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The Salone Satellite is the meeting place par excellence for manufacturers, talent scouts and the most promising young designers. An event that has become a cross between a cult gathering and an obligatory appointment for all those who work in the furnishing sector and who want to be kept up to date in real time on the trends of the future.

This year, there are approximately 570 participants. In addition, 22 Design Schools, spotlight along with the designers. One of these school slots is actually represented by a number of schools in the form of the ODCD program (Oriental Domestic Culture & Design), a joint initiative of Tshinghua University (China), Musashino University (Japan) and Kookmin University (Korea) with the aim of drawing attention to Asian design. Participating at the Satellite for the first time is the University of Belgrade (Serbia) and Southern Regional College-Lurgan Campus (Ireland).

Between many great works from 1+1 Studio-Riccione Italia, Design A4, Vicenzo Catoio, In Design, to Lady Penelope, Od Do Architects, Vivo and many others talents from all the World, specially takes the attention University of Art and Design Lausanne (ECAL), who presents Nidecker snowboards inlaid with Swarovski crystals, “Crystal snow”.These projects were produced by students in Industrial Design and Visual Communication.

Furthermore , University of Belgrade’s Wood Processing &Furniture Design students show us a new wood products , which are based on
activities that are mainly oriented towards developing new products with emphasis to sustainable design solutions and savings in raw wood material, which resulted in many successful prototypes.

Also, the successful work of Fethi Atakol and his “redesign”, which concept is the creative transformation of an old object, which gives life to ” functional artworks”.

This event that is unlike any other, anywhere in the world, is not just the leading event in the home/contract furnishing sector at global level, but also a matchless occasion for an international meeting of minds – not to mention business, image and communication.

As always, there is an infinite variety of goods on offer. The Salone Internazionale del Mobile, together with the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition is a showcase for excellence covering all types of domestic furnishing, from
single pieces to coordinates, and every conceivable style, from classic to design to modern, not to mention trendsetters.

Furthermore, during this international exhibition , Fuorisalone is getting ready to offer many events, performances, art exhibitions in city center and suburbs. Zona Tortona, Triennale, Bovisa will surprise us with full program about design in Milan.

Following the public success, gallery participation, and sales figures of MiArt 2007, Milan was focusing on the thirteenth MiArt:Art Now, from 4th to 7th of April, 2008.

This unique event has turned Milan into a prestigious showcase for art and a point of reference for collectors, gallery operators, artists and curators. About 235 exhibitors, more then 35.000 visitors and over 12 thousand square meters of exhibition area .

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This exposition was reasserting its role as the only trade show in Italy able to offer a complete panorama of the art world through its 3 separate sections. Together, Modern, Contemporary, and Anteprima took in Italian and international art from the historic avant-garde to the most recent experimental works, attracting collectors with different interests and backgrounds.

We could see different artworks (paintings, sculptures, photography video and performing art) from modern classic art to contemporary art and anteprima, between which there were artworks from Dorazio, Ceroli, Rotella, Basquiat, Chagall, Balla, Andy Warhol, Lucio Fontana, Enzo Guaricci, Castellani, Yumu Karasumaru, David Raimondo, Sergio Lombardo, Aejandro Quincoces and many others.

During the exposition of Miart, the the prestigious conferences have been included. One of them is “Cina Intra/Extra Ovest,” which was the first event to establish a relationship of dialogue and exchange with China.

This year, the focus of Miart was on Latin America, a group of countries in perennial transformation in which the exigencies of art are defining a political and cultural identity.

First time under the umbrella title “fuoriMiArt-(con)temporary art” an unmissable program that presented the most exciting events in the whole city.

Also, The Miraggi project has grown from the desire of the Milan authority for urban design and parks to restore to its citizens a sense of Milan as a city that experiences art as a necessity, a right, a pleasure: A part of the whole.

For the end, the conclusion could be that Milan and MiArt have won again, that confirm the big interest of qualified public and the positive results of sales.

The opening of this festival will be tomorrow 27 th of March, and will be open for the public till 29 th of March.

More Than Zero Festival is an event and a space on line for anyone looking for or offering solutions in multi-platform entertainment and creative communication? An opportunity for companies, institutions and innovative centres of creativity to make contact, carry out studies, exchange information, scout new multimedia projects and update themselves on international case histories.

An opportunity for creative professionals to gauge themselves against the digital content market and to acquire the necessary thinking tools to produce cross-media projects.
An important tool for business and venture capital connected with the net economy and the latest developments in ICT. Workshops for the creation of new formats and the production of content, held by a national and international selection of experts, companies and creative professionals.
Video Review/ Cross Vision – top selection of national and international crossmedia production for multi-platform programmes, proposals, new talents and cross clip.

If you have a brilliant idea for TV, Web or Mobile the time has come for you to take action. ??Come and take part in MTZ Festival because, offers young creative artists and production companies the opportunity to meet potential cross-media content clients thanks to a “pitching”/contest, in other words, of finding oneself face to face with the potential client and of giving a live presentation of those projects that have passed the selection process.

This event is combining contemporary art with the concept of temporary. It presents “FuoriMiArt” , like series of exhibitions and performers, aimed at turning the curiosity of citizens in the art, while waiting for the important exhibition Miart which will be held in Milan from 4 th till 7 th of April.

Here, however, will be promoted the young art, innovations, new expressions and new developments in the visual arts.

Among the many cities depicted with oil on canvas , like Palermo, Ragusa, Siracusa, Comiso, Lampedusa, Marsala, this artist expresses a strong sense of melancholy to his land in every painting. Also,we could see in the gallery , paintings of women and perhaps men belonged to the past life of the artist. This exposition will remain open until 22 th of March.

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This time in Turin, Flower design is considered a cultural movement, and offers the novelties in the sector, which bring together fashion, design, interior decor, art, environment. Ecology and technology in a movement which is continually reinventing itself and inspiring others.

The “flower designer” Pietre M.Ldman, Elize Eveleens, Rob Pattel and Sjacco Gerritsen come from Holland, where flowers have been a vital part of the economy and lifestyle for centuries, where flowers are the “lifeblood” of the country, and are “lived” to the point that designer dare to carry out radical transformations: a pure but pliable and ephemeral raw material, though which to express ideas, feelings, symbols, resulting in accessible design modeled on a specific language, as international as music and dance.

The works on display are a dozen, all with references surreal within our dreams or our deepest nightmares. But, the real massage of the artist could be : have you ever wondered where are going to finish your dreams?

Further more, this exposition show us the creativity which explode in its honest form, then could be said this is a real contemporary art.

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The show gathers together a group of young artists different for subjects and styles. Each of them brings to nhow his/her own peculiar perspective of the daughters of Eve. The illusion of beauty and of looking, and the way they are shown to us by the fashion world, are given away in their inner frailty. Young, old, object, worker, ironic, critical, erotic, dramatic, etc.

English photographer David Stewart shows us women no longer in their prime and looking for a freshness that makes us smile and reflect at the same time. On the other side, he skilfully plays with feminine stereotypes. His pictures cleverly blend chromatic contrasts with sarcasm and play with social critic, thus achieving a deep visual and conceptual impact.

Rosaria lazzetta, versatile artist from Naples, makes use of her subtly salacious, acrimonious, nipping photographs to smile at the dreams of happiness and illusions many women foster. While Marta Comini introduces her little women drawn with simple traits, in search for their identity in the accessories they choose to wear.

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Womanly in shapes, soft and seductive are also the design pieces that go along with the art display in all the exhibition areas of the hotel. Young emergent designers have a try at interpreting sensuality giving it the shape of tantalising and provocative seats and lightning pieces. Daniel Becker, Laurie Beckermann, Aviad Gil, Jaren Goh, Assaf Israel, Miss Julia, Marko Macura, Niels van Eijk & Miriam van der Lubbe. Already hosted in the past at nhow, and here again showing their pieces are the Campana brothers, produced by Edra for Dilmos, Gateano Pesce for Meritalia, Moroso, Romolo Stanco for Nonesiste, Matteo Thun. New presences joining the group are those of Adrenalina, with some ironic creations by Simone Micheli, and of MagisDesign, with the elegant seats designed by Ron Arad and Javier Mariscal.

An exclusivity is the set up in the lobby of a minigolf course bringing relaxation from the reception desk to the outside area, by Georg Pal and Hannes Weber.