ARTE FIERA ART FIRST 2008

Opening Thursday 24th January 5 pm

32nd ARTE FIERA ART FIRST The Italian appointment for art

The new appointment with Arte Fiera Art First 2008 confirming itself as a reference point allowing a unique comparison of Italian and international art.

Through the over 200 prestigious galleries of Modern and Contemporary art from Italy and abroad, including important confirmations and new entries, the fair operates a synthesis between works by the 20th and 21st century, particularly focused on the promotion of the Italian art highlighted by works ranging from Arte Povera to Transavanguardia and Conceptual art to the emerging art.

YOUNG GALLERIES Arte Fiera Art First draws a special attention to the emerging artists by a careful selection of 26 young galleries with no more than five years of activity, that will be located into the heart of the fair exhibition center in order to give them the opportunity of a higher visibility in an international context.

Participations: T293 and Annarumma404 (Naples); Massimo Carasi - The Flat, Galica, Federico Luger, Pianissimo, Prometeo Gallery, Riccardo Crespi (Milano); agenzia 04, Fabio Tiboni Arte Contemporanea (Bologna); Monitor, C.a.o.s. Extraspazio (Rome); Citric (Brescia); Galleria 42 Contemporaneo (Modena); Galleria SpazioA Contemporanearte (Pistoia); Galerie Davide Gallo, Kunstagenten, Galerie Martin Mertens (Berlin); Galerie Magda Danysz (Paris); Dukan & Hourdequin (Marseille); Patrick Heide Contemporary Art (London); Mizuma Action (Tokyo); Virgil de Voldère Gallery (New York); Acb Gallery (Budapest), Galeria Posibila (Bucharest).

BOLOGNA ART FIRST The city of Bologna becomes 'a place to live the art' outside and inside the stands. From January 24th to February 29th 2008 the third edition of Bologna Art First project, which was born from the collaboration between the City of Bologna and Arte Fiera, will offer a fascinating journey through the world of modern art and the architecture of the past. The works selected by an Advisory Board from the projects submitted by exhibiting galleries will be hosted in some historical sites in Bologna's center such as Palazzo Accursio, Palazzo Re Enzo, Museo della Musica, Museo della Memoria, Civico Museo Archeologico, Museo Medievale, Museo della Sanità at Santa Maria della Vita, Musei Universitari of Palazzo Poggi besides the Airport Guglielmo Marconi.

ARTEFIERA OFF ARTEFIERA OFF, a case of a series of collateral events to Arte Fiera, will be increased for this second edition with a new program of exhibitions, screenings, conferences, performances such as the exhibition Giacomelli. Cose mai viste curated by Enzo Cucchi at the hospital Hospice Seragnoli di Bentivoglio or L'invenzione del paradiso. Il cinema e lo sguardo plurale by Daniel Schmid, a retrospective dedicated to the Suisse director recently dead, at the Cineteca from 21st to 31st January 2008.

SPECIAL PROJECTS SPAZIO DIDART, the first space for art educational activities hosted in a fair, will draw the public closer to contemporary art, offering especially to teenagers and children from 8 to 15 years old the possibility of interacting with the art work and being personally involved in the art process by playing with interactive workshops and multimedia tools.

PARTICIPATING GALLERIES 2000 & Novecento - 41 Artecontemporanea - A Arte Studio Invernizzi - A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna - ACB Gallery - Agenzia 04 - Analix Forever - Annarumma 404 - Antologia - AR/Contemporary - Arte 92 - Arte e Arte - Arte Silva - Alfonso Artiaco - Austin/Desmond - Alessandro Bagnai - Manuel Barbié - Guy Bärtschi - Base - Beck & Eggeling - Claude Bernard – Biagiotti - Biasutti & Biasutti - Giampiero Biasutti - Flora Bigai - Binz & Krämer - Blu - BND Tomasorenoldibracco - Bodhi Art – Bonaparte – Bonelli - Bonomo - Alessandra Bonomo - Valentina Bonomo - James Brolly - Ben Brown Fine Arts - Byblos - C.a.o.s. - Cà di Frà – Cafiso - Massimo Carasi. The Flat – Cannaviello - Andrea Caratsch - Cardelli & Fontana - Cardi – Carlina - Changing Role Move Over Gallery - Massimo Cirulli – Citric - James Cohan Gallery - Antonio Colombo - Colossi Arte – Contini - Continua - Maurizio Corraini – Corsoveneziaotto - Raffaella Cortese - Rino Costa - Riccardo Crespi - Paolo Curti/Annamari Gambuzzi & Co. - Dabbeni - Magda Danysz - Anna D’Ascanio - Massimo De Carlo - Davide Di Maggio - Davide Gallo - De Crescenzo & Viesti - De’ Foscherari - Umberto Di Marino - Di Meo - Di Paolo Arte - Galerie Robert Drees - Dukan & Hourdequin - Edieuropa - Ellequadro Events – Emmeotto - Enrico Fornello - Erica Fiorentini - Esso – Extraspazio - Fabjbasaglia - Faggionato Fine Arts - Forni - Forsblom – Fumagalli – Galica - Galleria 42 Contemporaneo - Galleria d’arte Maggiore - Galleria dell’Incisione - Frediano Farsetti - Gentili - Claudia Gian Ferrari – Gioacchini – Goethe - Grossetti - Guastalla Centroarte - Guidi & Schoen - Hachmeister - Patrick Heide - Hollenbach - Il Chiostro - Il Gabbiano - Il Ponte - Il Ponte Contemporanea - Crane Kalman - Il Segno – Image. Furini - In Arco - Jablonka - J. Bastien Art - Alison Jacques - Antonia Jannone - Bernhard Knaus - Dorothea van der Koelen - Kunstagenten - L’Ariete - L’Elefante - La Scaletta - Les Filles du Calvaire - Lelong - Lia Rumma - L’Incontro - Lipanjepuntin - Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts - Federico Luger – Marabini - Marchese - Primo Marella - Giò Marconi - Màrio Sequeira - Maruani & Noirhomme - Mario Mauroner - Mazzoleni - Melesi - Martin Mertens - Massimo Minini - Mizuma Action - Monitor - Pio Monti - Montrasio - Morone - Narciso - Niccoli - Jérôme de Noirmont - Lorcan O’Neill - Oredaria - Otto - Pack - Galeria Pelaires - Alberto Peola - Perugi - Friedrich Petzel Gallery - Photo & Contemporary - Photology - Pianissimo - Pièce Unique - Poggiali e Forconi - Claudio Poleschi - Amedeo Porro - Posibila - PrometeoGallery - Studio Raffaelli - Raphael 12 - Repetto & C. - Rizziero - Ronchini - Thaddeus Ropac - Stephan Röpke - Russo - Ruzicska - S.A.L.E.S - Santo Ficara - Sapone - Mimmo Scognamiglio - Suzy Shammah - Spazio A - Sperone Westwater - Spirale Arte - La Spirale - Sprovieri Progetti - Christian Stein - Studio G7 - Studio Gariboldi - Studio La Città - Studio Legale - Studio Raffaelli - Michael Sturm - T293 - Ermanno Tedeschi - Tega - Fabio Tiboni - Caterina Tognon - Tonelli - Torbandena - Tornabuoni - Patrice Trigano - Studio Trisorio - Tucci Russo - V.M. 21 - Valente - Vernon Fine Art - Paola Verrengia - Studio Visconti - Vistamare - Virgil de Voldère - Xin Dong Cheng - Zonca & Zonca

ARTE FIERA ART FIRST
32nd EDITION
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Bologna (Italy)
Bologna Exhibition Center