#miart2024 – Established section

Borrowed from a song by Franco Battiato, an artist marked by feverish imagination and endless curiosity, no time no space is the title of the 28th edition of miart (12-14 April 2024 | VIP preview 11 April). It is intended to underscore the event’s desire to expand its boundaries both geographically and temporally.

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miart 2024 is the international modern and contemporary art fair in Milan organised by Fiera Milano SpA and directed by Nicola Ricciardi . With the contribution of 180 galleries, through space portals and time corridors, it is conceived as a place for discovering and rediscovering practices and languages, an area for exchange and dialogue between generations, and an opportunity to cultivate culture and become aware of art. Many galleries that have already taken part in previous editions are returning, but there is also a strong showing from international galleries, which are growing in number and quality, thanks to significant new entries in Established, the main section that brings together a selection of the highest quality from the great masters of modern art to the most absolutely contemporary exponents. With arts ranging from sculpture to painting, from drawing to installation, and from video to photography, without neglecting collectible and artistic design, the 147 galleries taking part in the Established section make the exhibition in Milan an outstanding attraction for collectors, curators and artists who are looking for new developments but also for specific local character.

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Many museum works will be at the fair, such as Caribbean Tea Time from Galerie Lelong & Co.?(Paris - New York), a spectacular screen from 1987 by David Hockney whose editions are now in some of the most prestigious international collections, from the Tate Modern to the Metropolitan Museum, or Vivian Suter’s installation designed for the kaufmann repetto (Milan - New York) stand, the result of the artist’s decade-long research into the vicissitudes of the Guatemalan rainforest and already the focus of two wonderful exhibitions at Secession in Vienna and GAMeC in Bergamo. There are also many works specially commissioned for miart 2024, like the spectacular swing designed and created by Francesco Arena for the Galleria Raffaella Cortese (Milan) stand or the work that Pierpaolo Campanini designed for Corvi-Mora (London), which will be partly a sculpture in itself and partly a display for other works by artists like Joseph Beuys, Alighiero Boetti and Roger Hiorns. As always, there’s no lack of solo shows, like those dedicated to painter Tomasz Kowalski by Dawid Radziszewski (Warsaw) or the photographer Guido Guidi by Viasaterna (Milan), to name just a couple. Then there are the stands constructed around two alternating positions, like the double presentation of the extremely young Henry Schum and Isabella Costabile by Andrew Kreps Gallery (New York), or the historical dialogue between Mario Schifano’s “televisions” and Nam June Paik’s video sculptures as presented by Eidos Immagini Contemporanee (Asti).

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The fact that the opening of the 60th International Art Exhibition of the Biennale di Venezia is so close has led many galleries to highlight the artists selected by curator Adriano Pedrosa. Examples of this are the stand with solo exhibition dedicated to the young painter Louis Fratino by Galerie Neu (Berlin) or the ambitious exhibition project of Richard Saltoun Gallery (London - Rome), which will bring the works of three leading artists at the Venetian exhibition to the event: Greta Sch?dl, Bertina Lopes and Xiyadie. Galleria dello Scudo (Verona) too pays tribute to the Biennale, presenting a focus on Venetian Spatialism with works from the 1950s by artists like Emilio Vedova, Tancredi Parmeggiani, Renato Birolli and Edmondo Bacci. ED Gallery (Piacenza) in turn presents a selection of works that were created by Murano master glassmakers for the 1914 Biennale di Venezia, in addition to paintings and sculptures.

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Finally, also within the Established section is Timescape, an exhibition project curated by the exhibition itself that will be developed over the next three years, bringing works created in eras increasingly remote in time with respect to the exhibition’s traditional chronological offerings to the public’s attention every year. The starting point for this journey will be the Early Twentieth Century, and the galleries taking part will present genuine micro-exhibitions, elevating the exhibition with a transhistorical and wide-ranging approach, making it more attractive to Italian and foreign collectors, curators and professionals. Examples of this are the Galleria Gomiero?(Montegrotto Terme) stand, which tells the story of the portrait in the field of sculpture, with works from the beginning of the last century by, among others, Medardo Rosso and Giacomo Manzù, or the exhibition curated by Bottegantica (Milan) and dedicated to some of the key Italian figures of the 20th century, from Giacomo Balla to Umberto Boccioni, with a thematic focus on Futurism and Aeropainting.