Milan Sculpture returns to Fabbrica del Vapore, Sept. 9-11

From September 9 to 11, 2022, the only Italian fair entirely dedicated to plastic arts returns to the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan: Milano Scultura, now in its sixth edition, organized under the patronage of the City of Milan.

More than forty artists and galleries have been selected by director Ilaria Centola and curator Valerio Dehò, who intend to bring sculpture back to the center not only as a traditional language, through three-dimensional works, sometimes of installation dimensions, ranging from marble to bronze, from ceramics to salvaged materials, but also as a form of expression capable of narrating the great themes of the contemporary thanks to the presence of current monographic projects.

In addition to its thematic and non-generalist formula, the event maintains another of its characteristics for this edition as well, namely being a fair and at the same time an exhibition project aimed at collectors and enthusiasts. “Creating a pleasant environment of intellectual exchange with free admission where galleries and artists can express their full potential is a duty to the city I love and the art world in general,” said director Ilaria Centola.

Milano Scultura is also proposed as a place of confrontation thanks to the collaboration with schools and in particular with theBrera Academy, which is participating again this year with a thematic project, entitled Focus Transformations. Students were invited to work with ceramic techniques and pushed to reflect on its malleability. Of a more strictly curatorial nature are the Special Projects, this year all dedicated to topical issues to underscore the urgency of art to understand and exorcise the drama of the present. Factoryman is a site-specific project born from the collaboration between the cultural association Startè and Brain, a reality that operates in communication and art publishing. Curated by Paolo Asti, president of Startè, Factoryman is dedicated to the return of Milano Scultura to the Fabbrica del Vapore venue and investigates, through the works of the artists present, the relationship between man and work. On the occasion of the opening, the performance No War - No Crimes will be held on Friday, Sept. 9, at 7 p.m., in which the artist and performer Ernesto Jannini, who has been engaged in denouncing war crimes for years, will try to balance a surface-to-air missile on his chin while reciting poems from Dante’s Vita Nova, a visual and performative metaphor aimed at highlighting the great contradictions experienced by contemporary man. With the photographic-sculptural project Tutti al mare (All to the Sea), the R.E.M.I.D.A collective intends to draw attention to the drama of migrants.

The fair is accompanied by a catalog published by NFC Editions.

For info: https://www.milanoscultura.com/

Hours: Sept. 9 opening from 6 to 10 p.m.; Sept. 10 from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sept. 11 from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

Free admission.

Image: Armando Moriconi, Medea (2010; statuary marble, 48 x 35 x 23 cm).

Milan Sculpture returns to Fabbrica del Vapore, Sept. 9-11

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