Presentation tour of ‘Brac. Book Recipes Artists Cooking’: 17th May MamBo; 19th May Podere Castellare; 24th May Cremona Contemporanea Art week; 25th May La casa degli artisti, Milan.

The book, published by Corraini, brings together vegan and vegetarian recipes by chef Sacha Sandri Olmo and 78 works by the artists who revolve around the contemporary art bookstore Brac. A marvellous object to which I contributed the photograph Prelievo Orientale, part of the Orbital View project, which I associated with the culinary prodigy Seitan Masala.

image on the right: the book hold by Susanna Ravelli on the “Prelievo Orientale” page at Casa degli Artisti during the exhibition “Home”.

For fifteen years, the BRAC Bookshop in Florence has been combining good vegetarian and vegan cuisine and publishing dedicated to the languages of contemporary art. A formula that is an expression of the passions of the two owners, Sacha and Melisa: an imaginative chef specialising in vegetarian and vegan cuisine who is in love with comics and illustration, and a bibliophile with an interest in contemporary art in all its forms of expression (art, theatre, dance, cinema, photography).

Since its opening in 2009 to date, the Brac has organised and hosted around 1,800 meetings and book presentations, promoted and realised several festivals, events and exhibitions. This volume collects 80 recipes, born and served within the BRAC, entrusted to the free interpretation of 78 contemporary artists.

“They include all of Scripta’s guests – as Pietro Gaglianò writes – as well as beloved friends, regular visitors to the bookshop and its events, people who have passed through and who remain ever-present, together with others who have never been to Brac but who, through virtuous or virtual ties, through friendship or out of affinity, form a fundamental part of its universe of art, books and words”.