This is text of the announcement:
"Küf-Mold is a remake and continuation of a project that originated in Istanbul in 2007. In September 2007 sixty artists of 10 different nationalities exhibited work in the covered bazaar in the old city centre.
In Gent Küf-Mold will be present in several different locations:
- Individual installations in shops, cafés and restaurants on a route leading from the centre of Gent to the periphery, going through one of the predominantly Turkish neighbourhoods of the city: Oudburg, Sleepstraat, St Salvatorstraat, Muide
- An exhibition of photographs about the original Istanbul experience
- An overview of work by the participating artists in Gallery Jan Colle
- Art outside a strictly art world framework.
Küf-Mold is not a concept thought out by a curator, museum director or art pope, but is made by the artists themselves. By placing art in non-conventional outlets they search for new, free and fanciful dialogues with their public. Those who want to see it as a criticism of the established art circuit and its selection procedures are welcome to do so. - Based on affinities between:
- Tradesmen and artists, both are independent workers who look for attention for their work and trade
- A very heterogeneous, international group of artists, the sixty artists are from 10 countries: Turkey, the USA, Canada, Cuba, Belgium, the Netherlands, Russia, Oekraïne, Irak, South-Korea and a lot of them are mutual friends
- Turkey, Belgium and other cultures, Küf-Mold is multicultural in a self-evident, almost unsought way.
Click here for the Turkish text.
Front cover, double page spread with Genco Gulan in the coppersmith's shop, back cover with Wendy Hirschberg.
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Thanks folks!
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