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selfportrait_a show for Bethlehem_show for Peace
MEDIA ART EXHIBITION
CURATED BY
Agricola de Cologne
Antonio Manfredi
ORGANIZED BY
International Contemporary Art Center|Naples
IN COLLABORATION WITH
MAC - Museo Arte Contemporaneo Santa Fe
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Officyna Art Space Szczecin
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Poland
MACRO - Museum of Contemporary Art Rosario
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Argentina
51 photographers 42 video artists 18 multimedia artists
150 sound artists 100 statement artists
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 16th, 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.
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