Release of the artist edition by Jeremy Deller. Online talk by curator, Dr. Cornelia Lauf, with remarks by Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli. December 2021.
Sunday, 5 December 2021, Agricola Due Leoni invites you to the release of a new artist edition by Jeremy Deller.
Online talk by curator, Dr. Cornelia Lauf, with remarks on the new olive oil harvest by Giuseppe Catalano di Melilli.
To participate via Zoom please RSVP at info@agricoladueleoni.it, the presentation will be streamed live on our YouTube channel and Facebook page.
The edition is available at the link: Agricola Due Leoni.
Sunday, 5 December 2021
11:00 a.m. to 11:45 a.m. CET
remarks by Dr. Cornelia Lauf, curator
and a selection of Acid House tracks
@Zoom, YouTube live and Facebook live
12:00 p.m. to 13.00 p.m. CET
Agricola Due Leoni olive oil tasting
reservations required, limited capacity
Cantina Agricola Due Leoni
Via del Rio, 14, 02047 Castel San Pietro (RI)
Jeremy Deller
Jeremy Deller (b. 1966) is a British artist, 2004 winner of the Turner Prize, and media polymath, whose incursions into theater, film, music, political actions, environmentalism, archaeology, and many contemporary forms of cultural production are dazzlingly diverse. His tender eye towards popular likes and tastes, his deep belief in egalitarianism, his keen ear for the music of our time, mark a varied and always mesmerizing practice. For the collaboration with Agricola Due Leoni, Deller has fused a prior multiple edition celebrating a specific alternative dance music genre, with a general blessing of extra virgin olive oil, once the realm of alternative food culture.
Jeremy Deller staged a popular parade in the streets of San Sebastian, Spain, for the 2004 edition of Manifesta. Cornelia attended this event and briefly met the artist, who was then introduced to her formally through colleagues at BookWorks, London. She once asked Deller if he liked Duran-Duran, and he demurred. Similar musical taste is a common denominator among many artists. The idea of taking a popular slogan of Deller’s, lifted from popular sentiment, and applying it, with pink background, to a can of olive oil, and then adding a blessing on a substance once used for lighting holy lamps -- there seems to be a strange symmetry. It works.
Agricola Due Leoni
Agricola Due Leoni is a small family farm located forty kilometers north of Rome, in the rolling hills of the Sabine countryside.
Dedicated to sustainable agriculture, the farm produces an award-winning olive oil, as well as wine and marmalade, the latter cultivated on a sister estate in Sicily.
Founded by proprietor Giuseppe Catalano di Meilli in 2012, the practice of land stewardship has been in the Sicilian-origin Verga Catalano di Melilli family for centuries. In fact, the marmalades are derived from Tarocco oranges and mandarins, among other citrus products. White and red wines complement the offering, and revive the ancient Roman tradition of viticulture in the near environs of Rome.
Specially designed editions by leading contemporary artists are curated by Dr. Cornelia Lauf. They include a diverse and international list of figures.
The project here is to embed cultural practice with vanguard aesthetics into sectors of the global economy that are both its mythic base and yet most at risk. In defiant opposition to monocultures and industrial cultivation, small farming is a necessary and compelling reservoir of biodiversity, and cultural practices that go back tens of millenia. Artists skilled in the appropriation of language and meta-structure, understanding the nature of readymades, and the role of art today, are asked to describe such an agricultural project, in relation to art and its history, and to a product tended over the course of one year, from flower to fruit, and culled by hand.
Agricola Due Leoni is collected and enjoyed globally by discerning lovers of the culture of agriculture.