Kunstprojekt “MEETINGPOINT SARAJEVO“

stadtansicht sarajevo 1900

 

 

Kooperation zwischen dem Verein „Steiermark-Sarajevo-Artconnection“ Präs. Christine Kertz und Sabiha Hadzimurstovic/Tribune, Sarajevo.

Thema: „Meeting Point Sarajevo

 

KünstlerInnen aus Österreich und BiH arbeiten in Sarajevo vom 25.5. bis 30.5.2014 zum Thema, in Anbetracht 100 Jahre Attentat auf  Erzherzog Ferdinand und seine Gattin.

Die Arbeiten werden im Nationalmuseum von BiH am 31.5.2014 der Öffentlichkeit in Sarajevo präsentiert, danach im Hotel Austria/Ilidza.

 

GrazMuseum – Gotische Halle am 02.09.2014.

 

Kuratorinnen des Projektes:

Dr.in Edith Risse/Österreich und Branka Brkic/BiH

 

Organisation:

Christine Kertz und Sabiha Hadzimuratovic

 

 

Eröffnungsrede Dr.in Edith Risse Meeting Point Sarajevo:

 

„Five Styrian artists, Julia Bauernfeind, Anna Baumann, Gerhard Flekatsch (as a guest from Vienna), Christine Kertz and Armin W. Nimra Ruckerbauer have accepted the challenge to come to Sarajevo and to work as well as to exhibit together with well-known Bosnian artists.

Most of them only knew Bosnia and Herzegovina because of historical occurrences as the homicide of the Austria heir apparent Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophia in 1914. And some of them have got information about the Olympic Winter Games in Sarajevo in 1984. In the latest news before we had left Austria we heard about the terrible floods which have damaged large parts of your country.

So the Styrian artists made up their minds to establish ties between the past and present age. But they also ask questions about the future.

Christine Kertz, she is also the organiser of this project, presents 100 wood carvings symbolizing the human feelings in the years between 1914 and 2014, between euphoria and desperation, ending with the wish and the hope for a future in peace. A piece of wood from a Sarajevo tree illustrates the wound and the trauma that could only heal in the future.

Armin W. Nimra Ruckerbauer reverts to the past, too. For him old articles of clothing found in Sarajevo stand for the past. They build up a sculpture of clothing together with free-foamed plastics often used for reconstructing as a symbol of aspiration. Nevertheless, his object allegorises an anti monument, because clothing always remain, but the human beings disappear.

Extinction and disguising are the dominating topics in Gerhard Flekatschs art works. They deal with the bereavement of the language and of written words. Individual‘s destinies are covered by fateful occurrences such as war and floods, creating individual realities. Written history has never been a matter of individual persons. Their heads are hidden.

Julia Bauernfeind wants to appeal on the core-intuition with her process-related method of working. Her traces go back to the past, too. She includes material of famous artists of the 20th century having been soldiers or of those who were convinced that war would open the doors for a better future. Even the highest levels of civilisation were on duty of war. But war leads to chaos, and chaos destroys everything. Maybe some tattered parts remain and can be connected again, but they are not unbroken any more.

The youngest of the group, Anna Baumann, reminds of the Olympic Games in 1984. Her art installation refers to Georges Orwell‘ s sentence „Olympic games are war without gunfire“. Both are competitions between nations. The five medals arranged in the shape of the Olympic Rings are flowing out, they seem to cry as they also represent the five military commandos during the Bosnian War. But the artist also did research about the Olympic venues. She focused on the Olympic stadium and on the bob sleigh run. Both are nowadays almost forgotten in the public commemoration.

The Styrian artists are glad to get acquainted with the very special ambiance of Sarajevo and to show their exhibits together with excellent Bosnian colleagues hoping that the audience will enjoy this presentation.“

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