 | Artists: Corrado Abate, Fabrizio Braghieri, Luca De Santis, Tommaso Lipari from 12nd September to 18th October 2010 Studio Maffei Milano - New York |
Is pleased to announce the opening of "STUDIO MAFFEI MILANO IS PROUD TO SUPPORT ITS LOCAL ARTISTS", a four solo-show exhibition of its Italian emerging and mid-career artists: a selection of recent and site-specific works, chosen among some of the most talented Italian artists, exhibited during the last two years gallery’s activity.
In addition to the exhibits located at 876 Broadway’s basement, on the street level floor, right on the window on Broadway, the scenario/arrangement shift. Each Sunday for a period of four weeks, the artists will re-arrange the rooms using Eco-design supplies, provided by Environment Fornitures, with their own personal tastes setting the artworks within their most common context: at home. The concept is to highlight the incredible and at times under-valuated link between design and contemporary art. The aim is to provide to the spectator the idea of the artworks positioned in a different environment than a museum, enriching our knowledge upon everyday’s surrounding and (hopefully) make it better.
The Exhibition will also host a gift shop where artists can sell smaller but authentic and unique works, a production dedicated to America, and particularly to New York City. Items like frottage, t-shirt, drawings, books, publishing and video not available on the market, who represent the expression of artists' work on show, dedicated to supporting the project with the broader cultural spirit of this era: contamination as a method of investigation.
The artists - especially emerging - need to be supported, in order to accomplish their work. In response to that, STUDIO MAFFEI MILANO will try to create a mini-market and showing those talents in which firmly believes, using their assistance in 'combining alternative communication projects. Our first goal is to build and grow a significant relationship between art and people, with an active and socially conscious market, trying to tilt the balance towards the artistic sensibility and aesthetic flow.
Established on April 2008, STUDIO MAFFEI MILANO is a concept gallery dedicated to the use of contemporary art to the development, communication, and realization of alternative exhibition projects and to the investigation of new ideas inspired by the sharing of diverse social experiences between artists, curators, collectors and professionals in the sector. The gallery aims to feature debut-emerging and mid-career artists, both local and foreigner, conceived to showcasing works that both reflect and refract the contemporary culture of life. The headquarters is located in Milan, Italy, but rather than adopt a gallery-as-sanctuary mentality, STUDIO MAFFEI MILANO encourages its artists to work freely, altering the space as they see fit, working on site-specific project around the world. Exhibitions will feature a broad range of contemporary art: painting, sculpture, film/video, performance, mixed-media, and conceptual installation.
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