Dinner into art
May 6th, 2023
Corte dell’Arte, Venice
On Saturday May 6th, a private event was held, organised by Orseola Barozzi of Castello925 Cultural Association in collaboration with Corte dell’Arte, which provided its wonderful location. This event also represented the beginning of the collaboration between Castello 925 and Corte dell'Arte.
It was thought that combining the conviviality of a dinner within an art space could be the best way to celebrate this partnership.
In particular, the theme of the current exhibition at Corte dell'Arte, ‘From Persephone to Flora’, was kept as common thread by combining symbolic roots and ‘food enjoyment’! In an associative slogan, one could say ‘food for the mind’ & ‘mind for the food’!
Rebirth, alternation of colours and rites of passage flowed through the spaces enabling exchanges and transitions among the participants …
For the more curious we can add that the menu, entirely cooked by Orseola together with the participation of the visual artist Luisa Eugeni, included:
A welcome appetizer of red turnip focaccia decorated with cucumbers, oil from Arezzo and Trapani salt.
An appetizer with raw scampi dipped in gazpacho on crispy seaweed islands.
As the first course, a risotto with carletti and bruscandoli in a parmesan basket.
In the second half appeared... monkfish on a bed of asparagus and cannellini beans cream.
Dulcis in fundo, strawberry cheesecake and, to finish, ‘rispecchia-menti’ (mirror-moments) of fruit.
All washed down with three natural wines from Gian Antonio Posocco's Terre Grosse winery.
Thanks to:
Corte dell'Arte for the hospitality.
Anne Mourier and Helen Galante, artists of the exhibition ‘From Persephone to Flora’ exhibition.
And thanks again to Orseola Barozzi and Luisa Eugeni for the preparation and presentation of the dishes and to all those, with their presence, made this experience possible... Dinner into art!