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广播听力:Italy Arts and Food Exhibition Held in Milan

Source: CRI    2015-04-13  我要投稿   论坛   Favorite  

The 'Arts & Food' exhibition, a ritual which can be traced back to 1851, aims to explore the human relationship with all things edible.

This year, 150 years' worth of food habits has been put on the menu.

At the exhibition, the function of food is not to stave off hunger, but to stimulate people's curiosity through mixed media. To comprehensively display foods as materials of artwork, the exhibit involves all five senses.

Exhibition Architect Italo Rota:

"In this room we go from the smell of coffee to that of chocolate and bread. These are the materials of the artwork, so the exhibit involves not just sight, but all five senses. And this helps visitors memorize complex issues that the exhibit