Imago Mundi – Luciano Benetton Collection
Pratt Institute
The Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery – Chemistry Building
200 Willoughby Ave, Brooklyn NEW YORK
NEW YORK - "Shed" the artwork realised by the artist Mimmo Centonze exhibited at the Pratt Institute in New York on the occasion of the global art project "The Art of Humanity", which gathers artists from five continents and exhibit in New York fourteen collections of paintings from as many countries around the globe.
The promotion and sharing of art and culture are honed tools for countering intolerance and barbarism. With this heartfelt conviction Imago Mundi presents at the Pratt Institute of New York, one of the most prestigious universities in the world for the Arts, Architecture and Design, the exhibition The Art of Humanity, which includes around 3,000 works by artists from 14 countries, representing every continent.
The Pratt's Rubelle and Norman Schafler Gallery will host the contemporary art collections in the 10x12 cm format from Australia/ Aboriginal Art (Oceania); Afghanistan, China, Japan, Iran, Israel, Syria, Tibet (Asia); Italy (Europe); Chile, USA (Americas), Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia (Africa). This is a significant extract of the global collection – which has now passed the 100 nation milestone – that conveys the world as we would all like it to be: colorful, in peace and without walls.
"In a place of excellence for artistic training like the Pratt Institute – stated Luciano Benetton – we aim to show the world as we would like it to be: colourful, in peace and without walls. Our idea of art generates dialogue between diferent visions and poetics, it builds bridges between apparently conflicting ideologies and faiths: 'unity in diversity', as augured by the prophetic German artist Joseph Beuys."
To coincide with this exhibition at the Pratt Institute, Imago Mundi will make its debut on the Google Cultural Institute platform, which hosts the works of many museums and art projects around the world, where, with a click, 'virtual' visitors will have the opportunity to discover the images and videos of the event and the works exhibited in New York.
The Imago Mundi artists are promoted internationally through catalogs, the imagomundiart.com web platform and participation in shows and exhibitions in partnership with private and public institutions around the world: from Venice (Biennale 2013) to Senegal (Dak'Art off 2014), from Rome (Museo Carlo Bilotti, 2014/2015) to New Orleans (NOMA, 2014/2015), from Vienna (Belvedere & Winter Palace, 2015) to Turin (Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, 2015) and once again Venice, coinciding with the 56th Art Biennale (Giorgio Cini Foundation, Island of San Giorgio Maggiore, 2015).
