Cibi condimentum esse famem Hunger is the seasoning of food - Cicerone
Exhibitions, Italy, Milano, 18 June 2015
Will be sixteen Italian artists, but with an international profile (many of the artists involved in this project have participated in at least one edition of Visual Arts Biennale of Venice in the past decade), called to tell, through their work, the contrast ratio, a Whether morbid, between our company and what you eat; conducting a journey that leads us to consider the kitchen as a space of identity and memory, but also as a place where there is measured by their fragility. Coming then to broaden our gaze to reflections, ethical and political issues related to waste, adulteration, the disparities between those who have too much and nothing.

The art often tells the men's tables. The men's tables is the result of human history. And the historical period reflects every nuance of what exists.
To cite some examples, dating back to the Sixties pop the colorful sweet, brightly-colored, of Dorothée Selz and Antoni Miralda, picture of a time when the West's welfare required it to look at food with playful superficiality; different kind of approach to Edward Neto and Jannis Kounellis, both dealing with works based on seeds: symbol of humility frugal nature, its fragile but disruptive vitality.

FEEDING THE PLANET ENERGY FOR LIFE This is the central theme of EXPO 2015
Important issue, content full and deep, but represent it as in art without trivializing the concept?
The importance of the event requires careful reflection that inevitably raises a series of questions: What inspired artist? What work take for example?
Pay homage to one, if not the greatest artist in history Leonardo da Vinci has seemed right and accordingly, natural inspiration to the Upper Room, but how to make it unique?
Reductive to represent again the scene that we all know and countless artists from the seventeenth century to the present day have reinterpreted, in which Jesus and his apostles gather around a table in the apparent calm of a convivial dinner.
Our attention is then focused on what is likely at first glance is not understood: what was the reason for the dinner? Because the dinner more than others has remained in history? What was the place?
From this reflection has started the project.
Selected artists were asked a difficult task: making the invisible visible; inspired by the Last Supper is not to reinterpret it to follow the action: Communicate.

The project aims to investigate the concept of hunger seen as necessary, as lack, as satisfaction, not only physical but spiritual and atavistic, a hunger for emotion, knowledge, fear, life, communication, expectations, affection, love, culture, an existential hunger that unites us in changing its facets, almost as if it were a non-place.
Hence the Upper Room, not the most famous place in history, no one can say what it was, it is a landscape, a vision.
The choice of artists is also carried out according to the diversity of the techniques they used, for they range from photography to painting to digital art, media, of installation and performative. The work will be made interactive by involving the public.

We would like to remember that all works, will find their real place within the exhibition space, through the creation of an exhibition from the more traditional connotation.
The event starts from the virtual network through the use of the platform Google Cultural Institute, to become a real event in institutional spaces, then return to the virtual network through its tools of socialization and sharing of content.

A new and very contemporary art, as a new, contemporary and with an eye toward the future must be seen EXPO 2015 which can not but take account of new technologies and their implications in the lives of all of us.


PARTICIPATING ARTISTS

Alessandra Baldoni
Alizia Lottero
Christian Zanotto
Franco Donaggio
Giancarlo Marcali
Gianluca Chiodi
Marco Bertin
Marianna Gasperini
Matteo Bosi
Maurizio Gabbana
Nicola Fornoni (activities performative)
Paola Turroni (activities performative)
Pierpaolo Koss
Toni Bullo
Vania Elettra Tam
Vittorio Comi

Curated by Sandra Welcome


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Gallery Director: Sabrina Raffaghello email sr@sabrinaraffaghello.com
Milan Gallery Manager: Martina Bertoncini email mb@sabrinaraffaghello.com

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