An exhibition entirely dedicated to art expressed on paper. No sculptures then, but not even paintings on canvas or boards. Wopart thus brings to the stage sketches, paintings, drawings ... This year the fair - at the Lugano Exhibition Center until November 21st - will come back with a 'extra time exhibition, a reduced edition, waiting to resume after the covid emergency with the traditional format.
However, there are many contents and innovations that characterize the return to the fair dedicated exclusively to works on paper. And there is also a big news: the direction, now entrusted to Robert Phillips, curator and consultant of private collections and institutions such as the Salomon Guggenheim Foundation in New York, the Moma Museum of Art in Atami (Japan), the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, flanked by Ami Barak, Wayne Baerwaldrt and Marco Nicolò Riccomini, as members of the scientific committee.
The red thread of this edition will be fluidity, which unites all the initiatives hosted in the pavilions of the Lugano fair: “The concept of fluid, without reason of belonging, captures the essence of our time”, explains the director. “Just as it is not possible to bathe twice in the same water in the same way the soul of art lives as if suspended in the life in between”.
WOPART 2021 in Lugano: the exhibition
In exhibitions we find Swiss galleries such as Buchmann Galerie Lugano, Kromia Art Gallery Lugano, Pandora Old Master New York-Lugano, Galerie Carzaniga Basilea, Fabbrica Culturale Baviera di Giornico, Fondazione Cis Peccia, Gipsoteca Gianluigi Giudici Lugano and MUSEC Lugano, alongside the Italian Studio d 'Arte Campaiola Rome, Galleria Mazzoli Modena, Primo Marella Gallery Milan, Spazio Thetis in Venice, Behnoode Foudation in Paris, which will offer works with variable prices, to attract both expert and novice collectors. There is no shortage of curated exhibitions - always, obviously, paper-themed - such as the one dedicated to the watercolors of the great German-speaking Swiss writer Hermann Hesse, made possible thanks to loans from the Hesse Foundation in Lugano and other private collections. Also present is the MUSEC - Museum of Cultures of Lugano, with a selection of Japanese photographs chosen from among the thousands of the Yokohama School, kept in the museum.
