Bocconi Art Gallery Makes Way for Young Artists
BAG, Bocconi Art Gallery, reopens its doors to the city by showcasing 128 works of contemporary art by 54 Italian and international artists. Alongside the masters of this genre, such as Emilio Isgrò, Elio Marchegiani, Grazia Varisco, Wolfram Ullrich, Emilio Scanavino and Alberto Garutti, a number of works by younger artists are also being featured, including Esther Stocker, Sophie Ko, Serena Vestrucci, Marinella Senatore, Francesco De Molfetta.
The inauguration on 15 September, starting at 4pm, will be at Via Roentgen 1, with an event that mixes contemporary art, architecture and music.
"Once again, Bocconi University hosts a collection of contemporary art in its buildings thanks to the collaboration of many Italian and international artists, galleries and museums," explains Severino Salvemini, president of the Bocconi Committee for Contemporary Art. Bocconi Art Gallery, "which was recently recognized by the 'Culture+Enterprise' award with a special mention for its original contribution to the world of academia, in this edition has expanded with original installations and paintings by famous and emerging artists. We believe that an institution must celebrate the revered maestri but also dare to propose new languages and new offers by the youngest artists."
During the inaugural event, in addition to the open house and all the BAG artwork (from 4 to 9pm), guided tours of the works on display organized by FAI will be available from 4:30 to 8pm. Participants can also visit the buildings that make up the Bocconi campus – a real architectural park with buildings designed by internationally renowned studios such as Grafton Architects and SANAA – curated by the University Library. To discover more about the campus architecture, the tour of the campus is also complemented by special audio guides through the free app Hearonymus.
The reflection on contemporary art will then continue with two in-depth talks on the Bocconi Art Gallery: one in Italian, at 5:30pm, moderated by the president of the Bocconi Arts & Humanities Committee, Antonella Carù; the other in English, at 7pm, moderated by Severino Salvemini.
The event will close at 9pm with great music in the name of innovation. Thanks to a collaboration with Yamaha, the garden of the SDA Bocconi headquarters at Via Sarfatti 10 will become the stage of a Silent Wi-Fi Concert, a suggestive multisensory experience that will allow the viewer to listen directly to the concert by pianist Andrea Vizzini and the narrating voice of actor Antonio Gargiulo. The Silent Concert, however, is only the first of the concerts in the new music festival organized at Bocconi together with Yamaha: on 20 October there will be a tribute to Ennio Morricone by Gilda Buttà and with Cesare Picco; on 17 November a concert by Matthieu Mantanus, on December 15 a concert by pianists Beatrice and Eleonora Dallagnese.
Established in 2009 with the idea of providing students with a different perspective on the world, precisely through the language of contemporary art, the Bocconi Art Gallery project has brought hundreds of works of art by numerous artists from all over the world to Bocconi in recent years. The works are given on loan for use to the University, but, thanks to the generosity of artists and collectors, some of them have since been donated to the University. Today the collection owned by Bocconi has 17 works of contemporary art, ranging from Cancellazione del debito pubblico and Organigramma piatto by Emilio Isgrò, to the triptych by Sonia Costantini, Guerrieri by Sergio Fermariello, Pittura R. by Pino Pinelli, Untitled by Domenico D'Oora, Massimo Kauffman's Clinamen and Arthur Duff's Fight-Flight. There is also Elio Marchegiani's La Grande Scacchiera, Alessandro Mendini's Futuro wall painting, Lorenzo Petrantoni's Knowledge That Matters, Una o due figure IV by Mario Raciti, Potenza del colore by Mario Arlati, and works by Letizia Cariello and Nadia Fanelli. Other works include Colonna by Arnaldo Pomodoro and the Poetario by Giorgio Milani (the latter donated by SDA Bocconi faculty).
Here is the complete list of artists exhibited in this new edition of BAG:
Rodolfo Aricò, Mario Arlati, Liu Bolin, Letizia Cariello, Marco Casentini, Enrico Castellani, Vittorio Corsini, Sonia Costantini, Paolo Cotani, Marcello De Angelis, Nunzio De Martino, Francesco De Molfetta, Domenico D'Oora, Arthur Duff, Fabrizio Dusi, Nadia Fanelli, Sergio Fermariello, Giovanni Frangi, Alberto Garutti, Moreno Gentili, Ariane Hagl, Emilio Isgrò, Massimo Kaufmann, Emil Michael Klein, Sophie Ko, Giancarlo Leone, David Lindberg, Richard Long, Milton Manetas, Elio Marchegiani, Matt McClune, Alessandro Mendini, Giorgio Milani, Marco Perego, Lorenzo Petrantoni, Roberto Pietrosanti, Pino Pinelli, Jan van der Ploeg, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Mario Raciti, Emilio Scanavino, Regine Schumann, Michael Scott, Marinella Senatore, Fausta Squatriti, Mauro Staccioli, Esther Stocker, Massimo Uberti, Wolfram Ullrich, Valentino Vago, Grazia Varisco, Serena Vestrucci, Gianfranco Zappettini, Andrea Zucchi.