How do we want to live? Valentin Beck (Wettingen) and Adrian Rast (St. Gallen) addressed this question in their work “Ein-Mach-Ende”, with which they completed their Bachelor’s degree in Art & Mediation at the Lucerne School of Art and Design this summer. Their answer was an expansive work of art: for months, the two collected expired but still edible food from supermarket containers and cooked it using traditional preservation methods. Around 2,000 jars – including fennel chutney, caramel marronis, prickly pear jelly and much more – were stacked in a room made of disposable pallets and distributed to the public at the diploma exhibition. In return, visitors were invited to discuss the issue of food waste with the two initiators.
Valentin Beck and Adrian Rast have collected and preserved more food from waste and from nature especially for the “Kunst 14 Zürich” trade fair in Zurich. Visitors can purchase the preserving jars on site and are invited to discuss them with the two artists. “We are looking forward to showing our work at the art fair and hope that it will open up exciting discussions,” says Adrian Rast. And Valentin Beck adds: “It will be very interesting and we are very curious to see whether and how the acquisition of our art by the public will lead to a negotiation about values.”
Art 14 Zurich” will take place from October 30 to November 2 in the ABB-Halle 550, Ricarda- Huch-Strasse, in Zurich-Oerlikon. The BEWE Foundation’s exhibition stand is stand C5.