- Title: WEST GERMANY: "PEACE BIENNIAL" EXPLORES NEW ART FORMS FOR PEACE.
- Date: 21st December 1985
- Summary: 1. GV & CU Hamburg Academy building and exhibition sign (2 shots) 0.09 2. SV & CU Musical instruments powered by sun rays (2 shots) 0.27 3. CU & SV ZOOM OUT Buddha watching screen of self burning (2 shots) 0.45 4. SV People at the exhibition 0.49 5. CUs & SV Electric fans blowing black pennants around a room (3 shots) 1.12 6. CU & SV Sign on door. Door opens to show
- Embargoed: 5th January 1986 12:00
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- Location: HAMBURG, WEST GERMANY
- Topics: General
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- Story Text: HAMBURG, WEST GERMANY
The first ever biennial "Art of Peace" exhibition is being held at the Hamburg Art Academy December 1-January 12, two years after the idea was first put forward by Professor Robert Filliou. In spring of 1985 Professor Filliou, a French visual artist and guest-professor at the academy, invited artists from all over the world to contribute their works to the exhibition. What became known as the Filliou Manifesto says the first step in building new ideas for peace is to create new models to find forms for peace, not the visitors of horror that receive so much attention. It is hoped that the gathering together of art, science and philosophy would create a "new reality" offering an alternative art form that was at odds with what was seen as a fated and bleak destiny for mankind. Exhibits such as "Music from the Sun for Peace" by Joe Jones, Joseph Beuys' " Buddha Watching His Own Destruction on TV or The Zone of Wistful Thought with fans blowing black cloth aimlessly around a room) by Ken Unsworth capture the essence of the exhibition . Six hundred artist responded to Professor Filliou's offer to exhibit their works with over 150 finally chosen for the show. It is hoped that the proposed "Peace Bienneal" will continue to be held in the future. This year's exhibition was sponsored by the Hamburg Culture Board. Amsterdam will be the venue for the 1987 exhibition, with either London or Oslo playing host in 1989. Jaroslaw Kozlowski's "Please Don't Disturb" and Ilan Auerbuch's circle of granite called "Meeting" were also shown.
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