On CDOs and Double Clubs — Call for Artwork

On CDOs and Double Clubs is co-curated by AUGUST art, a London art space, and Giacomo Picca, an artist who curated draw_drawing_ (London 2004 and 2006, part of London Biennale). The exhibition will be in AUGUST art’s gallery space in Islington, London UK, in March 2009.

The Project:

On CDOs and Double Clubs is an experiment looking at the value of art. It seems an apt time given the global economic uncertainty, with the acquisition and prices of art falling. Damien Hirst stirred controversy with his statement that “art is only worth what someone will pay for it”. But to those who refute this by saying that art’s value is intrinsic, there is the question of intrinsic to whom? Intrinsic via the institutional subscription process still leads back to the art market, even indirectly through the need for financing. Joseph Beuys said that real capital is not money but people as the sum of creativity of all individuals. This experiment seems one way to test that.

The project will consist of this open invitation and an exhibition of all submitted works. It will also include an art swap, where participants may choose to swap art for art (or something else of value). The aim is for no money to be exchanged, only value for value. We, as curators, are questioning our subscription role by relinquishing it. Artists are being asked directly the question of value, both intrinsic and extrinsic, in choosing to participate (or not) in the exhibition and the art swap. Viewers, too, have their part to play. To acquire an artwork in the swap, they need to assess value without the benefit of gallery endorsement and pricing and determine their own method of payment.

The final part of the project is the documentation of the art swap as the findings from this experiment, which will be made publicly available.

Art Swap – August Art March 2009

Sources:

Art Swap Participants: http://www.giacomopicca.co.uk/artswapparticipants.html

http://www.augustart.co.uk/

http://www.augustart.co.uk/archive/artswap.htm

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/how-to-spot-a-golden-calf–or-a-cash-cow-1625852.html

http://www.giacomopicca.co.uk/artswapgallery.html

SACS (Space Contemporary Art Experimental) of the City of Quiliano (Savona) has always worked to organize events of mail art and net art in the time they have seen a steady growth of participants. We are currently working to a net-art whose theme is “Artepace”, where artists are asked to express themselves through a digital work. To this end we have undertaken a collaborative relationship with the journalists of the magazine online Peacereporter, on whose website (www.peacereporter.net) you can find a list of conflicts that cause bloodshed in the world right now, besides numerous other information

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Artefatto 2008 Esthetical Blitz

This year I had the special honor, one of my art work titled “Dignity is an entity” among the 200 to selected for Artefatto 2008 Esthetical Blitz exhibition, organized by Comune di Trieste, the Assessorato all’Educazione, the Università e Ricerca the Servizi Educativi Integrati per l’Infanzia i Giovani e la Famiglia the Assessorato Alla Cultura and Civici Musei di Storia ed Arte, in Trieste Italy.

Aristotelis Triantis, “Dignity is an entity” 2001, 32,6×37 cm Collage

The Artefatto project represents the result of a strong collaboration between the university and research area and culture area for the municipality of Trieste. It is an articulated project, thought to the sign of openness. In the last two years he intended to give voice not only to an artistic and creative need of young people who gravitate in the city, but also tried to intercept and enhance the energies Of young people from other areas and cultures, such as the European Centre basin, Italy, Germany, and, from this year, the Balkans, Slovenia, Croatia, and Greece. 190 Young artists participated. 400 works have been sent, and 200 selected works have been listed in the exhibition catalogue. The numbers in this edition speak for themselves and encourage to go forward with a critical look towards the future, the latter's ability and distinctive feature of young artists.

Sources:

http://2008.artefatto.info

www.retecivica.trieste.it

www.ricretoti.it

The first personal exhibition of visual artist Aristotelis Triantis was take place in the gallery of “International Action Art” Technodrasi, a branch of UNESCO Piraeus in Greece between 11 - 17 March of 2008. The eighteen exhibited artworks was a small format paintings in oils and watercolors and also in ink and charcoal drawings. 

Web site: internationalactionart.grr