A show for Bethlehem-show for Peace

MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
360 international artists for peace
51 photographers 42 video artists 18 multimedia artists 150 sound artists 100 statement artists

INAUGURATION
16th December 2006_6.30 P.M.
16th December 06 – 16th January 07

CURATED BY
Agricola de Cologne, Antonio Manfredi

A PROJECT BY
Media/Art/Cologne powered
by NewMediaArtProjectNetwork]:||Cologne

ORGANIZED BY
International Contemporary Art Center|Naples

IN COLLABORATION WITH
Al Kahf Gallery Bethlehem | Palestine
MAC – Museo Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe | Argentina
Officyna Art Space Szczecin | Poland
MACRO – Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario | Argentina

CONCEPT

Selfportrait – a show for Bethlehem – show for Peace is a travelling exhibition cured by Agricola de Cologne and Antonio Manfredi in collaboration with the New Media Art Project Network in Cologne – Germany, of the Kahf Gallery Bethlehem_International Center/Palestina, of the MAC_Museo Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe/Argentina, of the MACRO_Museo Arte Contemporaneo Rosario/Argentina, of the Officyna Art Space Szczecin/Poland and of the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum/Naples, Italy.
360 artists, 260 multimedia, audio and video works, 100 texts of creative writing and visual poetry with one aim: using a common language of peace. The first day of the exhibition is December 16^th, 2006 at the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, the museum that will receive all the works of the exhibition, thus enriching its already large permanent international collection. All of the works are a metaphor of an universal code which expresses itself by means of contemporary media, such as photography, video and computers. The pictures exhibited here are the self-portraits of the artists, are the affirmation of a life aimed to the abolition of any cultural differences. Strong images and classic poses and a topic where no generalisation is allowed. The daily observation of the current situation in Middle East (or of any other country where war is part of the everyday life) through mass media has led people to be less sensitive to the topic, to be used to it also visually speaking. The images of the exhibition want to put a break to this situation and offer strong emotions. The tortures perpetuated during wars, the symbolic expression of a different culture, the words and sounds of a different language are the subjects of the works of this exhibition. The attitude of these artists is often to refuse or protest against the injustice of a war “sponsored” by a few powerful men. Sometimes it is just the vision of a different routine, related to a new perception of living/surviving. The voice that wants to be listened to, that wants to claim peace through art, is the voice of the artists whose everyday life and expression of their own artistic way is denied. In a “non-place” where there is just war, art still exists and affirms its own identity.

ARTISTS

digital prints/photographs 51
Samar Ghattas/Palestine Faten Nasdas/Palestine Larissa Sansour/Palestine Mushon/Israel Ravit Bechor/Belgium/Israel Elif Ayiter/Turkey Norbert Attard/Malta Roberto Echen/Argentina Marula di Como/Argentina Anahi Caceres/Argentina Caterina Davinio/Italy Pier Giorgio de Pinto/Italy Rebecca Hackeman/USA Jesus Macarena-Avila/USA Oksana Shatalova/Kazakhstan Alla Gilik/Kazakhstan Nicola Zammit/Great Britain Hervй Constant/Great Britain Pamela Wells/Great Britain Marian Delyth/Wales/Great Britain Olga Neva/Great Britain Mirjana Batinic/Croatia Vladimir Biga/Croatia Daniel Milcic/Croatia Jasenka Vukelic/Croatia Irena Frantal/Croatia Romana Jagic/Croatia SH Majstorovic/Croatia Petra Brnardic/Croatia Brigitte Neufeldt/Germany Christa Niestrath/Germany Kai Pohl/Germany Agricola de Cologne/Germany Wolf Nkole Helzle/Germany Leslie Huppert/Germany Gertrud Rietmьller/Germany Artur Holling/Germany Gita Hashemi/Canada Bruce Eves/Canada Wilton Azevedo/Brazil Cendres Lavy/France Carola Blanco/Venezuela Antoni Karwowski/Poland Hans Bernhard/Austria Irena Paskali/Macedonia Nitin Shroff/Seychelle Islands Alison Williams/South Africa Yolanda Spinola/Spain Aphrodite Navab/Iran Diana Guzmбn/Mexico Marlen Karlen/Switzerland

digital video 42
Eileen Bonner/Great Britain Jack Messenger & Chirstinn Whyte/Great Britain Jen Ross/Great Britain Cynthia Whelan/Great Britain Donald Bousted/Great Britain Michael Szpakowski/Great Britain Reuben James Preston/Great Britain Svetlana & Andi Wallwhore/Great Britain Christina McPhee/USA Alice Arnold/USA Clare Ultimo/USA Vince Briffa/Malta Agricola de Cologne/Germany Lee Welch/Ireland Giovanni Antignano/Italy Oliver Griem/South Korea Sinasi Gunes/Turkey Nita Mocanu/Romania Andrй Austvoll/Norway Jeremy Blank/Australia Mireille Astore/Lebanon/Australia Miranda Mutanta/Australia Johanna Reich/Germany Theresa Krause/Germany Ilka Goetz/Germany Irene Coremberg/Argentina Herve Constant/Great Britain Nate Aldrich/USA Lina Persson/Sweden Carla Della Beffa/Italy Sonya Rademeyer/South Africa Melanie Perrier/France Jimmy Owenns/France Ane Lan/Norway Ina Loitzl/Austria Unnur Andrea Einardsdottir/Iceland June Pak/Canada Moon Na/Korea Sofia v. Bustorff/Portugal Ursula Bachmann/Switzerland Richard Jochum/Austria

multimedia 18
Babel/Canada Raivo Kelomees/Estonia Tiia Johannson/Estonia Dagmar Kase/Estonia Kerstin Mahlmann/Germany Michael Brynntrup/Germany Wittwulf Y Malik/Germany Jody Zellen/USA Raquel Partnoy/USA Avi Rosen/Israel Luigia Cardarelli/Italy Kiki Latetic/Slovenia Angeliki Avgitidou/Greece Yamanaka Adam Nash/Australia Andamio Contiguo/Argentina Enrico Tomaselli/Italy Ramona Poenaru/Romania Christian Rupp/Austria

soundart 16
Mika Nyssцnen/Finland Wolfgang Peter Menzel/Sweden HARS/Netherlands Kahleb Sabsabi/Lebanon/Australia Carlos Paz Carlson/Uruguay Caroline De Lannoy/Great Britain Sean Burn/Great Britain Carlo Fatigoni/Italy Thomas Kusitzky/Germany Agricola de Cologne/Germany Sergio Merce/Argentina Juan Antonio Lleo/Spain AXIAL-Felipe Julian/Spain I.J.Pino/Croatia tobias c. van Veen/Canada Cesary Ostrowsky/Poland

My Mission – artists’ statements (scrittura creativa) 100
Daniel Young/USA Mr. Robert Montini/USA Robin Miller/USA Richard Ellis/USA David Crawford/USA Kristin Calabrese/USA Michael Crane/USA Lisa Ndejuru/USA Doren Garcia/USA Seth Thomson/USA Alan Sondheim/USA C.D. Beltran/USA Luckywings/USA Lynne Taetzsch/USA John Kannenberg/USA Scott Becker/USA Lois Klassen/USA Nathan James/USA Jubal Brown/USA Natasha Radell/USA Jeremy Newman/USA Dizzy/USA Sarah Browne/USA Pace F. Parado/USA Mark Wolfe/USA Carole Loefler/USA Dr. Hugo/Belgium Rene Joseph/Belgium Eric van Hove/Belgium Eva Lewarne/Canada Gita Hashemi/Iran/Canada Barry Smilie/Canada Wendy Lu/Canada Graham Thompson/Canada Julie Andreyev/Canada Ijosй Benin/Canada Cyril Duneau/Canada/Garnet Abrahams/Canada Blair Butterfield/Great Britain Caterine Daly/Great Britain Richard Osborn/Great Britain Brian Routh/Great Britain Veronica C. Wilkinson/Great Britain Davon Hlongwane/Great Britain Luna Nera/Great Britain Nigel Petherick/Great Britain Maggie Montgomery/Great Britain Corina Pia/Great Britain Shaukat Khan/Great Britain Ann Tracy/Great Britain Heather J. Tait/Great Britain X Rokeby/Great Britain Michael Branthwaite/Great Britain Luigia Cardarelli/Great Britain Carla Della Beffa/Great Britain Pino Boresta/Italy Alberto Frigo/Italy Boel Olsson/Sweden Michael Haskett/Sweden Peter Svedberg/Sweden Eric B. Petersen/Sweden Ksenija Kovcevic/Serbia GORZO/Serbia Zon Sakai/Serbia Cecilia Lueza/Italy Aynil/Italy Domenico Olivero/Italy Ida Dominici/Italy Roberto Echen/Argentina Leandro Katz/Argentina Anahi Caceres/Argentina Francisco Vidal/Argentina Stella Maris Angel Villegas/Argentina Cendres Lavy/France Xavier Malbreil/France Yavier Pehuet/France Aikaterini Gregisian/France Antonio Alvarado/Spain Alvaro Ardйvol/Spain Klaus W. Eisenlohr/Germany Marcello Mercado/Germany Sandra Becker/Germany Volker Behrend Peters/Germany Joern Ebner/Great Britain/Germany Randers/Germany Jd.Vd’Aragon Aranita/Hong Kong Lee Welch/Ireland Harriet Jamesson Pellizari/Austria Teo Spiller/Slovenia Fabian Giles/Mexico mm Anthony Leland/New Zealand gintas K/Lithuania Sergeij Jakovlev/Russia Igor Ulanovsky/Israel Cezar Lazarescu/Romania Clemente Padin/Uruguay Andres Yepes/Venezuela Miss C. Johnson/South Africa Nitin Shroff/Seychelles Solveig Kjok/Norway Ricardo Miranda Zuniga/Nicaragua/USA