ARTOUR-O
seventh action - The Multipolarity of Italian culture

The main exhibition of the Temporary Museum has been introduced to the Grand Hotel Minerva but like every year the event has been spread all over the city marking a stiff distance to conjugate the contemporary Art with the historical structures as the Ideal Museum of Leonardo da Vinci, the Museum of Bigallo, Palazzo Vecchio and historical dwellings like SantaMariaNovella Workshop Scent, Howard House, J.K. Place and the Grand Cavour Hotel. We tried therefore to affirm once again the concept that Art has no borders neither of time neither of space.
The Grand Hotel Hall -traditionally dedicated to the Academy -this year has been entrusted to brand new and onlookers galleries near the ARTOUR-O spirit. You found on the first floor the foreign galleries and the more consolidated ones.

ARTOUR-O in Florence 2008 PHOTO GALLERY
ARTOUR-O in Florence 2008 VIDEO

EXHIBITORS In Florence 2008

PROGRAMME

On the 21st February 2008
Silvano Gori, city council member, Benedetta Spadolini, president of the University of Architecture of Genoa, Paola Butali fashion, tourism and aliment manager, have opened the MuST in Santa Maria Novella, Grand hotel Minerva. A really reactive, prepared and careful public, has rewarded between the other operators: New Concept, NOTgallery, Louise Alexander Gallery, the Marenostrum Foundation and Capuanova beyond Chinese galleries.

Friday morning
has been dedicated to the Focus “The Multipolarity of Italian culture” – in the past and nowadays in the beautiful hall of the City council to Palazzo Vecchio. The relators was
Giovanni Sighele (exibart)
Alexander Vezzosi (museum Leonardo)
Lucrecia Vega Gramunt (responsible of Federculture)
Marco Nereo Rotelli (Marenostrum Foundation).
The presentation of the Andrea Liberovici’s video "500,000 lions” marks the opening of the MusT.

February, Saturday the 23rd
in the splendid context of the Bigallo museum, center of the Ideal Museum Accademia Leonardo da Vinci, a preview of the artwork of Marco Nereo Rotelli and Edoardo Sanguineti, an acrostico "Beginning from Leonardo"
During the rest of the morning, the visit of the historical dwellings where works of contemporary artists have been acclimatized to emphasize "the continuity".

Sunday the 24th
happy moments during the delivery of the prizes, the ARTOUR-O of Silver, attributed to emphasize the inheritance derived from the intelligent art supporters to
Leonardo Domenici, mayor of Florence
Orlando Pandolfi, president of Marenostrum Foundation
Maria and Michelangelo Pistoletto, creators of the City of the Art
Natalina and Pier Luigi Remotti, Foundation Remotti
Marco Nereo Rotelli (artistic director of Marenostrum Foundation).

ARTOUR-O of Silver

Leonardo Domenici - Mayor of Florence
Orlando Pandolfi - President of Marenostrum Fondazione
Maria e Michelangelo Pistoletto - Creators of the City of Art
Natalina e Pier Luigi Remotti - Remotti Foundation
Marco Nereo Rotelli - Artistic director of Marenostrum Foundation

PRIZE

• The Prize Maria Fulvia Leopizzi has been assigned to NOTgallery and to Louise Alexander Gallery

February 2008, the 27th
the participation to this great event which has collected an enormous success, the prestigious positioning offered to ARTOUR-O to the Monumental Complex of Saint Spirito in Sassia, have consolidated the distance undertaken with ARTOUR-O that reveals a simbyose" regarding the events of international capacity.
The idea of the Temporary Museum has been finally kept as an important one and not antithetic but complementary to the activity of the fairs.
In fact ARTOUR-O is peculiar because the manifestation, when the participants go back to their centers, remains active thanks to the network that continues to become rich.