Milan, Miart 2022 announces winners of acquisitions and awards

The 2022 edition of miart has ended and the Milan contemporary art fair has announced the works acquired by the Fondazione Fiera Milano Acquisition Fund and the winners of the three prizes, namely the LCA Prize for Emergent, Herno Prize and Covivio Acquisition Prize. There are 12 works selected by the Fondazione Fiera Milano Acquisition Fund with a total value of 100,000 euros. Joining Fondazione President Enrico Pazzali in the selection was the jury composed of Diana Bracco (Jury President, Member of the Executive Committee of Fondazione Fiera Milano, Milan), Lorenzo Giusti (Director, GAMeC, Bergamo) and Anna Mattirolo (Ministry of Culture, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome).

“Once again this year, Fondazione Fiera Milano, on the occasion of the international modern and contemporary art exhibition miart, a must-attend event for art lovers and collectors, has renewed its concrete will to support culture and the art market,” says Diana Bracco, a member of the Executive Committee of Fondazione Fiera Milano and chair of the jury that selected the paintings that will enrich the Foundation’s collection. “Through our Acquisition Fund we bought very beautiful and important works. Overall, our economic contribution exceeded 100,000 euros, and the contemporary art works chosen by the jury, which I had the honor of chairing, belonged to artists, including young ones, represented by both Italian and foreign galleries.”

The works, which will be added to the more than 100 that currently make up the Fondazione Fiera Milano collection housed inside the Palazzina degli Orafi venue and visible on the fair’s website are: Mario Airò, Aurora, 2003-2016 (Vistamare, Milan-Pescara); Ketuta Alexi-Meskhishvili, Infrarotlampe Aeroplane, 2022 (LC Queisser, Tbilisi); Silvia Bächli, Cinque, 2020 (Raffaella Cortese, Milan); Ezio Gribaudo, Cuba, 1967 (Sans titre (2016), Paris); David Hockney, Pacific Ocean at Malibu, 1976 (Lelong & Co, Paris-New York); Michael Höpfner, Two Halfs - Kertsch Peninsula Ukraine, May 2007 - Central Chantang, August 2007 / Back and Forth - Kertsch Peninsula Ukraine, May 2007 / Two Camps - Kertsch Peninsula Ukraine, May 2007 - Central Chantang, August 2007, 2022 (Michela Rizzo, Venice and the artist); Elizabeth Jaeger, Fish stand with fish # 2, 2019 (KLEMM’S, Berlin); Birgit Jurgenssen, Untitled, 1971 (Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna); Iva Lulashi, It’s iron and breath, 2022 (PROMETEO GALLERY Ida Pisani, Milan - Lucca); Margherita Moscardini, Dead Sea, 2018 (Ex Elettrofonica, Rome); Joanna Piotrowska, Enclosure XXXI, 2019 (Madragoa, Lisbon); Kazuyuki Takezaki, Board/table, 2021 (MISAKO & ROSEN, Tokyo - Brussels). Below are images of all the acquired works.

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The LCA Prize for Emergent worth 4,000 euros, established in 2015 by the collaboration between miart and LCA Studio Legale and intended for the best presentation within the Emergent section, was awarded to Sans titre Gallery (2016) in Paris. The jury - composed of Chiara Gatti (Director, MAN Museum, Nuoro), Aziza Harmel (Assistant Curator, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna) and Abaseh Mirvali (Curator Art & Architecture, Museum Director, Mexico City/San Francisco) - awarded the gallery’s project involving artists Alicia Adamerovich and Ezio Gribaudo with the following motivation: “we thought it was a very well conceived stand. While there is an intergenerational conversation between artists Alicia Adamerovich and Ezio Gribaudo, one takes care of the other’s work. There is a deep rhythm that allows one to enter and stay in the booth, giving it a breathing space necessary to perceive the work. The curatorship, both of the artists and the gallerist, emphasizes the care that has been taken to create this dialogue.”

Instead, it is Corvi-Mora, London the winning gallery of the seventh Herno Prize, with works by Sam Bakewell, Dee Ferris, and Jem Perucchini within the Established section. The award, worth 10,000 euros, was given to the booth with the best exhibition project by the international jury consisting of Diana Baldon (Director, Kunsthal Aarhus, Copenhagen) Stella Bottai (Curator-at-Large, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen) and Ines Grosso (Chief Curator, Serralves, Porto). The jury gave this reason for their choice: “Corvi-Mora’s booth presents the works of three artists of different generations and nationalities, united by a reflection on painting through the medium of sculpture. The set-up greatly enhances their practices, exploiting the juxtapositions between the works to highlight their formal and material qualities. The booth acts as a small exhibition in which the spatial and visual relationships between works and viewer are very well orchestrated.”

For the first edition of the Covivio Acquisition Prize, dedicated to the Emergent section, the artist Pamela Diamante - brought to miart by Galleria Gilda Lavia, Rome - has been selected and will be commissioned a site-specific work with an investment of up to 20,000 euros. The work produced, in line with Covivio’s philosophy of promoting talented and emerging artists, will be installed in a property in Milan’s Symbiosis business district designed by ACPV ARCHITECTS Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel studio. The motivation for the acquisition: “Covivio’s choice fell on Pamela Diamante because one of the fundamental characteristics of the artist’s work is the attitude of inhabiting space by establishing between the latter and the artwork a relationship of mutual and complementary exchange. An indissoluble bond that evokes the nature of Covivio’s Symbiosis district, which will host the site-specific installation.”

Milan, Miart 2022 announces winners of acquisitions and awards

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