An odyssey of contemporary art, to explore Sicily and the imaginative, poetic and political abilities that cross its territories. Organized by Farm Cultural Park, the art space and residency for artists in Favara, in the province of Agrigento, with the support of the Di Stefano confectionery company, the first edition of the transdisciplinary Quadrennial We have everything the rest is missing it will take place from 20 to 22 June 2024 and will spread across various locations in Sicily, including Aragon, Catania, Favara, Gela, Mazzarino and Butera.
Artists, photographers, architects, designers, set designers, video makers, social entrepreneurs, quantum physicists, jurists, creatives of different generations, were involved in the program, to address central contemporary issues that are particularly felt by the Region, such as that of the diaspora: beyond beyond all rhetoric, 560 thousand young people have left in the last ten years and this is a fact to keep in mind when talking about development models. The will of the Quadrennial is to reflect on identities and stereotypes, mafias and obtuse bureaucracies, nature and climate change, the condition of women and gender equality, always with attention to real data. And this is why the burst of hope of “We have everything” is balanced with the crudeness of “The rest is missing”.
It all started in 2022, with Magnum, you deserve a Sicilian panettone, contest promoted by Farm Cultural Park and Di Stefano, aimed at knowing the stories of those who have distinguished themselves for kind and altruistic actions towards other people or in support and protection of community assets and places. The partnership has strengthened over time, so much so that they also worked together at the launch of the four-yearly event We have everything the rest is missing. After the opening of the Pavilions on May 12th We have everything the rest is missing to Mazarin with works by Lorenzo Romano and Azzurra Messina, Salvo Ligama, Anne-Clémence de Groléè, Carmelo Nicotra, Roberto Collodoro, Fabio Alfano and the installation of Calogero Palacino, ci is therefore preparing for a new journey in June.
A tasty preview will be held on June 8th at 4pm in Mazzarino, at Palazzo Tortorici, where two special projects will be presented. Terraformation is the project curated by Andrea Mineo of the Mayer Pavilion initiative in Berlin with guest artists Rachel Harris, Sandra Chrzanowski, Luïza Luz, Andries De Lange and Vincenzo Fiore Marresewho during the month of June will be in residence in the Butera countryside to take the first steps and create an Earth Institution, in which nature guides its construction and all future artistic interventions. LandRushcurated by artist-journalists Frauke Huber and Uwe H. Martin, puts agriculture at the center of the discussion, which is «At the basis of climate change, extinction, erosion and water depletion. It’s the most transformative thing humans are doing to the planet. However, most people don’t realize how fragile our food systems are.”
On June 9th, at 7 pm, in the Farm Riad in Favara, a big welcome party will be held for the collective of European directors Collaborative Film Workshop Movement who during their stay will make Instant Movies dedicated to Sicily, and for all the teachers and students of the Woodbury School of Architecture in Los Angeles who will also be involved in the creation of a Pavilion.
On June 20th at the Isola headquarters in Catania, in the morning there will be a public discussion on the theme of inclusion, on the occasion of World Refugee Day, in the afternoon the Art, Culture and Creativity Coalition will meet, at 6pm public presentation of the first edition of We have everything the rest is missing and in the evening the birthdays of Isola and Farm Cultural Park will be celebrated.
On Friday 21 June at midday, the appointment is in Aragon, in collaboration with the Municipality of Aragon, to open the construction site of the Incompiuto Auditorium – a public work that has never been completed and has remained unchanged for around 30 years – and begin a participatory process to imagine a new destination at the service of the Aragonese together with a super collective made up of Alterazioni Video, Analogique, Fosbury Architecture and the Department of Political Science and International Relations of the University of Palermo.
Again on June 21st in the afternoon in Favara at 6pm the exhibition will be inaugurated at the Castle New Normalities in which 70 designers tell us about Italian architecture that thinks about the near future and at 7pm the celebrations for the 14 years of Farm continue with the opening of all the numerous pavilions of We have everything the rest is missing, with pavilions, works and installations by Agnese Canicattì, Angelo De Grande, Angelo Salemi, Anna Amalfi, Antonio Panarisi, Carmelo Navarra, Danila Mancuso, Giovanni Iudice, Giuseppe Arezzi, Giuseppe De Michele, Giuseppe Veneziano, the HACKATAO+Insight collective, Jérémy Depuydt and Giuseppe Accardo, Loredana Longo, Lorenzo Maniscalco, Lorenzo Romano and Azzurra Messina, Alessandra Rigano and Elisa Raciti of the collective Avajia For Marea, Marco Siciliano, Maria Donata Bologna, Nuuco, Giuseppe Guerrera, Roberto Caccamo, Salvatore Cappello, Sara Vattano, the Societas collective, the neu collective [nòi]the collective Transition For, Vlady and Vanessa Alessi.
To conclude, on Saturday 22 June in Gela at 7pm, Ué – Eventi Urbani will inaugurate an Off Pavilion at Civico 111, with a path that passes through photographic and artistic installations, video projections and visions of a Gela to come.
