trans-art: The Guernica Project

[anna balint]

trans-art <info at trans-art.no>

THE GUERNICA PROJECT

THE GUERNICA PROJECT
The background: U.N. officials covered up a tapestry reproduction of
Pablo Picasso's anti-war painting GUERNICA during Colin Powell's
presentation of the American case for war against Iraq.
This attempt to censor the free art should be met with thousands of
new versions of GUERNICA!
Those of us who are able to imagine the horrors, sufferings, pain and
grief caused by war are also able to see the provocation in this act
of censorship against an artwork that has these effects of war as its
theme.

It is arrogant and naïve to believe that GUERNICA can be censored
when it becomes too embarrassingly relevant. Now the result will be
the opposite: GUERNICA will re-appear in a number of versions all
over the world!
trans-art - a gallery and a group of four artists in Trondheim,
Norway- now call upon fellow artists to create new, updated versions
of this great, anti-war painting. This can be done as paintings,
drawings, installations, performances etc.

We would be very grateful if you could send us documentation of your
version by mail. Please use standard web formats (jpg, gif, mov,
mpeg, ram).
Send documentation, comments or relevant links to: info at trans-art.no
We will present the documentation on our web pages at www.trans-art.no