Gideon Rubin exhibiting in Genesis Project - Art and Human Rights
"Genesis Project - Art and Human Rights" is a travelling exhibition organised by Genesi Association and Fondo per l'Ambiente Italiano. Curated by Ilaria Bernardi, the exhibition includes work from the Collezione Genesi, including artists and works of art that speak to the most urgent human rights issues. The exhibition includes work by Gideon Rubin, alongside Henry Taylor, Zanele Muholi, Paulo Nazareth, Shirin Neshat, Toyin Ojih Odutola, Alredo Jaar, JR - and others.
Progetto Genesi. Art and Human Rights is a composite and interdisciplinary initiative based on the synchronization between the time of the exhibition and the educational segment, and will last one year, from September 21, 2021 to September 21, 2022.
The exhibition segment consists of a traveling exhibition, curated by Ilaria Bernardi, of the artworks in the Collezione Genesi that will travel across Italy from North to South, hosted by four different cities: Varese, Assisi, Matera and Agrigento. The cities chosen are all important from an art-historical and environmental standpoint, and they are listed among the UNESCO World Heritage Sites as well as the property of FAI.
The first stop takes place in Varese where the Collezione Genesi will be exhibited at Villa e Collezione Panza, property of FAI, from September 21 to December 8, 2021.
The exhibition will then travel to Assisi, Matera and Agrigento where the Collezione Genesi will be on display in an art museum that is steeped in a strong sense of identity for the city, thus valorizing the local cultural heritage and at the same time promoting new short-circuits between the works in the collection, rigorously contemporary ones and coming from around the world. but especially from non-Western cultures, and those in the host museum’s permanent collections, including ancient and modern art prevalently of European origin. In parallel, one work in the collection, rather than in the chosen museum, will be presented in one of FAI’s properties in the area or FAI-related property, underscoring the close collaboration and synergy with FAI in the dissemination of this initiative.
In Assisi the exhibition will be hosted by the Museo Diocesano e Cripta di San Rufino and at the Chiesa di Santa Croce in the Bosco di San Francesco from December 18, 2021 to February 27, 2022; in Matera at the Museo Nazionale di Matera – Palazzo Lanfranchi and at Casa Noha from March 8 to May 27, 2022; in Agrigento at the Museo Archeologico Regionale “Pietro Griffo” and at the Biblioteca Lucchesiana from June 5 to September 4, 2022.
The exhibition segment of Progetto Genesi traces a highly symbolic temporal pathway: in each city the exhibition will open its doors on the occasion of an important International or World Day established by the UN to promote topics linked to human rights: in Varese on September 21 International Day of Peace; in Assisi on December 18 International Migrants Day; in Matera on March 8 International Women’s Day; in Agrigento on June 5 World Environment Day.
The exhibition identifies within the Collezione Genesi six main theme-based sections through which the works express a message linked to the defense of human rights:
– The Memory of a People
– Multicultural Identity
– Victims of Power
– The Color of a Person’s Skin
– The Female Condition
– The Safeguarding of the Environment
