[artinfo] Danube Flood Appeal Auction in Budapest, 3rd June, 2006
Janos Szoboszlai
jszoboszlai at acbgaleria.hu
Thu May 11 09:25:30 CEST 2006
FELHÍVÁS JÓTÉKONYSÁGI AUKCIÓN VALÓ RÉSZTVÉTELRE
Dear All,
The common language that the T-B A21 foundation has chosen to use has a
great deal in common with the effort being made to change things for the
better. This year, under the auspices of Austria’s presidency of the EU,
we designated the Danube as the life force of Kutlug
Ataman’s Küba project and now it has become a death sentence for many
villages along its banks. The project called "JOURNEY AGAINST THE
CURRENT" (please check our website www.tba21.org) has itself
overcome the categorization of “breaking boundaries ” with the
resonance of its honesty, the infinite richness and lyricism which is
Kutlug’s signature. But now the river is breaking its boundaries and
drowning all those whom we seek to encourage and support. It is Küba
itself that led to the enlargement of this project from being a
simple one-way journey “up” the Danube to Vienna, into a gesture of
bringing hope and relief to many thousands of people that are
affected by the recent floods.
With the cancellation of the Küba launch in Constanta, Romania, due to
the tremendous flooding in the region and the ban on all traffic on the
Danube, I may have lost my dream to travel Küba symbolically from the
Black sea to Vienna… but many thousands have already lost their homes,
and as we watch the Danube waters rising again, many more thousands will
be affected. The snows have yet to melt and will most likely cause
further flooding. After all, Küba has inspired the 7 new works that we
have commissioned (one from each country the Danube touches), each of
which addresses the humanity and identities of the people whom this
river affects, so how can we ignore their tragic circumstances now.
Last year many of you helped me raise €210,000 for the Tsunami
victims in Sri Lanka and the One World Foundation organized by the
Museum in Progress here in Vienna, who have rebuilt an amazing
community there for the second time with those funds. Thank you again to
all of you who contributed to that auction, it was a huge success!
This year T-B A21, through its partner foundation Disaster Relief, is
helping to rebuild many homes for the 1000s of people that have lost
their homes in the floods particularly in Romania but also in
Bulgaria and Serbia. Each home costs € 5000 to rebuild. T-B A21 has
donated the first home, and next week I am personally bringing 10,000
hepatitis vaccines to the flooded areas along with 1 ton of HIPP baby
food, so help is already on its way.
To create a fund to support the Danube flood victims we will organize an
auction of artworks organized by Phillips, de Pury & Company at the
Mucsarnok museum in Budapest. The works will be exhibited for several
days prior to the auction which will take place on the 3rd June. Simon
de Pury will himself conduct the auction, and the works will be posted
on the Phillips website to encourage absentee bidders.
What we would need urgently, should you agree to donate a work to the
auction, would be its dimensions, medium, value, current location and
most importantly a digital image. We will cover all transportation costs
to Budapest. All works will be posted right away on the
Phillips website. But please be quick - their Contemporary sales are on
11th May in NY and many people visit their website around this time!
AND! Last but not least, if you can courier your donation personally and
come to Budapest for the Küba opening and the Auction as well as my
Birthday party, T-B A21 will offer you a room for 2 nights in Budapest
during 2nd & 3rd June. If you cannot attend, we will send you a copy of
Janet Cardiff's magnificent Walk Book, recently
published by us and just voted book of the month by ART Magazine! It is
a beauty! (Janet, you will get a special room with a view
overlooking the Danube in Budapest for 2 nights!) We would all be so
happy if you could attend, because after the auction the Birthday
reveling begins in the oldest Turkish bath of Budapest, (togas will be
provided!) and then we will rave on well into dawn in Budapest’s insane
club scene.
The Küba barge is presently moored in Serbia awaiting the lifting of
traffic restrictions on the lower Danube. This is not likely to
happen any day soon. When the river's level returns to normal, we will
once again embark on this extraordinary journey "AGAINST THE CURRENT"...
and oh what a current it is!
Thank you for your support,
Francesca von Habsburg and all the team of TBA21
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Dear Janos,
On behalf of Francesca I'm sending enclosed a letter regarding our
Danube Flood Appeal Auktion in Budapest on 3rd June. She would be very
grateful if you could kindly circulate this letter as well.
If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact
me.
With many thanks and kind regards
Alexandra Hennig
Dear Janos,
The common language that the T-B A21 foundation has chosen to use has
a great deal in common with the effort being made to change things for
the better. This year, under the auspices of Austrias presidency of
the EU, we designated the Danube as the life force of Kutlug Atamans
Küba project and now it has become a death sentence for many villages
along its banks. The project called "JOURNEY AGAINST THE CURRENT"
(please check our website [1]www.tba21.org) has itself overcome the
categorization of breaking boundaries with the resonance of its
honesty, the infinite richness and lyricism which is Kutlugs
signature. But now the river is breaking its boundaries and drowning
all those whom we seek to encourage and support. It is Küba itself
that led to the enlargement of this project from being a simple
one-way journey up the Danube to Vienna, into a gesture of bringing
hope and relief to many thousands of people that are affected by the
recent floods.
With the cancellation of the Küba launch in Constanta, Romania, due to
the tremendous flooding in the region and the ban on all traffic on
the Danube, I may have lost my dream to travel Küba symbolically from
the Black sea to Vienna but many thousands have already lost their
homes, and as we watch the Danube waters rising again, many more
thousands will be affected. The snows have yet to melt and will most
likely cause further flooding. After all, Küba has inspired the 7 new
works that we have commissioned (one from each country the Danube
touches), each of which addresses the humanity and identities of the
people whom this river affects, so how can we ignore their tragic
circumstances now.
Last year many of you helped me raise 210,0 00 for the Tsunami victims
in Sri Lanka and the One World Foundation organized by the Museum in
Progress here in Vienna, who have rebuilt an amazing community there
for the second time with those funds. Thank you again to all of you
who contributed to that auction, it was a huge success!
This year T-B A21, through its partner foundation Disaster Relief, is
helping to rebuild many homes for the 1000s of people that have lost
their homes in the floods particularly in Romania but also in
Bulgaria and Serbia. Each home costs 5000 to rebuild. T-B
A21 has donated the first home, and next week I am personally bringing
10,000 hepatitis vaccines to the flooded areas along with 1 ton of
HIPP baby food, so help is already on its way.
To create a fund to support the Danube flood victims we will organize
an auction of artworks organized by Phillips, de Pury & Company at the
Mucsarnok museum in Budapest. The works will be exhibited for several
days prior to the auction which will take place on the 3rd June. Simon
de Pury will himself conduct the auction, and the works will be posted
on the Phillips website to encourage absentee bidders.
What we would need urgently, should you agree to donate a work to the
auction, would be its dimensions, medium, value, current location and
most importantly a digital image. We will cover all transportation
costs to Budapest. All works will be posted right away on the Phillips
website. But please be quick - their Contemporary sales are on 11th
May in NY and many people visit their website around this time!
AND! Last but not least, if you can courier your donation personally
and come to Budapest for the Küba opening and the Auction as well as
my Birthday party, T-B A21 will offer you a room for 2 nights in
Budapest during 2nd & 3rd June. If you cannot attend, we will send you
a copy of Janet Cardiff's magnificent Walk Book, recently published by
us and just voted book of the month by ART Magazine! It is a beauty!
(Janet, you will get a special room with a view overlooking the Danube
in Budapest for 2 nights!) We would all be so happy if you could
attend, because after the auction the Birthday reveling begins in the
oldest Turkish bath of Budapest, (togas will be provided!) and then we
will rave on well into dawn in Budapests insane club scene.
The Küba barge is presently moored in Serbia awaiting the lifting of
traffic restrictions on the lower Danube. This is not likely to happen
any day soon. When the river's level returns to normal, we will once
again embark on this extraordinary journey "AGAINST THE CURRENT"...
and oh what a curr ent it is!
Thank you for your support,
Francesca von Habsburg and all the team of TBA21
References
1. http://www.tba21.org/
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