One Hundred Works of Art and the Music of Lang Lang for Bocconi Art Gallery
ON MONDAY 29 JUNE, FROM 6 TO 11PM, THE INAUGURATION OF THE FIFTH EDITION OF BAG WITH A HUNDRED WORKS OF CONTEMPORARY ART BY 50 ITALIAN AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS. GUIDED TOURS AND, AT 7PM, AN INTERVIEW WITH THE CHINESE PIANIST LANG LANGColored pencils, steel, white marble, fabric, silicone, petroleum, playing cards, photo prints. Materials, styles and sizes that make up an eclectic panorama of contemporary art: this is the fifth edition of Bocconi Art Gallery (www.unibocconi.it/bag), that on 29 June, from 6 to 11pm, will offer a grand opening night to the public with artists, collectors and gallery owners in attendance. During the event, to seal the meeting of various art forms, there will also be an interview-concert with international pianist Lang Lang, in cooperation with Allianz.
A rich program once again for #BAG5, as for the past edition: in addition to freely visiting the works of contemporary art, starting at 6:30 until 9:30pm enthusiasts and the simply curious can follow one of the free guided tours, with departures every 20 minutes from the Velodrome building.
At 7pm, the meeting with the international pianist Lang Lang will be held. Chinese, born in 1982, he is considered one of the greatest interpreters of piano music in the world: his concerts have opened the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the Milan Expo 2015. Lang Lang will be interviewed at the piano by the music critic and journalist for ViviMilano and Corriere della Sera, Gian Mario Benzing. A dialogue-concert with free admission but reservations are required online at this page: www.unibocconi.it/langlang.
Lang Lang will take the stage at Bocconi thanks to the collaboration between the University and Allianz, with which the pianist and his Foundation (Lang Lang International Music Foundation) maintains a close partnership in the name of culture and education and the promotion of music as a means global communications. In addition to a tour of Italy for the Chinese pianist in the season 2014/2015, the international partnership with the Allianz Group includes the project Allianz Junior Music Camp, now in its third edition.
Bocconi Art Gallery is a project created by Bocconi to promote contemporary art. Over the years, since the first edition in 2009, the University has seen the presence of numerous works of Italian and foreign artists in collaboration with gallery owners, collectors and the artists themselves, who have lent and, in some cases, donated works to Università Bocconi.
Today BAG has a hundred works by fifty Italian and international artists. Painters, sculptors and photographers such as Rodolfo Aricò, Nicola Bolla, Paolo Ceribelli, Vittorio Corsini, Paolo Iacchetti, Massimo Gatti, Piero Gilardi, Giovanni Ozzola, Paola Pezzi, Giovanna Rasario, Andrea Salvetti, Arcangelo Sassolino, Pascale Marthine Tayou, Pio Tarantini, Ernesto Tatafiore, and Antonio Trotta whose name join those of past participants Stuart Arends, Giorgio Bevignani, Rosa Barba, Ana Cardoso, Carlo Bernardini, Antonio Calderara, Marco Casentini, Enrico Castellani, Pietro Coletta, Arthur Duff, Fabrizio Dusi, Sergio Fermariello, Giovanni Frangi, Debora Hirsch, Zhang Huan, Emilio Isgrò, Massimo Kaufmann, William Klein, Richard Long, Elio Marchegiani, Jason Martin, Gerold Miller, Elena Modorati, Andrei Molodkin, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Giorgio Rastelli, Anselm Reyle, Giuseppe Spagnulo, Ettore Spalletti, Mauro Staccioli, Jan Van Der Ploeg, Grazia Varisco, Peter Wüthrich.
BAG 5
Where: Università Bocconi (Via Roentgen 1, Piazza Sraffa 13, via Sarfatti 25)
When: Monday 29 giugno, from 6 to 11pm
by Andrea Celauro
Translated by Richard Greenslade
