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.
Works of Atul Bhalla, Stefano Bombardieri, Maurizio Camerani, Chen Qiulin, Maria Rosa Jijon, Anila Rubiku, Giancarlo Scagnolari, Lara Usic, Xing Danwen, Saul Zanolari on environmental issues (water, energy, waste) in international contemporary art, curated by Maria Livia Brunelli and Silvia Cirelli (M.A.R. Ravenna City Museum and various areas in the city)
Between 10/10/2008 and 25/10/2008
Stefano Bombardieri's installations on the theme of reappropriation of non-places, curated by Maria Livia Brunelli, (Rotonda Foschini and Liceo Istituto d’Arte “Dosso Dossi”, Ferrara).
Between 6/4/2009 and 18/6/2009, in conjunction with Festival Città Territorio.
Works of Silvia Camporesi, Annalisa Cattani, Maurizio Cosua, Rosa Gisladottir, Lucio Perone, Publink, Anna Scalfi, Stas Shuripa, Dubravka Vidovic, Tsuchida Yasuhiko on environmental themes (water, energy, waste) in international contemporary art, curated by Silvia Cirelli and Maria Livia Brunelli (M.A.R. Ravenna City and various areas of the city).
Between 19/9/2009 and 4/10/2009.
We cultivate italian brains, installation by Pierpaolo Curti on the theme of brain drain abroad, curated by Maria Livia Brunelli (Ferrara, Garden of Liceo Classico “L. Ariosto”).
Between 3/10/2009 and 18/10/2009, in conjunction with the Festival “Internazionale a Ferrara” and la Giornata del Contemporaneo di AMACI.
Videos by Alterazioni Video, Rainer Ganahl, Maria Rosa Jijon, Sara Ramo, Ma Yongfeng, ZimmerFrei on the theme of environmental changes at international level, curated by Maria Livia Brunelli and Silvia Cirelli (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Torino).
11/10/2009, in conjunction with Festival Cinemambiente
Eleven urban installations by Stefano Bombardieri on the theme of biodiversity and animal species at the risk of extinction in the world, curated by Maria Livia Brunelli (Ferrara).
Between 25/09/2010 and 25/01/2011, for the occasion of International Year of Biodiversity and in collaboration with the Museo di Storia Naturale in Ferrara.
Urban installations by Cuoghi Corsello, Fabrizio Rivola, 100% on environmental issues (water, energy, waste) curated by Silvia Cirelli and Maria Livia Brunelli (Ravenna).
Between 29/9/2010 and 8/10/2010
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Urban installation by Stefano Bombardieri on the theme of illusions bound to oil fields on the occasion on Bologna Art First/ArteFiera, curated by Julia Draganovic (Bologna, Piazza Calderini).
Between 28/1/2011 and 27/2/2011
Urban installation by Jochen Traar on the theme of hidden energies of a city in occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Ferrara, curated by MLB Home Gallery -
strategic art project and La Facoltà di Architettura di Ferrara (Ferrara, Piazza Castello).
Between 26/3/2012 and 7/5/2012
Urban installation, a survey on the life of bees conducted by the artist Dacia Manto through labile sensory traces and a refined performance for the 6th edition of the Smell Festival at the Foyer of MAMbo. An odorous installation to reflect on the delicate ecosystem at risk (Bologna, MAMbo).
Between 20/5/2015 and 24/5/2015
giovanna ricotta
