ART CREDO
“Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life.”
Oscar Wilde
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Art Credo is the association of people who believe that art creates the world.
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In the beginning of creation was the word - meaning, image, intention… art.
The club views art as modelling a possible future.
The club believes that art, like life, cannot be frozen and unchanging, and therefore cares about its own fluidity, changing geographical, thematic, and genre boundaries.
Here everything happens for the first time.
The club's tool is imagination, the craft is experimentation with its possibilities.
THE CLUB :​
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views a person's life as their own artistic authorial project ;
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offers contemplation of existential quests through the means of art ;
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engages in the search, evaluation, and placement of exclusive artefacts ;
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specialises in assembling and supporting private collections and cabinets of rarities ;
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consults on matters of design, style, and architecture of living spaces.
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The club seeks works and artists who dare to creatively overcome the usual patterns of interaction with the material and the environment of creation.
The Club's annual events have a main theme/ epigraph that defines the artistic and philosophical components of the unified search of creators working in different spheres of art.
Themes from past years:
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2017 - "A Rose is a Rose". Hommage to
Umberto Eco, the "godfather" of the Club.
Events: Venice.
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2018 - Babylon is Here.
Events: Ottawa, Barcelona.
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2019 - Reflections and Shadows.
Events: Prague, Dublin.
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2020 - Everything Changes. Omnia mutantur.
Events: Athens, Tel Aviv.
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2021 - Masks and Personas.
Events: Istanbul, Kyoto.
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2022 - Art Vs Artificial Intelligence.
Events: Berlin, San Francisco, Cairo.
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2023 - Gaia: day eight.
Events: Milan, Mumbai, Tbilisi.
Theme for 2024:
The Center of the Labyrinth.
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Planned events: Shanghai, Paris, Marrakech.
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Planned theme for 2025: Exceptions to the Rules.
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Participants in the current year's events are invited to improvise on the theme of the next year.
We are not given to know the future, but we are free to try to sow the seeds of what we would like to see blossom when we get there.
