Bedri Baykam | UNESCO-IAA/AIAP Dünya Sanat Birlikleri Başkanı seçildi‏ / Press Bulletin | UNESCO-IAA/AIAP 18th World General Assembly, Pilsen/Czech Republic

ULUSLARARASI PLASTİK SANATLAR DERNEĞİ

TÜRKİYE KOMİTESİ BAŞKANI

BEDRİ BAYKAM

UNESCO-IAA/AIAP DÜNYA BAŞKANI SEÇİLDİ.

-18.10.2015-Pilsen/Çek Cumhuriyeti-

UNESCO-IAA/AIAP Dünya Sanat Birlikleri (International Association of Art) 18. Genel Kurulu 14-18 Ekim 2015 tarihleri arasında Çek Cumhuriyeti’nde Pilsen’de düzenlendi.

25 ülkenin katılımıyla gerçekleşen UNESCO-IAA/AIAP Dünya Sanat Birlikleri Genel Kurulu’nda 2015-2019 Dönemi Yönetim Kurulu ve Dünya Başkanı seçimi dün yapıldı. Türkiye Komitesi, Uluslararası Plastik Sanatlar Derneği (UPSD) Başkanı Bedri Baykam, dört yıl için UNESCO-IAA/AIAP Dünya Başkanı seçildi.

Fransa delegesi Anne Pourny ikinci başkanlık görevini, Porto Riko delegesi Marta Mabel Perez saymanlık görevini üstlendi. Asya-Pasifik Koordinatörü Güney Kore delegesi Cho Kang Hoon, Avrupa Koordinatörü Slovakya delegesi Pavol Kral, Latin Amerika Koordinatörü Meksika delegesi Dolores Ortiz, Afrika Koordinatörü Gana delegesi Franklyn King Glover olarak belirlendi. Diğer Yönetim Kurulu Üyeleri: Katarina Jönsson Norling (İsveç), Maria Moroz (Polonya), Christos Symeonides (Kıbrıs), Ryoji Ikeda (Japonya).

Genel Kurul’da ayrıca Onursal Başkan ünvanı 2011-2015 Dönem Başkanı Rosa-Maria Burillo ve Yönetim Kurulu eski Üyesi İsveç delegesi Anders Liden’e; Onursal Danışman ünvanı ise 2011-2015 Dönem İkinci Başkanı Norveç delegesi Grete Marstein, Asya-Pasifik Koordinatörü Japon delegesi Kaan İrie ve Afrika Koordinatörü Anton Loubser’e verildi.

Seçimden sonra Bedri Baykam başkanlığında devam eden Genel Kurul’a sanatçı haklarını ve sanatçının yaşam koşullarını savunan 5 önerge sunuldu ve kabul edildi. Bunların en ilginçlerinden biri, kamuya açık alanda sergilenen sanat eserlerinin teşhirinden, görsel sanatçıların da aynen eserleri radyoda çalınan müzisyenler gibi bir maddi karşılık almalarını öngören sunumdu.

1948 yılında gerçekleşen 3. UNESCO Genel Kurulu’nda sanatçıların hangi açılardan UNESCO’nun amaçları doğrultusunda yol alabileceğine ve karşılarına çıkan politik, sosyal ve ekonomik engellerin neler olduğuna dair sunulan öneriyi takiben, 1952 yılında ünlü İtalyan sanatçı Gino Severini başkanlığında düzenlenen Uluslararası Konferans ile sanatçıların çalışma koşulları ve özgürlük alanlarının genişletilmesi konuları daha da detaylı olarak gündeme getirildi. Venedik’te 23 Hükümet ve 19 ülkeden 48 dernek bu yapıyı taşıyacak bir uluslararası ressam ve heykeltraşı bir araya getirecek bir oluşumu, Paris’te UNESCO binasında açtılar. 1954’te, yine Venedik’te, tüm kuruluş çalışmalarını tamamlayan oluşum, 18 ülkenin delegasyonlu katılımı, 22 ek ülkenin de dışarıdan gözlemci olarak yer alışlarıyla açıldı. Aralarında Geoges Braque, Joan Miro, Hans Hartung, Andre Masson, Laurencin, Victor Vasarely, Henry Moore, Cesar, Calder ve Soto gibi sanatçıların başından beri üyesi olup destek verdikleri oluşum, o günden itibaren UNESCO’nun doğrudan partneri olan uluslararası sivil toplum kuruluşlarından biri olarak faaliyet gösteriyor. Dünyanın değişik yerlerinde sürekli olarak sanatçı hakları ve ifade özgürlüğünün korunması doğrultusunda çalışmalar yapan IAA/AIAP’ın Genel Merkezi Paris’te UNESCO binasında yer almaya devam ediyor.

Baykam, UPSD’nin 1989-90’da kuruluşunu gerçekleştiren ilk yönetim kurulunda yer aldıktan sonra, 2006 yılında UPSD’nin Başkanlığına seçildi ve o tarihten beri bu görevini sürdürüyor. Sanatçı aynı zamanda daha önceki dönemde de UNESCO-IAA/AIAP Avrupa ve Dünya Yönetim Kurulu’nda yer aldı. 2011 yılında Guadalajara/Meksika’da düzenlenen 17. Dünya Genel Kurulu’nda Türkiye Komitesi adına verdiği önergenin oybirliğiyle kabul edilmesiyle, Leonardo da Vinci’nin doğum günü olan 15 Nisan Dünya Sanat Günü olarak kabul edildi ve 4 senedir kutlanıyor. 2015’te de yine 40’ı aşkın ülkede ve Türkiye’nin bir çok noktasında kutlandı.

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THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF ART

UNESCO-IAA/AIAP 18th WORLD GENERAL ASSEMBLY

WAS HELD IN PILSEN, CZECH REPUBLIC AND

THE TURKISH NATIONAL COMMITTEE (UPSD) PRESIDENT

BEDRİ BAYKAM HAS BEEN ELECTED AS THE WORLD PRESIDENT.

ALSO, IN THE EUROPEAN GENERAL ASSEMBLY

WERNER SCHAUB, CHAIRMAN OF IGBK-GERMANY NATIONAL COMMITTEE,

HAS BEEN ELECTED AS THE EUROPEAN PRESIDENT

October 14-18, 2015

25 active delegations participated to the 18th World General Assembly of UNESCO-IAA/AIAP in Pilsen where several issues related to artist’s conditions were discussed and the new Executive Committee as well as the new President was elected.
On the 18 ^th of October, Bedri Baykam, President of the Turkish National Committee UPSD was elected as the new World President of UNESCO-IAA/AIAP for a term of four years in between 2015-2019.
The other elected members of the executive committee are Anne Pourny (France, Vice-President), Marta Mabel Perez (Puerto Rico, Treasurer), Cho Kang Hoon (South-Korea, Coordinator for Asia-Pacific), Pavol Kral (Slovakia, Coordinator for Europe), Dolores Ortiz (Mexico, Coordinator for Latin America), Franklyn King Glover (Ghana, Coordinator for African Countries), Katarina Jönsson Norling (Sweden), Maria Moroz (Poland), Christos Symeonides (Cyprus), Ryoji Ikeda (Japan).
The General Assembly also selected few other names to honor. Rosa Maria Burillo Velasco, the ex-President from Mexico and ex-executive Committee Member Anders Liden from Sweden were given the title of “Honorary President”.
Three other names, became Honorary Counselors. Those are, Grete Marstein (Norway, ex-Vice President), Kaan Irie (Japan, ex-Executive Committee Member), Anton Loubser (South Africa, ex- Coordinator for Africa).
As the General Assembly went on after the elections under the Presidency of Baykam, five new resolutions were accepted. Among them, the resolution proposed by Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Iceland, concerning the remuneration of artists whose work were exhibited in public spaces, raised a lot of interest.
Other important resolutions also passed, concentrating their efforts on the ‘rights of artists’, such as the one put forward by Slovakia “The Status of the Artist” or the one by Cyprus “Every artist has the right to belong to a legal artist’s organization”. Germany, Sweden and Mexico passed a resolution on the striking importance of art education, based on the book of Anne Bamford from 2004 (The Wow Factor). Another very interesting resolution was the one of Sweden, which asks all the National Committee to encourage in their countries all the cities that could join this program of giving shelter or a “Safe Haven” to visual artists and intellectuals at risk like the ICORN Residency Program supported by the Swedish Arts Council. All the Resolutions will be published at the IAA Web site: www.aiap-iaa.org


The European General Assembly was also held in Pilsen. The German delegate, chairman of IGBK, Werner Schaub was elected as the President and the other members of the Executive Committee were Anne Pourny (France), Maria Moroz (Poland), Francis Desiderio (Belgium), Elena Gryanova (Russia), Anders Werdelin (Denmark), Pontus Raud (Sweden).


WERNER SCHAUB
The new European President of UNESCO-IAA/AIAP Werner Schaub was born 1945 in Ortenau, Baden.

He is an artist and is engaged with various organisations related to the visual arts.

He is chairman and speaker of the Bundesverband Bildender Künstlerinnen und Künstler (www.bbk-bundesverband.de), chairman and speaker of the Internationale Gesellschaft der Bildenden Künste (www.igbk.de), and board member of the collecting society VG BILD-KUNST (www.bildkunst.de).

He also chairs the Heidelberger Forum für Kunst (www.heidelberger-forum-fuer-kunst.de) and is vice-president of the Akademie der Künste Rhein-Neckar (www.freie-akademie-rn.de).

From 2002 to 2008 Werner Schaub was president of the International Association of Art (IAA) Europe and since autumn 2015 he has been holding that office again.

He lives in Heidelberg, Germany.

IAA/AIAP's origins

The origins of IAA/AIAP (International Association of Art) can be traced to the Third General Conference of UNESCO, held at Beirut, Lebanon, in 1948. The Director-General was charged with enquiring into 'ways in which artists might serve the aims of UNESCO', and to discover what obstacles of a social, economic, or political order lay in the path of artists in the practice of their art. He was charged, too, with recommending measures by which artists working conditions could be improved and their freedom assured.

The UNESCO Conference, at its sixth session, in 1951, empowered the Director-General to organize an International Conference of artists to study the actual conditions of artists’ freedom in various countries and to enquire into the means to associate them more closely with UNESCO’s work. Accordingly, in 1952, at a conference of artists held in Venice, 23 governments and 48 associations of artists in 19 countries, declared themselves in favor of the formation of an international association of painters, sculptors and engravers. A provisional council was formed under the chairmanship of Gino Severini (Italy), and a secretariat was opened in UNESCO House in Paris.

In 1954, in Venice, the General Assembly of the fully constituted Association was summoned for the first time and declared the basic aims of IAA/AIAP. At this first Assembly, 18 countries (with National Committees already formed) took part, with observers from another 22 countries. Artists like Miro, Braque, Delaunay, Pasmore, Hartung, Laurencin, Matta, Lurçat, Masson, Vasarely, Moore, Soto, Cesar, Calder, and many others left their print at IAA/AIAP.

Since its creation, UNESCO gave to IAA/AIAP the status of UNESCO partnership NGO with the status of consultative Association. The headquarters of IAA/AIAP are at the UNESCO Building in Paris.


BEDRİ BAYKAM
The new World President of UNESCO–IAA/AIAP, Bedri Baykam was born in 1957 in Ankara, Turkey. He studied at the Sorbonne University in Paris between 1975-1980 and got his MBA. He later studied painting and filmmaking at the California College of Art and Crafts between 1980-1984. He has had 134 solo-shows and has participated in several group shows. He has 26 published books and is one of the big defenders of secularism and democracy in Turkey.
He survived a terrorist attack in 2011 by Islamic fundamentalists after having been stabbed after a press conference, about a sculpture/monument in danger.
He had been defending “the Monument of Humanity” of sculptor Mehmet Aksoy that was under the threat of Turkey’s Prime Minister Erdoğan. In spite of resolutions from IAA/AIAP World and Europe, that monument in Kars has been destroyed with the orders of the ex-Turkish Prime Minister.
One of the founders of the Turkish National Committee (UPSD) in 1989, Baykam has been the President of UPSD since 2006. He was an executive Committee member in the previous term both for IAA/Europe and IAA/World.
He also had instigated the World Art Day (WAD) in Guadalajara/Mexico at the 17^th General Assembly in 2011, after the resolution of Turkey that he presented was unanimously accepted by the General Assembly. Since that day, the 15th of April, the birthday of Leonardo da Vinci, has been celebrated as World Art Day. This year around 40 nations celebrated were around the world.
Baykam writes for the renowned Turkish daily Cumhuriyet. He has an art Center in Istanbul, Piramid Sanat.
For more information: www.bedribaykam.com


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