Barbara Berlusconi, Nicolò Cardi and Martina Mondadori together for "Cardi Black Box"     Barbara Berlusconi, daughter of Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, is one of the majority shareholders, with her family, of Cardi Black Box, a new contemporary art gallery born out of a project by gallerist Nicolò Cardi.   For the first time Barbara Berlusconi, already shareholder and board member at Fininvest, is investing outside her family's firms. Cardi Black Box, which besides the founder Nicolò Cardi also includes among its partners Martina Mondadori, will inaugurate in Milan on Thursday, February 26th, with a solo exhibition by the Iranian-German artist Shirana Shahbazi.   Cardi Black Box is a new gallery focused on contemporary art, based on a totally new model: for the first time the role of the gallerist is doubled, bringing together in the same project two different figures. An entrepreneur, Nicolò Cardi, with a background in business applied to art, and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, an artistic director with long-standing experience in international institutions. A young team, with clear ideas: to offer recognition to the art historical value of the proposed artists, regardless of provenance and age, in the conviction that a private commercial space can present museum quality exhibitions.   After Milan, two other Cardi Black Box galleries will open: one in London later in 2009, and one in New York in 2010.

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