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ANONYMOUS DRAWINGS N°9, Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin.
19/12/08
december 20 & 21 / 2008
opening: december 19th / 7 pm
program:
Saturday, December 20, 8 pm:
FLIP Animation Screening / framed by FUKT 2008
bar & DJ
& presentation of FUKT - magazine for contemporary drawing #7
Sunday, 21 of December, 3 pm:
4th of Advent at Bethanienwith hot wine punch and christmas cookies
Friday - Sunday:
Sale of Anonymous Drawings for a unit sales price of 150 Euro
opening hours: 12 - 7 pm
location:
Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien
Mariannenplatz 2
10997 Berlin
Germany
www.bluetenweiss-berlin.de
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concept and idea
A selection of about 300 Drawings by international artists will be presented anonymously on the scheduled evening: Every Anonymous Drawings show is preceded by an international open call for entries on the Internet. There are no specifications regarding the content of the works. The artist's anonymity can be lifted by means of purchasing a drawing for the symbolic unit salesprice of 150 EUR. The buyer can take his drawing right off the wall and s/he is then told the name of its author. The empty space the drawing leaves behind will be marked with the artist‘s full name.
The predefined unit salesprice of 150 EUR is not to be understood as a real market price but rather as a placeholder-fee for any possible amount of money. The exhibited drawings will be work of both established and lay-artists. Due to this fact blütenweiss asks the viewer him/herself to draw the line between Art and Non-Art. The participating artists agree to withdraw themselves and their usual pricing in favor of the subject: the drawing itself. Typical mechanisms of the art-market, like ricing, the artist's own ego, and predefined concepts of quality are turned upside down and questioned in an experimental way. A priori for the evaluation of the work is not the name and the biography of the individual artist, but the work itself.
bluetenweiss reserves the right to choose which works will be exhibited; our priorities, however, are formal and content variety.
The artists receive 100 EUR of the sale-price. The other 50 EUR will be used by blütenweiss exclusively for the realization of further Anonymous shows and projects.
blütenweiss publishes a brochure (black/white - 60 pages, limited edition) showing a selection of anonymous works, for each Anonymous Drawings exhibit which
is available for 10 Euro during the exhibition time and online at the blütenweiss-shop.