hodsoll; Kubik Gallery (Portogallo) con Ana Prata e Felipe Cohen; Maddox Arts (UK) con Augusto Villalba; Rolf Art (Argentina) con Marcelo Brodsky; (S)itor (Francia) con una solo show dell'artista cubano Jesse A. Fernandez (1925-1986); Perve Galeria (Portogallo) con Teresa Balté; Lamb Arts (UK/Brasile) con una selezione di opere di Mattea Perrotta, Tomaz Rosa, Tiago Tebet e Patricia Camet; Casanova (Brasile) con sculture di Ignacio Gatica e disegni di Lina Kim.

Marcelo Brodsky_1968 The Fire of Ideas, Paris 1968. © Marka Milano, 1968, intervened with handwritten texts by Marcelo Brodsky, 2017. Courtesy of Rolf Art

Continua anche in questa edizione l'Art Projects Artist Award in cui un vincitore riceverà un premio di 2500 sterline per contribuire allo sviluppo della sua carriera artistica e sarà annunciato in occasione dell'anteprima VIP il 15 gennaio.

Uno dei punti di forza della fiera è la ricerca, la selezione rigorosa e l'introduzione delle più importanti novità del mercato dell'arte, ma anche il mantenimento di un forte legame con il passato. Infatti, oltre agli aspetti d'avanguardia, London Art Fair si impegna ogni anno ad ospitare un museo regionale per mantenere un solido legame storico con il patrimonio inglese; quest'anno sarà la Towner Art Gallery, di Eastbourne, a presentare The Living Collection, offrendo ai visitatori opere d'arte contemporanea raccolte per quasi un secolo.

Photo50 è la sezione dedicata alla fotografia contemporanea, quest'anno curata da Tim Clark e ispirata alla mostra "Who's looking at the family" del curatore Val Williams che si è svolta esattamente 25 anni fa al Barbican. "Who's looking at the family, now" è una panoramica che nel 2019 si propone di esplorare i diversi modi di rappresentare la famiglia nella fotografia, ciò che è cambiato nella sua rappresentazione, analizzando anche la sfera privata e pubblica, il senso di identità e appartenenza, le classi sociali e la razza.

Louis Quail, From the series Big Brother © Louis Quail

Art Projects Screening Room offrirà un viaggio attraverso la storia delle comunità africane e della diaspora africana dagli anni '70 mostrando le loro possibilità future, utilizzando una varietà di linguaggi, dal documentario, alla fantascienza, dalla fantasia alla fiction storica o al realismo magico. "Afrofuturisms Past" è a cura di Pryle Behrman.

Platform è una novità che presenta ogni anno un tema specifico e quest'anno si concentra sulle nuove interpretazioni e possibilità della ceramica.

Platform è una novità che presenta ogni anno un tema specifico e quest'anno si concentra sulle nuove interpretazioni e possibilità della ceramica.

Xiao-yang Li, Offerings to Pythia of the East (XII), 2017. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of narrative projects

Infine un ricco programma di conferenze e visite guidate accompagnerà i visitatori attraverso questo evento.

London Art Fair

Dal 16 al 20 gennaio 2019

Business Design Centre

52 Upper St, London N1 0Q, Regno Unito

- Carolina Rapezzi

London Art Fair 2019 - All you need to know

From the 16th to the 20th of January, London art Fair is ready to open the doors to its 31st edition. Founded in 1989 by London’s Business Design Centre in Islington, the fair still takes place in the same building, where from 36 initial galleries it now hosts over 130 national and international exhibitors, with around 20,000 attendees visiting in 2018.

Visitors at London Art Fair 2018. Credit - Mark Cocksedge

Emerging and established galleries are going to present their artists to an always more diverse audience of curators, collectors, buyers and enthusiastics, willing to discover the newest tendencies of a changing art market and to comprehend its dynamics.

The succesful section of Art Projects, at its 15th edition, opens with 33 galleries from 11 countries and showcasing the latest, most original and innovative modern and contemporary art creations. Amongs the subjects emerging from the artworks there are some common contemporary issues, like national and cultural identity with ARTCO Gallery presenting artists like Raphael Adjetey Mayne, Evans Mbugua and Saidou Dicko; politics and global conflicts with Brocket London with Roshna Qorbanee and Armand Voyeux. Shtager Gallery is bringing the russian artist Alexander Shishkin-Hokusai and AUROOM ART the Kazakhstani artist Said Atabekov, focused on nationalism, capitalism and migration.

Part of the solo exhibitions will be Xiao-yang Li with a series of ceramic sculptures reinterpreting her paintings; Kimathi Donkor with Ed Cross Fine Art and the winner of Chiara Williams Contemporary’s Solo Award 2019 Yoon Ilkwon, with her printmaking works about notions of permanence, memory and value.

Meno Parkas, Fragment Gallery and Art Gallery 0-68 will showcase new and unique approaches to art with artists using unusual mediums.

Evans Mbugua, Je T'Aime Un Peu, 2017. ARTCO

The indipendent curator and writer Kiki Mazzucchelli, based between São Paolo and London, will be the curator of Dialogues, a feature of Art Projects launched 6 years ago when the already collaborator Sarah Monk became director of the fair. Dialogues aims to establish a cultural exchange and this year the focus is to create collaborations between Latin american and European artists by connecting and pairing 6 galleries. Through these partnerships is noticeable how the subversion of Modernist canons and new approaches to painting by female artists are some of the main topics growing attention. The galleries exhibiting will be Domobaal (UK) with Nicky Hirst and the german artist Lothar Götz with a mural painting commissioned for Dialogues; Galerie Emmanuel Hervé (France) with Sergio Sister with a work on Concrete and Neoconcrete art; Anima Mundi (UK) with Rebecca Harper; Square Art Projects (UK) with Goia Mujalli; Cob Gallery (UK) with Katja Angeli and Alba Hodsoll; Kubik Gallery (Portugal) with Ana Prata and Felipe Cohen; Maddox Arts (UK) with Augusto Villalba; Rolf Art (Argentina) with Marcelo Brodsky; (S)itor (France) with a solo presentation of the Cuban artist Jesse A. Fernandez (1925-1986); Perve Galeria (Portugal) with Teresa Balté; Lamb Arts (UK/Brazil) with a selection of works by Mattea Perrotta, Tomaz Rosa, Tiago Tebet and Patricia Camet; Casanova (Brazil) with sculpture by Ignacio Gatica and drawings by Lina Kim.

Marcelo Brodsky_1968 The Fire of Ideas, Paris 1968. © Marka Milano, 1968, intervened with handwritten texts by Marcelo Brodsky, 2017. Courtesy of Rolf Art

The Art Projects Artist Award continues for this edition and it will see one winner receiving £2500 prize to help develop his artistic career and it will be announced in occasion of the VIP preview on the 15th of January.

One of the core of the fair is to research, strictly select and introduce the most outstanding newnesses on the art market, but also to maintain a strong bond with the past. Indeed, along with the avant-garde aspects, London Art Fair commits to host every year a regional museum in order to keep a solid historical link with the english heritage; this year is the Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, to present The Living Collection, offering visitors contemporary artworks collected for almost a century.

Photo50 is the section dedicated to contemporary photography, this year curated by Tim Clark and inspired by the exhibition “Who’s looking at the family?” by curator Val Williams that took place exactly 25 years ago at the Barbican. “Who’s looking at the family, now” is an overview that in 2019 aims to explore the different ways of representing a family in photography, what has changed in its representation, analyzing also the private and the public sphere, sense of identity and belonging, social classes and race.

Art Projects Screening Room will offer a journey through the history of African communities and the African Diaspora from the 1970s showing their future possibilities, using a variety of languages, from the documentary, to the science fiction, from fantasy to historical fiction or magic realism. “Afrofuturisms Past” is curated by Pryle Behrman.

Platform is a new feature presenting a specific theme every year. This year Platform focuses on new interpretations and possibilities of Ceramics.

A rich program of talks and tours will guide visitors through this exciting experience, giving an in-depth understanding of the artistic offer for 2019.

London Art Fair

From the 16th to the 20th of January 2019

Business Design Centre

52 Upper St, London N1 0QH, UK

- Carolina Rapezzi

Eva Marisaldi. Trasporto Eccezionale. PAC Milano. A transition from the familiar to the surprising.

After a period of closure for renovation work, on December 17th the PAC of Milan reopened its doors with “Trasporto Eccezionale”, an exhibition that is part of the investigation into the generation of contemporary Italian artist born in the 1960s, carried out by the institution in Milan.

Eva Marisaldi - No hope, 2003 - Installation view - PAC - Padiglione Arte Contemporanea , 2018

The project, curated by Diego Sileo, presents the work of the Bolognese artist Eva Marisaldi, offering an enormous corpus of works, ranging from historical works to the most recent ones, to new productions designed specifically for the occasion. However, the exhibition is not a retrospective, nor an anthological, but rather a simple opportunity for discovery and immersion in the poetics of the artist; as evoked by the title itself, it’s in fact an invitation to travel, to “be carried out” by the many works that, without responding to dictates of a chronological or thematic aspect, populate the exhibition space with great freedom. To this curatorial choice is added the heterogeneity of languages adopted by Marisaldi: photography, video, installations, actions, performances, more traditional techniques such as drawing and embroidery follow one another in a path that is very varied. The impact is therefore that of a pile of very different works, that inevitably generate an initial sense of disorientation in the viewer, thus requiring a more careful look at these works. We are welcomed by Welcome (2018), three small gymnastic tapes that, when activated by mechanical arms, produce a continuous but snappy motion, thus generating a sort of buffer but at the same time attractive action in the visitor, who is invited by the work itself to enter. This contradiction is revealed in many of Marisaldi’s work, a mechanism often triggered by the artist’s large use of Duchamp’s matrix; the object taken from everyday life, in fact, reveals itself in a new light, it loses its functions of use and it’s bent to the discovery of hidden aspects of that same reality from which it comes.

This is the case, for example, for the large yellow panel made with post-it, entitled Omissioni (1997): the yellow posts-it have been altered with coloured pencils, thus generating a picture of different tones of the same colour, with allusion to the different ways in which it’s possible to communicate the same thing and therefore to the omissions present in the reports.

Eva Marisaldi- Omissioni, 1997 - Installation view - PAC - Padiglione Arte Contemporanea , 2018

Equally eloquent is Senza Titolo (2018), a small theatre where two spoons suspended on threads like marionettes, duel with each other. The duel between the spoons is intended to be a tribute to Antonio Gramsci, and more specifically to the episode told in Notebooks from the prison of the welcome show, organized by the prisoners, which consisted of a knightly duel made with knives. Marisaldi changes the knives with spoons, staging a hypnotic and attractive fight, also made so by the noise generated by these two spoons that move away and then bang each other, revealing the general attention of the artist to the sound element. In fact, the importance of the auditory component in Marisaldi’s work is interesting, an aspect also testifies by her successful collaboration with the musician and composer Enrico Serotti in some works such as Porto Fuori (2017) and Musica per Camaleonti (2003). Visiting the exhibition, the sensation is therefore that of being in a sort of “theatre of the absurd”, where what is familiar to us surprises and questions us.

Eva Marisaldi. Trasporto Eccezionale.

Period: 18 Dicember 2018 - 3 Febraury 2019

Opening hours: Mercoledì, venerdì, sabato e domenica 9.30- 19.30. Martedì e giovedì 9.30 - 22.30. Closed on Mondays

Dove: PAC - Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea

Via Palestro, 14, Milano

Entry: regular € 8, reduced € 5, free for

children up to 6 years old.

- Giulia Zompa

Eva Marisaldi- Senza Titolo, 2018 - Installation view - PAC - Padiglione Arte Contemporanea , 2018