Spirit of Boz

Mission

The goal of the association is to promote Spirit of Boz and to gather people interested in its values.

Friends organize events in the spirit of Boz (evenings among friends, seminars, conferences, distributions of «Forest of Soul» questionnaires and, in general, any creative, playful or interesting action).

Diffusion

The Friends of Boz are encouraged to promote the association and to invit new people.

Reflexion and creation

Different themes of reflexion and creation will be proposed to Friends of Boz.

1. Appropriating works, characters, themes, concepts, and projects of Spirit of Boz. It’s a call for creativity, in accordance with the philosophy of Be Art : «looking for art where we doesn’t wait for it.» These activities will be created individually or collectively, on any support or media.

2. Designing an original, commercial and popular piece of merchandising.

Emulation

Each year, the most creative friend will receive a prize of 1000 euros.

Its vocation

Federating and initiating synergies for creating a link of friendship and solidarity between Friends.

How do you become a Friend of Boz ?

An annual subscription of 5 or 25 euros (following countries) give the right to a personal member card.

A web directory will be proposed to members (including the names, email adress, work, hobbies,…).

The website of the Association is in construction. A quarterly newsletter will be sent to Friends.

Informations of the person in charge of the «Friends of Boz» association.

Stella Rouskova

6 Rue de l’Abbaye
98 000 Monaco

Email : stellarouskova(at)voila.fr
Tel. : 0033675284341

Subscription Price :

25 euros : Germany, Belgium, France, Israel, USA

5 euros : Argentina, Benin, Brasil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Morocco, Mexico, Rwanda, Togo, Uruguay, Venezuela.

JULIEN FRIEDLER’S SPIRIT OF BOZ EXHIBITIONS

WHO IS J. B. ?

April 17 to May 24, 2009

Curator : Gabrielle Bryers

Christopher Henry Gallery
127 Elizabeth Street
NEW YORK, NY 10013

www.christopherhenrygallery.com

DIALOGUES 

May 17 to June 14, 2009

The National Gallery for Foreign Art
St. Alexander Nevsky Square
1000-SOFIA — Bulgaria

www.foreignartmuseum.bg

SPIRIT OF BOZ

October 15 to November 15, 2009 

Mube (Museu Brasileiro da Escultura)
Av. Europa, 218
CEP : 01449-000
SAO PAULO—Brasil

www.mube.art.br

COLLECTIVE EXHIBITIONS

« SIGNS TAKEN FOR WONDERS »

May 28 to July 4, 2009
Curator : Isolde Brielmaier

Jack Shainman Gallery
513 west 20th street
NEW YORK, NY 10011

www.jackshainman.com

« BILLION OF ZEALS »   

August 2009
Curator : Ariel Roger-Paris

De PURY & Luxembourg
Limmaststrasse 264
CH-8005 ZURICH

www.depuryluxembourg.com

On May 8th,2008, "BeBOZ : Rund Um Boz In 80 Jahren" opened, in the Heilig-Kreuz Church, in Munich. It’s the first art show about Julien Friedler’s "Around the Boz In 80 Years" art project. The interior of the church, waiting for restoration, is overrun with scaffoldings, offering a unusual place for an exhibition and deeply contrasting with the neo-Gothic exterior.

In this network of metal, the visitor finds 4 giant panels hanging above his head, describing the 4 continents covered by the project (Africa, America, Asia and Europe).  Behind the altar, hangs a fifth panel with the 6 questions of the project). Above the choir hangs an helicoidal installation, "L’Envol", created with "Around the Boz" questionnaires.  Finally, photos and questionnaires from all round the world are showcased. The sound designer Cornelia Faist created a sound installation for the occasion.

Alongside the show, in May and June the Sunday church services will refer to the above mentioned questions. In June there will be several evening lectures with different speakers, treating these themes : Art and Church, Art and Spirituality, Art and Mission, Art and Therapy. These lectures will be moderated by reverend Gereon Kühr and Erno Vroonen, the curator of the BeBOZ trilogy in Munich.

This show, the first one in the "BeBoz Trilogy in Munich" series, will end on June 29, 2008.

The installation "L’envol" and the panel with the 6 questions of the project, in the choir of the church.

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On March 4, 2008, Stella Rouskova was interviewed by Vladi Sevov, for "4+1", a TV show on the national Bulgarian network Eurocom. She presented Julien Friedler and his workl, with a focus on the "Around the Boz in 80 Years" art project. The interview includes images of  the  "Innocents" installation.

Read also :

> Around the Boz in Bulgaria

> "Around the Boz in 80 Years" : details and highlights

> The Innocents, une installation de Julien Friedler

Munich, March 1st, 2008.

On this first day of March, the Muenchner Kammerspiele theater is the setting for the videoperformance "Spirit of Boz-Around the Boz in 80 Years", as part of  the Toy Void/Doing Identity festivals (curated by Bo Christian Larsson) and the first of a series of BeBoz  events in Munich all along the year 2008.

Curated by Erno Vroonen, a "kurator" and art historian, this event was focused on Jack Balance and  Julien Friedler’s "Around the Boz In 80 Years" questionnaire. The metaphysical clown (and main character of The Book of Boz) was omnipresent : in video, first, in a movie directed by Yves Anchar, and "live", through about fifty incarnations of the clown character, of different ages, sexes, or races, (contrasting  with the simple "clones" in the Ostende performance) who have invited the public and the people in the street to participate in the "Around the Boz In 80 Years" project by answering the questionnaire.

Read also :

> Jack Balance’s gallery (on www.spiritofboz.org)

> The Scribe meets Jack Balance (in Julien Friedler’s Book of Boz, chapter 1 and Audiobook of Boz, episode 1)

> Jack Balance in a beach performance in Ostende, Belgium (August 2007)

> Jack Balance in Buenos Aires (Argentina), December  2007

Didi Wagner, a well-known Brazilian TV journalist, has interviewed Julien Friedler, just before the opening of "Demoiselles Revisited", - an art show celebrating the centennial of Picasso’s famous painting, The Demoiselles d’Avignon, - at Francis Naumann Gallery, in New York, on November 16, 2007. Didi’s show, Lugar Incomum, was broadcasted on the Multishow channel of the Globo network, for a Brazilian audience, on December 12, 2007.

Julien Friedler spoke about the subversive aspect of Picasso’s painting, about his own contribution to the art show, about his career of psychoanalyst, about "art as space of liberty" and, last but not least, about his large scale project, "The Forest of Souls".

Read/see also :

• The Demoiselles Revisited : details and artists.
• The Demoiselles Revisited : photos.
• The Forest Of Souls / Around The Boz In 80 Years
  

Some pictures of the "Demoiselles Revisited"  opening, (Francis Naumann Gallery, New York), on November 16, 2007. This art show celebrates the centennial  of the world famous "Les Demoiselles d’Avignon", by Picasso, until December 21, 2007.

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Julien Friedler has been invited to participate to the "The Demoiselles Revisited" art show, organized by  Francis Naumann at his gallery in New-York. It celebrates the 100th birthday of Picasso’s famous work  : Les Demoiselles d’Avignon.

The artists :

Mike Bidlo
Brice Brown
Russell Connor
Billy Copley
Damian Elwes
Robert Forman
Eileen M. Foti
Julien Friedler
Kathleen Gilje
John Goodyear
Deborah Grant
Kathy Halbower
Nanci Hersh
Alain Jacquet
Don Joint
Pamela Joseph
Elizabeth Kley
Jeff Koons
Carlo Maria Mariani
Francesco Masci
Sophie Matisse
Jacques Moitoret
Dot Paolo
Douglas Vogel
Trevor Winkfield

From  November, 16th to December, 21th 2007.

Les 3 Demoiselles - by Julien Friedler

Montevideo, Uruguay

After  Rwanda and Argentina, Julien Friedler’s "Around The Boz In 80 Years" project stopped in China, in Uruguay and in Chile. Check all details and pictures in the "Forest of Souls" section.

Shanghai, China