Art Dinners (5)
“dinner-performance” in conjunction with eXPO curated by Maria Livia Brunelli
Could be a dinner an artistic performance? Yes, if created by artists who have put as topic of their works the idea of food and if the location is suggestive, such as MLB home gallery.
The Maria Livia Brunelli art gallery-inhabited house, that exceptionally for this occasion is “given” to diners to savor the emotion to have a dinner in a Renaissance palace in front of Estense Castle, surrounded by works of art of international artists, in conjunction with thematic exhibitions at the nearby Palazzo Diamanti. A magical place where Maria Livia Brunelli with her smile will show how art could invade even the bedroom, hung with artworks.
These exclusive “dinner-performances” are restricted to a maximum of six people (to accord for dates and prices you will be put in direct contact with the artist).
The artist has developed a series of packages of
“make-up sweets”, to delicately make up in the couple
relationship. From she/him recipes and breastbeignets
to the lip pudding applied on the lips with a
make-up brush, to be transfered with a kiss. In “virtual
dinner” two women sitting around a table served by
a male and a female figure, order food to wear and
items to eat: a woman’s legs as second course and the
“feet ice lolly” as dessert. Because if “we are what we
eat, we could also be the opposite”
Stefano Scheda, a teacher responsible for “Strategies of invention” course at the Academy of Arts in Bologna, has created a performance around the dressing of a model with three coloured pastry, evoking the Italian flag. These then slowly collapse leaving the model naked: a metaphor to
represent the loss of identity and an invitation to re-establish it.
Giulia Bonora - dinner as relationship
Surprise-dishes and relational tools
The artist from Ferrara, who after the Academy of
Bologna continued her formation as food designer
in The Netherlands, has created “Surprise dishes”
that, during the dinner, reveal a hidden terracotta
course. In the “Co-diners” performance, dishes,
spoons and movements are connected by an elastic
band that inevitably ties everyone in the action
of tasting: a wonderful, surprising metaphor of
relationships at the table, where the diner becomes
artist and playing a funny conceptual “game
dimitri tsykalov - Memento Mori at the table
The Russian artist, whose studio is situated in the Rothschild Foundation in Paris, carves fruits and vegetables with exquisite accuracy in a performance that has the flavour of an intense modern memento mori. Apples, watermelons, aubergines, in the hands of Dimitri become food for our soul.
art dinner “Dinner-performance” in conjunction with EXPO
curated by Maria Livia Brunelli
Can a dinner be an artistic performance? Yes, if it is delivered in a location
as evocative as that of the MLB home gallery by artists who have taken
the concept of food as their inspiration. The Maria Livia Brunelli art gallery inhabited
house, is, exceptionally for this occasion, “given” to diners to
savour the experience of having a dinner in a Renaissance palace in front
of Estense Castle, surrounded by works of art by international artists and
in nearby thematic exhibitions at the Palazzo Diamanti. A magical place,
hung with artworks where the curator Maria Livia Brunelli with her smile will
show how art can invade even the bedroom!
These exclusive “dinner-performances” are restricted to a maximum of eight
people (price is € 220 per person; € 200 for 3 people or more). Every dinner
will take place every last saturday of the month or by booking.
