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PASTIS | BOLOGNA
La secret breakfast della Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT.
Museum directors, curators, artists, students, critics, professionals of the contemporary art system and personalities from different backgrounds, together in an informal meeting in symbolic spaces throughout Italy: the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT is launching Pastis, the ‘secret breakfast’ conceived by art critic, journalist and populariser Nicolas Ballario, which the Foundation has decided to organise at key moments for contemporary art in Italy, in order to help build a more cohesive, inclusive and open art community.
“Conceived and curated by Nicolas Ballario, Pastis is a format that had its first stop in Turin last November on the occasion of the Artissima International Fair. We are delighted to be able to renew this appointment in Bologna during Artefiera,” says Patrizia Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, President of the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT. “Pastis is a breakfast and much more: it is an opportunity for networking outside the canonical venues of contemporary art; a moment of convivial meeting and discussion among people who are attracted to and work in this world; a way of discovering and rediscovering significant and symbolic places in the cities where it takes place. Of course, it is also an opportunity to make the Fondazione per l’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea CRT, of which I have the honour to be President, known, to tell those who do not yet know about its activities and projects, so that they can spread them in their own professional and personal spheres.”
“Pastis is a convivial moment with no apparent purpose other than to meet, to get to know each other, to chat,” says Nicolas Ballario. “The format was first experimented with during Artissima in the Pastis bar of the same name in Turin, but that is not why it is called Pastis: Pastis in Piedmontese means ‘chaos’, and that is precisely the purpose, to bring together different personalities, to mix and network from the early hours of the morning; rumours circulate a few days in advance, but only on the morning of the breakfast do we really know the exact location of the meeting, which is always and in any case a historic venue in the host city, an important place for art or for the artistic community.”
The next Pastis event will take place in Bologna during ARTEFIERA, on the morning of Friday 7 February.
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