Orlando
Rania Emmanouilidou
MMCA Project Space

[exhibition] [catalogue] [lecture]
Rania Emmanouilidou’s exhibition "Orlando", produced especially for the MMCA Project Space, is consistent to the space’s goals, aiming towards 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 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 (the artist experiments with the medium for the first time, with the contribution of Yannis Karambelas); 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.

Lydia Chatziiakovou
Curator

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
6 May - 30 July 2011
Thessaloniki, Greece

Artist:
Rania Emmanouilidou

Curator:
Lydia Chatziiakovou

Artistic Directors:
Lydia Chatziiakovou, Christos Savvidis

Catalogue design:
Apostolos Rizos, Tasos Efraimidis

Pure Forms and Uncertain Times

[lecture]


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

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.   

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
22 June 2011
Thessaloniki, Greece

Lecture by:
Theofilos Tramboulis

Co-ordination:
Lydia Chatziiakovou