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Press release
Opening Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
at 6.30 pm
ART for The World presents FOOD, an international travelling art project that will be
presented in avant-premiere in Geneva
at the Musée Ariana, Swiss Museum for Ceramics and Glass, 10 Avenue de la Paix,
located in the neighborhood of the international organizations and next to the
headquarters of the United Nations.
Curated by Adelina von Fürstenberg, FOOD is focused on the
preservation of our Mother Earth,
the choice of nutrition, the climate changes consequences, the agricultural products poisoning, and the feeding distribution gap.
FOOD is international travelling art project composed by an art exhibition, a
series of keynote conferences related to the field, and a selection of short
movies.
The artworks of the following artists
will be exposed: Marina Abramovic (Serbia/USA), John Armleder (Switzerland), Joseph Beuys (Germany),
Marcel Broodthaers (Belgium), Mircea Cantor (Romania/France),
Lenora de Barros (Brazil), Subodh Gupta (India), Jannis Kounellis
(Greece/Italy), Los Carpinteros (Cuba),
Anna Maria Maiolino (Brazil/Italy) Marcello Maloberti (Italy),
Cildo Meireles (Brazil), Miralda
(Spain), Tony Morgan (UK/ Switzerland), Liliana Moro (Italy),
Gianni Motti (Italy/Switzerland),
Ernesto Neto (Brazil), Meret Oppenheim (Switzerland), Angelo
Plessas (Greece), Pipilotti Rist (Switzerland), Dieter
Roth (Switzerland), Shimabuku (Japan), Vivianne van Singer (Switzerland), Raghubir Singh (India),
Daniel Spoerri (Switzerland), Barthélémy Toguo (Cameroon/France), Nari
Ward (USA).
The short movies of the
following filmmakers will be presented :
Jia Zhang-Ke (China),
Murali Nair (India), Idrissa Ouedraogo (Burkina Faso), Pablo
Trapero
(Argentina) and the documentaries on Mesa Brazil, SESC Sao Paulo and on the Austrian
collective Wastecooking.
After the Geneva venue, FOOD will be presented
at Spazio Oberdan in Milan under the patronage of Expo Milan 2015 in September 2013 in
collaboration with the Province of
Milan, at SESC Sao Paulo in March 2014 and in Marseille in October 2014 at MuCEM
(Musée des Civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée).
A press conference announcing the project took place during
WORLD FOOD DAY, October 16, 2012, at Palazzo Isimbardi, in Milan with the
participation of Mr. Filippo Ciantia, Chief of
the International Relations, EXPO Millano 2105, the Geneva Administrative
Counselor Mr. Sami Kanaan, President of the Department of Culture and Sport,
the Vice-President of the Province of Milan, Mr.Umberto Maerna, Chief of the
Department of Culture, the Vice-President of Slow Food, Daniela Rubino, and many
of the main partners and organizers of the project FOOD.
FOOD is a project realized by ART for The
World, in collaboration and with the support of the Department
of Culture and Sport of the City of Geneva, as well as the Loterie Romande, the CBH, Compagnie Bancaire
Hélvétique and the Ernst
Goehner Foundation, with the
participation of Fonds municipal d’art contemporain de la Ville de
Genève (FMAC) (Geneva), Centre de Formation professionnelle Arts appliqués de la
Ville de Genève (CFPAA) (Geneva), TPG Publicité (Geneva), Hôtel Le Richmond (Geneva), Amici
Café (Switzerland), Biscotti P. Gentilini (Rome), Hôtel Les
Nations (Geneva), HelvéCie
(Geneva), Boulanger Pougnier (Geneva), Migros and Vision Color (Genève), the collections A. L’H (Geneva),
Archivio Bonotto (Molvena, Italy) Daros Latinamerica (Zurich), the Netherlands Media Arts
Institute (Amsterdam), the Raghubir Singh Succession (Paris),
MAMCO - Musée d’Art Moderne et
Contemporain (Geneva) as well as the galleries Air de Paris (Paris),
Valentina Bonomo (Rome), Andrea Caratsch (Zürich), Raffaella Cortese (Milan) Sean Kelly (New York), Peter Kilchmann (Zurich), Lelong (Paris) and Magazzino
d’Arte Moderna (Rome), Bob van Orsouw (Zürich)
and the Municipality of Grand-Saconnex,
among others.
ART for The World is a Non Governmental Organization (NGO), associated with UNDPI, the United Nations Department of Public Information, and recognized of
Public Utility by the State
Chancellery of Geneva. ART for The World aims to mobilize contemporary art, cinema and culture on the most
relevant issues of our society. Since its foundation in 1996, ART for The World has organized large
projects in Switzerland, Italy, France, UK, Greece, Armenia, Turkey, India,
Africa (Morocco and Burkina Faso), North and South America. Since 2008, the NGO
has produced twenty-nine shot movies by video artists and independent
filmmakers linked to the Human Rights. Since
1998, ART for The World collaborates, on permanent base
with the Regional Direction of SESC Sao Paulo, the Brazilian largest NGO. ART for The World
Europa, its
sister association, was funded in 2005 in Turin, with an executive office in
Milan.
Contacts :
ART for The
World
Press Office Lucia Crespi, Chiara
Cereda
T +39 02 89415532 - +39 02 89401645 fax +39 02 89410041
Mob. +39 338 8090545
lucia@luciacrespi.it, chiara@luciacrespi.it
press@artfortheworld.net
Musée Ariana
Musée suisse de la céramique et du verre
10, avenue de la Paix – 1202 Geneva (CH)
Under the patronage of A project by In collaboration with
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