Works from the collection of the Stella Art Foundation in Thessaloniki
Typos tis Thessalonikis, 19.09.2009
From today, Stella Art Foundation presents in
Thessaloniki part of its collection in the context of the parallel program of
the Second Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennale. The activities will include
the Making Words project (at the Port
Warehouse # 3), an exhibition Subjective
Visions (building of the National Bank's Educational Foundation) and an
installation by Alexander Djikia in Thessaloniki Archeological Museum and Haim
Sokol at the city port.
Making
Words is a project of the Moscow Poetry Club of the Stella Art Foundation, implemented in
cooperation with artBΟΧ.gr and already shown at the 53rd Venice
Biennale in the context of the Making
Words project conceived by Daniel Birnbaum, the art director of the
Biennale.
The project is a combination of visual elements
and pure poetry. Its starting point was a poetic performance by Vassilis
Amanatidis and Eugenia Eugeny (curator, Anastasia Dokuchaeva from Stella Art
Foundation, art director, Christos Savvides from artBΟΧ.gr),
conducted in September 2008 in the context of the Action Field annual visual arts festival in Thessaloniki.
The project held in the context of the Second
Thessaloniki Contemporary Art Biennale comprises poetry recitals and performances by poets from Greece and
other countries, as well as a work Poets
Machine by Yula Hadjigeorgiou and Common Cause-3 project by Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina.
In the context of the event held in Greece the company "Artventure
– visual arts network" is publishing a two-language catalogue (in Greek
and English) with texts by Vassilis Amanatidis, Yannis Epaminondas, Katerina
Koskina, Andrea Libin and John High, Maria Maragu, Sotiris Bachtsedjis, Daniel
Birnbaum, Eugeny Bunimovich, Dafni Nikita, Alexander Rytov, Christos Savvides,
Thalea Stefanidou, Lydia Hadjiakovou and Yula Hadjigeorgiou.
Exhibition at the MIET
From today and until November 1, works from the collection of the Stella
Art Foundation will be on view at the National Bank's Educational Foundation / Thessaloniki Cultural Center at 108
Vasilissis Olgas Str. in the context of the exhibition entitled Subjective Visions. The exhibition opens
at 21.30.
The exhibition features works by 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.
Opening hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday,
Saturday-Sunday: 10.00-18.00, Friday: 10.00-14.00 and 18.00-21.00. On Mondays
the exhibition is closed.
Installation inspired by
motifs of Cretan-Mycenaean seals
Finally, from today and until November 1,
Alexander Djikia presents an in-situ
installation inspired by motifs of Cretan-Mycenaean seals at Thessaloniki
Archeological Museum (opening hours: Monday: 13.30-20.00, Tuesday-Sunday:
8.00-20.00), while Haim Sokol will install a sculptural composition at the city
port that will be donated to the city by the
Stella Art Foundation (the opening ceremony will be held on September
18).
About the Stella Art Foundation
Stella Art Foundation is a non-commercial
organization created 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, Venice
Biennale) and cooperates with important museum institutions of different
countries (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice). It is also
implementing an extensive charity program.
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