Geneva Peace Week 2024: Arts and Peace Encounters
A GPW Special Event
9:00 - 10:30
- Date: Friday, 18 October 2024
- Time: 09:00 - 10:30 (90 min)
- Location: Auditorium Ivan Pictet, Maison de la Paix and livestreamed
Art plays a crucial role in societal transformation, offering individuals and communities empathy, hope, and the motivation to take action. By engaging our imagination, art encourages a shift from binary and linear thinking to a holistic experience. Various strategies have been developed to integrate art into conflict regions and fragile contexts, highlighting its transformative potential.
The Arts and Peace Encounters Event at this year's edition of Geneva Peace Week is designed as an immersive journey through different forms of artistic expression, including poetry, theater, music, and visual arts, combined with storytelling and short talks from artists, peacebuilders, and experts at the intersection of art and peace.
Organisers: Geneva Peacebuilding Platform, Caux Initiatives of Change, Kofi Annan Foundation
Visual Art
Fernando Cometto is a contemporary Argentinian painter, embarked on his artistic journey with his initial landing in Spain, where he continued to refine and expand his distinctive pictorial language, often utilizing recycled materials in his creations. Participating in numerous exhibitions and finding a place in private collections across Europe, South America, the United States, South Korea, and Australia, Fernando Cometto's work transcends borders, resonating with audiences across the globe. Through his vibrant and evocative canvases, he invites viewers to explore the dynamic interplay between imagination and reality, creating a visual language that speaks to the universal threads that connect us all.
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