Bologna to host final edition of Fruit Exhibition, independent art publishing fair

The fair of independent art publishing, Fruit Exhibition turns ten and announces its last edition: after the digital editions of 2020 and “one day” outdoor edition of 2021, the international festival and market returns to the presence from September 30 to October 2, 2022 with the traditional formula: a three-day fair that brings together examples of independent publications and a program of meetings, screenings, exhibitions, and workshops dedicated to the world of publishing.

For this final act, Fruit Exhibition has chosen as its venue DumBO, a temporary urban regeneration space a few hundred meters from downtown and the Central Station, ready to welcome the proposals of nearly one hundred Italian and international exhibitors including micro art publishers, self-publishers, graphic designers, illustrators and artists, contemporary graphic publishing houses, magazines, music labels, and artisan printers: on display, the public will be able to find artist’s books, catalogs, graphic design, zines, sound editions, illustration, photography, new types of printing, and traditional and digital publications.

There are two focuses this year: Invitation to Travel, curated by Chiara Capodici, book designer and founder of the Roman bookstore Leporello - photobooks et al, which emphasizes the importance of the dimension of the journey first and foremost interior, in its transcultural, historical and visionary meaning, which unfolds page after page and never as now is charged with great evocative power; Drawing (r)evolution, curated by Andrea LoSavio (D406 gallery) and Cinzia Ascari, instead investigates the growing interest in contemporary drawing in recent years, not only as a medium at the service of publishing but also as an autonomous and accomplished artistic form increasingly appreciated in the art market.

Ten workshops dedicated to education and creativity, ranging from traditional techniques such as lettering, screen printing and letterpress, to digital publishing and new technological frontiers: from Sept. 26 to Oct. 1, AvvistamentI. Bookmaking workshop, curated by Stefano Ricci; Saturday, Oct. 1, Zine Garden. Workshop on creating a fanzine, curated by Giulia Vallicelli for Compulsive Archive and On Guerrilla Communication, curated by Andrea Natella; Saturday, Oct. 1 and Sunday, Oct. 2, Photography: storytelling through images, curated by Gianpaolo Arena, Composable Alphabets. Letterpress and typesetting workshop curated by Anonima Impressori, Vedo Colore. To create a personal visual alphabet curated by Alberonero; Sunday, Oct. 2, Notebook. Long stitch stitching and embossing, curated by Officine Amaro, Image Based Types. Lettering Workshop, curated by Matteo Bertin, Bee’s Wrap Screen Printing Workshop curated by Stranedizioni and La Commedia Dell’informazione curated by Vincenzo Sparagna.

There will be no shortage of talks designed to bring the public closer to independent publishing through interviews, lectures and presentations of unpublished projects. On Friday, Sept. 30, at 6 p.m., Invitation to Travel - On the Move with artist and educator Francesca Crisafulli, and Chiara Capodici; at 7 p.m., Frute × Robida: How Publishing Making intersects with Community Making with Cecilia Cappelli and Lucia Gasti (Frute) and Vida Rucli (Robida); at 8 p.m., Invitation to Travel - Space. Europeans in the Time of Europe with photographer Rob Hornstra; at 9 p.m., Almost Nobody Laughed Out Loud with Pastoraccia in dialogue with Matteo Gaspari around his new comic book. Saturday, Oct. 1 at 3 p.m., Comic Book Drawing. An artistic language on the rise with publisher Emilio Varrа and artist Stefano Ricci; at 4 p.m., A puro caso - A journey through time and space, an exploration of memory as a cue for the investigation of the contemporary landscape with photographer and videomaker Marcello Ruvidotti and Giorgia Vanzolini (De Pietri Artphilein Foundation, Lugano); at 5 p.m., Swiss artists’ books. The Artist’s Book in Switzerland and the World with artist, curator and writer Stefano W. Pasquini and Susanne Bieri, art historian and researcher; at 6 p.m., Invitation to Travel - Time. Future Memories with artist Nico Krebs and Chiara Capodici; at 7 p.m., From the Sheet to the Street. Drawing in Urban Art Between Intimacy and Public Space with art critic, lecturer and independent curator Claudio Musso, Eugenio Sidoli, collector and founder of SpazioC21 (Reggio Emilia), and artist 108, one of the earliest and greatest representatives of abstract post-graffiti. On Sunday, October 2, at 1 p.m., Fruit Picks. The six projects that impressed us the most, from the Fruit X market; at 3 p.m., Invitation to Travel - Interconnections. Visions of travel and crossings of space, time and identity with Cristina Marasti (Iperborea), Marco Agosta (The Passenger), Dionigi Mattia Gagliardi (Numero Cromatico). Federica Boragina and Giulia Brivio (Studio Boîte); at 5 p.m., Collecting Works on Paper. Sergio Cereda ’s collection of illustrations with collector Sergio Cereda in dialogue with artist Fausto Gilberti and gallerist Andrea Losavio; at 6 p.m., Contemporary Drawing and the Art Market. Trends and Perspectives with curator Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator Antonio De Falco and Massimo Pulini, painter, writer and art historian; at 7 p.m., Image based types. Designing a typeface from an image with Matteo Bertin, art director, graphic designer and author of the book; at 8 p.m., In Full Light. A fanzine for the 40-year history of Cassero with Sara De Giovanni, archivist at the Documentation Center “Flavia Madaschi” Cassero LGBTI Center, Eugenio Nittolo and Andre Tognan (Laboratorio Zanna Dura in Turin - Fanzines, screen printing, drawing), Enea Brigatti, assistant editor of Archivio Magazine.

Among the screenings, we will see the film Una storia in punta sottile - Enza Negroni’s beautiful handwriting about the great Bolognese calligrapher Barbara Calzolari, the first woman to receive the prestigious Master Penman from Iampeth (Saturday, Oct. 1, 9 p.m.), and two documentaries by Emanuele Angiuli: the national premiere of C’era Una Volta... La Rivista A Fumetti, which tells the story of publications such as Cannibale, Frigidaire, Orient Express, Valvoline, Dolce Vita, Fuego, Cyborg, Mondo Mongo, Zero, Nova Express, Kappa Magazine, and Mondo Naif, which originated in Bologna from the late 1970s until 1996 (Saturday, Oct. 1, 12.00); Piccolo Gruppo In Moltiplicazione, which instead features the graphic, literary and political experience - including drawings, poems and delirious political proclamations - of A/traverso, ZUT, Wow, Oask, Il limone a canne mozze, La Congiura dei pazzi, Desir, in Bologna in the second half of the 1970s (Sunday, Oct. 2, 12 noon). In rotation during festival opening hours, the program also includes in Luther Blisset - Informed, Believe, Crack by Dario Tepedino, which reconstructs the most famous and successful hoaxes against the mass media to demonstrate the fragility and manipulability of the information system, F for F ake. A Small Lesson on Fake by Vincenzo Sparagna, and Art Book Stories, an investigation by Christian Battiferro into the world of independent art publishing between Madrid, New York, Bologna, Paris and Amsterdam (read more here)

Friday, Sept. 30 at 10:30 p.m. will feature Sigaretten Ensemble/Drawn Concert/033, a performance based on an idea by Stefano Ricci that combines musical improvisation and drawing in a unique performance. Dumbo’s spaces will also host Francesca Crisafulli’s exhibition La strategia del pattìno, curated by Chiara Capodici, part of an editorial project commissioned by the Topi Pittori publishing house.

Fruit Exhibition is a project of Crudo in collaboration with Arci Bologna with the support of Regione Emilia Romagna, Comune di Bologna and Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna. Media partners: Magculture, Travel on art, Slanted, District, Segno, Frizzi Frizzi, Zero, Exibart, Pressing Matters.

Hours: Friday, Sept. 30: h.17:00 - 01:00 (market closing at 22:00); h.22:30 Stefano Ricci concert; Saturday, Oct. 1: h.11:00 - 01:00; h.22 DJ set; Sunday, Oct. 2: h.11:00 - 01:00 (market closing at 21:30); h.21 closing party. Admission (ticket valid for three days): €9 for ARCI 2022/2023 card holders, €14 admission + ARCI 2022/2023 card (membership at the entrance), €20 admission for non-members

The program can be found at www.fruitexhibition.com

Participating in the Fruit Exhibition X market: 5X Letterpress (Italy), AIAP (Italy), Alvorturazine (Italy), Almanacco Press (Italy), Anita Scianò (Italy), Anna Giuntini-Iroiroworld (Italy), Anomali (Italy), Anonima Impressori (Italy), APRI (Italy), Archivio Magazine (Italy), Baco About Photographs (Italy), Beauroma Books (Italy), BEKKO (Italy), BOLO Paper (Italy), Cabin Boy Studio (Italy), Calluna Cartilegi (Italy), Canicola (Italy), Checkpoint Charly (Italy), Cicuta (Italy), Collective Canederli(San Marino), Collective Franco (Italy), Compulsive Archive (Italy), Condylura+Xong (Italy), Costanza Coletti (Italy), Curatela Placebo (Italy), Damocle Edizioni (Italy), Damiano Boldrini (Italy), Dito Publishing (Italy), École supérieure d’arts & médias de Caen/Cherbourg (France), Eki Magazine (Italy), Elfi Seidel (Germany), Federico Blu di Prussia (Italy), Flow Photozine (Italy), FranZine (Italy), FRUTE (Italy), Fuori Formato (Italy), Galleria D406 contemporary drawing (Italy), Galleria Disastro (Italy), Giada Fuccelli (Italy), Giorgiabaloo (Italy), Howphelia (Italy), Illustation (Italy), Ilya Kreines (Israel), Inferno 5 (Italy), Ivana Spinelli (Italy), KABUL Magazine (Italy), Kristian Ujhelji (Austria), Le Palle (Italy), Leporello-Photobooks et al. (Italy), Libri Finti Clandestini (Italy), Libri Tasso (Italy), Lievito Creative LAB (Italy), Lisa Gelli (Italy), Lök Zine (Italy), Lucangelo Bracci (Italy), Maaterials (Italy), Marcello Ruvidotti (Italy), Marco Brancato (Italy), Margotmao (Italy), Marisa Ventura (Italy), Mel The Sketcher (Italy), Memorial Paint (Italy), Mia Martì (Spain), Mira Mink (Finland), Mulieris Magazine (Italy), We, TATO project bookstore (Italy), Nerofumo680 (Italy), Numero Cromatico (Italy), Obsolete Shit (Italy), Officina del giorno dopo (Italy), Officina Typo (Italy), Officine Amaro (Italy), Papièl by Carmine Luino (Italy), Panopticon (Italy), Polenta Malgazine (Italy), Press Press (Italy), Rapso (Italy), Red Lab Edizioni (Italy), Robida (Italy), Rollingsteel (Italy) Saleh Kazemi (Iran/Italy), Salvatore Liberti (Italy), Sigaretten Edizioni Grafiche (Italy), Studio Boîte (Italy), Studio Makebu (Italy), Studio Saor (Italy), Suppergiú Magazine (Italy), Suren Hash (Mongolia), Taller Trez (Colombia), Testa Imperfetta (Italy), Valeria Cardetti (Italy), VIAINDUSTRIAE (Italy), Vincenzo Sparagna (Italy), Virginia Elena Patrone Illustrations (Italy), Zanna Dura (Italy).

Bologna to host final edition of Fruit Exhibition, independent art publishing fair

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