artegalante is delighted to announce that Loredana Galante will be at the 2014 edition of Art Market Budapest, with Villa Biener, from 9th-12th October. The international contemporary art exhibition, now in its fourth edition, aims to define a new cultural region, known as Young Europe. A combination of influences, that geographically extends from the Baltics to the Balkans, from Turkey to Israel, from Central Asia to the West, characterises this Young Europe.

 

The 2014 Art Market Budapest will host Loredana Galante’s Letto di latte (Bed of milk), Sunday 12th October at 2pm. The performance will take place in the area around Villa Biener’s stand (G401), where her works will be on display. The artist will be dressed in white and beige woollen socks, a sober, reassuring and intimate combination.

The setting has a refined and elegant backdrop, to which Galante’s public are already accustomed. A white bed has been manipulated, transformed and made ready to welcome the milk.

The milk will be carefully received by a composition of snow-white bottles, in different shapes and sizes, positioned according to criteria of balance and equilibrium.
The artist draws close to the public who receive a small white envelope with a sheet of white paper punctured with flower motifs and a piece of white chalk, directly from her hands. Each person can thereby write a secret message – a thought, a single word, a wish, a query – illegible even for the author due to the chromatic conformity of what has been used to write with and what has been written upon.

The envelopes are then placed in the bed, that Loredana Galante will then water and fill with milk.
The scene is highly symbolic and brings together archetypes such as purification, fecundation, purity, re-birth. This latter concept is in the use of an organic liquid; milk, as if bringing man to a primordial state.

A return to nature. Galante’sspiritual/relational exercise contrasts with today’s society that castrates and homologises the individual, which has often been underlined by the unusual dimension of the performances by this artist from Genova.

Attentive to the singularity of each participant, Letto di latte (Bed of milk) openly recalls the concept of infancy, a moment in life past to which we can return for a brief moment to receive from it a complete new series of certainties.

It is difficult to reconnect as an adult with this time in our lives, where we are heard, we gain acceptance, warmth and protection. Hence, the bed receives the milk and the messages from the people, who in turn receive nourishment from the milk that has been poured out.
Loredana Galante invites you to suspend the dimension of Doing and to enter into Being.
 

 
artegalante is curated by Ivana Mazzei
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Loredana Galante’s perfomance Letto di latte Sunday 12th October at 2pm
@ Villa Biener (Stand G401)
Art Market Budapest 2014 - International contemporary art fair
October 9-12, Millenaris Cultural Center, Budapest (Hungary)
www.artmarketbudapest.hu