The season will open with events in the Bologna Fair District and city centre providing a foretaste of the upcoming fourth edition of the festival. Events will include a series of meetings organised from 27 to 30 January 2011 in collaboration with Arte Fiera Bologna, on board the Via...ggiando pavilion designed by Mario Nanni. Following the great success of last year, the pavilion will be back in Piazza Galvani and will involve the protagonists of Se un giorno di inverno un viaggiatore, curated by Julia Draganovic for the 2011 edition of Art First.
Padiglione Via...ggiando - from 27 to 30 January - piazza Galvani
Thursday January 27
8 pm - Julia Draganovic, curator of Art First 2011, will inaugurate the series of talks with the artists of Art First and will present Silke Rehberg, Michael Johansson and Jorinde Voigt.
Friday January 28
7 pm - Villa Panza at Varese, La Biennale di Venezia, the Municipality of Milan: Mario Nanni will talk about his "poems made of light" for these three enlightened commissioners
8.30 pm - the artists Maria José Arjona, Tea Mäkipää and the curators Claudia Löffelholz and Eugenio Viola will present the performances that will take place in the city centre as part of Art First.
Saturday January 29
7 pm - Giuseppe Iodice interviewed by Mario Nanni: the Italian Pavilion at the Expo 2010 Shanghai
8.30 pm - the curator Ludovico Pratesi will meet Ghost of a Dream and Vittorio Messina, in collaboration with Art First.
Sunday January 30
12.30 pm - Pippo Ciorra, Cristiano Seganfreddo and Mario Nanni: commissioning, thinking and creating
7 pm - art and the internet: a conversation between Steven Music and Julia Draganovic
8 pm - Julia Draganovic will meet Roberto Paci Dalò, Lorenza Lucchi Basili and Marco Giovani, in collaboration with Art First.
(tag
Arte Fiera,
Mario Nanni,
Padiglione Via...ggiando,
Pier Luigi Sacco,
Julia Draganovic,
Pippo Ciorra,
Roberto Paci Dalò,
Massimo Isola,
Steven Music,
Forms of collecting/Forme della committenza,
Ghost of a Dream,
Vittorio Messina,
Marco Giovani,
Maria José Arjona,
Claudia Löffelholz,
Tea Mäkipää,
Eugenio Viola,
Silke Rehberg,
Michael Johansson,
Jorinde Voigt,
Roberto Baldi)
