Kьba
Küba: A Journey Against the Current
T-B A21 / Nestroyhof, Vienna, 2006
(curator Daniela Zyman) (C)
Küba: A Journey Against the Current
T-B A21 / Canetti House, Russe, 2006
(curators Iara Boubnova, Daniela Zyman) (C)
Francesca von Habsburg, Chairman of Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, today announced that as a result of the terrible flooding of the lower Danube region and its ensuing humanitarian crisis, the opening launch of “Küba: Journey Against the Current” has been postponed until May 13th in Rousse, Bulgaria, with an inauguration of four daring art works.
“I am devastated not to be able to fulfill my ambition to bring Kutlug Ataman’s contemporary masterpiece Küba all the way to Vienna from the Black Sea. I may have lost my dream, but many thousands have lost their homes and livelihood, and as the Danube waters now rise again many more will be affected,” announced Francesca von Habsburg today in a statement explaining the postponement of her project’s opening.
A decision has been made to relocate the launch of Küba: Journey Against the Current from Romania to Bulgaria. The opening will now take place in the town of Rousse, at the former home of novelist and Nobel Laureate Elias Canetti. It will include, in addition to Ataman’s Küba, the presentations of Matei Bejanaru’s Travelling Guide for clandestine Romanian immigrant workers, Nedko Solakov’s
A BG Bar whose form and physical shape echos those of the Bulgarian state, and Emanuel Danesch & David Rych’s Minority Logbox, a mobile archive of video and film works chosen to reflect the cultural, geographical, political and social situation of the Danube communities.
A Disaster Relief Fund was set up by Francesca von Habsburg and Bianca Jagger in 1998 to raise funds for victims of hurricane Mitch in Nicaragua and Honduras. Since it has raised large sums for victims of earthquakes in Pakistan, and the tsunami victims in Sri Lanka. It is now raising funds for the most affected areas in Serbia, Bulgaria and Romania. Working with local authorities and the Red Cross, funds have been committed by the foundation and its supporters to provide aid to communites devastated by flood waters.
