miart 2024: no time no space

Miart - the international modern and contemporary art fair organised by Fiera Milano returns from 12 to 14 April 2024, and for this edition will borrow the words of a famous song by Franco Battiato, a master of feverish imagination and endless curiosity.
As a matter of fact, no time no space will be the title of the twenty-eighth edition of the exhibition, thus underlining the intention to extend its boundaries even further, both in terms of time - further widening the offer of artworks from a chronological point of view - and geography - increasing its presence into the urban fabric through unprecedented collaborations with the city's main institutions.


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This ideal expansion is related to the steady growth recorded by miart, which in recent editions, under the direction of Nicola Ricciardi, has seen an increase not only in the quality and number of participating galleries - 40% of which are coming from abroad - but also in the presence of international artists and collectors, as well as of curators and directors of private foundations and public museums.


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no time no space is also the theme of the 2024 visual campaign, which was entrusted for the third consecutive year to Cabinet Milano, a multidisciplinary studio founded by Rossana Passalacqua and Francesco Valtolina. The studio chose to collaborate with the American photographer Charlie Engman in order to propose a surreal journey and reveal a world where art, nature and reality are joined together. The campaign explores the theme of the portalas a metaphor for an interstitial passage between different realities. Like in a vivid dream, Engman - who is well-known for his work among photography and artificial intelligence that challenges the limits of traditional image - blurs the boundaries between reality and imagination: dolphins are represented while dancing old Viennese waltzes in an attempt to evoke, as in a text by André Breton, a sense of temporal and spatial suspension, a parallel universe in which the animal world seems to have replaced the human one. The interaction between real and artificial photographic elements makes it difficult to discern between reality and fiction, challenging the viewer's perception with the invitation to enter these dreamlike worlds and reflect on the fluid nature of reality and art.