The Mediterraneans - Love Difference Chairs
by Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan
E. Sandoval for Alias
in collaboration with Cittadellarte-Fondazione Pistoletto
curated by: Alias (Renato Stauffacher, Andrea Sanguineti)
and Love Difference (Filippo Fabbrica, Emanuela Baldi)
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Furhter information: +39 015 0991456 - info@lovedifference.org
The Mediterraneans - Love Difference Chairs in
Bologna at Arte Fiera Art First, 29th-31st January 2010
On Friday, January 29th, at 12pm, Michelangelo
Pistoletto and Renato Stauffacher, MD Alias, present the project to the
public. >>>
Two artists- Michelangelo Pistoletto and Juan E. Sandoval- transform
the laleggera chair into the boundary zone between land and sea,
between art and design.
The chairs are aligned around the geographical profile of the Mediterranean.
Divided by the line of the coast they absorb the colours of both the water
and the land.
On the chairs the boundary does not divide but connects.
"The chairs- artists said- arranged to complete the outline of the
Mediterranean Sea, form a work complimentary to the Love Difference
Table by Pistoletto, dated 2003. There, the chairs represented the
differences, and their arrangement around the mirror table the hope and
the invitation to dialogue. Here instead the work makes a further conceptual
leap: the table exists only in the imagination and its dimensions depend
on the positioning of the chairs. So it's up to use to define widths and
dimensions by moving the chairs for each occasion, in the hope that a
minor telluric shift could move the fault lines that divide the various
continents, bringing them closer and making the sharing of a future in
respect of differences more simple.
The same shape, different in the colours and the way the line of the coast
divides them.
The same like the essence of our collective destiny. Different, mirroring
the soul of the individual seated in them."
The Mediterranean Sea is the point of departure for a planetary reflection
on the concept of differences. Similar geographical conditions and cultural
osmoses exist in many other parts of the world: the Baltic Sea, the Red
Sea, the Black Sea, the South China Sea, the Caribbean Sea each in turn
narrates meetings of civilizations, growth in respect of diversity, the
desire to sit around a table to look at each other and discover how much
we are the same and yet different.
Pistoletto and Sandoval- as perceived during the project for the University
of Antwerp in 2005- conduct a wider reflection on all the Mediterraneans
of our planet, extending the work to six cradles of differences, six different
surfaces on which to spread the artistic alphabet of the project Mezzo
Terra Mezzo Mare (Between Lands and Sea).
Preview at the Triennale di Milano
At the Triennale di Milano, in viale Alemagna 6, press preview
on 21st April, 11 am - 7 pm. Exhibition 22nd / 27th April, 10.30 am -
10 pm. Cocktail: 22nd April, 7 pm
Event at IDW - Istanbul Design Weekend 09
The Love Difference Chairs have been on display at the showroom
BMS Etiler during the Istanbul Design Weekend, from June 18th to June
21th, 2009. Concerning pictures: bottom of the fotogallery.
Gallery
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