Subjective Visions
Naftemboriki, 18.09.2009
In a gesture of high aesthetics, the
National Bank's Educational Foundation, and, in particular, its Thessaloniki Cultural Center,
is holding a major exhibition of works from the collection of a dynamic Russian
foundation – the Stella Art Foundation – entitled Subjective Visions. The exhibition opens tomorrow
and will be on show till November 1.
The ambitious Moscow-Thessaloniki-2009
program on show at MIET in the context of the Second Thessaloniki Contemporary
Art Biennale (which continues its very successful path) will feature works from
a dynamic Russian collection – the collection of
the Stella Art Foundation. Stella Art
Foundation is a non-commercial institution set up in November 2004 at
the initiative of collector Stella Kesaeva. Main purposes of the Foundation
include supporting cultural exchanges, promotion of the creative effort of
Russian artists and institution of a contemporary art museum in Moscow. The Foundation
takes a very dynamic part in all the major international contemporary art
events (documenta, Venetian Biennale) and cooperates with important museum
institutions of different countries (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Ca'
Rezzonico, Venice). It is also implementing an extensive charity program.
Starting from October 2008, the Foundation has arranged presentations of
its collection at important European sites, always in cooperation with local
curators who were responsible for the selection of the theme of each exhibition
and the works put on show. The most recent shows were held at the Viennese
Kunsthistorisches Museum under the title That
Obscure Object of Art and in the Venetian Ca' Rezzonico Palazzo in the
context of the parallel program of the Venice Biennale.
Thalea Stefanidou, curator of the exhibition at MIET, notes in her essay
for the catalogue to be issued on the occasion of the exhibition:
"A collection accumulates fragments of creative time, creating
documentations of the past for the future, while curating plays with the poetic
quality of both the ephemeral and the accidental, and thus brings the
collection to life in the present, inducing the spectator-accomplice,"
[...] Three fields of activity and reflection: creating, collecting and
curating, treated as three equally self-directed processes that permeate each
other in order to depict renewed memory corrugations, so that the collection
becomes an occasion to create biographèmes, of the artist, the collector, the
curator. This is a way to construct identities, or even better, one identity of
plural self. [...] How is an art work structured? How is a collection ‘built’?
How is the content of a collection restructured in relation to new spaces of
its reception and the curatorial task? All these are questions that in order to
be answered lead to the three-sectioned, organizational mechanism, which is
based on a self that decides and that creates an organic system, a whole, a
whole every time different."
The viewers will see works of the following artists: Yuri Albert, Nikita
Alexeyev, Yuri Avvakumov, Vagrich Bakhchanian, Alexei Buldakov, Olga
Chernysheva, Michael Craig-Martin, Eugenia Yemets, Elena Elagina and Igor
Makarevich, Alexandra Galkina, Alexander Glinitsky, Dmitry Gutov, Ilya and
Emilia Kabakov, Alex Kats, Maria Konstantinova, Joseph Kosuth, Oleg Kulik,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Andrei Monastyrsky, Ilya Trushevsky, Stas Polnarev, Dmitry
Tsvetkov, Spencer Tunick.
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