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BOOK TALK Fairland: Explorations, Insights and Outlooks on Art Fair Future a book edited by Francesco Garutti and commissioned by miart Koenig Books, London & Mousse Publishing, Milan, 2014 Speakers: Francesco Garutti | editor of Fairland Stefano Baia Curioni | Bocconi University, Milan Vincenzo de Bellis | Artistic Director of miart Tuesday, July 1, 2014, 6:30 PM Triennale di Milano | Saletta Lab viale Alemagna 6, Milan | free admission
On Tuesday, July 1, 2014 at 6:30 PM, the Lab space of the Milan Triennale will house a presentation of the book Fairland: Explorations, Insights and Outlooks on Art Fair Future, a wide-ranging collection of analytical viewpoints and potential visions that explores the landscape of today's contemporary art fairs. Commissioned by miart and published by Koenig Books (London) & Mousse Publishing (Milan), Fairland will be presented by Francesco Garutti, editor of the volume, who will discuss it with Stefano Baia Curioni (economic historian, Bocconi University, Milan), author of the brief Fairland essay “Which Fairs – Which Art. Exchange Rituals and Impossible Markets”, and Vincenzo de Bellis (Artistic Director of miart). Commissioned by miart, Milan’s International Fair of Modern and Contemporary Art, as a tool for critical reflection on the fair format that bridges past and future, the book brings together brief essays, interviews and visual essays by DIS (New York) + Sarah Lookofsky (art historian, ISP Whitney Museum, New York), Moritz Kung (art and architecture critic and curator, Brussels) & Heimo Zobernig (artist, Vienna), Kersten Geers (architect, Office KGDVS, Brussels), Franz Schultheis (ethnologist, University of St. Gallen), Sarah McCrory (curator, Glasgow International), Gabriel Kuri (artist, Los Angeles), Harald Thys & Jos De Gruyter (artists, Brussels), Stefano Baia Curioni (economic historian, Bocconi University, Milan). Looking at the fair format as a solid piece of the art world, with its web of relationships and hierarchies, its own strategies of social and cultural legitimation, Fairland presents a varied array of critical thoughts and sagacious utopias. The fair is examined as the place where, since its origin, the complex, conflicted relationship between art and commerce, social power and money has been brought to the fore, and the book gathers together different images and fragments in the attempt to describe how curating and shaping this physical and metaphorical space can, now more than ever, become a revelatory practice, rich in possibilities for the future. Fairland is produced by miart, Milan and Fondazione Depart, Rome miart 2015 Press Office: Lara Facco: T +39 02 36565133 / M. +39 349 2529989 / [email protected] Fiera Milano Press Office: Rosy Mazzanti: T +39 0249977324 / [email protected] Elena Brambilla: T +39 0249977939 / [email protected]
INFO AT A GLANCE Title: Fairland - Explorations, Insights and Outlooks on the Future of
Art Fairs Editor: Francesco Garutti Contributors: Stefano Baia Curioni (economic historian, Bocconi University,
Milan) Jos de Gruyter & Harald Thys (artists, Brussels) DIS (art collective, New York) Kersten Geers (architect, Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen, Brussels) Moritz Küng (art and architecture critic and curator, Barcelona) Gabriel Kuri (artist, Los Angeles) Pablo León de la Barra (Guggenheim UBS MAP Curator for Latin America, New York) Sarah Lookofsky (art historian and editor, Director of Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, New York) Sarah McCrory (curator, Glasgow International, Glasgow) Franz Schultheis (sociologist and ethnologist, Professor and Director of the Institute of Sociology at the University of St. Gallen, President of the Pierre Bourdieu Foundation) Heimo Zobernig (artist, Vienna)
Language: English Publishers: Koenig Books, London & Mousse Publishing, Milan Design: Studio Mousse and Massimiliano Pace Publication date: March 2014 Size & Details: Paperback | Softcover | 11 x 19 cm Pages: 177 pp. ISBN: 978-3-86335-549-4
