THE VALENCIA BIENNIAL SUPPORTS JEROME MALLET
June 28, 2001: Hands Off Cain will team up with the Valencia Biennial in a campaign to save Jerome Mallet’s life and relaunch the UN moratorium on executions. Jerome Mallet will be executed on July 11, after 16 years on death row.
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the Valencia Biennial will be the first organisation from the art world to take a stand against the death penalty.
In a joint initiative with Hands Off Cain, Valencia’s Under Secretary for Culture Consuelo Ciscar, will call for the commutation of Jerome Mallet’s death sentence to a life term. Mallet is set to die by lethal injection in Missouri on July 11 for killing James Froemsdorf, a state highway patrolman.
Jerome’s picture, taken by Oliviero Toscani for the “We, on death row” advertising campaign, is featured in the The body of Art exhibition housed in the Convento del Carmen.
Toscani, Biennial director Luigi Settembrini, exhibition director Achille Bonito Oliva, and Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia will join Ms Ciscar to launch the initiative at a press conference on Sunday, July 1 at 12.00 CET at the Convento del Carmen.
In a joint initiative with Hands Off Cain, Valencia’s Under Secretary for Culture Consuelo Ciscar, will call for the commutation of Jerome Mallet’s death sentence to a life term. Mallet is set to die by lethal injection in Missouri on July 11 for killing James Froemsdorf, a state highway patrolman.
Jerome’s picture, taken by Oliviero Toscani for the “We, on death row” advertising campaign, is featured in the The body of Art exhibition housed in the Convento del Carmen.
Toscani, Biennial director Luigi Settembrini, exhibition director Achille Bonito Oliva, and Hands Off Cain secretary Sergio D’Elia will join Ms Ciscar to launch the initiative at a press conference on Sunday, July 1 at 12.00 CET at the Convento del Carmen.
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- Hands off Cain 28/06/2001
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