Caino's Handbag

"CAINO'S BAG - HUMAN CLONED SKIN - I."
Art and Science: A New Partnership by Andrea Tomasi

According to the words of Kofi Annan, "Artists have a special role to play in the global struggle for peace. Art opens new doors for learning, understanding, and peace among people." I believe that it is an opportunity for people coming from different cultures and traditions to get to know each other better, whether they live at the opposite ends of the world or whether they live in the same street. In these works, is the iconic motif of the HandBag as a symbol of the beauty and inherent fragility of life. This is ideas about existence and is calling into question our awareness and convinctions about the boundaries that separate desire and fear, life and death, reason and faith, love and hate. This art uses the tools of science (human cloned skin - I.) and religion, creating art that offers the viewer insight that transcends our familiar understanding of those domains. Andrea Tomasi

For inspiration and ideas: The Saatchi Gallery, www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk ; The Australian Accademy of Science, http://www.science.org.au/reports/clone.pdf ; Arts Catalyst, www.artscatalyst.org.uk since 1993 has worked nationally and internationally to promote understanding and cooperation between the arts and the sciences - a driving interest is to extend the practice of artists engaging with scientific processes, facilities and technologies in order to reveal and illuminate the social, political and cultural contexts that brought them into being; National Endowment for Science, www.Nesta.org.uk ; Arts Council of England, www.artscouncil.org.uk ; Science Museum, www.sciencemuseum.org.uk ; The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, www.gulbenkian.org.uk ; Institute of Contemporary Arts, www.ica.org.uk ; The Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, www.msim.org.uk ;The Wellcome Trust, www.wellcome.ac.uk www.sciart.org.uk ; University of Wisconsin-Madison, www.wisc.edu ; The Serpentine Gallery, www.serpentinegallery.org ; Rena Bransten Gallery, S. Francisco, www.renabranstengallery.com, http://www.richardkamler.org/seeingpeace/intro.html , http://www.britishcouncil.org/science-briefing-sheet-23-sci-art-jun03.doc for references, current exhibitions
www.tg.sky.tc or at
http://galleries.absolutearts.com/tomasigallery/ and
http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk/dealers_galleries/Gallery/Tomasi+Gallery/1391.html