(ANSA) - TRIESTE - "Before Numbers. Perspectives in funding contemporary art research" is the topic of the 2015 CEI Venice Forum for Contemporary art Curators, that will take place in Ca' Rezzonico Museum, Venice, on May 8th.

The Forum will explore and consider new ways to carry out quality and research and will involve professionals believing that these two elements - essential to the artistic production of all times - are especially needed in times of economic depression. While new public funds system does not provide enough resources to foster experimental production and is more insistently asking the sector of visual arts to become an industry capable of demonstrating efficiency through the amount of numbers it is able to put in place, and when public money is used for large projects and wide partnerships the 2015 Forum will pay attention to the need for continuity in research and in experimental artistic and curatorial practice.

Since the plurality of art experts unanimously believe that giving continuity to experimental production is crucial for the art sector and represents a contribution for a better future, appropriate ways to support this continuity will be discussed.

The Forum is a CEI Feature Event and a Continental Breakfast project under the patronage of Mr Tibor Navracsics, Member of the European Commission. It is conceived and organised by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee, in cooperation with the CEI-Central European Initiative and in collaboration with the Institute for Contemporary Art in Zagreb. (ANSA).