GENERAL INFORMATION
Project name:
Park Art Museum
Duration and dates:
June 23rd - July 7th, 2002
Event at BELEF
(Belgrade summer festival)
Synopsis:
Discovering and animating of spaces without cultural happenings
and in that way reaching much wider audience. This land art project
is conceived to be interactive with public during its execution
and realization. We also want to redefine image and spirit of
this part of the city.
Location:
Park and lake of Ada Ciganlija, Belgrade, Serbia
Organizer:
PUNCTUM for Art Experiment
80 No.16, 11030 Belgrade
Serbia
Tel. + 381 11 502 104
+ 381 64 1771523
E-mail: punctumart@yahoo.com
PROJECT DESCRIPTION
Main goal of the project:
Our main goal is to enable direct exchange of artistic experience
between countries with different history and development of land
art movements, to create a multicultural project.
Also, one of goals within this project is to find a way that
the art works influence the citizens living in the area with
a high population density.
Motives for starting the project:
Ada lake was created as a sportive centre. It was one of last
nature oasis in Belgrade. Last ten years it's image changed a
lot. Ada Lake became place for criminals with cars, with a lot
of bars. With this international project we want to bring back
normal image of Ada and at the same time to start to create trough
art works new relation of visitors of Ada towards nature.
Land art projects are usually presented through documentation
(photos, videos...), which result in that, that they are known
only to limited groups of art professionals.
Situating this project in urban environment we will reach much
wider audience, we will enrich the lake and surrounding park,
change it's image from last ten years, experience new approaches
toward land art that derive from different cultural backgrounds
and improve ecological consciousness of the citizens as well
as their sense for the aesthetics.
At the same time we want to establish the most serious attempt
on international land art field of collaboration. The isolation
of our art scene, which has last for a decade, brought the ineffective
communication with current European trends in art. This project
is, in one way, the ultimatum for increasing the quality of the
future artwork in Serbia.
Description of the project:
Our idea was to try through art to deal with question that exists
in our society. We think that ordinary people through artwork
and involvement in it could better accept some political problems.
Punctum for art experiment invited artist from Holland and Sweden
(as countries where the land art practice is reach) to do their
projects in the park of Ada Ciganlija Lake, along with few Serbian
artists. All projects analyse questions about media, advertising,
politic and our recent history in Serbia. Projects did by foreign
artists threat not only the real space of the lake but also context
of living in Serbia and its recent history. Serbian artists in
their works used concept of image, reflection, screen that could
be reflection of our being and exciting in Serbia last years,
too.
Antoon
Versteegde (Holland)
Koncentricni krugovi- projekat 2 / Concentric
circles-Project 2
He will place bamboo circles at both sides of the lake opposite
to each other. The water forms a natural boundary and the reflection
in the water doubles the opposed circle. The bamboo wheels have
target in the middle. Target as a sing present in Serbian recent
history. For him target represents an interactive communication
between those who are involved. Terrible things happened, we
all have bad memories, but life goes on and we have to communicate
and make art and fun again. Asking ordinary people to help him
built wheels he will face them with sign of target, not liked
amongst local people, but through art maybe overpass.
Ingrid
Falk and Gustavo Aguerre (Sweden)
Their idea is to use material, which are
usually used to forbid passing through, such as protection fences
for construction spaces. With that material they will build construction
that could be passed by. They will make frontiers that are open,
by twisting the use and meaning of such protective materials.
In one part of Europe the frontiers disappeared but in other
part of Europe policy of visas and limitation of travelling are
still present.
Snezana Skoko (Serbia)
Her idea is to place "clothe screens"
in the different places in order to catch exciting shadows. These
"clothe screens" are corresponding to advertising billboards
and electronic screens, but without trade message. Their message
is real nature picture. We are "bombed " with commercial
message in new cities; billboards became common image of all
cities, from which we derived out nature. By these "clothe
screens" she is bringing back image of nature.
Dragana Markovic
(Serbia)
In European art history we had reach landscape
painting practice, where artists tried to paint very realistic
water in landscape. Her concept is to do "water" in
a material, which has in itself reality and nature of water such
as mirror. She will make a "mirror flower" field opposite
to real water of lake. This is not only picture of water but
have in itself reality of water. On the other hand mirror represent
for us always moment of reflection and confrontation with our
self. In the mirror the nature confront with it self but also
people with their history, being, future.
Zolt Kovac
(Serbia)
His concept is to exhibit camouflage textile
use in military purpose, but in form of canvas. Like paintings
are presented in the gallery, he will present these canvases
in nature, where they were assuming not to be seen easily. The
material, which was created to be hide in nature change it's
meaning, it will be exhibit to be seen. Camouflage canvases also
bring back the memory of solders presented at Ada Lake during
the bombing.
This project is aiming to enhance the future
cooperation between the participants from different environments
through joint projects. Aside the activities within the realization
of art works in the park, all participants will have joint meetings
and discussions with Serbian artists and art historians about
new forms of artistic cooperation and new context of land art.
The results of the project will be presented to the public in
different forms: at the open-air exhibition in the park, as well
as through public debates, discussion, publications and web site.
Concerning the exposed concept of the project
we can define the following expectations:
- the new landscape as well as a new image
of the park
- direct exchange of the artistic experiences
- establishing the consistent and continuing
communication channel between the participants, and in that way
enhancing the future joint projects
- basis for the quality and continuing future
land art development in Serbia
- informing and educating (concerning ecological
consciousness and aesthetics) a large scope of public with the
results of the project through the exhibition, public debates,
discussions, publications, mass media
As a long-term goal this project should
initiate the future cooperation in land art between artists from
different parts of Europe and contribute to the establishment
of the international land art network.
Let's
build TARGETS at
both sides of the wall...
