MIA Fair - Milan Image Art Fair
Superstudio Più - Milan - Italy

4th - 6th MAY 2012

www.miafair.it


Everything is ready for the second edition of the first photography art fair in Italy.
250 exhibitors from all over the world will present international artists under an innovative formula: one stand for each artist – each artist with his/her own catalogue.
After the great success of the first edition in terms of public - over 15,000 visitors - and sales, MIA – Milan Image Art Fair, the photography and video art event conceived and directed by Fabio Castelli, returns on 4th-6th May 2012 at Superstudio Più in Milan (via Tortona 27).

There will be 250 exhibitors – galleries, independent photographers, specialist publishing houses and photographic laboratories, a 15% increase in participation compared to 2011 – not only from Italy but also from Europe (Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, U.K., Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland and Hungary), the USA and South America, who will present over 200 national and international artists.
MIA Fair was created with the aim of standing out from the traditional pattern of Italian trade-fairs, highlighting the transverse role that photography has come to play between the languages of expression of the contemporary art system. Its formula, unique on the Italian trade-fair scene, proposes a stand for every artist – each artist with his/her own catalogue, offering the visitor thechance to view over 200 personal exhibitions.

The selection was made by the scientific committee consisting of: 3/3 Photography Projects, a photographic image research studio; Gigliola Foschi, fair organiser and journalist; Elio Grazioli, contemporary art critic and fair organiser; Roberto Mutti, fair organiser and photographic critic; Enrica Viganò, fair organiser, photographic critic and photographic event organiser.

MIA Fair 2012 has many new features: the wide-ranging cultural programme with workshops, meetings, conferences and the section on artist’s books and quality publishing, and a hall entirely dedicated to fashion fine art photography where some of the most important galleries connected with the fashion world of Milan, New York and Paris will propose works by artists who have revolutionised the rules of this particular type of art.

After the great response of 2011 (50% of the authors who had exhibited independently will be proposed by galleries this year), the “MIA Proposal” section returns, containing the works of artists who will be exhibiting at MIA Fair without the support of an art gallery.
This year will see the first edition of the Ferrarelle Award and the BNL – BNP Paribas Award, confirming the interest of the sponsors in supporting contemporary art in Italy; the former prize will be awarded to a talented artist exhibiting independently at MIA Fair 2012 in the section “MIA Proposal”, and the latter to an artist represented by a gallery.

The presence of important Italian media partners – Corriere della Sera, ViviMilano, Arte, Artribune, Arskey, Exibart, Espoarte – and international media partners such as the magazines Eyemazing, Dienacht and Photobook Review (Aperture) testify to the quality of the MIA project which, with the backing of the Department for the Promotion of Culture of the Province of Milan and the patronage of the Lombardy Regional Authorities, enjoys the collaboration of some of the city’s leading cultural institutions.
The Milan Provincial Authorities and the Lombardy Regional Authorities will work in synergy, organising exhibitions in their respective areas and making the city a showcase for the photographic scene, both contemporary and non-contemporary.


Info
MIA Fair Organisation Offices
Via San Vincenzo 22 – 20123 Milan
Tel. / Fax +39.02.83241412
info@miafair.it
www.miafair.it

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