ART CITIES:London-THE ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE

‘’We’re all against war. But what are we for? Peace, we say. What is peace? Nobody quite knows’’, declares the artist and ex- U.N. adviser Robert Filliou, who had the idea for this Biennale of Hamburg at 1985, it was an alternative exhibition, which was a scream against the power of the past sociopolitical systems.

By Efi Michalarou
Photo: Richard Saltoun Gallery

In the occasion of the celebration of the 30 years from an exhibition where the alternative as an idea and ideology identified with some of the greatest artists of contemporary art, who wrote their own story, like: Joseph Beuys or Sol Le Witt, Richard Saltoun Gallery, organizes an exhibition entitled ‘’THE ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE’’, as a homage to this first great move. The current exhibition does not restage the earlier exhibition but gathers some of its artists together to represent its spirit and understand its context. Curated around Filliou’s key work “7 Childlike Uses of Warlike Material” (1970) the exhibition also includes works by Joseph Beuys, Henning Christiansen, Barry Flanagan, Sol LeWitt, Tony Morgan, Wolf Vostell, and Franz Erhard Walther. Important works include Sol LeWitt’s “Proposal for Walldrawing” (1985) that invites visitors to draw on the walls of the gallery and was featured in the 1985 exhibition. The Consultant Curator is: Roddy Hunter, who is an artist, curator and educator. He is the self-appointed curator of ‘’The Next Art-of-Peace Biennale’’, 2015-17, resuming the project conceived by Robert Filliou and René Block in 1985. He is Associate Professor and Director of Programmes in Fine Art, Middlesex University, London.

Info: “THE ART-OF-PEACE BIENNALE”, Richard Saltoun Gallery, 111 Great Titchfield Street, London, Duration: 13/2-20/3/15, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri: 10:00-18:00, www.richardsaltoun.com