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>From: Marilyn A Lavin <MALAVIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Warchitecture-Sarajevo: A Wounded City
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>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Dear Prof. Lavin -- I'm writing to you in your role as moderator of
>the CAAH list. I would like to call list members' attention to an
>exhibition (see attached announcement) and a symposium (to follow
>in a separate posting) on the destruction of Sarajevo's architectural
>heritage. I am not currently a CAAH subscriber, but would appreciate
>your posting these two items on the list.
>Thank you!
>Andras Riedlmayer
>Fine Arts Library
>Harvard University
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> E X H I B I T I O N
> Warchitecture-Sarajevo: A Wounded City
>
> February 4 - March 18, 1994
> Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 pm
>
> StoreFront for Art and Architecture
> 97 Kenmare Street (off Houston St. in SoHo)
> New York, NY 10012
> Tel.: 212-431-5795 Fax: 212-431-5755
>
>"Warchitecture-Sarajevo: A Wounded City" is an extensive multi-media
>exhibition documenting the destruction of architecture in Sarajevo
>using photographs, publications, films, audio-tape and personal
>testimony. Created in Sarajevo by members of the Bosnia-Herzegovina
>Association of Architects (Drustvo arhitekata Sarajevo - DAS-SABiH)
>between May 1992 and October 1993, this exhibition describes the
>combined physical and psychological assault against the civilian
>population by presenting one of the main forms of aggression: the
>destruction of the city's architecture. On March 16, 1994, five
>members of DAS-SABiH -- Midhat Cesovic, Borislav Curic, Nasif
>Hasanbegovic, Darko Serfic, and Sabahudin Spilja -- escaped with
>the exhibition packed in two crates. To inform the general public
>about the destruction of Sarajevo and to establish contacts that
>hopefully would lead to the reconstruction of the city, they
>presented the exhibition at the Arc en reve centre d'architecture
>in Bordeaux, France; at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and
>subsequently at numerous other museums and galleries in Europe.
>Warchitecture is a true example of resistance, an homage to culture
>and creation, and a lesson in courage and humility.
>
>Sarajevo's historically and culturally significant buildings have
>become a third target of attack, just behind the military and the
>media. This exhibition embodies dire efforts to preserve the urban
>tissue of a cosmopolitan center. With a long tradition of coexistence
>between the city's Muslims, Serbs, Croats and Jews, whose contacts
>and reciprocal influences formed a distinct architecture that spans
>four cultural and historic eras, Sarajevo embodies cultural pluralism
>both for the aggressors and for the defenders. Since April 1992, when
>it was first attacked, thousands of Sarajevo's citizens have been
>killed and its monuments have been systematically destroyed. But
>despite life-threatening conditions, lack of basic necessities such as
>water, food, electricity and medicine, and cut off from communication
>with the outside world, Sarajevo has refused to surrender.
>
>The exhibition will be accompanied by a program of symposia and other
>events in the New York area. An exhibition catalogue is available.
>
>
>Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 21:13:07 EST
>Reply-To: CONSORTIUM OF ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
><CAAH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sender: CONSORTIUM OF ART AND ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIANS
><CAAH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Comments: Resent-From: Marilyn A Lavin <MALAVIN@PUCC>
>From: Marilyn A Lavin <MALAVIN@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: Warchitecture-Sarajevo: A Wounded City
>To: Multiple recipients of list CAAH <CAAH@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>X-UIDL: 792216006.064
>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>Dear Prof. Lavin -- I'm writing to you in your role as moderator of
>the CAAH list. I would like to call list members' attention to an
>exhibition (see attached announcement) and a symposium (to follow
>in a separate posting) on the destruction of Sarajevo's architectural
>heritage. I am not currently a CAAH subscriber, but would appreciate
>your posting these two items on the list.
>Thank you!
>Andras Riedlmayer
>Fine Arts Library
>Harvard University
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> E X H I B I T I O N
> Warchitecture-Sarajevo: A Wounded City
>
> February 4 - March 18, 1994
> Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 11-6 pm
>
> StoreFront for Art and Architecture
> 97 Kenmare Street (off Houston St. in SoHo)
> New York, NY 10012
> Tel.: 212-431-5795 Fax: 212-431-5755
>
>"Warchitecture-Sarajevo: A Wounded City" is an extensive multi-media
>exhibition documenting the destruction of architecture in Sarajevo
>using photographs, publications, films, audio-tape and personal
>testimony. Created in Sarajevo by members of the Bosnia-Herzegovina
>Association of Architects (Drustvo arhitekata Sarajevo - DAS-SABiH)
>between May 1992 and October 1993, this exhibition describes the
>combined physical and psychological assault against the civilian
>population by presenting one of the main forms of aggression: the
>destruction of the city's architecture. On March 16, 1994, five
>members of DAS-SABiH -- Midhat Cesovic, Borislav Curic, Nasif
>Hasanbegovic, Darko Serfic, and Sabahudin Spilja -- escaped with
>the exhibition packed in two crates. To inform the general public
>about the destruction of Sarajevo and to establish contacts that
>hopefully would lead to the reconstruction of the city, they
>presented the exhibition at the Arc en reve centre d'architecture
>in Bordeaux, France; at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, and
>subsequently at numerous other museums and galleries in Europe.
>Warchitecture is a true example of resistance, an homage to culture
>and creation, and a lesson in courage and humility.
>
>Sarajevo's historically and culturally significant buildings have
>become a third target of attack, just behind the military and the
>media. This exhibition embodies dire efforts to preserve the urban
>tissue of a cosmopolitan center. With a long tradition of coexistence
>between the city's Muslims, Serbs, Croats and Jews, whose contacts
>and reciprocal influences formed a distinct architecture that spans
>four cultural and historic eras, Sarajevo embodies cultural pluralism
>both for the aggressors and for the defenders. Since April 1992, when
>it was first attacked, thousands of Sarajevo's citizens have been
>killed and its monuments have been systematically destroyed. But
>despite life-threatening conditions, lack of basic necessities such as
>water, food, electricity and medicine, and cut off from communication
>with the outside world, Sarajevo has refused to surrender.
>
>The exhibition will be accompanied by a program of symposia and other
>events in the New York area. An exhibition catalogue is available.
>
>