TOrino, 17 sets. (askanews) – There are 176 Italian and international galleries, which will take part in the 32nd edition of Artissima, the Contemporary Art Fair of Turin, this year entitled “Operating Manual for Terra Space Nave”. To direct it for the fourth year, there is Luigi Fassi. “The fair – he said to askanews – on the one hand necessarily starts from scratch because, being first of all a commercial company, it must be drawn and put in place the following year. However, we actually start with a great capital. On the one hand, the capital, as if to say, intangible to be the 32nd edition. I have already had the opportunity to say it, art, makes a lot of scouting. Mine that the galleries must be found to find them at their home to understand what they really are doing, what are their urgencies, their needs “.
The Turin fair, which has understood Sanpaolo as a main partner, is also an opportunity to reflect on the state of collecting in our country, in light of the reduction of VAT, for example, but also of a situation that remains complex. But among the intentions of Artissima there is also to listen to those who collection contemporary art. “There is at this moment, in my opinion – added Fassi – an growing push by collecting to to have the relief of a market with a human face, of a bourgeois market, of a market that can appear on galleries that share this approach, a directing towards a bourgeois collecting that can buy with confidence, with a certain cultural passion, not for investment, with the possibility of speaking of art, of making the transaction also. intellectual “.
Another of the elements on which the director insists is the relationship with the institutions of the city: museums, foundations, public and private subjects. Because Artissima, despite being an international fair, lives in the territory and wants to be an element of enhancement, wants to trigger a process that goes beyond the three days of the event at Oval. “It is clear – concluded Luigi Fassi – that the fair is Turin, it is the whole city of Turin. This is fundamental. There is no art without the institutions of the city. There are no institutions of the city in that week, if there is no art. A fair cannot happen in a territory in a residual territory, in a tired territory, in a more or less desertified territory. The fair is just a beating heart that must be able to regime. Storage then allows not only to enhance what is there, but to attract from outside. “
The appointment with Artissima 2025, to test all these ideas, is set from 31 October to 2 November.
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