There are numerous artistic and cultural events that will animate Bologna during this Art City 2024 weekend. From February 1, the preview day, until Sunday, February 4, the city will welcome the world of art (and beyond) with a succession of openings. Let’s not forget Arte Fiera, which celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year, marking the milestone as the first Italian art fair to achieve this. It’s not only the birthday of Italy’s oldest fair but also the anniversary of the death of Bolognese painter Giorgio Morandi, to whom five special projects will be dedicated. Performances, exhibitions, shows, and evenings await, and here are our recommendations to address your FOMO.
#1 Arte Fiera, BolognaFiere, Ingresso Costituzione pad. 25-26
The star of this weekend is Arte Fiera. Celebrating its just-turned fifty years, it returns to Bologna with the classic Main Section, divided between historical and contemporary art, and curated sections: Painting XXI, Photography and Moving Images, and Multiples. The Path section also returns, connecting artists of different generations through an invisible common thread – that of drawing. The invitation-only preview will be on February 1, while the fair will be open to the public from Friday, February 2, to Sunday, February 4.
#2 BOOMing Contemporary art show at DumBO
In response to the traditional Arte Fiera is the BOOMing Contemporary Art Show at the DumBO space. Already highlighted in our carousel dedicated to Things Not to Miss in February, this emerging art fair is a must-see in our opinion. This year, BOOMing will present four thematic sections, NOW, Generation(Z), Feminisms, Everyday For Future, focusing attentively on the present moment, the now, the main core of this year’s edition. The fair will open on February 1 and run until Sunday, February 4.
#3 Patrick Tuttofuoco – Abbandona gli occhi at Palazzo De’ Toschi
Last night, on January 30, at the Banca di Bologna Conference Hall in Palazzo De’ Toschi, the special project “Abbandona gli occhi” by Patrick Tuttofuoco (1974) was inaugurated. The exhibition, open until February 18, is curated by Davide Ferri and showcases the distinctive features of Tuttofuoco’s artistic practice, using industrial materials such as neon and actively involving the viewer in the exhibition. Simultaneously, it incorporates recent elements, like a focus on sculpture using industrial/synthetic materials and the translation of form into figure, highlighted through the repetition of the body’s figure in different parts of the exhibition space.
#4 Multi-Node Shell, a performance by Luca Pagan at GALLLERIAPIÙ
On the evening of Saturday, February 3, at 9 pm, the sound artist and performer Luca Pagan will present the performance “Multi-Node Shell.” The spaces of GALLLERIAPIÙ will host Pagan’s 30-minute performance, utilizing Artificial Intelligence and wearable technologies to create new architectural forms of the body.
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EXTRA TIPS
- Rail Market at Dumbo (Sunday 4 febbraio from 11 to 22)
- Joel Meyerowitz with the exhibition Morandi’s objects – le fotografie di Joel Meyerowitz at Collezioni Comunali d’Arte, Palazzo d’Accursio (from January 30 to February 25 | opening hours ART CITY: February 1st h 14-19; February 2nd h 10-19; February 3rd h 10-22; February 4th h 10-18.30)
- CANEMORTO with the exhibition The Painting Race in Alchemilla spaces at Palazzo Vizzani curated by Antonio Grulli (we already talker about it here). The exhibition will be open until March 16th.
- Flesh to flesh a collective exhibition with Alma Heikkilä, Andrea Loi, Beatrice Alici, Carlo Cossignani, Christa Joo HyunD’Angelo, Diana Orving, Fabio Perino, Ipnose Studio, J&PEG, Mariano Franzetti curated by Domenico de Chirico from January 31 to February 3, 2024 at Palazzo Hercolani Bonora
- Ludovica Carbotta with the exhibition Very well, on my own at MAMbo curated by Lorenzo Balbi, open until May 5
- Iconplast II at Adiacenze, a project by Sara Bonaventura, Gabriele Longega ed Elisa Muliere, curated by Amerigo Mariotti and Giorgia Tronconi, from Febryary 2nd to March 16th (Opening, February 2nd from 18).
- Quanto resta della notte by Claudia De Luca and Eleonora Conti is a site-specific art installation of lights and tarlatan that creates, inside the DamsLab theater, a path, immersive, dreamlike and lonely. February 2 to 4. Opening Feb. 2, 18h.
CLUBBING
- February 1st: Thomas Les Vaches e Mint Sound al Moka – Centro Sociale Tolmino from 21
- February 2nd: Slowdive at Estragon from 21
- February 3rd: Ombre Lunghe will host Thru Collected, specchiopaura and the project by Simone Trabucchi (Hundebiss Rec.), STILL at Atelier Sì from 23
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