milan

caritas pavillion

expo 2015

 

Edicola Caritas

 

Wolf Vostell

 

 

 

Energy, from 1973,  is one of Vostell’s most important installations, whose

meaning at first rests

upon the unconventional juxtaposition of two material desires – the Cadillac and bread – which at the same time confront two status symbols: the first, that of a world which has enough, the other that of a world which is starving.

 

 

 

with thanks to

 

client

Caritas Internationalis

Caritas Italiana

Caritas Ambrosiana

 

message and experiental

itinerary concept

e del percorso esperienziale

Caritas Ambrosiana

Sara Zandrini

Alessandro Comino

 

architectural project

Piùarch

 

 

 

Collection Fluxus – Donation Gino Di Maggio Vostell Museum Malpartida . Junta de Extremadura

Josefa Cortés Morillo

Director

 

Mercedes Vostell

 

Gino di Maggio

 

artache

Graziella Bertolini

Luigi Garbini

Stefania Morellato

Gianluca Ranzi

 

Vostell’s symbolism show the car and unfettered consumerism as a danger to individual and collective peace.

In 1973, after the automotive boom of the previous decade, the first great petrol crises broke out, connected to acts of terrorism and guerrilla warfare. Faced with this situation, the Energy of the bread encloses the car like a therapy, a medicine to re-establish internal balance. It speaks of Vostell’s Humanism, meant to launch a social and political message of planetary significance.

 

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