Thea Tini alla Quarta Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB)

Thea Tini alla Quarta Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB).

San Marino, 19 settembre 2010

Thea Tini, dell’Associazione Sammarinese Artisti (ASART), rappresenterà San Marino a Pechino (Cina) alla Quarta Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB).

Thea Tini, dell’Associazione Sammarinese Artisti (ASART), rappresenterà San Marino a Pechino (Cina) alla Quarta Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB).

La cerimonia di apertura della Biennale si svolgerà il 19/20 settembre e nei giorni seguenti gli artisti selezionati parteciperanno al Simposio dal tema “Impegno Ambientale, Esistenza Umana e Ideale dell’Arte”.

L’opera selezionata si intitola “Univers0 0” ed è parte del progetto “UNIVERS0”, presentato per la prima volta alla Biennale di Venezia nel 2009.

In questo lavoro la tematica ambientale è affrontata attraverso il gioco di due colori: il giallo e il blu da cui si genera il verde, che simbolicamente evoca natura, equilibrio, armonia, ecologia.

La Bellezza della Natura è l’ispiratrice dell’arte di Thea Tini e sarà anche la tesi principale del suo intervento al Convegno di Pechino.

4^th Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2010

Thea Tini’s Speech: Environmental Awareness and Human Existence

Work no 66-1-1 “univers00”

The industrial world, current economic models, and strong demographic growth have brought the Earth to the brink of collapse. It is essential that we lighten our burden on the Earth to make it more sustainable. We should consider this urgent need to change course a wonderful opportunity for the evolution of human beings on all levels. This new challenge demands technological and entrepreneurial innovations as well as inventions on the community, social, political, artistic, and spiritual levels. To build a sustainable and desirable world, we need qualities which belong to the human heart and spirit, such as ethics, imagination, courage, trust, and love. Art plays an important role in the evolution of humanity, as it works with and for our hearts. As creators of Beauty, artists should always be inspired by the Beauty of Nature.

Keeping Nature and its Beauty close to our hearts contributes to building a sustainable and desirable world.

My education is in art and science. I have a Degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Bologna in Italy and a Doctorate in Environmental Education from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. After high school I embarked on a journey of personal research, travelling around the world and studying art and yoga with European, Asian and American masters. I also led a pilot project called “Raggio di luce” (“Ray of Light”), which teaches environmental education at all school levels in the Republic of San Marino. The project combines art, science and meditation. For details, see the University of San Marino University website at www.educazione.sm.

My art (and “univers0”) communicates the importance of keeping a healthy relationship with Nature, other human beings and the Self.

The work selected for the 4^th Beijing Biennale is “UNIVERS0 0”, which I painted in 2008. It is part of a work in progress called “UNIVERS0”, which was born from a vision, a meeting of light and shadow. A radiant yellow meets an enveloping blue and green is born, symbolizing balance, nature, harmony and ecology.

This vision is materialized directly by the choice of supports and the typology of completely natural pigments.

The colors are left free to manifest their expressive force.

In the microcosm of the painting a form thus takes shape, which is analogous to the one flowing in the macrocosm, emphasizing the naturalness of becoming, of the birth and death of worlds.

The choice of watercolors evokes the amniotic fluid which life is born from.

“UNIVERS0” is a metaphor of the infinite possibilities of combinations of primary elements in a chaotic, emotional process which takes place in the human soul. This process asserts the universality of the living experience and the uniqueness of “being”.

The theme of mirroring and “doubles” is part of this metaphor. UNIVERS0 becomes the mirror of recognition of the “other”–as a part of oneself–in a unique, deep and natural life breath, beyond any duality or separatist individuality.

The work is completed by a performance called “Dance of the universe”, for dance emphasizes the continuous movement of all that exists. Indeed, forms and events are the aspects through which energy flows and life exists.

(The video of the performance can be viewed on my website www.theatini.com under “performances”).