Milan’s international modern and contemporary art fair, miart, organized by Fiera Milano, returns as Italy’s first art fair of the year this week. Under the encore directorship of Nicola Ricciardi, the fair’s 26th edition takes place April 1-3, and welcomes presentations from 151 major Italian and international galleries. The fair is integral to the beloved Milan Art Week, occurring March 28-April 3.
In 2022, fairgoers will experience a new phase of miart, the primo movimento: defining the industry’s spirited progress into the future. The term, which expresses a piece of music in varied sections, embodies the initiatives launched with organizations in theater, dance, and the performing arts.
The comprehensive fair has been streamlined into three sections: Established, Decades, and Emergent. Featured galleries within miart’s Established section include LABS Contemporary Art, Bologna, highlighting a dialogue between artists with a shared creative process, Marcia Hafif and Giulia Marchi; and Smac gallery, Cape Town, presents an exhibition of new paintings by artist Kate Gottgens. The fair’s Decades selection will include retrospectives of the 1970s by Robert Mapplethorpe from Galleria Franco Noero, Turin.
Within the final section, Emergent, viewers will not want to miss a special project of artworks by visual artists Elle De Bernardini and Pamela Diamante. Additional galleries represented include Balcony Gallery, Lisbon, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, and Moskowitz Bayse, Los Angeles.
