19/11/2021
V.... Form very, very... Extaordinary!!!
The last minute details of the 2021 at the National Art Museum in Timișoara.
Let's meet this evening at 18:00 online or in person to enjoy this beautiful event!
The exhibition is presented at the National Museum of Art Timisoara between 19.11- 15.12.2021.
The event marks the second edition of the Balkan Art Festival, being organised with the Museum of Folk and Ethnological Art of Macedonia and Thrace in Thessaloniki, the place that hosted in 2021 exhibition "Passages".
The peculiarity of the event in Timișoara is the living relationship between the emerging artworks of the invited artists and the heritage exhibits of the museum, which is revealed to the public for the first time.
The experience proposed by the exposition focuses on the direct experience of artists and the capacity for ritualization that contemporary art has.
A rite of passage is a ceremony or ritual that occurs when an individual leaves a status (social, family, spiritual) to enter another. In cultural anthropology, the term is the anglicization of "rite of passage", a French term coined by ethnographer Arnold van Gennep in his work "The Rites of Passage" (1909).
These ritual manifestations are important for individuals and for societies. What is the relationship between the classical form of rite and the new types of rituals that do not serve to meet the spatial, statutory, economic, ecological or health challenges that most often describe the transcendent period of our world?
Extending the experience of the “rite of passage”, we will find connections with much wider fields of knowledge than art, anthropology and ethnology, which enrich the methods of manifestation and creation of contemporary man.
The purpose of this exhibition is to study and exhibit how Balkan artists relate to essential events, through ritualization and pseudo-ritualization, phenomena that have powerful cultural implications.
Organized in partnership with the National Museum of Art Timișoara, the exhibition also includes a series of objects from the Decorative Art collection of the museum, which, on this occasion, are brought, mostly for the first time, from the warehouse, to the spotlight.
The opening of the exhibition will take place on 19.11.2021 at 18:00 in the rooms dedicated to temporary exhibitions on the 2nd floor of the Baroque Palace.
Artists: Zefi Athanasopoulou, Alex Baciu, Nikolas Bliatkas, Giannis Cholongounis, Ana Maria Cuteanu, YiorgosDrosos, Valentina Drutu, Kostas Kamargianis, Alexandros Maganiotis Diana Serghiuță, SorinaVazelina, BogdanPelmuș, Magdalena Pelmuș, Marina Provatidou, Kristina Rațiu Demuth and Art Group “En Flo” (Stergios Adam, Evaggelia Athanasiadou, Antigoni Alexiou, Katerina Anastasiou, Sofia Antonakaki, Elsa Antonopoulou, Eirini Aspridou, Olίvia Afioni, Vasiliki Vasileiou, Konstantinos Veroutis, Zana Vossou, Nikolaos Gavallas, Eleni Gatsiou, George Georgiadis, George Georgoulas, Ennios-Eros Giogos, Aphroditi Grizi, Eleni Gouliou, Rafaela Deligianni, Glyka Dionysopoulou, Elizabeth Dionyssopoulou, Tzouli Zografou, Vasiliki Iliakopoulou, Vasilis Kavouridis, Katerina Kalitsounaki, Anna Karayianni, Zaharo Karakonstanti, Giota Karvouniari, Katerina Karoulia, Mihalis Kokkinos, Maria Kompatsiari, Harris Kondosphyris, Despoina Kouvatsou, Mina Kouzouni, Konstantinos Koumlis, Xaris kourouzidis, Markella Koufoudaki, Olyvia Kyriakopoulou, Sofia Kyriakou, Veronika Constantinou, Aikaterini Labropoulou, Vagelis Liougkas, Myrsini Loukopoulou, George Mamaliggas, Evaggelia Manetta, Georgia Mantalia, Georgia Markou Prantouna, Katerina Melissaropoulou, Olga Monachou, Yiannis Monogyios, Mata Mpigali, Maria-Demetra (DIDI) Mourdzinis, Lamprini Mpoviatsou, Sofia Boni, Katerina Xipolitou, Athanas-Thanos Panagiotou, Loukiana Papadopoulou, Sylvia Petsoura, Agisilaos Rompolas, Vasiliki Samouilidou, Alexandra Sambali, Konstantina SarakatsSarakatsanou, Eleni Siakandari, Chrysoula Skepetzi, Matina Sioki, Charis Spanoudi, Marina Stathi, Evdoxia Stafilaraki, Kyriaki Stoumpou, Kerasia Touliatou, Katerina Tourtoura, Eleni Tsilili, Gina Tsitseri, Maria Tsouknaki, Lazaros Tsolaridis, Voula Ferentinou, Antonia Flegga, Makrina Xatzatoglou, George J. Houndalas, Dimitra Xristinaki, Zaxaroula Bongard, Roksolana Politis-Tchotchieva.
Curators: Georgia Kourkounaki and
