Baglio Di Stefano
91024 Gibellina
Italie
- Arts
- Heritage
The multicultural strategy of the Fondazione Orestiadi in Gibellina has been stimulated and confirmed by its own interdisciplinary activity. As far as figurative arts are concerned we have acted according to a project capable of seizing themes linked to the current cultural situation, monographic notes and comparisons between artists of different ethnic origins.
The central value pursued and emphasized through the expositive choices is of course that of the coexistence of art, an essential value in such an age as ours in which selfishness and intolerance seem to prevail.
Thus, our expositive strategy has underlined the possibility of combining artistic presences originating from different continents, from Europe to Africa, to Asia etc., believing that in the linguistic research carried out by the artists of our age there exists a desire for communication which emphasises not so much territorial distinctions but rather the virtuality of anthropological roots extending in space and time.
In the context of its research into the cultural bonds between Mediterranean peoples, since 2000 the Orestiadi Foundation has continued developing a project for an itinerant exhibition “Islam in Sicily, a garden between two civilizations” dedicated to the influence of Islamic Culture in Sicily starting from the period of its Arabian domination.
This effort is sponsored by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and made possible by support from the Sicilian Regional Authorities.
The exhibition set up in Dar Bach Hamba in Tunis, and has been subsequently brought to both Cairo,Amman, Damascus, Sana’a, Ryad , Doha, Islamabad,Karachi and Muscat.
The Foundation has participated at the Biennale Exhibition Art in Venice and displayed works at the Beaubourg Museum in Paris, exhibitions in New York, London, Basle, Algiers, Beirut, Castel Del Monte (Italy), Matera(Italy), Forlì (Italy).