Ars Aevi Sarajevo is a museum of contemporary art in Sarajevo. It was formed during the war as a "resistance of culture". Now it has aprox. 130 works by renowned world artists including Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis, Joseph Beuys, Braco Dimitrijević, and Joseph Kosuth. The new museum Building is designed by Renzo Piano and planned to be open by 2009. Sarajevo (Summer 2004) Downtown Sarajevo and the Miljacka river. ... Beuys, picture by Andy Warhol Joseph Beuys (May 12, 1921 – January 23, 1986) was a German artist who produced work in a number of forms including sculpture, performance art, video art and installations. ... Categories: Stub | 1945 births | Conceptual artists | Contemporary artists | Modern artists ... Renzo Piano (born September 14, 1937) is a famous architect. ...
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Ars Aevi Official Web Site (http://www.arsaevi.ba)
Once that the ArsAevi project obtained support by the Executive Council of the city of Sarajevo and the Bosnia Herzegovina government he flew to Italy promoting the ArsAevi project at the opening of the Biennial of Venice in 1993.
During several editions of the Biennial of Venice (1997,1999,2001,2003) the ArsAevi catalogues and other promotional stuff for the Project were distributed to all the journalists, artists, major art experts, museum representatives, art galleries, foundations and contemporary art centre.
From ArsAevi headquarters, either in Sarajevo or in Italy, he has keept coordinating the world campaign for collecting funds to build the future ArsAevi regional and international centre and contemporary art museum in Sarajevo, whose architectural design has been assigned to Renzo Piano.
ArsAevi as the official name for the project came later, in 1996, selected both as an anagram for the word Sarajevo and as the "Art of the Epoch" in Latin.
The International Cultural Project ArsAevi has created a respectable collection of art over the past ten years, and at present is launching the process of designing, financing and constructing the ArsAevi architectural complex in Sarajevo.
Until such time that the ArsAevi Museum for Contemporary Art is built, the art collection is "displaced" and temporarily accommodated in the Historical Museum.
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