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Food Age. Food as Influencer
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The National Gallery opens the exhibition Food Age. Food as Influencer, curated by Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke.
An everyday and ephemeral element, food is, paradoxically, the object we mostly deal with throughout our existence. With the exhibition Food Age. Food as Influencer, Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke bring it onto the stage and, through a subliminal reading, they offer it to the public from an entirely new point of view.
By stripping food of its edible nature and transforming it – through art, craft and design – into an object of public and museum representation, the curators question our points of reference and invite us to look at what has suddenly become a complex and multifaceted object, through a different perspective.
For Guixé and Knölke, food is not just the product of purely nutritional or experiential functions, but also an important relational and thought-provoking model: a ubiquitous influencer that can actively reshape the present, thus becoming, for our future, a yet unknown but nevertheless unescapable field of design experimentation.
Food Age. Food as Influencer
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea
31.03 — 28.05.2023
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In the exhibition, there are works that are indirectly linked to food, drawings, products or artefacts made with edible materials, such as Paul McCarthy’s Chocolate Nose Bar (2000) or the performance pieces made by Miralda in 1973 with bread, pasta and rice where, by intervening on their colouring, he successfully transfers them from the daily realm to the world of art.
We are presented with a wide range of re-elaborations of the theme, representative of the many ways in which artists look at food, as in Enzo Mari’s iconographic drawings or in Piero Manzoni’s alteration of bread obtained by using white paint to solidify it into sculpture (1962), or in Antje Dorn’s Quality Street box, where models of food bars, formally unfinished, construct non-textual phrases.
Enzo Mari, Uno, la Mela, 1963 (2020); Due, la Pera, 1963 (2020)
Courtesy Danese, MilanoJohanna Schmeer’s Bioplastic Fantastic series, which was created with the intent of raising questions on the future of food and the applications of biotechnology and nanotechnology that could become part of our daily lives, shows objects made of enzyme-enhanced bioplastics, halfway between objects and living organisms.
Raquel Quevedo’s polymeric and dystopian aggregates show an original way of manipulating matter to create a hybrid and somewhat unprecedented process, close and distant at the same time from the culinary method, while new technologies lie at the basis of the works by the Swedish duo Wang & Söderström, who investigate the space of intersection between living matter and nature.
Wang & Söderström, Common Odd Things, 2023
Courtesy Wang & SöderströmOnly seemingly distant from research into new technologies, the presence of Masanobu Fukuoka, author of the famous book The One Straw Revolution, at the roots of a method of agriculture inspired by the imitation of natural processes and which has been the subject of a recent rediscovery, hints at a return to an authentic relationship with the earth and food production, a holistic and living, complex way of thinking.
Masanobu Fukuoka, Manifesto (estratto), 1999
Guillem Ferrer CollectionFerran Adrià’s Cappuccino de Habitas a la Menta (2003), as a signature piece, requires its own, unique environment, thus demanding its visual representation. In Rubén Verdú’s work Heliospora (2022), a lollipop made of gold, diamonds and sugar encapsulates something as big and powerful as all the energy and magic of the sun.
Ferran Adrià, Capucino de habitas a la menta, 2003
Menù El BulliThe exhibition also presents the video of Marina Abramović’s performance The Onion. Among the extensive network of references and connections that Food Age. Food as Influencer features are included photographic works, such as Glass of Petrol by Agnieszka Polska, as well as paintings and sculptures.
Marina Abramović, The Onion (videostill)
10 minute performance for video, UTA Dallas, 1995 (20’01’’)
Courtesy of the Marina Abramović ArchivesAmong the approximately 100 works on display, there is a conspicuous selection of works from the Galleria Nazionale’s collections with still lifes by artists such as Felice Casorati, Bruno Cassinari, Filippo De Pisis, Franco Gentilini, Mario Mafai, Giorgio Morandi, Pino Pascali, Emilio Vedova, to name but a few.
Still lifes from the collections
Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e ContemporaneaFood Age. Food as Influencer
31.03 — 28.05.2023Artists: Marina Abramovic, Ferran Adria, Sonja Alhäuser, Vanessa Beecroft, Ramón Benedito, Barbara Bloom, Fortunato Depero, Antje Dorn, Masanobu Fukuoka, Francesco Garnier Valletti, Martí Guixé, Zhanna Kadyrova, Inga Knölke, Laura Letinsky, Piero Manzoni, Enzo Mari, Paul McCarthy, Antoni Miralda, Lluís Morillas, Agnieszka Polska, Josep Puig, Raquel Quevedo, Rachel Rose, Johanna Schmeer, Ansgar Skiba, Rubén Verdú, Wang & Soderstrom, Cristopher Williams, Erwin Wurm.
From the collections: Luigi Aversano, Giuseppe Canali, Pino Casarini, Daphne Casorati Maugham, Felice Casorati, Bruno Cassinari, Luigi Maria Giorgio Chessa, Primo Conti, Filippo de Pisis, Fernando Galli, Franco Gentilini, Giuseppe Guzzi, Humphrey Jennings, Mario Mafai, Roberto Melli, Francesco Menzio, Giorgio Morandi, Giovanni Omiccioli, Pino Pascali, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Bruno Saetti, Fiorenzo Tomea, Mario Varagnolo, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Viviani.
Martí Guixé (Barcelona, 1964) is a designer, trained in Barcelona and Milan, whose work transcends the usual boundaries of this discipline; the museums where he has exhibited include MoMA in New York, MACBA in Barcelona, Triennale in Milan, MART in Rovereto, Centre Pompidou in Paris, Mudac in Lausanne and Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea in Rome.
Inga Knölke (Hannover, 1965) is a photographer based in Berlin and Barcelona. She directs the project Imagekontainer. She studied photography at the Lette Foundation in Berlin and holds a degree in Cultural Sciences and Aesthetic Communication from the University of Hildesheim.
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Food Age. Food as Influencer is the final exhibition in the trilogy curated by Martí Guixé and Inga Knölke for the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea.
Three exhibitions that have seen the museum, for the first time, explore in a radical and unconventional way the hybrid territory in which art, design and craftsmanship engage in a dialogue.
The first exhibition was On Flower Power (2019) which addressed the question of the capacity for empathy within digital techniques and mechanisms with digital operating systems, where the object of mediation was the flower vase.
On Flower Power. The Role of the Vase in Arts, Crafts and Design
16.07 — 29.09.2019The second stage was instead INTERTWINGLED (2022) which concerned interconnectivity and the possibility of making complexity visible through a graphic and concrete interface, with the motif of the weaving and the carpet as a common thread.
INTERTWINGLED – The Role of the Rug in Arts, Crafts and Design
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