From 23 to 25 September in Lugano fifty galleries and foundations exhibit works on material and digital media. Next to the area dedicated to the market, exhibitions and installations
The appointment returns on time. From Friday 23 to Sunday 25 September the seventh edition of WopArt/Works on Paper Fair, the fair dedicated – mainly – to works on paper. Fifty will be the galleries and foundations, from Italy, Switzerland, France, Germany, United Arab Emirates, Iran, which in the usual spaces of the Exhibition Center will show and offer for sale to collectors and visitors works of art on paper. But not only.
This year’s edition looks beyond paper. The title chosen for 2022 explains this: Others. The Paper and its Mirror, Nft!, that is The others. The card and its mirror, Nft !. With a view to inclusion and sustainability, as explained by Robert Phillips, cultural director of WopArt (president Alberto Rusconi), former curator of exhibitions and exhibitions all over the world and collaborator, among others, of the MoMA in New York: Inclusion and sustainability is also the ability to fix and bring to representation a complex relationship and, thus, crystallize in an event the relationship between the person and the multifaceted reality that surrounds him. A reality that, in the artistic field, translates into the increasingly strong presence of digitalwith the introduction of Nft (encrypted digital works that this year too can be proposed by the exhibitors of WopArt), the future vehicle of contemporaneity.
In this way WopArt wants to open a debate on the relationship between paper and digital. We start with a question: Card or Nft? What future in the art market ?; question that will be at the center of one of the conferences in the Talk area of the fair. Moderated by Luca Zuccala, Gianni Armetta, Fabrizio Vedana (ArtN) and Paolo Manazza will discuss the theme (Sunday 25th at 16.30). Painter and journalist, one of the creators of WopArt, Manazza suggests: In art for the next twenty or thirty years, paper will always be a winner. This is because the historical artistic production is largely made on paper, and even today it remains central. The most remote future is to be explored.
The paper is therefore proposed as an opportunity to enter the world of art and collecting. Among the stands of exhibitors such as the Farsetti (Milan) and Mazzoli (Modena) galleries, Akka Project (Venice-Dubai), Migrant Bird Space (Berlin-Beijing), Mojdeh Art Gallery (Tehran), Iris Contemporary Space (Tehran), sar it is possible to observe and purchase physical works, but also digital ones, starting from 300 euros for emerging artists; or works – naturally on paper – by ancient and modern masters starting at 2,000 euros. Among the works proposed at WopArt there will be the china The Go from Emilio Isgr (1972) presented by Stefano Orler (Venice); the Without title from Robert Rauschenberg (1974) exhibited by Galleria Immaginaria (Florence); or Extrapagina by Grazia Varisco (1977-2011) proposed by Cortesi Gallery (Lugano-Milan).
In addition to the area intended for the art market, there are several exhibitions present at WopArt, which in a context of inclusion explore both the material and the digital. At the entrance there will be the personal exhibition of Valentina Picozzi, a young star of digital art. There will also be room for artificial intelligence in the exhibition Am I Human? curated by the scientist Luca Maria Gambardella and dedicated to the interaction between man and machine, where portraits of visitors will be produced in real time.
In the Talk area dedicated to conferences, the works on paper by Paola Greggio (Ezio’s sister) will be exhibited. To these exhibitions are added the exhibition set up in the Vip Lounge by the watch brand Eberhard / Mersmann and that created by the Cultural Foundation of Bnp Paribas (the main sponsors of the fair). A space also dedicated to the Hermann Hesse Foundation which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the release of Siddharthapublished in 1922 by the Swiss naturalized German author.
After the success of 2021, thanks to the renewed collaboration with the Museum of Cultures (Musec) in Lugano, a selection of drawings by children from Papua New Guinea will be presented, collected in the field in the early 1950s by the artist Dadi Wirz (which are part of the exhibition The childhood of the signin progress at the Musec until October 2).
In addition to the exhibitions, there is also the one in the Gaze Off space, conceived by Franco Marinotti and Guido Tognola. And for the whole week, art will not only be the protagonist of the fair, but conquer the whole city of Luganowith widespread installations of contemporary art.
September 19, 2022 (change September 19, 2022 | 11:56)
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