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Rose's Choice 2nd Edition (2003)
Once again, Rose’s Choice, is the title we have given
to the second, international and interdisciplinary meeting
of sculptors, painters and photographers, located in the charming
village of Scontrone, Italy. The artists are all women and
the aim of the meeting is to stimulate a discussion about
different artforms, cultures, means of expression and feelings.
Through an integrated series of exhibits we wish to create
a cultural osmosis and stress the value of women’s steady
contribution to the world of art. We hope that this will in
turn lead to further the foundation of the International Museum
of Women in Art (M.I.D.A.) and to identify Scontrone as “The
House of the Muses” – a place of artistic inspiration
for women all over the world. View photos of the inauguration
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M.I.D.A. strives to preserve and enrich the historical-artistic
heritage of the area by integrating the museum with Scontrone’s
historical traces to the past, in turn rendering the town
itself a museum. It is a structure with an evergrowing capacity
to meet individuals’ and their communities’ need
for aesthetic and cultural perspectives. In essence, the village
of Scontrone is a comunity growing towards a human dimension
assisting the individual to find oneself through knowledge,
study, and communication, with the intent that the future
of the town lies within a progressive and polysemantic cultural
hub.
The scope of the exhibit encompasses the interactivity between
the local ambient and the world’s ever-growing cultural
tendencies. Together, selected artists and their proposals,
hold steadfast to an idea that propells the show beyond that
of the immediate atmosphere of the museum, thus linking it
to other parts of the world that have become focal points
of historic and contemporary conflicts regarding women’s
issues. It is important, though, that the exhibit maintains
its role within the context of Scontrone, while moving forward
in the world of art and opening a sucession of new theoretical
discourse affecting our everyday life regardless of where
we call home.
We do not want to separate form from content; we only want
to reaffirm the quality of the creative process. It is this
process that also permits us to reconfirm the real dialogue
with artworks that preludes to an extension of existence referencing
a type of lifestyle carrying new hopes, without conformism,
globalism, localization. M.I.D.A.’s goal is to shorten
the distances between different cultures and identities in
the hopes that we might realize the “added value”
of the ethical nature of art, or if not, that of its political
nature with respect to the time period in which we live.
- Lino Alviani, curator
Letter from the Mayor of Scontrone
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