IMAF 2012

IMAF is a nonprofit organization legally registered in Italy. IMAF aims at helping and promoting artistic talent in different cultural venues and art categories, such as, cinema, literature, music and visual art by giving national and internationals exposure.

IMAF collaborated with Wook + Lattuada Gallery, in its 1st editions Eat Art was exhibited in the space, and from the 14th of May the gallery will shown part of the exhibition Sports Your Food and a collection of international artists works inspired by the theme 'Food and Migration'. The exhibition Sport Your Food opened at The National Museum of Science and Technology in Milan, Wook + Lattuada Gallery in New York and Blackall Studios in London. 

Hooni Kim

Hooni Kim is the chef and owner of Danji and Hanjan, a high end Korean restaurant in the Hells Kitchen area of Ne York City. His restaurant received a converted star from the Michelin Guides 2012 and has been featured in numerous media outlets i the United States such as New York Times, New York Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, New York Post and The Village Voice.

Chef Hooni Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and lived in London, England before settling in New York, City when he was 10 years old. he attended the University of California at Berkeley and was studying to be a medical doctor before his passion for food made him change his careers. Chef Hooni attended the French Culinary Institute and followed up his culinary training at three Michelin star restaurants Daniel and Masa in New York City. 

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IMAF 2011

IMAF is a nonprofit organization legally registered in Italy. IMAF aims at helping and promoting artistic talent in different cultural venues and art categories, such as, cinema, literature, music and visual art by giving national and internationals exposure.

In New York IMAFestival collaborated with Wook + Lattuada Gallery for the opening reception event on the April 25th and at La MaMa Theatre for the New York Big Closing Event on the May 3rd. The exhibition Sport Your Food opened with the exhibition “Eat Art – When Food Becomes Art,” drawing on the relationship between food and migration at Wook + Lattuada Gallery. 

10 E. 33 St. 3 Floor
Between 5th & Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10016
Tel +1 212 279 contact@wookgallery.com

Mexican artist Raymundo Sesma has been on a mission to create “social architecture” since the early 90s. During the past decade, he has transformed and enlivened a number of banal, overlooked, and forgotten architectural structures that would otherwise be languishing in parts of southern and western Mexico. The local inner city youth from these parts who volunteer to help Sesma fulfill these artistic visions are given the opportunity to effect change within their own neighborhoods while learning firsthand that art isn’t always framed and hung on museum walls.

Sesma has lived and worked between Milan and Mexico since 1980. His works can be found in such collections as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y., The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico and la Dundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa. He has participated in the Venice Biennale twice, and was chosen to represent Mexico in 1993. Among the shows from this past decade we can mention Nova Totius Terrarrum Orbis, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, ‘95, Epiphaneia, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, ‘95, and The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, USA, ‘96, La Cite Ideale, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, ‘98, Iconoclasta, Lattuada Studio, Milan, ‘99, De Constructio, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City, 2000, Pardo Lattuada Gallery, New York, 2001, Meditativo, 1989-2003, Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Mexico, Causa y Efecto, Galeria Nina Menocal, 2004, Advento un proyecto de arquitectura social, Umeleckoprumyslove Museum V Praze, Prague, 2005, and Rojo por una democracia directa IX, MyOwnGallery, Milan, 2006, Balelatina, 2007, Basiliea Swiss.

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New York, NY 10016
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The photographic work that Roberto Chierici has created with Erika Arosio focuses on a main theme: one’s inner research showed through one’s beard shape and style.

The exhibition Your Shape is a moment of reflection on ourselves and on the way we express ourselves in terms of beauty. We all have our shape, but it doesn’t always reflect the way we would like it to be. Thanks to your beard you can fix it and improve it.

In the big-sized shots on display, Roberto Chierici managed to collect the charm of an exclusive men’s world. Men who give a new shape to their appearance through their beards, which become versatile elements able to upgrade, age, hide, highlight or crush not only their faces but their personalities, in all their shapes. Many meanings were given to the beard in history: it was a symbol of power, strength and wisdom, and every culture made it their distinctive sign, their symbolic language. Nowadays it is no longer a social matter, yet a psychological one.

The models who posed for he exhibition were styled by Roberto Chierici(Tigi Ambassador Italia and “Best Man Style 2015” winner at the Italian Hairdresser Awards) and Giovanni Cibin from Italian Style, both nationally known barbers who made the cult of the beard the cornerstone of their job. Thanks to their skills, being a barber almost becomes being a master of the rite. Roberto and Giovanni support the idea that Roberto and Erika have carried out in this exhibition and have become a team who capitalize on their art skills.

The exhibition “YOUR SHAPE” opens with a video installation that presents the main theme of the research of one’s shape. His expertise in the video industry, led Roberto to film the concept displayed through the pictures also through movement, in collaboration with choreographer Marco Bebbu and Erika Arosio’s direction support.

Some of the shots on display were taken at Cascina Balocchi: its welcoming rustic rooms were visually outstanding combined with the men’s audacious faces where grace and power blend into impressive pictures.

Curated by: Paola Sinisgalli 

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New York, NY 10016
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