Presented the 2022 edition of Artissima. For the first time sponsored by the Ministry of Culture

The 2022 edition of Artissima, Turin ’s contemporary art fair that reaches this year’s chapter number twenty-nine in its history, has been presented. Artissima this year will be directed for the first time by Luigi Fassi and will be held from Friday, November 4 to Sunday, November 6, 2022 at theOval in Turin, with the participation of 174 Italian and international galleries including 35 monographic projects. Artissima 2022 galleries come from 28 countries and 4 continents.

The organization of Artissima is overseen by Artissima srl, a company of Fondazione Torino Musei, established in 2008 to manage the artistic and commercial relations of the fair. The Artissima brand belongs to the City of Turin, the Piedmont Region and the Metropolitan City of Turin. The twenty-ninth edition of Artissima, sponsored for the first time by the Ministry of Culture, is being carried out through the support of the three brand-owning entities, jointly Fondazione CRT, Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and the Turin Chamber of Commerce.

The theme chosen for the edition of Artissima 2022 is Transformative Experience, a concept developed by American philosopher L. A. Paul (professor of Philosophy and Cognitive Science at Yale University) in the essay of the same name published in 2014 by Oxford University Press. According to Paul, a transformative experience is capable of radically altering the person experiencing it, challenging his or her rationally prefigured expectations and opening up perspectives into the unknown. “The art world,” explains Luigi Fassi, “as a whole has seen in recent years changes in its rules, the modes of exchange and informational interaction between practitioners and enthusiasts, navigating towards multiple horizons of transformation. However, the urgency of meeting and immediate relationship, dictated by the desire to know and live the experience of art in real time and to continue to learn what is new emerging on the present scene, has remained more alive and burning than ever. It is precisely the theme of how we all experience the onset of transformative experiences in our lives that is the central inspiration of the Artissima 2022 edition. A transformative experience is one that opens up new horizons to our senses, thoughts and emotions, to the point where we can change ourselves deeply as people. Contemporary American philosopher Laurie Anne Paul argues in her book Transformative Experience that personally transformative experiences are those that we cannot in any way rationally anticipate or prefigure, because nothing can replace their vivid manifestation as a revelation of a territory as yet unknown to us.”

There will be a total of seven sections at Artissima 2022: four are selected by the fair’s gallery committee, namely the Main Section, which brings together a selection of the most representative galleries in the global art scene (this year’100 were chosen this year, of which 49 are foreign), New Entries, a section reserved for emerging galleries on the international scene (15 galleries of which 13 are foreign), Monologue/Dialogue (reserved for emerging galleries and/or galleries with an experimental approach that intend to present a monographic stand or a dialogue between the works of 2 artists, with 27 galleries of which 14 are foreign), Art Spaces & Ed itions hosts galleries specializing in artists’ editions and multiples, bookstores, project spaces and nonprofit spaces (9 exhibitors). There are three sections curated by international boards of curators: Drawings, Present Future and Back to the Future.

This year the fair’s three curated sections(Drawings, Present Future and Back to the Future ) return to the fairgrounds with monographic booths. Also renewed are the curatorial teams: Irina Zucca Alessandrelli, curator of Collezione Ramo, Milan, for Drawings; Saim Demircan, independent curator and writer, Turin, and Maurin Dietrich, director of Kunstverein München, Munich, for Present Future; Anna Gritz, director of Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, and Balthazar Lovay, independent curator, Geneva, for Back to the Future. The curated sections will live not only in presence but also on the digital platform Artissima Voice Over created thanks to the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo. Artissima Voice Over is a cross-media space that offers an in-depth overview of the work of all the actors involved in each project: the gallery, the artist, the curators. Some of the platform’s content (videos, interviews, and podcasts) are produced directly by the galleries and artists, while others feature the editorial curatorship of the art project Treti Galaxie, composed of Matteo Mottin and Ramona Ponzini, with the contribution of the video production company Like Usual in collaboration with FIONDA.

Also returning are the prizes: Artissima is organizing, in collaboration with partner companies, four prizes for artists and galleries, namely the illy Present Future Prize, the FPT for Sustainable Art Prize, the VANNI occhiali #artistroom Prize and the Tosetti Value Prize for photography. These are joined by two awards in memory of prominent figures in the art world: the Matteo Viglietta Award, sponsored by the La Gaia Collection, and the Carol Rama Award, sponsored by the Fondazione Sardi per l’Arte; and four supports to artists and galleries sponsored by foundations and institutions that have confirmed or initiated a relationship with the fair: OGR Award by Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, “ad occhi chiusi...” by Fondazione Merz, ISOLA SICILIA 2022 by Fondazione Oelle, and the Ettore and Ines Fico Award by MEF Museo Ettore Fico in Turin. All winning artists will be selected by international juries.

For all information about the fair you can visit the Artissima website.

Presented the 2022 edition of Artissima. For the first time sponsored by the Ministry of Culture

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