Announcing a new location each year, the traveling art and design fair NOMAD has selected Capri’s Certosa di San Giacomo to host its 2022 edition. This week from July 6—10, the 14th-century monastery will become an intimate fairground for 12 gallery presentations and 10 special projects, highlighting an exclusively curated selection of collectible art and design for a limited audience.
Liang Hao, “Cheese and Knife,” 2022, oil on linen, 30 x 40 cm; courtesy of Liang Hao.
Within the historic arches and stone figures of the Certosa, presenting galleries in the fair’s 10th edition include Piacenza Volumnia, offering an artistic interpretation of the Mediterranean, including a first-time showcase of ceramics and paper works by Francesco Simeti; New York’s Thomsen Gallery with the group exhibition “Japanese Design”; UNNO Gallery of Mexico City, whose “Volume. The Land and the Maker” includes the work of Habitation 116 and C.S. Nunez; London’s Gallery FUMI with commissioned works by the likes of Johannes Nagel, Jie Wu, Freddie Yauner, and Rowan Mersh, to name a few; and the photographs of Bob Wolfenson presented by Rio de Janeiro’s Mercado Moderno. Other presenters include Objective Gallery, Carwan Gallery, Studio Trisori, Alfonso Artiaco, Spazio Nobile, Angela Weber Möbel, and Galleria Fonti.
Voukenas Petrides, “Tripod Bench,” 2020, Powder-coated Aluminium, 76 x 203 x 45 CM; courtesy of Gerasimos Domenikos for Gallery FUMI.
Comprising this year’s Special Projects sector, fairgoers will see debuts like Draga & Aurel and Rossana Orlandi’s “Coralia,” showcasing several takes on resin objects; two collections of ceramics focused on material culture and modern methods of craftsmanship presented by Officine Saffi Lab; and James White’s debut Italian exhibition “Isola,” in which Marco Voena, Edmondo di Robilant, and Oscar Humphries present the artist’s monochrome photorealistic pieces. Also among the Special Projects are presentations from Elie Top, Lauren Adriana, Marco Voena and Cy Schnabel bringing the work of Julian Schnabel, Christian Pellizzari’s “Genetic Variations,” a project by ISTANBUL’74, a collaboration between zaza’ and Galleria Federico Vavassori, and Gianluigi Ricuperati’s curation for “Hand Written Stories – the Capri Letter.”
The main projects and presentations are accompanied by an exclusive VIP program of special talks with artists and designers, architect-led tours, and events at a number of private homes and collections. First launched by Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte and Giorgio Pace in 2017, NOMAD’s inaugural Capri edition follows iterations at distinguished locations like St. Moritz’s Chesa Planta, Monaco’s Villa La Vigie, and the Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel in Venice.
Certosa di San Giacomo in Capri, courtesy of NOMAD.
