Exhibition Market Forces

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THURSDAY, 5th NOVEMBER
Regional Museum of Natural Science
Market Forces

Market Forces – presentation of the exhibition by Simona Lodi
Exploring market forces is a vast issue that has inspired many artists from Duchamp to Jeff Koons. The old idea that art and the market are completely incompatible has become a thing of the past. Many contemporary artists today not only voice their opinions on the market and the economic consequences of art in the media, but use their art to make us think about economic mechanisms, or just outright parody them. They are all works relating to marketing, e-commerce, and commercial communication. These tongue-in-cheek and at times paradoxical works often use the real or virtual supermarket as a favourite setting.

SIMONA LODI, artistic director Share Festival
SALVATORE IACONESI, artist
PETE IPPEL, artist