In Faenza, during the festival, the debate will not just be about contemporary art, but also about architecture, design, fashion and quality of life. The relationship between different issues has interested the festival since his first edition. Contemporary culture has combined all sectors to propose a dialogue between different topics, and to create a creativity which is more in touch with every day life.
Julia Peyton-Jones, the Sepentine Gallery director, will talk with Pippo Ciorra, senior curator at the MAXXI – Architecture, about the need to create new kinds of projects for urban patronage. They will talk about the Serpentine Gallery pavilion by Jean Nouvel and about the MAXXI museum by Zaha Hadid.
The curator Marco Tagliafierro will guide the public, together with Ayaki Itoh, curator for the Italian events of Japan Brand, and the artist Paolo Gonzato, through a journey into this successful project combining fashion, design and art, in an interaction with the culture of Japanese craftsmanship. This culture – explains Marco Tagliafierro – is represented by the government association Japan Brand. The association has been able to put together many interesting works by Iapanese craftsmen and by designers and artists from Europe. That way young artists learn how to work using ancient techniques and testing new methods of production. Japan Brand contributes to creating the profile of an operator able to work in a group, who is in touch with traditional art craft materials and techniques, and with the newest technologies.
Massimiliano Tonelli, the Artribune director, has been involved, since the first edition of the festival, in the relationship between creativity and food design. In Faenza he will meet Pier Giorgio Parini, chef at the Osteria Povero Diavolo, who was nominated by the Wall Street Journal as one of in the top ten best young chefs .
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Massimiliano Tonelli,
MAXXI,
Pippo Ciorra,
Zaha Hadid,
Jean Nouvel,
Julia Peyton-Jones,
Serpentine Gallery,
Forms of collecting/Forme della committenza,
Paolo Gonzato,
Ayaki Itoh,
Pier Giorgio Parini,
Marco Tagliafierro)
