Arte Fiera 2015

Arte Fiera 2015 confirms the upward trend that began in 2013, and resolutely reclaims its role as the main and most comprehensive Italian modern and contemporary art show: the only one organized in official partnership with the Italian Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries.   

The number of exhibiting galleries rises again this year: from 126 in 2013, and 172 in 2014, to 185 galleries registered two months before the start of the 2015 show – an increase of 8% in relation to 2014 and 47% over the last two years; 210 exhibitors in total, presenting over 2000 works by more than 1000 artists, from great masters to promising newcomers.

BolognaFiere opens the doors of the 39th edition of the International Exhibition of Modern and Contemporary Art to the general public from 23 to 26 January 2015.

Arte Fiera’s decision to showcase the best Italian art of the last century is confirmed in this edition’s Main Section, in which over 40 galleries will exhibit more than 200 works by contemporary Italian artists, who have achieved stunning results this year on the international markets.  

Alongside the longstanding stars – Lucio Fontana, Piero Manzoni, Enrico Castellani, Alighiero Boetti, Michelangelo Pistoletto, praised by Paris’ Louvre and already well-known abroad – the most famous international museums and most prestigious private galleries have begun to follow  Alberto Burri, who is soon to have a large retrospective exhibition at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, and Dadamaino, Gianni Colombo, Pier Paolo Calzolari, as well as others, while Agostino Bonalumi, Paolo Scheggi, Turi Simeti have been the subject of new international interest in the last few months, achieving record sales at Sotheby’s.

photo: Igor Mitoraj, Centurion Petrified, 2007 Bronze Sculpture, Courtesy of Art Gallery Contini