TRANSIT-4
Curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola, Katerina
Gregos
Curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola, Katerina
Gregos
Madre Museum, Naples
26.05.10 | 13.09.10
State Museum of
Contemporary Art, THessaloniki 15.12.10 – 15.11.11
The State Museum of Contemporary Art in collaboration with MADRE
Contemporary Art Museum of Donnaregina in Naples, is organizing the exhibition
TRANSIT-4, curated by Adriana Rispoli, Eugenio Viola and Katerinas Gregos.
TRANSIT is a reflection on the geopolitical position and the
anthropological background of Naples. The network that TRANSIT aims to
establish symbolically reopens the ancient Mediterranean routes starting from
the past of places to reflect on their present and on their delicate social and
environmental balances. Lastly it investigates the complexity and the
stratifications of what we could call “palimpsest cities”, borrowing an
expression from Georg Simmel. The project has already been presented in Cairo,
Istanbul and Tel Aviv and its last destination will be in Thessaloniki. The
fourth and final step of the ΤRANSIT project will launch the works of two
artists from Greece, Dimitri Kotsaras and Jennifer Nelson, and works by the
Italian artist Eugenio Tibaldi. The first part of TRANSIT-4 was realized at
MADRE Contemporary Art Museum of Donnaregina in Naples, in May 26th, 2010.
The artists where initially invited to create original works that will
explore the relationships that the two cities of Thessaloniki and Naples may
have, based on their geographical location and their delicate historical and
political background.
The work of Dimitri Kotsaras and Jennifer Nelson consist of a film and
an installation, while a performance will be held on the opening nigh. Their work demonstrates their ongoing concern
with environmental issues and the natural environment. Taking the fragile
eco-system of the Mediterranean basis as the symbolic point of departure,
Nelson & Kotsaras devised a performance and a film for the TRANSIT project
which aims to generate awareness about two specific issues: the mindless and
ubiquitous use of household chemicals and the threatened biodiversity of the
Mediterranean sea, which is the result of the use of these chemicals, in
addition to industrial waste and other pollutants that threaten the so-called
mare nostrum and the living creatures within it. The residue of the performance
along with the film will be shown at the project room and will function as a
kind of requiem for the dwindling fish populations of the Mediterranean, either
due to pollution – domestic or industrial - or over-fishing. Their film, a S.M.C.A. production, with the
title Untitled (Disaster) that was created for the purpose of the exhibition,
will be presented in the Experimental Forum, a parallel programme of the 51st
Thessaloniki Film Festival.
Eugenio Tibaldi takes his cue from various elements and creates a visual
palimpsest that combines the different materials collected in the two cities. A
two-headed boat, obtained from the hybridization between a Greek trechandiri
and a Neapolitan gozzo, becomes the starting point of his socio-anthropological
research. The construction presented in
his installation becomes the metaphor of the history of the two cities and of
their destinies, with a fictitious skyline of the coastlines of Naples and
Thessaloniki united by their ports.
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