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Artissima is pleased to announce the names of the artists selected for the first edition of Back to the Future.

Back to the Future is a special section of the fair that will include a series of monographic exhibitions by artists who were active in the 1960s and 70s and have not received the attention they deserve in recent decades, but whose works are of particular relevance today owing to their affinity with current practice. The exhibitions will contain works produced solely between 1960 and 1979. This section is a sort of time machine that brings into the present what had been a future in the past – in other words, what the avant garde was considered to be doing in the 1960s and 70s.

A new feature of Artissima 2010, Back to the Future has generated great interest amongst art galleries, resulting in numerous high quality proposals. The Scientific Committee – consisting of Massimiliano Gioni, Director of Special Exhibitions, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and Director of the Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan; Christine Macel, Curator, Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, and Jessica Morgan, Contemporary Art Curator, Tate Modern, London - has selected 24 projects.

Artissima is grateful to Simone Menegoi for his scientific advice.

Participating Galleries: MAIN SECTION

1/9 unosunove, Roma; A Palazzo, Brescia; Air De Paris, Paris; Arena Mexico, Guadalajara; Artericambi, Verona; Alfonso Artiaco, Napoli; Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Pietrasanta; Balicehertling, Paris; Federico Bianchi, Milano; Blancpain Art Contemporain, Geneva; Bonomo, Bari, Roma; Bortolami, New York; Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Andreas Brändström, Stockholm; Bugada & Cargnel, Paris; Cardi Black Box, Milano; Chert, Berlin; Antonio Colombo, Milano; Connoisseur, Hong Kong; Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin; Pilar Corrias, London, Raffaella Cortese, Milano; Corvi-Mora, London; Guido Costa, Torino; Riccardo Crespi, Milano; Ellen de Bruijne, Amsterdam; Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Zuoz; Massimo De Carlo, Milano; Umberto Di Marino, Napoli; Duve, Berlin; frank elbaz, Paris; Konrad Fisher, Düsseldorf, Berlin; Fonti, Napoli; Enrico Fornello, Milano; freymond-guth & co, Zurich; Fruit & Flower Deli, New York; gb agency, Paris; GDM, Paris; Gentili, Prato; Green Cardamom, London; Grimm, Amsterdam; Barbara Gross, Munich; Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart; Hotel, London; Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris; In Arco, Torino; In Situ / Fabienne Leclerc, Paris; Alison Jacques, London; Kalfayan, Athens, Salonica; kaufmann repetto, Milano; Peter Kilchmann, Zurich; Lisson, London; Federico Luger, Milano; Lüttgenmeijer, Berlin; Kate MacGarry, London; Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Roma; Norma Mangione, Torino; Primo Marella, Milano, Beijing; Kamel Mennour, Paris; Francesca Minini, Milano; Massimo Minini, Brescia; Monitor, Roma; Museum 52, London, New York; Nelson-Freeman, Paris; Franco Noero, Torino; Noire, Torino; Lorcan O'Neill, Roma; Opdahl, Stavanger; Maureen Paley, London; francescopantaleone, Palermo; Parra & Romero, Madrid; Parrotta, Stuttgart; Alberto Peola, Torino; Peres, Berlin, Los Angeles; Giorgio Persano, Torino; Photo&Contemporary, Torino; Photology, Milano; Pinksummer, Genova; Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Ljubljana; prometeogallery, Milano, Lucca; RAM, Roma; Raucci/Santamaria, Napoli; Lia Rumma, Milano, Napoli; S.A.L.E.S., Roma; Federica Schiavo, Roma; Suzy Shammah, Milano; Franco Soffiantino, Torino; Sprovieri, London; Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerpen; TaiK, Helsinki; The Breeder, Athens; Caterina Tognon, Venezia; Tucci Russo, Torre Pellice; Jonathan Viner, London; Vistamare, Pescara; Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen; Wilkinson, London; Žak | Branicka, Berlin, Cracow

NEW ENTRIES Ancient & Modern, London; annex14, Bern; Niklas Belenius, Stockholm; Conduits, Milano; Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux; Tiziana Di Caro, Salerno; Fluxia, Milano; Cinzia Friedlaender, Berlin; Gaudel de Stampa, Paris; GMG, Moscow; Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Santiago; Sonja Junkers, Munich; Karma International, Zurich; Khastoo, Los Angeles; Leto, Warsaw; lokal_30, Warsaw; Maskara, Mumbai; Room, Milano; Rachmaninoff's, London; RaebervonStenglin, Zurich; Sabot, Cluj-Napoca; September, Berlin; Seventeen, London; SpazioA, Pistoia; Steinle, Munich; Super Window, Kyoto; Supportico Lopez, Berlin; The Third Line, Dubai

Solo presentations:

PRESENT FUTURE GIORGIO ANDREOTTA CALÒ, Zero, Milano ZBYNĚK BALADRAN, prometeogallery, Milano, Lucca ANDREAS BUNTE, Ben Kaufmann, Berlin KOENRAD DEDOBBELLEER, ProjecteSD, Barcelona MELANIE GILLIGAN, Franco Soffiantino, Torino LESLIE HEWITT, D’Amelio Terras, New York IMAN ISSA, Rodeo, Istanbul RUNO LAGOMARSINO, Elastic, Malmö SOPHIE NYS, Greta Meert, Brussels LAURE PROUVOST, MOT International, London RETO PULFER, Balicehertling, Paris LILI REYNAUD-DEWAR, Kammel Mennour, Paris WILL ROGAN, Lauren Gitlen | Small A Projects, New York CLÉMENT RODZIELSKI, Chantal Crousel, Paris LUKE STETTNER, Stene, Stockholm

BACK TO THE FUTURE NANNI BALESTRINI, Giacomo Guidi & MG, Roma, Gozzano GIANFRANCO BARUCHELLO, Michael Janssen, Berlin BILL BOLLINGER, Häusler, Zurich VLASSIS CANIARIS, Kalfayan, Athens, Salonica DADAMAINO, Carlina, Torino NOËL DOLLA, Dominique Fiat, Paris KOJI ENOKURA, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York FRANCO GUERZONI, Nicoletta Rusconi, Milano JAN HÅFSTRÖM, Fruit & Flower Deli / Andreas Brändström, New York / Stockholm CARMEN HERRERA, Arratia, Beer, Berlin PAOLO ICARO, Massimo Minini, Brescia MICHEL JOURNIAC, Patricia Dorfmann, Paris BIRGIT JÜRGENSSEN, Hubert Winter, Vienna MARIA LAI, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin JOHN LATHAM, Lisson, London BOB LAW, Thomas Dane, London ADOLF LUTHER, 401contemporary, Berlin ANNA MARIA MAIOLINO, Raffaella Cortese, Milano ANTONI MIRALDA, Senda, Barcelona HITOSHI NOMURA, McCaffrey Fine Art, New York GIANNI PETTENA, Enrico Fornello, Milano SYLVIA SLEIGH, I-20, New York GORAN TRBULJAK, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Ljubljana GIL J.WOLMAN, Lara Vincy, Paris

Selection Committees and Curatorial Boards:

MAIN SECTION / NEW ENTRIES: Daniele Balice, Balicehertling, Paris; Isabella Bortolozzi, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin; Mario Cristiani, Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin; Darren Flook, Hotel, London; Franco Noero, Franco Noero, Torino; Gregor Podnar, Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Ljubljana

PRESENT FUTURE: Mai Abu ElDahab, Richard Birkett, Thomas Boutoux and Luigi Fassi (co-ordinator)

BACK TO THE FUTURE: Massimiliano Gioni, Christine Macel, Jessica Morgan

This year Artissima is moving to the Oval, a pavilion built for the 2006 Winter Olympic Games in Turin: the large hall of 20,000 square metres will host both the participating galleries and the curatorial programme with its events that will be held at the House of Contamination, a temporary project by the architectural collective raumlaborberlin. This large structure will contain spaces dedicated to the various areas of art explored: dance, cinema, literature, design and education. A ‘project within a project’, the House of Contamination will act as a study for a future museum or cultural centre – a practical prototype that will be experimented with during the fair.

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ARTISSIMA 17
Künstler. Direktor: Francesco Manacorda

Edition "Present Future"
Kuratoren: Mai Abu ElDahab, Richard Birkett, Thomas Boutoux, Luigi Fassi
Künstler: Giorgio Andreotta Calo, Zbynek Baladran, Andreas Bunte, Koenraad Dedobbeleer, Melanie Gilligan, Leslie Hewitt, Iman Issa, Runo Lagomarsino, Sophie Nys, Laure Prouvost, Reto Pulfer, Lili Reynaud Dewar, Will Rogan, Clement Rodzielski, Luke Stettner

Edition "Back to the Future"
Kuratoren: Massimiliano Gioni, Christine Macel, Jessica Morgan
Künstler: Nanni Balestrini, Gianfranco Baruchello, Bill Bollinger, Vlassis Caniaris, Dadamaino , Noel Dolla, Koji Enokura, Franco Guerzoni, Jan Hafström, Carmen Herrera, Paolo Icaro, Michel Journiac, Birgit Jürgenssen, Maria Lai, John Latham, Bob Law, Adolf Luther, Anna Maria Maiolino, Antoni Miralda, Hitoshi Nomura, Gianni Pettena, Sylvia Sleigh, Goran Trbuljak, Gil Joseph Wolman