MIART

We first heard about miart from our trend forecasting lecturer who advised us to go in order to gather ideas for our trend reports, however having previously seen the enticing posters plastered around Milan, we needed no further persuading.

Miart is an art fair celebrating modern and contemporary art pieces curated by artists from all over the world, and was definitely worth the €10 admission ticket.

The fair was divided into four different sections including:

• Established - presenting international galleries which have been promoting modern and contemporary art for several years

• Emergent - Dedicated to young, avant-garde galleries with recognised activities in experimental artistic research

• THENnow - An invitational section, a face-off between an artist from an ‘older’ generation and artist coming from a younger one

• Object - Galleries that promote contemporary design objects originally conceived as limited editions, but that are framed or contextualised as works of art

It was great to see so many different pieces of art in one huge exhibition - I was pleasantly surprised by the size of the building - and getting to know some of the artists behind the work. We got to meet a really lovely artist and curator based in New York who studied history of art in Oxford for 4 years before settling in New York and opening his own art gallery - he also told us that one of his dear friends was married to a head designer at Marchesa. There were also a lot of edgy pieces from London and Amsterdam, and historical sculptures in bronze and stone from Venice and Florence based artists.

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It’s officially been a month since I first arrived in Milan, and I can only say that, to me, the experience has been absolutely amazing so far. I’ve met some incredible people, visited Venice, slept in a tent in Rome for two days in the freezing cold, travelled using a BlaBlaCar for the first time, had an amazing time in Florence, been to the most incredible exhibitions and shows - David Bailey is the next one on the list - and shopped in the most beautiful stores. The university had its ups and downs however, thankfully, everything turned out okay and my aims for the next few months are to; learn more Italian as ‘Ciao, Io mi Chiamo Zofia’ will only get you so far, learn 3D rendering softwares and SketchUp, travel more and work on that tan!

Viale Scarampo Pad. 3, Gate 5 20149 Milan

We weren't quite sure whether the bike was left there on purpose or whether there was no spaces left on the bike rack outside.

I really loved this piece as it managed to perfectly combine traditional Italian style with contemporary elements of today's society.

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