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Stavros Apostolou, untitled painting,
acrylic on canvas, 100cm x 70cm |
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Angeliki
Kourmoulaki
"Offer ",
series "
Deep curve
line",
acrylic
on canvas,
100x50cm |
ARC's Collective of
Visual Arts announces that it will be participating in the 3 rd
Art-Thessaloniki International Contemporary Art Fair, which will take place in
Thessaloniki, at the HELEXPO International Fair (10-9- 8) from 22 to 25
November 2018 and invites you to attend the inauguration and / or visit the
site during the exhibition.
ARC will present for the first time in public its project "U-topia / Human is
the meter of all things".
In this contaxt artists - founding members of the Collective
are exploring, from different perspectives and with a variety of media, the
dialectic relationship of Art with the Greek Crisis, based on a concept by the
Curator and Manager of ARC Mr. Paris Kapralos. Participating artists are:
Stavros Apostolou,
Chris Barzoka,
Anna Gkioti,
Orestis Diamantis,
Christina Zigouri,
Fotis Kllogjeri,
Angeliki Kourmoulaki,
JohnnyPatramanis,
John Sugahtank Roumbanis,
Katerina Christou,
and the artistic duo
ADDmyview (consisted of
Christina Mavropedi & George Soulekidis).
Project U-topia /
Human is th meter of all things -Summary
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| Orestis Diamantis "Hephaestus", painting, oil on canvas, 50x70 cm |
The Greek crisis is part of the Global Economic,
Environmental and Labor Crisis, which creates a particularly toxic negative
environment for all peoples of the Earth. The general assessment that the
dialectical relationship between Art Crisis can help society to wake up from
the slumber of fatalistic acceptance of the situation investigated and
presented the project of artists who recognize the need for new approaches in
order to build a truly sustainable development: the need to draw on the
experience of older generations and the recognition of Art as a part of societies
as well as an inexhaustible source of creativity and renewal.
About ARC
ARC stands for "Art
Revisited Collective"; we are a visual artists' collective based in
Greece, who joined forces to promote our work, along with our vision of
excellence in art, uniqueness of our angle of perception of our world today. We
conglomerate our vision building our own actions, with an active contribution
in and intervention in public space and concept development and implementation
into third party organizations. We subscribe to the doctrine of Spyros
Merkouris "Culture draws from the
past and forms the present with an eye to the future". When you are
working in Greece as an artist, despite you nationality of origin, you find
yourself delved into a cultural heritage of thousands of years, drawing on the
past, but focuses on the present and future, i.e. the challenges posed by the
transition we are experiencing today, especially after the Greek and
international crisis. We want to realize our own vision, in the face of mounting
challenges such as urbanization, environmental degradation, increasing
inequalities, persisting poverty. In this environment there is an urgent need
for new approaches, to be defined and measured in a way which accounts for the
broader picture of human progress, balance between humans and nature, equity,
dignity, well-being and sustainability. Find out more at
http://arcenglishv.blogspot.com.
