the laboratory of the Art Verona fair
Verona, 14 Oct. (askanews) – At the fair welcomes the public there is a large carpet by Stefano Arienti, 500 square meters of works of art inspired by Piranesi that tell Europe: it is the visiting card of the 17th edition of Art Verona, which represents offers an overview of the Italian scene, but which also looks with greater attention to the international sphere. In a perspective that, as the big fairs are doing more and more, approaches the market with research.
“Art Verona – the artistic director Stefano Raimondi explained to askanews – has always been a fair with a double soul, on the one hand research, experimentation, innovation, but also sustainability. There are projects by historical artists, large environments in which the public is called to navigate, to immerse themselves in order to experience art in the first person. Then there are the avant-garde and the most contemporary languages, linked for example to the metatarsal, to NFTs, to all that is digital art “.
Particularly interesting, among the various curated sections, is the one dedicated to Habitats, immersive environments created by artists such as Luciano Fabro, Marina Apollonio or Nanda Vigo, which clearly offer a museum experience. The heart of a fair, however, are the 140 galleries present, and it is stimulating, crossing the corridors, to feel the need for a new energy, the desire to dare more articulated and less trivial answers to contemporary questions.
“Even if the years of the pandemic were difficult – added Raimondi – the galleries have been able to resist, diversify, use new media and have a great desire to resume personal contacts and relationships”.
Relationships that also pass through the names of the artists who can be met here at Art Verona, and, given the choice, we are pleased to mention two women like Marinella Senatore, from Mazzoleni and Zehra Dogan, from Prometeo Gallery. Both, in different ways, symbolize an art system capable of following alternative paths, complete and full of awareness. In our opinion, doing it at a fair is even more interesting.
(Leonardo Merlini)