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Submission: August 15, 2017Registration: August 13, 2017Language: EnglishLocation: Vienna, AustriaPrizes: ExhibitionType: Open   Imagine yourself in a God-like position, high up in the sky… overseeing human affairs… and imagine Yourself reviewing and mapping the great city of Vienna, Austria.

Submission: July 27, 2017Registration: July 15, 2017Language: EnglishLocation: Vienna, AustriaPrizes: Exhibition, publicationType: Open   It is difficult to find a more “modern” poet, since indeed in some ways it was himself who defined modernity. Let us recall. He said that art has two halves: the modern one, that depicts the ephemeral, the transient, and the

Submission: July 01, 2017Registration: June 24, 2017Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: Publication, ExhibitionType: Open   What is life…? Maybe nothing more than a piece of rock and roll… And the stone of life is still rolling… And the rolling of life is still rocking… C’est la vie…

Submission: June 08, 2017Registration: May 01, 2017Language: EnglishLocation: New York, USPrizes: Publication & ExhibitionType: Open   ​A NEW “LARKIN” BUILDING – BUFFALO – NEW YORK Indeed, Dostoevsky was right, in Notes from the Underground: we human beings, after we build the Crystal Palace, we demolish it. Less than 50 years after being built, the famous Larkin

Submission: December 15, 2016Registration: December 08, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: Exhibition & PublicationType: Open   Or should we say the House of NuNu…? One of the several explanations for the name “dada” is that the Romanian poet Tristan Tzara, one of the founders of this “controversial” art movement, approved in a discussion at Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich with the

Submission: October 26, 2016Registration: October 26, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: Colectiv – Str. Tabacarilor 7, Bucuresti, RomaniaPrizes: 1st Prize: €500, 2nd Prize: €300, 3rd Prize: €200 Type: Open   Almost one year ago, on October 30th, 2015, a terrible tragedy happened in Bucharest, Romania. It was Friday evening and in the Club “Colectiv” gathered around 400 people, most of them

Submission: October 05, 2016Registration: October 01, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: Publication, exhibitionType: Open   We can only begin this invitational text by apologizing that we are a little late: on March 5th there were 50 years since Anna Akhmatova’s death. Fatally, it seems in cultural matters women still, despite occasional good intentions, come second… But we launched the competition for Alberto

Submission: October 08, 2016Registration: October 01, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: Publication, exhibitionType: Open   How many mothers had to place their daughters in an orphanage, in order to save them from starvation, and how many lost one of them, nevertheless, to hunger…? How many women had their husbands executed, and how many of them lived in the terrible poverty Martina

Submission: October 10, 2016Registration: October 01, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: Publication Type: Open   It would be hard to find more appropriate depictions of human beings, now, than those of the great Swiss sculptor, Alberto Giacometti. Indeed, at the pinnacle of our human accomplishment and progress, we became thinner and thinner, metaphorically speaking, elongated perhaps by the very “success” of our “unprecedented”

Submission: December 16, 2016Registration: December 01, 2016Language: EnglishLocation: ConceptPrizes: Publication Type: Open   No doubt Walter Gropius was a special man. To invite a painter like Kandinsky to teach at the Bauhaus, showed vision and courage. What school of architecture would do something similar, now…?And, of course, Kandinsky was not the only one. Gropius was against specialization and against the