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If man had neither appetite for food nor sexual urges, the human race would immediately die out.

-from a letter written by the poet Olindo Guerrini to Pellegrino Artusi

The desire and the visceral needs of some human beings to take a whiff of, to have a look at and to understand a work of art could be added to Guerrini’s letter, even before those primal needs for food and sex. It would be tempting to say that these things bring human beings even closer to God, to orgasm or in any case to a new dimension. Therefore it would seem to be a euphemism that is transformed into tautology, but it is indeed art that feeds the body, the soul and the mind! And so nothing more is needed.
On the basis of this assumption, and with the same powerful purpose, artists present serving trays which hold their works of art, offered as nourishment for the users. These serving trays are held by five statuesque models, enveloped in plastic wrap and standing on a pedestal, offering their beauty as an ally that aims to penetrate each one of Ciboh’s works of art.
And so there are these three elements: the flesh of plasticized human bodies that are sacrificed to vacuum packing, serving trays shrouded in plastic wrap to preserve the canvases contained within that in some cases are blank and in others covered in colours, offering a sort of lottery to anyone interested in purchasing them, and on top of these trays, works of art created from food. How? Manuela Carrano presents I Must Be Good, a sleeping woman made of chocolate, reclining on a silk mattress, where the writing, which is done with pinpricks, makes a promise that cannot be kept. Moreover, the dichotomy between appearance and existence, in a society of unfulfilled promises, creates an immediate short circuit between the materials used to create the work of art: chocolate and pins, and leaves behind an unsettling question: when will the sleeping woman awake? Instead, Martin Pereyra, an Italo-Argentinian artist, has created the Food Art Trays, trays-works of art upon which the other creations, those made of vacuum packed flesh and bone, expand on the theme of the awareness of a reality that is headed more and more towards alienating and alienated hibernation.
David Reimondo is the creator of Filters, works that contain souls, a sort of post-heaven tea pot in which blue amniotic fluid symbolises our fate, floating within. Andrea Bianconi collects strawberries or candies and images of daily life in his containers of privacy, genuine funnels that are more similar to kaleidoscopes with a conscience. Finally, Tamara Ferioli, with her creation The Light in You, proposes a sculpture of a woman-lamp made of teabags that emits light, offering the opportunity to reflect on the relationships that connect home, nourishment and food. In fact, Ferioli uses broth, Campari, milk and wine in her works of art to represent influences that originate from everyday life, which are entwined with the relationships that exist with regard to both family life and art.
The pedestal, like the tray and the mattress, are therefore destined to welcome the relationships that are created among the artist, the audience and the location. And they become not only a sort of architectural installation, but a human one as well: a kiosk of vision, a mainstay of awareness or a school of thought, in charge of the fruition, of the knowledge, and why not, the resulting discussion. It’s a bit like what occurs in London at Speaker's Corner in Hyde Park, where anyone can say whatever they like. Only here expression occurs through images, sculptures and finally, food which is also and above all else, for the soul. PROSIT

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