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 October 13-17, in Rome, at the Roof Garden of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, the Consortium's Organizing Committee presented “From Welfare to WellBeing: Eating Art, Get the Best from Your Food, Food for All”, as a special parallel event to the FAO World Food Summit. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is convening a World Food Summit in Rome from 13 to 17 November 1996. Some 100 Heads of State and Government have so far confirmed their attendance at the World Food Summit, which will be the first time in history that such a high-level conference has come together to discuss the issue of “food security”. The Plan of Action which leaders are expected to adopt states: “ Food security exists when all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food prefernces for an active and healthy life.” As a parallel event to the Summit, the Consortium for the Well Being in the 21st Century, under the auspices of the Municipality of the City of Rome and the Italian Ministry of Culture, and in cooperation with the FAO Food and Nutrition Division, is organizing an exhibit on “Food for All”. This exhibit will be held at the Roof Garden of the Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, and will feature paintings and sculptures from artists from all continents, video and inter-active media displays and FAO nutrition education materials “Get the Best from your Food”. An FAO Internet site will be placed within the exhibit linking the World Food Summit at FAO headquarters through an inter-active media link in collaboration with RAI International so that general public attending the exhibit will be continuously informed of Summit events. Included in the exhibit will be art selected for a special world art fund “Fondo Mondiale dell'Arte” to be located at Gorée, Dakar, Senegal, which will link art with the development of better food supplies and nutrition for all. In addition to promoting the World Food Summit, the exhibit will be a further step by the Consortium for the Wellbeing in the 21st Century towards the Rome 2000 Jubilee celebrations.
The artists were:featuring: Giancarlo Schiaffini, Alvin Curran, Renato Manbor, Aldo Braibanti, Giampaolo Berto, Baldo Deodato, Leonardo Carrano, Amerigo Schiavo, Enrica Scalfari, Adriano Mordenti, Bruno Canova, Angelo Falciano, Vito Mirobelli, Reinhard Pfingst, Tomoko Jindo, June Di Schino, Leonora Adams, Pilar Aguirre, Miguel Algarin, Minou Amirsoleimani, Mauricio Bentes, Randa Berouti, Marcello Brizzi, William Canty, Gino Casavecchia, Piero Cianflone, Quaselle Curtis, Carlo Cusatelli, Eleonora del Brocco, Elisabetta Diamanti, Andrea di Giacomo, Baldo Diadato, David Ecker, Venera Finocchiaro, Giorgio Fiume, Nicola Froggio Francica, Volker Klein, Arturo Lindsay, Andrea Maggiar, Roberto Marino, Raffaello Paiella, Mario Palmieri, Mario Paoletti, Patrizia Pinori, Gabriella Porpora, Micaela Serino, Vadoody Soheila, Vittorio Terracina, Ilir Zefi, Maria Pia Marsala, Fabrizio Bertuccioli, Marco Fabiano, Valerio Immi, Fabiana Iacolucci, Sabrina Ceccobelli, Franco Lao-Tan, Carlo Bordini, Tony Spiller, Giuseppe Aliberti, Marco Anelli, Emilio Cafiero, Vincenzo Ceccato, Giò Cuccus, Dario Cubani, Iginio De Luca, Antonio De Pietro, Ferdinando Fedele, Elmerindo Fiore, Sabrina Foschini, Giorgio Galli, Sebastiano Guerrera, Enco L’Acqua, Enzo Lisi, Gianni Mantovani, Claudio Marini, Fabio Masatti, Francesco Melone, Michelangelo Penso, Michele Peri, Luca Piovaccari, Graziano Pompili, Paolo Radi, Maurizio Pio Rocchi, Fausto Roma, Massimo Rossetti, Juan Segua, Claudio Spoletini, Franco Ule, Mario Velocci, Daniele Mezzani, Gianfranco Biancofiore, Guido Confini, Livia Bortolini, Massimiliano Cicciotti, Mariateresa Ciammaruconi, Davide Colantoni, Nicoletta Procella, Alessandro D’Agostini, Pierluca Dal Canto, Sandro Disegni, Federico Falcioni, Rossella Fusco, Francesco Graco, Maria Jatosti, Daniele Leoni, Marco Mancini, Myriam Marino, Stefano Monteforte, Giorgio Nisini, Bruno Mattia Pascal, Orazio Poli, Alessio Porcaccia, Biagio Propato, Rossella Pugliese, Maria C. Raieta, Giampiero Ricci, Lidia Rivello, Michela Rizzo, Sergio Saritzu, Monica Savoia, Eugenia Serafini, Mauro Simonetti, Federica Terrenzio, Davide Vescia. Poster by Margaret Licastro.