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The Travalling Painters
22.09.03 Skopje - 25.09.2003
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Cultural
Center Tocka was host institution of the two Dutch based
The Travalling Painters
and their assistent from Bosnia and Hercegovina, Maja Cvoro.
Not only we gave logistical infrastructure, but we were
activly included in all the troubles they fased in this
country of ours, with the state organs, paranoid and
grotesque. |
From
early August until the end of September 2003 the art project Slikari
Putuju (= The Travalling Painters) will continue its route from
Belgrade (Serbia) to Ohrid in Macedonia. The artists Rene Klarenbeek
(NL) and Dagmar Drews (D) alreadry conducted a daily growing
sequence of billboard paintings last year. The images were painted
and exhibited in several locations in the Netherlands, Germany,
Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia. This year
they will to complete the tour in Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo/a and
Macedonia. The Project Team, which will also include Maja Cvoro
(BiH) as the Project Assistant, will use a small bus as a mobile
studio, on which a dismountable billboard (size 300 x 300 cm) will
be connected. Together with many people they will meet along their
route, the Travelling Painters will work on a daily growing sequence
of images, to be painted one on top of the other on the billboard.
This working method indicates that with every new painting, the
previous one will be painted over. But only of course after
documenting it and the public reactions on it thoroughly. On every
stop along the journey, the artists will start their work by
initiating their billboard concept in the local setting.
Subsequently upcoming ideas will be discussed, and new images will
be developed and painted together with several locals of different
ages, ethnicities and backgrounds. In this working process, the
Travelling Painters see their own contribution as mainly initiative
and supportive. The more the local people themselves will actually
paint, the better it is. After each painting session, the billboard
will be exhibited on a spot selected by the local participants. That
might also be in the next village, or maybe somewhere on the other
side of the border, in the next country on the route. The entire two
months travel adventure, the day to day development of the working
process and of course all of the billboard paintings and the public
responses on them will be displayed on this daily updated project
website.
By the begin of October, when this two months tour will have it’s
presentation in Belgrade, this by then only virtually existing
sequence of billboard paintings will have formed a unique
www-available collection of very personal self portraits of people
who were formerly only known as ex-Yugoslavs. All the collected
comments on papers of all the people they met on their travels, will
be finally exhibited in REX Cultural Centre.
Info about previous projects on: www.painter.nl,
http://painter.bart.nl and
www.der-loeffel-meines-vaters.de
SLIKARI PUTUJU has been funded by ‘The Art for Social Change
Program’ of the European Cultural Foundation (ECF) and HIVOS
(Humanist Institute for Development Cooperation). Other project
participants and sponsors are: Caparol Nederland / Centre for Peace
Studies, Zagreb, Vukovar / City Assembly of Belgrade / D&D Office
Support, Den Haag / FBVBK, Amsterdam / Headquarters of the City of
Zagreb / Ministry of Culture of Croatia / Ministry of Culture of
Serbia / REX Cultural Centre (B92), Belgrade / Royal Netherlands
Embassies in Belgrade, Sarajevo, Zagreb, Skopje / Stroom hcbk, Den
Haag
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