[spectre] Pancevo Art Salon 08 : tensions + breaking points

[Kyd C.]

tensions + breaking points : Pancevo Art Salon.08
November 20th-30th, 2008
Pancevo, Serbia

The Pancevo Art Salon returns this year from November 20th to 30th,
2008. This event will include an exhibition of local and international
artists works, performances, public workshops, presentations and a
mystery urban excursion addressing this year's thematic tensions +
breaking points . This event is hosted by Pancevo City Cultural Center
and curated by Kyd Campbell from the nomadic curatorial project
frontierlab.org.

http://www.frontierlab.org/pancevosalon08

The Pancevo Art Salon returns this year from November 20th to 30th,
2008. This event will include an exhibition of local and international
artists works, performances, public workshops, presentations and a
mystery urban excursion addressing this year's thematic tensions +
breaking points . This event is hosted by Pancevo City Cultural Center
and curated by Kyd Campbell from the nomadic curatorial project
frontierlab.org.

Gallery open Tuesday to Sunday [9h-13h + 17h-20h]
Vernissage : Thursday, November 20th, 19h [ presentations and Salesman
of Male Tears, performance by Gjorgje Jovanovik (MK)]

Exhibition and all events at:
Pancevo Gallery of Contemporary Art
GALERIJA SAVREMENE UMETNOSTI
Trg kralja Petra I 8, Pancevo, Serbia

events:

Saturday, November 22nd
    11h-14h : Graffiti Workshop with Zosen (AR/SP) [12 participants]
please contact panart at panet.co.yu to sign up
    17h : Artists presentations, Branka Curcic[KUDA.org], Gjorge Jovanovik
    18h : Public presentation of work from the graffiti workshop and DJs

Thursday, November 27th
    18h : Artist presentations (Ivana Jovanovic, Veljko Onjin) +
Guided tour of the exhibition with curator Kyd Campbell

Saturday, November 29th, 19pm
    MYSTERY URBAN EXCURSION in PANCEVO with Angela Dorrer
    Meet at the Pancevo Gallery of Contemporary Art
    GALERIJA SAVREMENE UMETNOSTI
    Trg kralja Petra I 8, Pancevo, Serbia

ARTISTS
AGF/Delay [Germany/Finland]
Aleksandra Mir [Poland]
Angela Dorrer [Germany/Canada]
EVOL(Roc Jimenez de Cineros) [Spain]
Gjorgje Jovanovik [Macedonia]
Istvan Kantor [Canada/Hungary]
Ivana Jovanovic [Serbia]
KUDA.org [Serbia]
Lucas Ablela [Australia]
Robert Del Tredici [Canada/USA]
Veljko Onjin [Serbia]
Zosen [Argentina/Spain]

tensions + breaking points : curator's notes

"... we realised that in reality the revolt came from the depths of ourselves".
[Antonio Garcia de Leon, Chiapas, 1994]

revolutions are, by their very own nature, unpredictable
the spark that sets fire to everything is inside you
(only the deed is revolutionary)
[Istvan Kantor, lyrics from 'Revolution Song']

The works presented in this exhibition vary in medium, ideas and
approaches but each deals with tension or rather the release of
tension. Now that the program has been assembled it seems unavoidable
to make a connection between these expressions and to concepts of
revolt and revolution.

A great many exhibitions in south-eastern Europe and indeed across the
world present images of cultural, political, geographical, and
emotional tensions but this exhibition is a proposal for some action
and voice. This international collection of works provides many
personal takes on how to remain active within and also maybe emerge
from states of tension. A central focus of this exhibition is on
questioning and recognising the personal in situations that may seem
larger than us.

In this world, to think of creating something beautiful seems a
terrible insensitivity, almost a mockery of those who, at this very
moment, are being tortured, brutalised, raped, killed. How can we
write poetry or paint pictures or give talks when we know what is
happening around us?
[John Holloway, 2008]

Here, with the collaboration of all of the artists, a stage has been
set for exploring the possibility that critical action, on public or
personal levels, must be asymmetrical*. For the most part, in curating
this exhibition, I purposefully avoided works that operate as or
resemble media and political tactics. Do not fight your fires with
fire.

Following this idea, it was important that this exhibition must not
present sterile, paralyzed or generalized approaches and messages.
Though all of these works take a critical standpoint, this is also an
opportunity to test the value of personalized and emotional
expressions and of beauty and aesthetic value.

The greatest challenge in presenting the 2008 Pancevo Art Salon, with
this topic and approach is essentially one of structural tension. This
exhibition brings a number of maverick art works together as a
solution towards making accessible these dynamic and individual
approaches in the approachable structure and vocabulary of a formal
gallery setting. Maybe there will be time for beauty and art after the
revolution. Can that time be now?

* (as described in the essay 'On Poetry and Revolution', John
Holloway, 'nicht alles tun / cannot do everything', Unrast-Verlag,
Munster,2008]

. Kyd Campbell
independent curator, frontierlab.org



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