Thea Tini at the Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB) 
Thea Tini the Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB).
San Marino, September 19, 2010
Thea Tini , Artists Association of San Marino (ASART), will represent San Marino in Beijing (China) to the Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB).
Thea Tini, Artists Association of San Marino (ASART), will represent San Marino in Beijing (China) to the Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale (BIAB).
The opening ceremony of the Biennale will take place on 19/20 September and in the days following the selected artists will participate in the symposium on the theme "Commitment Environmental and Human Existence Ideal Art".
The selected work is titled "Univers0 0" and is part of the "UNIVERS0" presented for the first time at the Venice Biennale in 2009.
In this work the issue environment is addressed through the play of two colors: yellow and blue which creates the green, which evokes a symbolic nature, balance, harmony, ecology.
The Beauty of Nature is the inspiration art Thea Tini and will also be the main thesis of his speech at the conference in Beijing.
4 th Beijing International Art Biennale, China 2010
Thea Tini 's Speech : Environmental Awareness and Human Existence
Work no 66-1-1 “univers00”
The industrial world, current economic models, and strong demographic growth have brought the Earth to the brink of collapse. It is essential that we lighten our burden on the Earth to make it more sustainable. We should consider this urgent need to change course a wonderful opportunity for the evolution of human beings on all levels. This new challenge demands technological and entrepreneurial innovations as well as inventions on the community, social, political, artistic, and spiritual levels. To build a sustainable and desirable world, we need qualities which belong to the human heart and spirit, such as ethics, imagination, courage, trust, and love. Art plays an important role in the evolution of humanity, as it works with and for our hearts. As creators of Beauty, artists should always be inspired by the Beauty of Nature.
Keeping Nature and its Beauty close to our hearts contributes to building a sustainable and desirable world.
My education is in art and science. I have a Degree in Agricultural Science from the University of Bologna in Italy and a Doctorate in Environmental Education from the University of Geneva in Switzerland. After high school I embarked on a journey of personal research, travelling around the world and studying art and yoga with European, Asian and American masters. I also led a pilot project called “ Raggio di luce ” (“Ray of Light”), which teaches environmental education at all school levels in the Republic of San Marino. The project combines art, science and meditation. For details, see the University of San Marino University website at www.educazione.sm .
My art (and “univers0”) communicates the importance of keeping a healthy relationship with Nature, other human beings and the Self.
The work selected for the 4 th Beijing Biennale is “UNIVERS0 0”, which I painted in 2008. It is part of a work in progress called “UNIVERS0”, which was born from a vision, a meeting of light and shadow. A radiant yellow meets an enveloping blue and green is born, symbolizing balance, nature, harmony and ecology.
This vision is materialized directly by the choice of supports and the typology of completely natural pigments.
The colors are left free to manifest their expressive force.
In the microcosm of the painting a form thus takes shape, which is analogous to the one flowing in the macrocosm, emphasizing the naturalness of becoming, of the birth and death of worlds.
The choice of watercolors evokes the amniotic fluid which life is born from.
“UNIVERS0” is a metaphor of the infinite possibilities of combinations of primary elements in a chaotic, emotional process which takes place in the human soul. This process asserts the universality of the living experience and the uniqueness of “being”.
The theme of mirroring and “doubles” is part of this metaphor. UNIVERS0 becomes the mirror of recognition of the “other”–as a part of oneself–in a unique, deep and natural life breath, beyond any duality or separatist individuality.
The work is completed by a performance called “Dance of the universe”, for dance emphasizes the continuous movement of all that exists. Indeed, forms and events are the aspects through which energy flows and life exists.
(The video of the performance can be viewed on my website www.theatini.com under “performances” ).
