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ARTISSIMA 9
The International Fair of Contemporary Art in Turin
November 14-17, 2002
Artissima 9 is over: the unmissable rendezvous in the
international
panorama of contemporary art fairs.
I love Art I prefer Artissima
Visitors and professionals who visited the Fair adopted Artissima
communication headline. The relevance and the quality of the proposals,
the wide-range overview on the international art market, the special
care
paid to the newest artistic trends and researches, the strict
cooperation
with the city and local institutions: these are Artissima strong
points.
Figures
40.000 visitors (+ 30% compared to 2001).
300 top collectors, museum directors and curators invited from all over
the world
450 accredited journalists
300 application requests
175 selected galleries
19 countries of origin
55% of foreign exhibitors
15% increase on the total number of galleries
1736 artists
5.000 and more exhibited artworks
12.000 square metres of exhibiting space
6 km of exhibiting ways
Purchases
From 300 to 300.000 euros: the range of prices of the artworks
sold in the
Fair.
500.000 euros: the total amount of the purchases made by the two
citys
museums, GAM and Castello di Rivoli, at Artissima.
The Fair
A settled parterre of important contemporary and emerging galleries,
this
year enriched by new big names of the international scene and by the
interesting countries participating for the first time at an Italian
fair.
The special initiatives
Present Future - at its second edition - presented the artworks
of 15
young artists; the Irish Padraig Timoney, was selected by the jury of
international collectors and received the special illycaffè Award;
New
Entries presented 15 young avant-garde galleries for the first time
in
Turin; Videolab offered a very.up to date point of view on
video-art with
films of well-known and young emerging artists.
Artissima and Turin
Artissima confirmed to be a unique event among the international
contemporary art fairs thanks to the cooperation and union of aims with
the Local Bodies, the Chamber of Commerce, the Public Institutions and
the
bank Foundations, the private sponsors, the Museums, the Foundations and
the artistic Institutions, the galleries, the collectors in a city rich
of
events and proposals in contemporary art.
The next appointment will be at the 10th Artissima edition in Turin,
November 13-16, 2003.
For further information: http://www.artissima.it - mailto
info@artissima.it
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