Plexus International on November 14 of 1996, in Rome, at the Roof Garden of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, within the event “From Welfare to WellBeing: Eating Art, Get the Best from Your Food, Food for All”, on the occasion of the FAO World Food Summit,launched the Open Call for an Art World Bank Against any Slavery, 54 art works from 30 artists were donated in support of it by:
Michele Rosa, Pelszer, Baldo Deodato, Pilar Aguirre, Minou Amirsoleimani, Marcello Brizzi, Carlo Cusatelli, Eleonora del Brocco, Elisabetta Diamanti, Venera Finocchiaro, Giorgio Fiume, Volker Klein, Roberto Marino, Raffaello Paiella, Mario Palmieri, Mario Paoletti, Gabriella Porpora, Micaela Serino, Vadoody Soheila, Ilir Zefi, Maria Pia Marsala e Sandro Dernini, Fabrizio Bertuccioli, Valerio Immi, Sabrina Ceccobelli, Franco Lao-Tan.
On March 6 of 1996, in Rome, it was
established at the Rector Hall of S. Michele in the Cultural Ministry of
Italy, the Organizing Committee of the
Consortium for the WellBeing in the 21st
Century,” with the purpose to represent legally the Consortium that was
freely
formed in 1995 at the 2° Well Being Symposium in Cagliari. The
Consortium's Organizing Committee was
made by: Dante Balboni (chairperson), Clara Abatecola, Carlo Cannella,
Enrico Casadei, Francesco Corongiu. Sandro Dernini and Mico Licastro
Delianova served as
coordinators...
On May 11 of 1996, at the 3 Baobab Gallery, in Dakar, it was organized
by Plexus Dakar, with Assane Mbaye and Kadher Diop, a presentation of the delivery by Sandro Dernini of an Anna
Saba's bronze artwork and of two Fabrizio Bertuccioli's small painting as
contributions in support to the Plexus proposal of the opening a World Art Bank
in the island of Goree-Dakat. The presentation, managed by Zulu Mbaye, was
chaired by the former ambassador of
Senegal in Italy, S.E. Youssouph Baro, new international coordinator of Plexus
Dakar.