AAmA

from The Blue Lotus magazine issue 55

by martin bradley

Michael Haldar

Óscar Varona, Cover

Bearing artistic witness throughout an unprecedented period

Although the epidemic era has hindered our travel and networking opportunities, we have found, a little ironically perhaps, that these difficulties have expanded our exchange of ideas, concepts and realised art. The preparations for the 19th AAmA international art exhibition in 2022 have proceeded with unprecedented fluidity. The exhibition has received support and response from artists based in more than 80 countries, interest which has informed the selection of 120 artists from 60 countries for participation in this exhibition.

The increase in the number of art works has not affected the academic quality of the AAmA International Exhibition. On the contrary, it has consolidated and strengthened our position and our faith in creativity because of the high standard of concepts and aesthetics. It has enhanced our spiritual life, today and tomorrow. Art has never once abandoned us since its birth, and remained close to us throughout the pandemic. Different periods have brought us different spiritual forces and experiences and the recent past has generated fresh responses to extraordinary circumstances.

This year, the AAmA art exhibition has piloted new protocols for international exchange. Through cooperation with art institutions around the world, the exhibition has not confined itself by opening solely in China. We have incorporated the works of our 120 artists into video productions and exhibited them in art museums in 8 countries. At the same time, we have also held offline exhibitions with artists from these 8 countries, making AAmA a truly international exchange.

Artists live in different regions and cities in the world, accepting the influences of their own history and culture, and thinking about the significance of art within the context of society and life.

Together we explore different artistic languages. AAmA international exhibition is a verdant forest of world art, which is collaboratively nurtured by some of the world’s most outstanding creatives. Under the planning of Maria de la Vega, an outstanding Argentine artist, the AAmA International Exhibition opened in August 2022 at the St. Martin Art Center of the national visual archives in Buenos Aires. Video exhibitions of 5 important Argentine artists, 8 specially identified international artists, and work created by an additional 120 artists were held simultaneously at the St. Martin Art Museum. In this way an exhibition of significant and substantial content was created.

Under the auspices of Mario Quadraroli and Mario Diegoli and Professor Renato Galbusera of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, the AAmA International Exhibition opened in September at Villa Biancardi (the site of the Villa Biancardi Biennale). The works of 10 famous Italian artists and those of 10 artists from Asia, Europe and America were jointly exhibited, juxtaposed with the videos featuring the full cohort of 120 artists.

Luo Qi, China 2022

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Young Ho Shin, Jade Ants

Kalli Kalde, Dreamscape

Fang Limin, Untitled

Each year, AAMA champions Modern and Contemporary Arts across the globe, demonstrating that art is worldwide, universal, and transcending national, regional, and local cultures.

With this annual series of exhibitions and displays AAMA encourages ideas and art across cultural boundaries, aiding greater understanding of and between world cultures.

Because of the collaborations and juxtapositions involved across many countries, artists find that they have greater access to more creative resources, ideas and materials, engendering evolving universal creative vocabularies.

Again the creative spirit of humanity triumphs, spreads camaraderie and well-being not just between the artists themselves but to those venues which house them and beyond into the ether through digital networking and the interconnection of the internet.

Each year the AAMA series of exhibitions spreads, presenting newer and older artists together in myriad venues and in divers ways for you all to enjoy. It is a triumph. Thank you the AAMA team.

Ed.