Involved Artists:
Robert Rauschenberg (US), Daniele Buetti (IT), Franz Burkhardt (DE), Jochen Gerz (DE), Xia Zheng (CN), Atelier van Lieshout (NL), Damien Deroubaix (FR), Mark Titchner (UK), Isabel Muñoz (ES), Ben Vautier (IT)
The Project
MOVE FOR LIFE is an art-action which takes place in public; its fields of action are streets, squares and factory halls. MOVE FOR LIFE leaves the sites originally reserved for art, such as museums, galleries and art halls and is present where people live and work. MOVE FOR LIFE actuates – on trucks, transporters, on the European road network. MOVE FOR LIFE is a socio-political action one has never seen before. MOVE FOR LIFE presents emotional and touching pictures.
Trucks are a brilliant medium for the spreading of messages created by MOVE FOR LIFE. Trade associations estimate that a truck covers a distance of 250’000 kilometres a year throughout the European road network, thus provoking around 25 million eye-contacts. MOVE FOR LIFE makes use of the exterior of the trucks to present the messages in terms of so-called “Monumental Statements”. The truck becomes a culture-truck, an art-object on wheels.
Famous international artists design these “Monumental Statements” against poverty, violence, Aids, racism and environmental destruction. Trucks designed by Robert Rauschenberg, Jochen Gertz and Studio Van Lieshout are already on the road.
(Project in progress)
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History:
- Basel
Messe Basel
June 14, 2006 to June 18, 2006
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News:
- 2011-09-10, MOVE FOR LIFE at the Biennale, Lyon 2011
- 2011-03-30, Move for Life trucks take the streets of Paris
- 2011-03-25, Move for Life lorries will parade the Champs Elysées in Paris on March 30th
- 2011-03-24, Move for Life shows new works by Damien Deroubaix, Isabel Muñoz, Mark Titchner and Ben Vautier
- 2011-02-17, MOVE FOR LIFE will be shown at the Grand Palais in Paris in March 2011
