Otherness in HUMAN RIGHTS? #EDU International Art Event
Great news for my Art Lovers: I am glad and honored to share my artwork Otherness selected among winners of the HUMAN RIGHTS? #EDU exceptional project to exhibit at the landmark peace memorial site the Bell of the Fallen, Maria Dolens of Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti during the International Exhibition of Contemporary Art in Rovereto, Italy. The project is organised by Spazio-Tempo Arte and International Association of Art AIAPI. This remarkable exhibition is curated by renowned art director Roberto Ronca. The event takes place from 23 June to 23 September 2018 with 161 artists representing 37 countries.
HUMAN RIGHTS? #EDU exhibiting artists will present and tell in their own artistic language, a personal vision of the problem of the right to education representing a story, a concept, a complaint, or showing a future perspective as message of hope or a concrete proposal on the opportunities to be pursued to achieve this fundamental goal for the construction of a fair and right society. Education is not a privilege but a human right. it is an empowerment right; it lifts marginalized groups out of poverty; it is an indispensable means of realizing other rights; it contributes to the full development of the human personality. When people are able to get quality education they can break from the cycle of poverty. Education therefore helps to reduce inequalities and to reach gender equality. It also empowers people everywhere to live more healthy and sustainable lives.
Education is also crucial to fostering tolerance between people and contributes to more peaceful societies.
The General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, meeting in Paris in 1960, recalling that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights asserts the principle of non-discrimination and proclaims that every person has the right to education, considering that discrimination in education is a violation of rights enunciated in that Declaration. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, while respecting the diversity of national educational systems, has the duty not only to proscribe any form of discrimination in education but also to promote equality of opportunity and treatment for all in education.
Otherness, Abstract Artwork
Acrylic Painting on Canvas, 24″ x 30″, 2016
The International Association of Art AIAPI was born in Venice in 1952. AIAPI is a non-governmental organisation working in official partnership with UNESCO, with the consultative status, comprising artists belonging essentially to the fields of painting, sculpture, printmaking, and artists practicing other forms of creative work in the visual arts. The objectives of the Association are to stimulate international cooperation among the artists of all countries and nations, as well as to defend their rights. AIAPI actively participates in the UNESCO programs through Arts Education for children facing violence, underprivileged populations or living far from educational centers, in schools and community homes without arts education
centers. Since 2016, AIAPI has joined forces with Spazio-Tempo Arte and Art&forte, combining three important realities in a synergy that connect together various professionals with great experience and multiply the communication of their events, creating an organization for all artists in Italy and around the world.
About Bell of the Fallen and Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti
Rovereto houses on the hill the great Bell of the Fallen, Maria Dolens, perceived and desired by the priest of the city don Antonio Rossaro, right after the Great War, as eternal symbol of condemnation of the conflict, pacification of the consciences, of brotherhood among men and solidarity between peoples. Made from the bronze of cannons offered by the nations participating in the First World War, played the first toll on 4th October 1925 in the presence of King Vittorio Emanuele III. During these years the bell has made its voice heard playing every night one hundred tolls of admonishment to life and to peace. Statesman, Presidents and Ambassadors with citizens of each nations have honoured the bell and they continue to hear as a voice of own conscience. 94 Nations have exposing their flag around Maria Dolens, first name of the Bell, along the avenue of the Flags and in the Square of the People,
to witness, visibly, the fidelity to a message, to a sort a “Peace’s Pact”. On 18 January 1968, by a decree of the President of Italian Republic, Giuseppe Saragat, conferred juridical personality on the Fondazione Opera Campana dei Caduti to take care of Maria Dolens, honor the Fallen of all wars with daily ringing of the bell and keep alive the painful memory of conflicts in which millions perished.
Gaya is an award-winning international contemporary abstract artist from Toronto. A recipient of numerous art awards and an author of several art publications, Gaya exhibits in Americas, Europe and Asia. Her abstract paintings are proudly held in a number of private collections.