Artino FAAA Festival Returns to Casa degli Artisti with Be – Folk! Section

Key facts

• Artino FAAA returns to Casa degli Artisti, Milan, from November 7 to 10, 2024.
• The festival was born in 2020.
• The 2024 edition features a new section called Be – Folk!.
• Be – Folk! is curated by Irene Biolchini, Mariavera Chiari, and Christian Gangitano.
• Irene Biolchini is a curator and lecturer at Accademia Albertina di Torino.
• Mariavera Chiari is a representative of Casa degli Artisti and member of Nic (Nuove Imprese Culturali).
• Christian Gangitano is curator of Associazione Atelier Spazio Xpò&Comunicarearte.
• Be – Folk! includes theoretical and critical interventions on craftsmanship, popular culture, and folklore in a Gramscian sense.
• Exhibitors include Cromaticamilano, Leo Atlante, MV% ceramics design, Mariavera Chiari, Alberica Jacini, and Martino Vertova.
• Mariavera Chiari's atelier on Naviglio Grande celebrates 22 years; products are sold at Le Bon Marché (Paris) and Eataly (New York).
• Alberica Jacini creates jewelry with semi-precious stones, bronze, brass, and silver.
• Martino Vertova works with glass.
• Stefano Boccalini presents Ca'Mon, a laboratory in Monno, Brescia.
• Marco Maria Zanin is an artist and anthropologist.
• Sofia Baldi Pighi was artistic director of the first Biennale of Malta.
• The micro-fair invites selected exhibitors to produce and sell applied art objects.
• Two open workshops are held during the weekend.
• Irene Biolchini describes Be – Folk! as aiming to 're-center the practice and everydayness of the popular, rethinking folk as a new form of civil resistance.'