Rania Emmanouilidou - "Orlando"
6 May - 30 July 2011, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art - Project Space
Rania Emmanouilidou’s exhibition "Orlando", produced especially for the MMCA Project Space, is consistent to the space’s goals, aiming at providing to the artist the opportunity to look at her work through the eyes of other artists and curators, as well as to experiment with art forms beyond the one she normally uses. At the same time, the audience is given the chance to catch a glimpse of the "artist’s universe", through the presentation of a series of works still in progress.
The exhibition title, "Orlando", is a clear reference to Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel and to the works’ recurrent theme, which revolves around the idea of evolution and transformation – personal, esoteric, predictable, but also borderline and creepy. The presentation touches upon issues that have to do with the works’ thematic, as well as with contemporary painting, its production and exhibition.
Apart from paintings –the artist’s preferred medium, the exhibition also includes sculpture and video (helped by Yiannis Karambelas, the artist experiments with the medium for the first time); a publication designed by Apostolos Rizos and Tasos Efraimidis, which includes visual material and texts-comments by Vasilis Amanatidis, Eleni Garoufalia, Apostolos Kalfopoulos, Areti Leopoulou, Lydia Chatziiakovou & Christos Savvidis; and the video animation work "Endless Tales" by Lia Psoma, which Emmanouilidou chooses to present alongside her own works. Finally, the project includes talks and performances, designed in collaboration with other artists, while the project evolves.
Parallel event: "Pure forms and uncertain times" (lecture by Theofilos Tramboulis)
22 June, 19.30-21.00
"In a time of uncertainty and ambiguity, art has to find its clarity and pureness. We need to go back to the morphological autonomy of the art works, because in it only can we find the necessary ally and foothold, when the fluidity of the social and political field leaves us in an obsessive state of crisis."
Rania Emmanouilidou’s exhibition "Orlando", produced especially for the MMCA Project Space, is consistent to the space’s goals, aiming at providing to the artist the opportunity to look at her work through the eyes of other artists and curators, as well as to experiment with art forms beyond the one she normally uses. At the same time, the audience is given the chance to catch a glimpse of the "artist’s universe", through the presentation of a series of works still in progress.
The exhibition title, "Orlando", is a clear reference to Virginia Woolf’s 1928 novel and to the works’ recurrent theme, which revolves around the idea of evolution and transformation – personal, esoteric, predictable, but also borderline and creepy. The presentation touches upon issues that have to do with the works’ thematic, as well as with contemporary painting, its production and exhibition.
Apart from paintings –the artist’s preferred medium, the exhibition also includes sculpture and video (helped by Yiannis Karambelas, the artist experiments with the medium for the first time); a publication designed by Apostolos Rizos and Tasos Efraimidis, which includes visual material and texts-comments by Vasilis Amanatidis, Eleni Garoufalia, Apostolos Kalfopoulos, Areti Leopoulou, Lydia Chatziiakovou & Christos Savvidis; and the video animation work "Endless Tales" by Lia Psoma, which Emmanouilidou chooses to present alongside her own works. Finally, the project includes talks and performances, designed in collaboration with other artists, while the project evolves.
Parallel event: "Pure forms and uncertain times" (lecture by Theofilos Tramboulis)
22 June, 19.30-21.00
"In a time of uncertainty and ambiguity, art has to find its clarity and pureness. We need to go back to the morphological autonomy of the art works, because in it only can we find the necessary ally and foothold, when the fluidity of the social and political field leaves us in an obsessive state of crisis."
Theofilos Tramboulis is an editor of publications and translator. He has edited catalogues of group and solo shows of contemporary art; he has published texts on cultural criticism in Greek and international publications.
