Moscow "visions" in Thessaloniki
To Vima, 16.09.2009
Subjective
Visions is a title of an exhibition of works from the
collection of the Stella Art Foundation brought to Thessaloniki in the context
of the Moscow-Thessaloniki-2009 program.
After the Viennese Kunsthistorisches Museum and the 53rd Venice
Biennale, the exhibition will be on show from September 19 to November 1 at
MIET's Thessaloniki Cultural Center.
The exhibition features, in particular, works by Nikita Alexeyev, Yuri Avvakumov, Michael
Craig-Martin, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Joseph Kosuth, Robert Mapplethorpe,
Andrei Monastyrsky. The exhibition's curator Thalea Stefanidou notes in her
essay for the catalogue to be issued on the occasion of the event: "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."
Stella Art Foundation is a non-commercial
organization created in November 2004 at the initiative of collector Stella
Kesaeva for the development of cultural exchanges, promotion of work of Russian
artists and institution of contemporary art museum in Moscow.
The Foundation takes a very dynamic part in all
the major international contemporary art events (documenta, Venetian îå
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
arranged presentations of its collection at some major European sites, always
working in cooperation with local curators who select the theme of each
exhibition and the works presented.
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