miart announces the collaboration with Fuorisalone.it for the 2024 edition

no time no space. This will be the title of miart 2024, an unmissable event for the city of Milan when it comes to contemporary culture - and in recent years increasingly closer to Design Week. So much so that this statement underlines the intention to further extend the boundaries of the event both temporally and geographically, increasing the number of incursions into the urban fabric through collaborations with the main city institutions.


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One of these is precisely with Fuorisalone.it, also because - as explained by miart - many contents created in the context of miart are designed to temporally spill over into the week following the fair, that of Milan Design Week. Thus, while miart consolidates its bond with the city with the new edition of the Milan Art Week - the widespread event coordinated by the Department of Culture of the Municipality of Milan and by miart -, this first collaboration with Fuorisalone.it will also translate into a series of guides and thematic itineraries that will primarily involve the Milanese galleries.


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We talk about it with Nicola Ricciardi, creative director of miart:

This year a collaboration between miart and Fuorisalone.it is born: how do art and design relate in the two weeks in which they are protagonists?
Art and design have always had many points of contact. I personally don't believe much in labels and divisions, so for me it's quite natural that these two worlds contaminate and intertwine with each other. And obviously in the weeks of April - first in the Milan Art Week and then in the Milan Design Week - we see how this contamination can generate something original and new.

What will we see during the Fuorisalone produced or promoted by miart?
This unprecedented collaboration between Fuorisalone.it and miart arises from the desire to give mutual visibility to the contents of both events. So in Milan we will see guides produced by Fuorisalone that talk about Milanese galleries and in the same way Fuorisalone.it is contaminated with the contents of art, also thanks to the theme of the 2024 edition, Materia Natura, developed together with a duo of architects, but also artists, who tried to translate that productive energy typical of design and also give it an aesthetic vision.


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Art and design: how do they contaminate the city's culture and what impact do they have on the rest of the year?
The impact of art and design on the city of Milan is constant, in fact it is not only in those two weeks of April that we see these worlds spread over the city. There are many initiatives carried out both by miart and by the Fuorisalone events to try to build, together with the institutions and citizens, a path that develops over the course of a year. We see this above all through the wide range of cultural events and exhibitions - exhibitions such as that of Alessandro Mendini which will open at the Triennale Milano during the Milan Art Week, an excellent example of how a master of architecture can find his place and be at ease within an artistic context, but then unfolding just as naturally in the following week, the Milan Design Week, and in the weeks to follow. This fusion of art and design is very characteristic of the city of Milan, a city that has had enormous importance regarding the development of modern art and, needless to say, also of contemporary design.