174 international galleries, 6 prizes and 3 days of talks with curators, critics, artists and museum directors: this is miart 2017, the centrepiece of the Milan Art Week.
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The Milan Art Week 2017 is officially on, a lot of events will take place all over the city, with special exhibitions, openings and one of the most important Italian art fairs: MiArt 2017, with a new artistic director, Alessandro Rabottini, right-hand man of the former director Vincenzo de Bellis, who is now Curator of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
Liam Gillick
Liam Gillick (b.1964) deploys multiple forms to expose the new ideological control systems that emerged at the beginning of the 1990s. He has developed a number of key narratives that often form the engine for a body of work. McNamara (1992 onwards) Erasmus is Late & Ibuka! (1995 onwards) Discussion Island/Big Conference Center (1997 onwards) and Construction of One (2005 onwards).
Peter Stauss
Peter Stauss’ paintings recreate fables of our times. Deriving imagery from a cross-section of ideological, historical, religious and art-historical sources, his work combines essential philosophical themes with questions about the genesis of form in painting and sculpture. A recurring cast of characters has populated his canvases over the years.
Her Story at Rele Gallery
Rele Gallery in Lagos, Nigeria is currently showing Her Story, an exhibition comprised of five female artists that contributes to the developing narrative of women, as both an individual experience and a social concept. Ayobola Kekere-Ekun, Oluchi Zọtam, Queen Nwaneri, Buki M. Animashaun, and Haneefah Adam each voice their female experience through art to communicate a response to the social and political circumstances that women live in, as well as to deepen their and our understanding of Women from a woman’s point of view.
