In August Art Minimal & Conceptual Only received an e-mail from Ameli Tancica:
"I will take part in The Meeting Point (the festival of visual art orginized by SCCA-Soros Centre of Contemporary Art) in Sarajevo with my work Trilogy. Part of this Trilogy is a tribute to Yves Klein."
Below is part of our interview with Ameli. Read the full interview and his original e-mail letter in the links below. And follow him in the striking photographs by Dejan Vekic through the war torn streets of his beloved City of Sarajevo, in this brave and very personal Art Performance.
Part of our e-mail interview between Ameli Tancica in Sydney, Australia and Fred Lewis in the U.S.A..
Fred Lewis
With his leap, Yves Klein disappeared into the void - into the imagination. You leaped into, disappeared into the light - "the blue plenitude of appearance" (Blau). Do you feel it necessary that the world outside Sarajevo see this beautiful sight of the human blue blending with, and to my mind washing away the red of the blood?
Ameli Tancica
Sarajevo is a very special place to me and I like to believe to the world too. I would like it if my images could reach the people around the world and show them the way to The Blue Energy, like Yves work has done. I have leaped into the light and I have reached the point of living the Yves idea. That is very exiting to me because it suggests that Yves' Art is somewhat practical - if we can say that, I mean, you can practice his idea and get very profound results.
The time I spent in Sarajevo during
the aggression has affected me deeply. Everything that the crisis has brought
along has led me towards the understanding of The Blue Power and feeling
the void. I would say that I have learned to put the red of the blood (reflecting
death) and the blue of the light (reflecting life) together, next to each
other, and I believe that is very important. It is important because that
gave me the ability to step into the void, come back, and do it repeatedly.
It gave me the ability to live the death as an integral part of the life.
I learned that out of my own life experience and I feel very comfortable
with it.