Τρίτη 19 Απριλίου 2011

"BEYOND FACE"



Workshop by Wolfgang Brenner (5/5 Goethe Institut Thessaloniki)
















ENGLISH/GERMAN



ENGLISH
The opening of the exhibition is on the 3rd of May, 2011, at 19.30' at
Municipality of Thessaloniki Cultural Center, Gr.Lampraki &
57,Kleanthous str, Thessaloniki/Greece.

With the suport of GOETHE INSTITUT Thessaloniki and Vice-Municipality of
Culture, Education and Tourism of Municipality of Thessaloniki.

Curator: Thanassis Raptis
Until the 22nd of May,2011

Participants are:
Thanassis Pallas, Stavros Dagtzidis, Aleka Tsironi,
Anastasia Dimitriadi,Giannis Chologgounis, Vasilis Karkatselis,
Thanassis Raptis, Babis Venetopoulos, Argyris Liapopoulos,
Achilleas Savvopoulos, DimitrisTriantafyllou, Kosmas Emmoglou,
Sotiris Papanikolaou, Dimitris Zografos,
Marina Provatidou, Kalli Bellou, Dionysia Geka, Gihan Tubbeh (PE),
ClaudiaBalsters (DE), Walter Schels (DE), Stefan Panhans(DE),
Wolfgang Brenner (DE)

Workshop by Wolfgang Brenner
under the title: "Beyond face - Staged Portrait", 4th of May, at 15.00',
at Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, 66,V.Olgas Av, tel.2310 889610

Babis Venetopoulos, Visual Artist -
Lecturer of School of Fine Arts in University of Thessaloniki, presents
his artistic work, 5th of May, at 20.30', at CAFE BAZAAR, 34,Papamarkou str, Thessaloniki.

The artists:

Stefan Panhans

SORRY

2010 HDV, color/ sound 8:08 min.

ed. 5 (+ 2 a.p.)

In »Sorry« we see a somehow nightmarish, jam-packed train ride of a bunch of restless, tired and closemouthed people looking like half-professional, contemporary celebrity lookalikes; among others, in company of lots of XXL-coffee-to-go cups, a ghost of a 1930’s dirndl, two police officers in full rig, a jogging zombie and the military. Carrying lots of strange luggage they seem to be refugees, following certain unknown ritual rules.



Walter Schels

Life Before Death - An exhibition about dying

“We all know that we are going to die one day, but it is very difficult to believe that it will really happen to us. My motivation for this project was to overcome my own fear of facing up to death. The project goes some way to explore this.” Walter Schels

Few experiences are likely to affect us as profoundly as an encounter with death. Yet most deaths occur almost covertly, at one remove from our everyday lives. Death and dying are arguably our last taboos – the topics our society finds most difficult. We certainly fear them more than our ancestors did. Opportunities to learn more about them are rare indeed.

The photographer Walter Schels and the journalist Beate Lakotta spent over a year preparing this exhibition in hospices in northern Germany. This exhibition features people whose lives are coming to an end. It explores the experiences, hopes and fears of the terminally ill. All of them agreed to be photographed shortly before and immediately after death.

The majority of the subjects portrayed spent their last days in hospices। All those who come to such places realise that their lives are drawing to a close. They know there is not much time left to settle their personal affairs. Yet hardly anyone here is devoid of hope: they hope for a few more days; they hope that a dignified death awaits them or that death will not be the end of everything.



Babis Venetopoulos in his work called “Time”, is focusing on how time is influencing and transforming people. We see the gradual and inevitable transformation of a man from young to old and vice-versa. It is a partial and impalpable substitution of the face and body of himself with the face and body of his father, who is in any case the patient model- protagonist in the photographer’s works. The perpetual passing from the young body to the old one and vice –versa, as well as the simultaneous coexistence of two bodies in one, gives a shocking and complex transformation that makes viewers to suffer with anguish. This work is related to the presentation, with the use of technology, of the instant wear of the body and the destruction of spirit.

Stavros Dagtzides is commenting on Time. Time that is flying and is unbeatable. The photographer has taken shots of his close environment, seven years ago. Eight subjects. The woman in the photograph is holding in her hands photographs of various stages of her life, important moments of her life that have left a mark on her life. The ninth photography is representing the current stage of her life and the tenth shot…. will be taken after seven years. It is an ongoing project. The red neon light is the life line, the biological continuity and the discontinuity of each and everyone of us.


Achilles Savvopoulos is occupied with the transformations of what is given, of the stereotypes, of the man’s image. Viewers can see the transformation of what is obvious in an environment that is from folklorist to kitsch. Man is constantly changing but deep down, he is the same. Neither the mask nor the costume could manage to stop this process.

Dimitris Triantafyllou (personal photography) is using photography in order to construct and record a personal space and time that is constituted by memories, past and future, senses, lust, fear and mainly instinct। Through the mixing of all these ingredients, he manages to present something clear and fresh, an aroma of expression that gives him the possibility to define his true colors.

Sotiris Papanikolaou

The Worker’s Portrait of the 21st Century

… Their involvement with portraits of the French Royal family, as ghosts of the past, stresses the inevitable historic processes that reproduce and increase social inequalities, whether due to noble blood or divine right ...

..…. A mosaic of images that are silent which yet speak volumes amidst this momentary collaboration between the artist and his model, a mosaic that captivates us in the face of 50 black-and-white photographs , stirring up our guilt and reminding us of the essential and primary role of art. If Sander, Abramovic and Caniaris wished to articulate the inexpressible by first casting their light into the darkness of their souls, Sotiris Papanikolaou demonstrates this same darkness of the collective psyche by captivating us with his honesty and boldness so painful for us to behold……
Dimos Maroudis


Kalli Bellou

In every face there is a visible side and an invisible one. More observant people may detect the invisible side in a glance or a wrinkle that tells its own story.

In every face there is a truth and a lie - there is who we are and there is also the role we play in order to be accepted.
There is everything we know, but there is also everything we never realized and yet left a deeper mark on us.

Light and darkness, black and white, yin and yang... They share the world, our faces, our souls।


Claudia Balsters

I am more vulnerable as myself (a.k.a. The Bopping Monkey Revue), 2010/11, (part of an ongoing project)

The common abbreviation for „also known as“ has become a concept of creating another, at times phantastic, identity. Just like Burlesque artists for example build themselves an Alter Ego through a stage name, costumes and a performance act. In this work, which differs between documentary, staged photography and of course interpretation, my personal interest lies not so much in portraying the sociological boundaries but more in the visualisation of the desire to transform and play with another yego.




GERMAN

“BEYOND FACE”
am Dienstag, den 3. Mai 2011, einzuladen. Die Ausstellung findet im
Kulturzentrum Toumba statt, Grigoriou Lampraki Ecke Kleanthous 57,
Ano Toumpa. Tel. 2310 425531
Künstler:
Thanasis Pallas, Stavros Dagtzidis, Aleka Tsironi, Anastasia Dimitriadi,
Giannis Chologgounis, Vasilis Karkatselis, Thanasis Raptis, Babis
Venetopoulos, Argyris Liapopoulos, Achilleas Savvopoulos, Dimitris
Triantafyllou, Kosmas Emmoglou, Sotiris Papanikolaou, Dimitris Zografos,
Marina Provatidou, Kalli Bellou, Dionysia Geka, Gihan Tubbeh (PE), Claudia
Balsters (DE), Walter Schels (DE), Stefan Panhans (DE),
Wolfgang Brenner (DE)

Kurator: Thanasis Raptis

Dauer der Ausstellung: 3. bis 22. Mai 2011
Öffnungszeiten:
Dienstag bis Freitag von 10:00-14:00 Uhr und 18:00-21:00 Uhr,
Samstag 18:00-21:00 Uhr, Sonntag 10:00-14:00 Uhr. Montags geschlossen.

Rahmenprogramm:
Workshop mit dem Fotografen Wolfgang Brenner mit dem Titel: „Beyond
Face – Inszenierte Porträts“ am Mittwoch, den 4. Mai um 15:00 Uhr im
Goethe-Institut Thessaloniki, Vas. Olgas 66, Tel. 2310 889610
Präsentation des Werkes von Mpampis Venetopoulos, Künstler und
Lector an der Fakultät für Kunst der Aristoteles Universität Thessaloniki,
am Donnerstag,den 5. Mai um 20:30 Uhr im Cafe Bazaar, Papamarkou 34,
Plateia Athonos, Tel. 2310 २४१८१७

BEYOND FACE

Das Bedürfnis, den Menschen in der Kunst darzustellen, ist während der ganzen Menschheitsgeschichte sichtbar. Ob als Abbild Gottes oder nicht, die menschliche Kultur wurde im Laufe der Jahrhunderte dadurch bereichert und belebt.

Die ägyptischen Mumienporträts (Fajum) sind dabei das Glied, das die menschliche Empfindlichkeit der antiken griechischen Kunst mit den Heiligenbildern der Kirche verbindet.

Von Griechenland beeinflusst, erklären die Künstler in Ägypten ihre tiefe Religiosität, ihre Auseinandersetzung mit dem Tod, ihren Wunsch und ihre Versuche, ihm zu entgehen. Sie leugnen nicht seine Existenz. Deshalb können wir nicht sagen, dass diese Porträts realistisch sind. Sie haben ihren eigenen Realismus und Geist. Sie stellen das jahrhundertlange Verlangen des Menschen nach Unsterblichkeit dar. Ist das aber nicht die Antriebskraft, die den Menschen zur Kunst verleitet?

Man kann sagen, dass der Umgang mit dem Tod die Kultur eines Landes widerspiegelt. Unser Zeitalter, fortgeschritten und reich an Reizen und Bildern, aber abgrundtief konservativ, zeigt sich kulturell arm und benommen.

Die Künstler, die an der Ausstellung teilnehmen, kommen aus allen Generationen, Kunstschulen und Gattungen, nutzen als Ausdrucksmedien Fotografie, Video Art, interaktive Videoinstallationen oder Foto-Happenings und versuchen das Abbild des Menschen wiederzugeben, beladen (und geladen) mit menschlichen Gefühlen, die aus der Besorgnis gegenüber dem unbekannten „Danach“ hervorgehen. Die zwei Seiten der Medaille des Menschenlebens erscheinen wechselweise. Aus Freude wird Trauer. In einigen Fotos herrscht die Gestalt und andere schreien laut, was sie sagen wollen. Und der Mensch… Der Mensch ist immer „Das Maß aller Dinge“. Manchmal schwärmt er von Liebe und manchmal ist er am Boden zerstört.

Thanasis Raptis



Babis Venetopoulos (video art)

Babis Venetopoulos konzentriert sich mit seinem Werk Time auf den Einfluss der Zeit und die Verwandlung des Menschen. Vor unseren Augen spielt sich die immerwährende Verwandlung des Menschen ab, vom Jugendlichen zum Greis und umgekehrt. Es handelt sich um einen unmerklichen Ersatz des Gesichts und des Körpers des Künstlers mit denen seines Vaters, der zugleich der klaglose Hauptdarsteller seiner Werke ist. Diese ständige Umwandlung vom jugendlichen Körper zum älteren und umgekehrt, sowie die Koexistenz zweier Körper in Einem stellt eine schockierende und verwickelte Transformation dar, die Besorgnis hervorruft. Mit Hilfe der Technologie soll der Verschleiß des Körpers und die Zerstörung der Seele dargelegt und präsentiert werden.

Stavros Dagzidis

Stavros Dagzidis kommentiert die Zeit. Die Zeit, die vergeht und die Niemand besiegen kann. Der Fotograf fotografierte Menschen seines Umfeldes vor sieben Jahren. Acht Themen. Die Abgebildete hält in ihren Händen Fotos aus unterschiedlichen Lebensabschnitten, Zeitpunkte, die ihr Leben für die nächsten Jahre prägten. Das neunte Foto zeigt den heutigen Lebensabschnitt und das zehnte wird in sieben Jahren entstehen. Es handelt sich um ein fortlaufendes Projekt. Der rote Neonstrich bildet den Lebensfaden.


Achilleas Savvopoulos

Achilleas Savvopoulos befasst sich mit der Umwandlung der gegebenen, stereotypen Figur des Mannes. In einem kitschigen Umfeld beobachten wir eine offensichtliche Umwandlung. Der Mensch verändert sich stetig, aber tief im Inneren bleibt er der gleiche. Keine Maske, keine Verkleidung können dies ändern.


Dimitris Triantafyllou

Dimitris Triantafyllou benutzt die Fotografie, um einen persönlichen Raum und eine persönliche Zeit aus Erinnerung, Vergangenheit und Zukunft, Sinn, Verlangen, Angst und hauptsächlich Instinkt zu erstellen und aufzuzeichnen. Durch die Mischung dieser Bestandteile entsteht eine Klarheit und eine Bedeutung, die dem Fotografen die Möglichkeit gewährt, die eigene Note als Mensch zu definieren.



Thanasis Pallas (interactive video – installation)

DYS-TOPIA (2004)

Eine menschliche Figur mit naturalistischen Details wie eine klassische Statue. Ein junger Held in Aktion in der Uniform einer Polizeispezialeinheit. Das Material der Statue wird durch Metall und Kristallglas nachgeahmt. Der Zuschauer kann das Objekt aus allen möglichen Blickwinkeln betrachten, genau wie seinen Nebendarsteller, verschleißbare Helden in Aktion.

Die digitale Interaktion gibt allerdings nicht die Möglichkeit einer Steuerung wie es in einem Computerspiel der Fall wäre.

Die DYS-TOPIA ist kein „Objekt“ zur Schau.

Es ist eine Beziehung. Ein zeitgenössisches postmodernes Bild.

Thanasis Pallas, Künstler, Dozent für bildende Kunst – Digitale Fotografie



Walter Schels (DE)

Leben vor dem Tod – eine Ausstellung über das Sterben

„Wir alle wissen, dass wir eines Tages sterben werden, aber es ist sehr schwer zu glauben, dass es uns wirklich passieren wird. Meine Motivation für dieses Projekt war die eigene Angst dem Tode gegenüber zu überbrücken. Das Projekt trägt einiges dazu bei.“ Walter Schels

Nur wenige Erlebnisse können uns so tiefgründig beeinflussen wie die Begegnung mit dem Tod. Trotzdem ereignen sich die meisten Todesfälle versteckt und plötzlich in unserem Alltag.

Der Tod und das Sterben sind wohl unsere letzten Tabus. Thematiken, die unsere Gesellschaft sehr schwierig findet. Wir haben davor sicherlich mehr Angst, als unsere Vorfahren. Möglichkeiten, mehr darüber zu erfahren, sind in der Tat rar.

Der Fotograf Walter Schels und die Journalistin Beate Lakotta verbrachten über ein Jahr in Krankenhäusern in Norddeutschland, um diese Ausstellung vorzubereiten. Die Ausstellung zeigt Menschen, deren Leben sich dem Ende zuneigt. Sie untersucht die Erfahrungen, die Hoffnungen und die Ängste von Todkranken. Alle Personen stimmten zu, kurz vor und nach ihrem Tod fotografiert zu werden.

Die Mehrheit der dargestellten Menschen verbrachten ihre letzten Tage in Krankenhäusern. Alle, die an so einem Ort kommen, verstehen, dass ihr Leben endet. Sie wissen, dass sie nicht mehr genug Zeit haben ihre persönlichen Angelegenheiten zu erledigen. Trotzdem gibt sich fast keiner hoffnungslos: sie hoffen auf ein paar Tage mehr, sie hoffen, dass sie ein würdevoller Tod erwartet oder dass der Tod nicht das Ende sein wird.


Thanasis Raptis

Er fotografiert sonderbare, vertraute Porträts und stellt sie in einen neutralen Raum. Mit der Nebeneinanderstellung seiner eigenen Fotografie untergräbt er die klassische Sichtweise und kommentiert den wirtschaftlichen, sozialen, ideologischen, politischen und kulturellen Kontext, durch den sie entstanden sind und durch den sie existieren. Durch die fotografische Trennwand entlarvt er die paternalistische Ethik der Bourgeoisie.

Mit dem unerwartet abstoßendem Bild, nachdrücklich eingefasst in einen Bilderrahmen, wo gemäß der bürgerlichen Ästhetik eine Blumenvase, eine Landschaft und ein Seestück stehen würden, kombiniert mit den ausdruckslosen Gesichtern die abgebildet sind, verstärkt er mit gegensätzlichen Kopplungen sein künstlerisches Missfallen. Er erreicht dies, indem er die veraltete Ethik der Bourgeoisie angreift und untergräbt ihre täglichen Tätigkeiten im sozialen Leben und die Normen bzw. Regeln der bürgerlichen, ästhetischen Rückmeldungen.

Seine destruktiven Porträts zweifeln die konventionellen Grenzen des Wirklichen, des Unbedeutenden, des Ziellosen an und bedeuten den Anfang einer Suche nach einem Raum hinter oder unter den Phänomenen. Somit schlägt er eine Abkopplung von der konventionellen Realität vor.

Die Gesichter als Spiegelbild des modernen, heuchlerischen Bürgertums sind in sich selbst gefangen und träge und präsentieren sich leer und ohne Substanz. Sie sind Teil eines fotografischen Kommentars über Selbsterweckung, sinnliche Aufmerksamkeit und geistige Klarheit, dessen Ziel es ist, die innerliche Sehkraft der Zuschauer zu schärfen um damit die bürgerliche Heuchelei, das Vorzeigen der Identität, die Selbstwahrnehmung und Selbstbestimmung, die im Rahmen der sozialen Vereinbarungen entstanden sind, zu stören.

Er benutzt das Bild im Bild, um eine unvertraute Verschönerung zu erstellen, die Mitschuld am Abscheulichen zu verschweigen. Er isoliert und grenzt seine primitiven, wagemutigen Thematiken aus und erforscht somit das Unsagbare der konventionellen Darstellungen.

Seine vertrauten Porträts werden zu unvertrauten durch den Ekel, den sie hervorrufen aufgrund ihrer sentimentalen und intellektuellen Not gegen das abscheuliche Bildnis im Bild zu reagieren.

Raptis besteht nicht auf die Umstände, er bleibt nicht nur auf die Oberfläche der Formen sitzen. Er benutzt die Linse als ein Mittel zum Denken, als einen Vermittler, der in der Lage ist, die empirische Aufsicht des Sinns und des Intellekts in Beziehung zu bringen, als einen Vermittler zwischen den empirischen Fakten der sozialen Kritik und der psychografischen Auslegung.

Maria Keranidou

Kunsthistorikerin / Kuratorin



Marina Provatidou

Die neue Reihe ikonoklastischer Fotos von Marina Provatidou mit dem Titel „Auswanderung“ zeigt nackte, ausländische Frauen in verlassenen Räumen alter Häuser und Gebäude. Dies ist ein Protestschrei der Künstlerin für den elenden Zustand, den wir im heutigen Alltag in Griechenland erleben. Die Frauen, maskiert oder nicht, halten Nationalsymbole und stehen neben Heiligenbildern. Sie posieren und legen die Primitivität eines nackten Körpers dar. Sie sehen aus, als ob sie in der Ekstase eines transzendenten Rituals versunken sind, das sie in eine noch dunklere Seite der heutigen Wirklichkeit einweihen will.

In den Fotos von Marina Provatidou tragen die nackten Körper der Frauen die Landkarte eines ganzen Lebens, das auch eine andere Art von Beziehung enthüllt: Die Beziehung zwischen Urteilsvermögen und Heuchelei.

Vasiliki Athina Vagenou - Kunsthistorikerin



Sotiris Papanikolaou

Arbeiterporträt des 21. Jahrhunderts

…obwohl die Beschäftigung mit den Porträts der französischen Königsfamilie als Geist der Vergangenheit die unabwendbare geschichtliche Wiedergabe und Zunahme der sozialen Ungleichheiten betont…

…Durch die Zusammenarbeit des Künstlers mit dem Modell fesselt uns ein Mosaik von stillen Fotos die aber trotzdem sprechen, von 50 Bildern in Schwarzweiß, die unsere Schuldgefühle aufrühren und uns an die wesentliche und primäre Rolle der Kunst erinnern.

Während Sander, Abramovich und Kaniaris das Irrationale hervorbringen und Licht ins Dunkle ihrer eigenen Seelen werfen wollten, versucht Sotiris Papanikolaou, dieses Dunkle in der kollektiven Seele zum Vorschein zu bringen. Er fesselt uns mit seiner für uns schmerzhaften Kühnheit und Aufrichtigkeit…

Dimos Maroudis



Kalli Bellou

Jedes Gesicht verbirgt eine sichtbare und eine unsichtbare Seite. Die Aufmerksamen können vielleicht diese unsichtbare Seite in einem Blick oder in einer Ausdrucksfalte erkennen.

Jedes Gesicht verbirgt eine Wahrheit und eine Lüge – auf der einen, das was wir sind und auf der anderen, das was wir vorgeben zu sein um akzeptiert zu werden.

Es gibt Dinge, die wir schon kennen und Dinge, die wir nie bemerkt haben aber uns trotzdem geprägt haben.

Das Licht und die Dunkelheit, das Weiße und Schwarze, Yin und Yang teilen sich die Welt, die Gesichter, unsere Seelen.



Aleka Tsironi

Gesichter – Fassaden, Masken, Rollen, das Selbst sein. Keine Erwähnungen bezüglich des Raums, des Umfelds, der Eigenschaften. Keine außer den eigenen „Gesichtern“. Sie funktionieren ohne ihre Resultante. Nur Ausdruck, Blick und Form. Sie verlocken sie zu deuten, sie in unserer Wahrnehmung zu bringen. Drückt das Gesicht etwas aus oder zeigt es nur unsere Deutung. Führen uns ihre Eigenschaften oder sind wir es die ihnen Eigenschaften geben.




Dimitris Zografos

In einem Versuch, die eigene Fotografie zu entdecken, folgte ich meinen Instinkt, das mir mit seiner absolutistischen Art und Weise die Thematik und die Orte meiner Fotografien festlegte. Die Menschen in der Plateia Aristotelous und den umliegenden Läden, die ich präsentiere, waren für mich ein vertrautes Umfeld und so konnte ich mich ihnen mit Leichtigkeit annähern und sie fotografieren. Ich glaubte, dass jedes Foto eine eigene Geschichte zu erzählen hatte. Schnell bemerkte ich, dass dieses Bestehen aus dem Gefühlszustand der Menschen und von mir hervorkam. Jetzt erhebt sich vor jedem dieser Bilder ein Spiegel, der mich zwingt, nur mein Selbstporträt zu sehen.



Kosmas Emmoglou

Die Fotos von Kosmas Emmoglou verbinden die expressionistischen Züge der Malerei mit der Möglichkeit der Aufzeichnung, die die Fotografie bietet. Ziel ist es, Assoziationen über unterschiedliche Gesichtszüge zu erwecken. Es sind Porträts von Menschen, die ich in unterschiedlichen Räumen im Alltag treffe, gesehen durch meinen Blick. Das Ziel, die gewöhnliche Fotografie zu übertreffen.



Argyris Liapopoulos


Erinnerung an "EL GRECO" am Samstag.
Markos Meskos, Savvas Konstantinidis, Giannis Sgouros, Kostas Gasgalidis,
Manos Nakos,Dragisa Cosic



Anastasia Dimitriadi

Meistens kreieren wir Bilder, ohne ihren letztendlichen Gebrauch zu wissen. Der Gedanke, diese Porträts nicht mit der altbewährten Art in der Fotografie zu nutzen, also einfach in einer Landschaft "einzufügen", führte mich dazu, Bilder mit mehreren Ebenen zu erschaffen, indem ich Menschen und Raum miteinander verschmelze. Indem ich mich auf die Einzelheiten der Gesichter konzentriere, führe ich dem Zuschauer eine zweite Deutungsebene vor zwischen dem Vor- und Nachher oder dem Hier und dem Dort... Eine Einladung bzw. Provokation an Gedanken, Gefühle und Reisen. Ein Spiel mit der Kraft des Verstandes, das die Realität ablehnt und mit dem "Vielleicht" spielt.


Wolfgang Brenner (DE)

Wo beginnt eigentlich das Leben? Mit der Geburt, mit dem Denken,
mit der ersten Liebe?
Ist der Weg durch das Leben das Ziel?
Oder ist das Leben eine ständige Verwirrung von Zuständen,
eine Reise durch die Zeit?
Gerade in der heutigen Zeit werden wir ständig von den modernen
Medien wie dem Fernsehen, oder dem Internet bedrängt। Diese
allgegenwärtigen Medien beherrschen
mittlerweile einen Großteil unsers Denkens।
In der vierteiligen Arbeit „Ich werfe die Würfel“, „I roll the dice“ werden
Fotografien auf Büttenpapier mit Farben und anderen Materialien
gemischt und zeigt das Portrait eines Lebens: den Beginn des Lebens,
die heraufziehenden Gefahren, Gewalt, Reichtum, Erfüllung, Freude
oder auch Liebe। Aber auch das Ende der eigenen Existenz।
Der Weg ist damit nicht das Ziel, sondern vielmehr wird das Ziel
über das eigene bewusste Handeln definiert।
Die Arbeit „Past“
beschäftigt sich mit der Vergangenheit, mit Personen,
die unser Leben mitbeeinflusst haben। Dann aber fast spurlos
aus unserem Leben verschwunden sind। Nur noch vergilbte Fotos
und die damit verbundenen Erinnerungen zeigen, dass es diese
Personen jemals in unserem Leben gab।


Vasilis Karkatselis
Wir ragen in der Dunkelheit hervor, wir glänzen im Universum für bestimmte Zeit und gehen wieder. Ein anderes Gesicht nimmt unseren Platz ein, ein neues, genauso glänzendes Schmuckstück, das aber ebenfalls in kurzer Zeit ersetzt werden wird. Die Fotografie, eine mächtige Waffe wenn sie auf etwas zielt, vergleichbar mit Formaldehyd, hat eine besondere Eigenschaft: Sie hält unerschütterliche Beweise vom Licht fest, dass die innerliche und äußerliche Jugend in uns hervorbrachte. Sie existiert und solange sie existiert wird auch die Zeit die noch nicht vergangen ist existieren. Kann die Forschung im Labor, die Analyse dieses Lichts zur Aura unserer wirklichen Existenz führen? Zu dem führen, was sich hinter der Maske des Sichtbaren verbirgt, wenn wir unser Bildnis verlassen haben? Was verbirgt sich hinter dem Gesicht in unserem Porträt?



Gihan Tubbeh belegt in ihren Fotos - angesammelt in Quadraten - die primitivsten und instinktivsten Zustände des Menschen wie das rasende Verlangen, die Lust am Rande des Schmerzes, die Freude die durch Regelverstöße entsteht, die Krankheit und der Durst nach Verbotenem. Ihre Bilder sprechen außerdem über das Gewissen, über die Schuld und die Sünde, über das Hin und Her zwischen das Gute und das Böse, über die Verlockung. Die Gewalt ist in den Bildern präsent, so als ob sie sich an die menschliche Existenz richtet.


Claudia Balsters
Die verbreitete englische Abkürzung «a.k.a.» für »also known as« ist für viele Menschen zum Begriff einer zusätzlichen, zuweilen phantastischen Identität geworden. Sie manifestieren ihr Alter Ego über einen Namen, ein Kostüm und zuweilen einer Bühnenperformance. In dieser fotografischen Arbeit, die zwischen Dokumentation, Inszenierung und natürlich auch Interpretation pendelt, geht es mir weniger um eine soziologische Untersuchung des Phänomens; mein Interesse gilt der Sehnsucht nach Transformation und dem Spiel mit einem anderen Ich.

Dionysia Geka
ZUSAMMENHANGLOS, PLASTIK, WANN IMMER, IDENTIFIKATION, PHALLUS, MATRIZE, PARODIE, TESTOSTERON, DEPRESSION, VIBRATION, EINSAMKEIT, WANN IMMER, LICHT, KRAFT, ZIGARETTE, SCHRÄG, EITELKEIT, WANN IMMER, BRUDER, WANN IMMER, STREICHHÖLZER, MUSKEL, ZIEGENBOCK, ZENSUR, WANN IMMER, EINDRINGUNG, WANN IMMER, SOHN, IRONIE, KOPF, VATER, BIZARR, TRIEB, JÄGER, GELD, WANN IMMER, HAND, ANGST, IRGENDWANN, ..., VERGESSENHEIT, HALS, ANIMALISCH, GEPUNKTET, SPERMA, WANN IMMER, TRAGISCH, HALTUNG, BLUMENKOHL, ZUSAMMENHANGLOS.-


Giannis Chologgounis

Geschminkte Schönheiten aus Plastik und Papier hinter heruntergekommenen Schaufenstern - Das Ergebnis wahren Zorns und Wiederstandes.
Vergängliche Plastik- und Papierporträts, die für immer schön und anziehend erscheinen und mit Statussymbolen gleichgesetzt werden.
Sie betrachten uns aus ihren Raum, ernst, mürrisch oder auch mit einem Lächeln, gleichgültig und meistens arrogant. Ist es vielleicht die Sicherheit, die sie hinter den dicken, unzerbrechlichen Glasscheiben fühlen oder was anderes?
Werden sie auch das nächste Mal so fühlen?

Stefan Panhans
SORRY
2010 HDV, color/ sound 8:08 min.
ed. 5 (+ 2 a.p.)
In "Sorry" sehen wir einen albtraumhaften, mit Leuten und Gepäck vollgestopften Zugwaggon। Die Leute erscheinen unruhig, müde und schweigsam, viele sehen aus wie halbprofessionelle Look-a-likes von Berühmtheiten. Daneben erkennt man eine Frau in einem Dirndl, zwei Polizisten in voller Montur, einen Joggingzombie, Soldaten. Mit ihren überdimensionierten Coffee-to-go-Bechern und dem seltsam zusammen gewürfelten Gepäck wirken die Protagonisten wie auf der Flucht, bei der sie irgendwelchen unbekannten, ritualhaften Regeln zu folgen scheinen.

Σάββατο 27 Νοεμβρίου 2010

Plant Biodiversity – the art of nature



The opening of the exhibition is on the 1st of December, 2010 at 19.00' at "Christos Tsakiris" Cultural Center, 221 Lagada str, Thessaloniki/Greece.
Until the 17th of December,2010.

Plant Biodiversity – the art of nature
Prizes and praises of the International Photography Contest

The selection process of the prizes for the international photography contest with the subject: “Plant Biodiversity – the art of nature” was completed on September 8th, 2010. A total of 83 photographers with 811 photographies participated in the contest. The jury panel selected 85 photographies from 44 photographers, which will be included in the catalogue with the subject: “Plant biodiversity – the art of nature” and will be presented in a photography exhibition, which will take place in the Municipality of Stavroupoli during the first 15 days of December. The jury panel tried to highlight the diversity of the subject and also to include all the parameters that constitute biodiversity. The participations came mainly from Greece, but also from Germany, Serbia and some other countries as well. It was difficult to decide on the selection however, there were 3 prizes (1st, 2nd and 3rd prize to two photographers) and 7 praises given.

The jury panel, which was consisted of the following three members: Mr Yannis Tsalikidis, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agronomy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Mr Athanasios Raptis, photographer and representative of the Photography Centre of Thessaloniki and Mr Triantafyllos Kourouklas, photographer of the Municipality of Stavroupoli, selected 85 photographs.

Τετάρτη 15 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010

"At the edge" by Melinna Kaminari





Photography Center of Thessaloniki participates in the 2nd PHOTOBIENNALE /21st International Photography Meeting, organized by the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (...more exhibitions in this link)
with the exhibition
"At the edge" by Melinna Kaminari

The opening is on the 17th of September, 2010 at 20.30' at Tettix Gallery, in the center of Thessaloniki/Greece. Until the end of September.

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Melinna Kaminari presents photographic narrations and interviews taken at the areas that define the limits between archaeological sites and the modern cities of Athens and Elefsina, a research project conducted by the photographer over a period of about 5 years (2003-2008) at the edge of archaeological sites. The ancient city meets the modern one at the boundary of an archaeological site, a place where one can observe the complexity of urban life. The exhibition focuses on the way archaeological sites in Athens and Elefsina are demarcated, protected and preserved by the state, but also on how Greeks today encounter these sites, and treat the remains of their past.

Melinna Kaminari(1968) after having studied Graphic Arts in the private school Vacalo, and Photography in the Technological Educational Institute of Athens, she followed a scholarship in postgraduate studies at Goldsmiths (University of London), in London UK, in “Image and Communication”. She is a Doctor in “Communications, Media and Arts” of Panteion University of Athens. She works in the field of Photography more than ten years, as a photographer, as a writer and as a tutor. She has taken part in many exhibitions in Greece and abroad and her work has been distinguished and published in various magazines and newspapers.

Δευτέρα 13 Σεπτεμβρίου 2010

“Places: Sterile. Two Finnish Photographers”


Photography Center of Thessaloniki participates in the 2nd PHOTOBIENNALE /21st International Photography Meeting, organized by the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (...more exhibitions)
with the exhibition
"Places: Sterile. Two Finnish Photographers”

The opening is on the 27th of September, 2010 at 20.30' at the Municipality of Neapolis gallery.

Participants are: Kari Soinio and Harri Palviranta.

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City of Ghosts by Kari Soinio

The City of Ghosts shows anonymous people at the street level, photographed out of focus. Those people, walking the streets of a metropolis are juxtaposed with old corporate buildings and prestigious apartment buildings with only slices of upper floors in focus. By combining architectural photography and street photography, City of Ghosts discusses both the permanence of the city and the constant social changes in it. It also looks into the beauty of architecture and the fleeting nature of human life.
The high rise, vertical city also creates and symbolises social differences. The higher you are the higher you really are also in the socioeconomic ladder. The world looks quite different seen from street level or from the fortieth floor.
Where we live shapes and defines us. Our surroundings, both the people and the physical environment, create a sence of belonging and attachment to the place. The buildings, the physical set of our lives are crusially important for us. They are the frame.

City of Ghosts as a photographic project started from a notion of how a tourist, or any newcomer for that matter, in a city as large and impressive as New York would look constantly up in awe of the vertical city. Something that new yorkers almost never do.
As a newcomer myself, nearly twenty years ago, I myself experienced those feelings of awe and constant neck pain during my first weeks in the city. I looked and admired the beautiful architecture and sheer scale of everything and tried at the same time to avoid bumping in to people on the streets. Those experiences lead me later on to think deeply of the nature of the city and eventually to this project, City of Ghosts.
The vertical strength combined with horizontal solidity makes New York unique. A place of no comparison. New York is also a constantly changing city and my project is partly an attempt to look into that change and to respect the importance of that change.
It is also an attempt to show respect and admiration to that built environment and to see some of the risks the change can mean to the city.

I live and work in Helsinki in my native Finland. I am however also a one time resident and a very frequent visitor of New York, where I have been recently working on my project City of Ghosts.
I am strongly interested in representations of landscape and the ways we recognize and remember. I have previously experimented with out of focus images and how they recreate things we have memories of. Throughout my career I have explored themes of identity: corporeality and place, the sense of belonging somewhere.


Kari Soinio
kari@karisoinio.com
www.karisoinio.com




Harri Palviranta / project description

GFWP – The Great Finnish Weapons Project

The Great Finnish Weapons Project is a photographic study on Finnish weapons culture. Finland (population around 5.3 million) has a long tradition of hunting and weapons-bearing, and today Finland has one of the world's highest gun ownership rates with about 1.6 million firearms in private hands, plus perhaps some 30 000 to 100 000 illegal weapons in possession of the people.
There are approximately 2 500 shooting ranges around the country. Circa 80 percent of Finnish men learn to handle weapons during their compulsory military service. Guns are commonplace in Finland.

My aim is to photographically discuss and interprete issues relating to weapons cultures. Recent school shooting in Finland – in November 2007 in Jokela (9 dead) and in September 2008 in Kauhajoki (11 dead) – has increased my motivation for this.

But instead of just condemning the weapons culture, as a starting point it is necessary to admit that weapons and shooting are tied to contradictory societal practises and individual feelings – weapons are at the same time frightening, useful and fascinating. This contradictory feature is firstly related to bigger issues such as national defence practises, the right for a nation to defend herself in the case of an offensive. Secondly, weapons handling is tied to identity building, the
production of aggressive heroic malehood. Thirdly, it should be notified that shooting and hunting are sports that teach people social skills and discipline. Forthly, it really is odd that people enjoy owning items that are originally ment for killing. Following this ambiguous state of affairs, I have chosen a photographic approach that is documentary but not in an traditional observative way, rather in a reflective manner. My intention is to visualize the oddity within this culture and
aesthetisize the topic by binding it to corporeal and emotional issues.

I am constructing The Great Finnish Weapons Project as a three-chapter narrative:

Chapter I – The Touch
This chapter includes pictures of men touching weapons at homes, at the shooting ranges and at the auctions. The touch can even be warm, and therefore a weapon can appear as a fetish or as a prosthesis.

Chapter II – Shooting ranges
This chapter focuses on places that are on the one hand disconnected and isolated locations in a periferic environment, and on the other hand legitimate grounds for practising explosive acts. Shooting ranges are kind of universes of their own, where alternative discourses and practises are present, where society becomes exposed in a layered manner.

Chapter III – Chromogenic colour prints on aluminium, shot
These are plain white photographs mounted on aluminium and then shot by shooters at the shooting ranges. This chapter introduces wounds and smell of gunpowder into the series. It also deals with issues around indexicality in photography, contrasting the photographic trace with the wound caused by the bullet.

The Great Finnish Weapons Project is a work in progress, I started working with it in 2008. My intention is to conclude the whole project for spring/summer 2010. Altogether The Great Finnish Weapons Project will be a rather big in volume and intensity. It will be first exhibited in full volume in April 2010 in gallery Uusitalo in Helsinki, Finland.

Τετάρτη 14 Απριλίου 2010

Photography Center of Thessaloniki participates in the 2nd PHOTOBIENNALE/21st International Photography Meeting



Photography Center of Thessaloniki participates in the 2nd PHOTOBIENNALE /21st International Photography Meeting, organized by the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography
with four group exhibitions (one of them in three parts)



Meta-Thesis Ι

Artis Causa Gallery 6-30/5/2010

Alek Lindus (FR), Diane Katsiafikas (US), Vasilis Karkatselis, Stavros Dagtzidis - video (GR)

Meta-Thesis ΙΙ
Cultural Center of the Municipality of Polichni 23/4 - 14/5/2010





Wolfgang Brenner (DE), Katerina Mistal (SE), Boris Nemeth (SLOVAKIA), Nicolas Smirnov (ISR), Efthimis Mouratidis, Thanasis Raptis – video installation (GR)



Meta-Thesis ΙΙΙ

Papatzikou Gallery 24/4 - 17/5/2010



Sylvie Van Bochove (NL), Nermine Hammam (EG), Lee Eun Kyoung (KOR), Kari Soinio (US), Roberta Vivoli (IT), Konstantinos-Antonios Goutos, Vasilis Karkatselis (GR)

Curator: Maria Kenanidou, Art Historian



Place Thessaloniki

Alatza Imaret 26/4 - 6/5/2010
Anna Galanou, Georgios Gizaris, Dimitrios Zografos, Vicky-Maria Ioannou, Stelios Karatheodorou, Giorgos Kasapidis, Elpida Katsika, Kostas Kitsos, Panagiotis Koupatsaris, Petros Kotzabasis(να διορθωθεί και στην ελληνική εκδοχή Κοτζαμπάσης), Andreas Kromidas, Stavros Dagiouklas, Panagiotis Oikonomidis, Prokopis Orfanos, Christina Papafragou, Christina Paraskevopoulou- Panagiotis Mademlis, Eleftherios Plavos, Dimitris Rizos, Sravros Stamatiou, Thanos Siozos, Tasos Chios

Curator: Vasilis Karkatselis, Visual Artist




Place: Desert


Vlassis Art Gallery 22/4 - 15/5/2010








Annelies de Mey (BE), Quiles Menchero Carlos (ES), Marco Citron (IT), “hb-lankowitz” (Brigitta Reuter and Hubert Hasler) (AT), Eva Bogri, Vasilis Christidis, Hara, Chrisanthaki, Paraskevi Daskalopoulou, Argiris Liapopoulos, Vasiliki Benetatou (GR)

Curator: Thanasis Raptis, Photographer


There is no there, there
Tettix Gallery 29/4 - 20/5/2010

Liudmila Velasco (CU) & Nelson Ramirez de Arellano Conte (CU), Pasquale Calone (IT), Annemie Augustijins (BE), Annelies De Mey (BE), Brad Temkin (US), Konstantinos Fountos, Petros Kotzabasis, Dimitra Ermeidou, Giannis Cholongounis (GR)

Curator: Georgia Kourkounaki

Σάββατο 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2010

International Photography Contest “Plant biodiversity - the art of nature”


BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE MUNICIPALITY OF STAVROUPOLI
PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER OF THESSALONIKI

International Photography Contest
“Plant biodiversity - the art of nature”

The Botanical Garden of the Municipality of Stavroupoli and the Photography Center of Thessaloniki, aiming at contributing, informing and highlighting the problem of the loss of biodiversity, announce the third international photography contest on the subject: “Plant biodiversity – the art of nature”. The United Nations has designated 2010 the International Year of Biodiversity. We invite photographers to grasp the chance and implicate creatively their art with the international agony for the environment.
The term biodiversity means the total of live organisms in the ground (biological genders and species), the variety among their relations (ecosystems), and the pictures (landscapes) that man has for the natural environment, as well. Biodiversity refers to 4 levels that constitute an entity.
The first level is that of genetic biodiversity, that is to say the breadth of the hereditary origins (gene – chromosome) of a particular kind.
The second level is that of biodiversity of species of flora and fauna. Τhat is to say the total of individuals of common origin with the same morphological traits (plant kingdom – sum – class – order – family – genus - species – subspecies – variety – form – clone) e.g. Species: citrus limon – lemon tree, citrus sinensis – orange tree, citrus aurantium - sour orange tree etc.
The third level known as biodiversity of ecosystems (habitats) is expressed with the crowd of combinations of plants and animals’ species that is met in a concrete region.
The fourth level is that of biodiversity of landscapes, which is expressed with the crowd of types of landscapes (abiotic and biotic elements) that is presented in a region or in a country.
Biodiversity is today tried intensely because of the multiple pressures that accepts from human interventions and climatic change. The loss of biodiversity hides important dangers for the quality of life and the economic growth. The problem must be pointed out and measures must be taken from governments, societies and each one separately.
In these frames and with emphasis in the Greek plant biodiversity, professional or amateur photographers are called to impress with their personal glance and to attribute with each possible way the subject. The competition is open in photographic aspects that can begin from traditional (classic) photograph and reach up to modern, conjectural, manufactured or digital. Restrictions of technical, chromatic or other interventions in the photographs are not raised by the organizational committee.


Terms of the contest
● Participation in the contest is free. Any professional or amateur photographer may submit photographs, with no discrimination whatsoever.
● Any interested individual may enter the contest with a portfolio, single photographs or a series of photographs.
● All images should be submitted (by post or in person) only at the following address:
Botanical Garden of Stavroupoli
Pericleous 9A Stavroupoli 56431 Thessaloniki, Greece
To the attention of: Photography Contest
● Submission deadline: 15-07-2010 (postmark)
● The jury panel shall consist of three members: one representative of the Stavroupoli Municipality, one accomplished photographer of Photography Center of Thessaloniki , and Mr. Yannis Tsalikidis, Professor of Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Agronomy, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
● The judgement of the jury panel shall be final. No objection or other claim shall be accepted.
● Each photograph must be printed on paper size of at least 20×25 cm, ready for presentation, and for the needs of the catalogue in digital form with 22cm the big side and analysis 300 dpi. At the back of each photograph (even if it is part of a series) the following information should be written: title of the photograph (if any); location where the photograph was taken; the photographer’s full name, address, phone number and e-mail address (if any).
Languages: Greek, English, German.
● The submitted material shall not be returned.
● The images to be selected by the jury panel shall become the main part of a large photography exhibition to be initially presented at the exhibition premises of the Stavroupoli Municipality, and subsequently in other locations inside and outside Greece.
● The first exhibition of the photographs shall begin at 15st September 2010.
● The expenses for the exhibition of the images (in Stavroupoli as well as in the other locations inside and outside Greece) shall be borne by the organizer.
● At least 60 of the prize-winning photographs of the exhibition shall be included in a luxurious catalogue / album, which shall be sent to all prize-winning photographers.
● 15 of the photographs shall be included in a 2011 calendar to be published by the Botanical Garden of the Stavroupoli Municipality.
● Additional prizes shall be announced very shortly. The prizes shall be awarded at a special ceremony.
● The contest results shall be announced on the Internet and made known to all participants (www.stavroupoli.gr και www.fkth.gr).
● The copyright of the catalogue and calendar belongs to the Botanical Garden of Stavroupoli. The copyright of the individual photographs belongs to the respective photographers.
● All works may be used to publicize the contest and its goals in any medium and in any manner. The contest participants are not entitled to any remuneration whatsoever.
For further informations the concerned can adress by email to botanic.gard@stavroupoli.gr
● Participation in the contest means the unconditional acceptance of all terms referred to above.


Aim of the photographic contest is to point out the plant biodiversity, the biodiversity of ecosystems, the biodiversity of landscapes, so as more citizens and administrations take knowledge about the issue, become more sensitized and mistakes in the management of nature’s diversity to be corrected. The way all these will be bond with the art of photography and will be imputed originatively is up to the photographers.


FEW WORDS ABOUT BIODIVERSITY

In our planet exist an inconceivable number of beings. Nowadays, however a lot of factors threaten biodiversity. The downgrading, the breaking to pieces and the destruction of biotopes, the unsustainable activities, the overexploitation of soil, forests, lakes and oceans, the pollution of water, soil and atmosphere, the intensive agriculture, the excavations, the reconstruction and the invasion of foreign conquering species are some of the elements that damage biodiversity.

Biodiversity in Greece
Greece disposes a big variety of animals, plants, mushrooms, algae, micro-organisms and ecosystems, one of the largest in Europe. Found in the crossroad of three continents, with varied geomorphology and big climatic breadth, but also with particularly long-lasting history of coexistence of human with nature, Greece has acquired a remarkable biodiversity with special plant and animal forms, enough from which can not be met nowhere elsewhere in the world.
It is calculated that exist about 6.300 taxa (species and subspecies) of plants from which above 700 are endemic. The variety of vegetation, of flora and fauna, is also reflected in the big variety of presented ecosystems, from semideserted Vai palm forest in Crete up to the cold betula, pinus and abies forests. This diversity of ecosystems is also presented in a small relatively surface. In distance of 150 km from Kavala to central Rodopi, man can cross all types of the mediterranean, middle-europe and north-scandinavian bands of flora. However, even if we dispose rich biodiversity, we don not protect her and we have not appreciated her value either as state or as society.

The value of biodiversity
The maintenance of biodiversity has big importance for the humanity and for all forms of life. Among the values of maintenance of biodiversity are included:
The socio-economic values by the profits that result from the use of biodiversity, particularly for the elimination of poverty worldwide.
The medico-pharmaceutical values by the biological substances on which are based almost all the therapeutic methods.
The aesthetic and cultural values that cover the deeper needs of human.
The ecological values that are related with the survival and the normal function of most ecosystems which contribute in the maintenance of the environmental conditions of our planet.
It is therefore realized that biodiversity decreases worldwide and that the rhythm of the disappearance of species grows more than never, with simultaneous reduction of the extent of their biotopes. This loss has as a result the downgrading of services and goods that ecosystems provide, while the ability of plant societies to support the future generations is jeopardized as well.
The biodiversity is threatened today by the rapid changes that human provoked in our planet. The way and the intensity man uses the natural resources create multiple threats against environment, such as the disappearance of species, the modification and downgrading of biotopes and the general exhaustion of natural resources. Therefore, it is our responsibility to protect biodiversity.
BOTANICAL GARDEN OF STAVROUPOLI PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER OF THESSALONIKI





GERMAN

BOTANISCHER GARTEN DER STADTGEMEINDE VON STAVROUPOLI
FOTOZENTRUM VON THESSALONIKI

Internationaler Fotowettbewerb
" Pflanzen- Biologische Vielfalt - die Kunst der Natur"

Der botanische Garten der Stadtgemeinde von Stavroupoli und das Fotozentrum von Thessaloniki, um des Problems dem Verlust der biologische Vielfalt beizutragen, köndigen den dritten internationalen Fotographie Wettbewerb auf dem Thema: " Pflanzen-– die kunst der Natur". Die Vereinten Nationen haben 2010 das internationale Jahr von Biologischer Vielfalt gekennzeichnet.
Der Term Biologische Vielfalt bedeutet die Gesamtheit der Beleb-Organismen in der Erde (biologische Gene und Sorte), die Vielfalt unter ihren Relationen (Ökosystemen), und die Abbildungen (Landschaften), das Mann für die natürliche Umwelt hat. Die biologische Vielfalt bezieht sich auf 4 Ebenen, die einen einzigen Satz sind.
Die erste Ebene ist die genetischer Vielfalt, nämlich die Breite der erblichen Wurzeln (Gene und Chromosomen) einer bestimmten Sorte.
Die zweite Ebene ist die biologische Vielfalt der Sorte, der Flora und der Fauna. Nämlich die Gesamtheit den Atomen der allgemeinen Ursprung mit dem gleichen morphologischen Merkmale (Pflanzenreich – Summe – Klasse – Ordnung – Familie – Genre –Sorte – Untersorte – Vielfalt – Form – Klon), zum Beispiel, Sorte Citrus limon – Zitronenbaum, Citrus sinensis Orangenbaum, Citrus aurantium – Sevilla Orangen.
Die dritte Ebene, als die biologische Vielfalt von Ökosystemen bekannt ist, wird mit der Masse von Kombinationen der Pflanzen und der Tiere Sorten ausgedrückt, der in einer konkreten Region getroffen wird.
Die vierte Ebene ist die biologische Vielfalt von Landschaften, der mit der Masse der Arten der Landschaften ausgedrückt wird (Biotischen und Abiotischen Elemente), das in einer Region oder in einem Land dargestellt wird.
Die biologische Vielfalt wird heute intensiv wegen des mehrfachen Drucks versucht, der von den menschlichen Interventionen und von der klimatischen Änderung annimmt. Der Verlust der biologische Vielfalt versteckt wichtige Gefahren für die Lebensqualität und das Wirtschaftswachstum. Das Problem muss unterstrichen werden und Maßnahmen von den Regierungen, von den Gesellschaften und jeder von separat ergriffen werden müssen.
In diesen Rahmen und mit Hauptgewicht im griechischen biologische Vielfalt, werden Fachmann oder Bewundererphotographen, um mit ihrem persönlichen flüchtigen Blick zu beeindrucken angerufen und mit jeder möglichen Weise das Thema zuzuschreiben. Die Konkurrenz ist in den fotographischen Aspekten geöffnet, die von der traditionellen (klassischen) Fotographie anfangen und bis modernem, abbildendem, hergestelltem oder zu digitalem erreichen können. Beschränkungen der technischen, chromatischen oder anderen Interventionen in den Fotographien werden nicht vom organisatorischen Ausschuss gesetzt.

Teilnahmebedinungen
Die Teilnahme am Wettbewerb ist kostenlos. Sowohl professionelle Fotografen als auch Laien können ohne jeglichen Unterschied Fotos einsenden.
Die Interessenten nehmen mit einem Portfolio, einzelnen Fotos oder Fotoserien am Wettbewerb Teil.
Die Werke sind ausschließlich an die folgende Adresse zu schicken oder dort abzugeben:
Botanischer Garten von Stavroupoli
Perikleous 9A Stravroupoli 56431
Thessaloniki - Griechenland
Mit dem Hinweis, dass sie für den Fotowettbewerb bestimmt sind.
Die Einreichungsfrist für Fotos ist der 15.07.2010 (es gilt das Datum des Poststempels).
Die Jury setzt sich aus drei Mitgliedern zusammen und wird vom Stellvertretenden Bürgermeister von Stavroupoli, einem renommierten Fotografen und dem Professor für Landschaftsarchitektur der Landwirtschaftlichen Fakultät der Aristoteles-Universität Thessaloniki, Herrn Tsalikidis Iannis, gebildet.
Die Entscheidung der Jury ist endgültig, Einsprüche oder sonstige Klagen sind unzulässig.
Alle Fotos sind auf Papier gedruckt und mit einer Abmessung von mindestens 20 x 25cm einzusenden und zu den Notwendigkeiten des Kataloges in der digitalen Form mit 22cm, das große Seite und Analyse 300 dpa. Auf der Rückseite eines jeden Fotos (auch wenn, es als Teil einer Serie eingeschickt wird) sind der Titel (sofern vorhanden), der Ort der Aufnahme des Fotos, Vor- und Zuname des Fotografen, vollständige Anschrift, Telefon und E-Mail (sofern vorhanden) anzugeben. Zulässige Sprachen: Griechisch, Englisch und Deutsch.
Das eingeschickte Material wird nicht zurückgeschickt.
Die von der Jury ausgewählten Werke bilden die Grundlage einer großen Fotoausstellung, die zunächst im Ausstellungsraum der Gemeine Stavroupoli gezeigt wird und anschließend in Griechenland und im Ausland zu sehen sein wird.
Die erste Einweihung wird am 15st September 2010 stattfinden.
Die Kosten für die Aufhängung und Präsentation der Werke in der Ausstellung übernimmt der Organisator. Das gleiche gilt auch für die anschließende Wanderausstellung.
Mindestens 60 der prämierten Fotos der Ausstellung werden in einen luxuriösen Katalog / Fotoband aufgenommen, der allen prämierten Fotografen kostenlos zugesandt wird.
15 der Fotos werden in einen Kalender aufgenommen, der vom Botanischen Garten der Gemeinde Stavroupoli für das Jahr 2011 herausgegeben wird.
Weitere Preise werden in einer gesonderten Mitteilung bekannt gegeben. Diese Preise werden auf einer speziellen Festveranstaltung verliehen.
Die Ergebnisse des Wettbewerbs werden im Internet veröffentlicht und allen Teilnehmern mitgeteilt. ( www. stavroupoli. gr und www. fkth. gr)
Das geistige Eigentumsrecht am Katalog und am Kalender hat der Botanische Garten von Stavroupoli. Die geistigen Eigentumsrechte an den Fotos haben die Fotografen.
Die Werke können für ihre weitere Veröffentlichung im Rahmen des Wettbewerbs und seiner Ziele in jedem beliebigen Medium und auf jegliche Art und Weise verwendet werden, ohne dass daraus ein Anspruch auf ein Honorar des Teilnehmers entsteht.
Mit seiner Teilnahme am Wettbewerb erklärt der Teilnehmer die vorbehaltslose Anerkennung der vorstehenden Bedingungen.


Das Ziel der fotographischen Konkurrenz ist die pflanzen - biologische Vielfalt, die biologische Vielfalt von Ökosystemen, die biologische Vielfalt von Landschaften unterstreichen werden, besonders unseres Landes, damit mehr Auskunft und Leitungen nehmen wissen, die Menschen mehr sensibilisiert werden und Fehler im Management der Natur korrigiert werden.




BOTANISCHER GARTEN DER STADTGEMEINDE VON STAVROUPOLI
FOTOZENTRUM VON THESSALONIKI

Δευτέρα 24 Αυγούστου 2009

"A-PROSOPA (UN-FACES)” in Lima, Peru




Photography Center of Thessaloniki participates in the International Photo Festival "Mirafoto 2009",
in Lima, Peru on October, 2009
... in gallery "El Ojo Ajeno" (Centro de la Imagen)
The opening is on the 20th of October, 2009.
Title: "A-PROSOPA (UN-FACES)” (Portrait photography after portrait)


“A-PROSOPA (UN-FACES)”
( Portrait photography after portrait)

ASPECTS OF GREEK PHOTOGRAPHY
From the very beginning, photography was mainly involved in the use of human form as subject and object. From the simple shot to scientific photography, and from the illegible and imageless, the presence of human form has been used as a tool, able to express the untold and the questioning of each era.
What is in the photographers’ mind these days?
The Photography Center of Thessaloniki is presenting a representative panorama of Modern Greek photography through the works of 12 photographers expressing unique parts of the trends and practices found in the landscape of Greek photography nowadays. All generations of photographers are represented and all aesthetics schools and trends, from realistic photography to directed photography and digital which has been created from nothing. Photographers equipped with the photographic image and through their personal view, present portraits. Sometimes the photographers use special techniques and give unique form in their works.
Participants are: Stavros Dagtzides, Vassilis Karkatselis, Thanassis Raptis, Babis Venetopoulos, Efthimis Mouratides, Argyris Liapopoulos, Giorgos Papacharalampous, Ismene Goula, Achilles Savvopoulous, Abraham Pavlides, Dimitris Triantafillou, Dimitra Ermeidou.
Until the 12th of November, 2009
The multi-faced man or/ and the faceless man or/ and the man-face… Man- body- face- mask- display case but also soul as an exhibit. No polishing and shining, dark eyes, dim skin, tight lips… or, moments of joy, excitement, sparkling eyes… or, … from the black of the sea to the light blue of the sky and back to black again… Detached faces, sensual faces, sly faces harmless faces… Unalarmed faces or innocent ones…






Vassilis Karkatselis is photographing friends and strangers in the night, when everything is different. He is crowded in public WCs, with friends and strangers, because the dim light is enough to show the inner glow and the character of his models. The use of the medium is traditional whereas the result is not. Dark is disclosing and hiding the same things with light. His colorless pictures underlie the view of this project that has been open for years.

Efthimis Mouratides is using photography in an effort to comment the changes that hide behind excessive exposure and publicity. He is searching the face of the man after the wear of everyday life. He is inventing fortuities. The photographer is there to record the invisible and obscure results of the actions held by his fellowmen. His pictures are posters after Rotella, after the decoupage.

Αrgyris Liapopoulos sharpens our appetite since he is showing man’s primitive need for food. Manuel Macbeth Montalmpan is mentioning in one of his books: “Eating means killing and devouring an existence that has been living. It is either an animal or a plant. If we were devouring the animal raw we would be regarded uncivilized. But if we marinate the animal and cook it with spicies from Provence and a glass of an old, sweet wine, then we have accomplished an exceptional cultural venture, which is nonetheless based on cruelty and death”.

Giorgos Papacharalampous is presenting young girls who have reached the stage of their first puberty. The photographer is doing so in an innocent way yet, he is trying to seduce us. In his portraits, assisted by dramatic lighting, we see the coexistence of the doll-toy with fatal woman, the pubertal disrespect with the tender and innocent child’s heart…

Babis Venetopoulos in his work called “Time”, is focusing on how time is influencing and transforming people. We see the gradual and inevitable transformation of a man from young to old and vice-versa. It is a partial and impalpable substitution of the face and body of himself with the face and body of his father, who is in any case the patient model- protagonist in the photographer’s works. The perpetual passing from the young body to the old one and vice –versa, as well as the simultaneous coexistence of two bodies in one, gives a shocking and complex transformation that makes viewers to suffer with anguish. This work is related to the presentation, with the use of technology, of the instant wear of the body and the destruction of spirit.






Abraham Pavlides is looking for his subjects wandering in Greece. From the region Ferres in Evros, to Dolo in the Greek-Albanian border, to Mani, mountain Arcadia and the Aegean islands, the photographers is looking and collecting information. In this frame, he is taking advantage of all the time he has in his disposal, he is pursuing people to surpass their distrust against the lens, and allow him to take their pictures…

Stavros Dagtzides is commenting on Time. Time that is flying and is unbeatable. The photographer has taken shots of his close environment, seven years ago. Eight subjects. The woman in the photograph is holding in her hands photographs of various stages of her life, important moments of her life that have left a mark on her life. The ninth photography is representing the current stage of her life and the tenth shot…. will be taken after seven years. It is an ongoing project. The red neon light is the life line, the biological continuity and the discontinuity of each and everyone of us.

The works of Dimitra Ermeidou play the role of visual poems or psychographies. She is interested in the eternal conflict between presence and past and the way the human identity as well as the basic human virtues and ethics, the individual and collective subconscious are been shaped by pre-fabricated systems.






Thanassis Raptis’s setting is causing mixed emotions: well-bred women are photographed in their familiar environment and the background is a decorated wall of their homes. However, the conventional frame with the work of art is presenting a disemboweled animal that has been hit by a car in the Greece.

Achilles Savvopoulos is occupied with the transformations of what is given, of the stereotypes, of the man’s image. Viewers can see the transformation of what is obvious in an environment that is from folklorist to kitsch. Man is constantly changing but deep down, he is the same. Neither the mask nor the costume could manage to stop this process.






Dimitris Triantafyllou (personal photography) is using photography in order to construct and record a personal space and time that is constituted by memories, past and future, senses, lust, fear and mainly instinct. Through the mixing of all these ingredients, he manages to present something clear and fresh, an aroma of expression that gives him the possibility to define his true colors.





Ismene Goula, being a young photograph, likes to put under test the works of photographers that have become myths of photography and at the same time, she is testing her joys and hopes on their works. In her works she is renegotiating the history of art through the art of Jan Saudek, a Czech photographer born in Prague in 1935 who was the reason that she was involved in photography.


The photographers...


Dimitra Ermeidou was born on 1975 in Athens, Greece. She studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with Professor Makis Theofylaktopoulos and graduated with honors. As part of her studies she took part at the Pictor European Laboratory. Artworks by Ermeidou are kept at: BALA Collection, ACG Art in the American College of Greece and at private collections. She lives and works in Athens

d.ermeidou@yahoo.gr


Ismini Goula was born in 1980 in Thessaloniki/Greece.
High school graduate, jewelery design degree, seminars on direction,
documentary and video art (IRIS) _duration 2 years
Member of the Photography Center Of Thessaloniki in which
she studied photography for 4 years .
At this moment she lives and work in Berlin.
She has participated in 15 group-exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

47, Filippou- 54631 Thessaloniki Greece- ismini_goula@yahoo.gr / http://www.myspace.com/ismini_goula


Efthimis Mouratidis was born in Aravissos Prefecture Pella in 1961.
Attended photography courses in Photography Group of Triandria Thessalonica.
As a founding member and a current member of the administration board of the Photography Center of Thessalonica, he has presented work in many exhibitions, both individual and group.
Has lived in Thessalonica, working in the field of creative photography, since 1990 and video art since 2007.

57  Agiou Stefanou Str. 56727 Neapoli Thessaloniki Greece emouratidis@the.forthnet.gr


Vassilis Karkatselis
 Born in Athens in 1952, he attended several painting, photography and engraving classes and presented his engravings and paintings in 11 solo and in more than 50 exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Participated in more than 200 group photography exhibitions and held 23 solo photo exhibitions (some of them are in tour around the world). He took part in numerous happenings, installations and group actions with the purpose of broadening the communication of public with works of art. 
 From 1984 he moves to Thessaloniki and works mainly with engravings and creative  photography. In 1984 he founds the “Photography Group of Triandria”, in 1995 the group “Praxis- Photographers Initiative”, in 1998 the multiform group “FOTODRAMA”, and in 2001 the “Hellenic Lomographic Society”. In the past, he published 23 issues of a magazine titled “Pages about Photography” which was a theoretical magazine for “photography beyond bounds”. In the past he was member of the consultative committee of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography, of the committee for photography of the Organization “Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997 ”, and art consultant of the Gallery “Artistic Creation”.
Today, he is president of the artistic committee of the Photography Center of Thessaloniki and member of numerous groups of art.

9 Karaiskaki St. -Sikies Thessaloniki Greece-56626 Greece katselis@the.forthnet.gr


A private employee, Abraham Pavlidis has been taken photographs regularly since 1990.He has shown his work in Ankona, Italy (2002), Photographic Center of Thessaloniki (2002), and the group show «Time depositories», at the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography (2003).His photography is a natural extension of his keen interest in travelling and his desire to record places where people work, worship and live their private lives- places charged with memory and tradition.

info@fkth.gr


Thanassis Raptis was born in 1962, lives in Thessaloniki, Greece and has studied the Law, at Aristotle’s University. He belongs to the persons that founded Photography Centre of Thessaloniki and at this time he is member of its Council and member of its Art Committee. He has been responsible for the production of many photo exhibitions. He is writing articles about modern art in magazines of Thessaloniki. For the last fifteen years he has been participant of more than forty group photography exhibitions and he has also organised seven exhibitions of his own. His work has been published in many catalogues and magazines. Except these, narratives, tales and translations from Spanish have been published in literary magazines.

22,Serron str -Thessaloniki- Greece raptisth@the.forthnet.gr


Stavros Dagtzidis was born in Komotini (Greece). He studied pharmacist, photography and cinema.
Founding member of the photography Center of Thessaloniki, has participated in a lot of exhibitions in the Greece and abroad.
Occupied with photography, installations and video.

8, Ag.Spiridonos str. -Triandria 55337 -Thessaloniki- Greece stavrhsd@otenet.gr


Achileas Savopoulos was born in 1958 and is living in Kavala. He got his degree from the University of England and USA. Member of EFE and Photographic Club in Kavala and for some years he was the president. He participated in many Group Shows and he had One Man Shows with many awards and honorable mentions in greek and international contests. He cooperated with greek and foreing magazines in the production of audio visual slide shows and video clips.

artwarehouse@hotmail.com


Argyris Liapopoulos was born in 1959 in Klidi Imathia. He studied economics at the University of Thessaloniki. With the photo involved systematically since 1988. Developed a wide variety of action with reports, happenings. Photos and his work was done covers in books, a material book, published in magazines and tributes have been in the daily press and the media.
He took part in individual and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.
He lives and works in Thessaloniki

35 Lehovoy Str.,546 26, Sykies Thessaloniki www.liapopoulos.gr argirisi@otenet.gr


Giorgos Papacharalampous was born in 1983. He studied in the technical university of Thessaloniki, automatization. In 2000 he studied for two years photography in Photographic center of Thessaloniki. He attended a workshop of Anders Petersen (2003) and currently working on his master’s in photography in Ostkreuzschule in Berlin. His photography has been displayed in several group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

photogeorge@gmail.com


Dimitris Triantafillou was born in 1967, studied Physics and Mathematics (B.A. Macalester College, St.Paul Minnesota) and has a Core Degree in Asian philosophy (Macalester College) and an MA in Biophysics (University of Minnesota). He also has studied photography at the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN. He has attended two workshops given by the Swedish Master Photographer Anders Petersen. One in Thassos and one in Kavala. He currently works as a freelancer in Photography and teaches photography courses.

dimitris.triantafyllou@gmail.com http://www.dimitristriantafyllou.com/


Babis Venetopoulos was born in 1973. Master in «Digital Forms of Art», School of Fine Arts, Athens (2003-2005). Visual and Applied Arts Department of the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, studio of Yiannis Fokas (1996-2002). Interior Design, IEK Delta of Thessaloniki (1993-1995). Co-founder of Minotaur Digital Arts, a production company specialized in 3D Animation and VFX for television and cinema. He is teaching in Visual and Applied Arts Department of the School of Fine Arts, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (studio of Kyriakos Katzourakis). Lives and works in Athens and Thessaloniki.

babis@mda.gr
























PHOTOGRAPHY CENTER OF THESSALONIKI (GREECE) www.fkth.gr
The Photography Centre of Thessaloniki is a non-profit company running almost for the last ten years in Thessaloniki, Greece, in the Balkans and lately across Europe.
In Greece Photography Centre of Thessaloniki became known all these years especially due to the long struggle for artistic photography and of course, through the exhibitions and other events (street actions, school guided tours, intervention with articles on press).
Photography Centre of Thessaloniki has collaborated with almost all of the museums in North Greece as the Photography Museum of Thessaloniki, the State Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Byzantine Culture, Water Supply Museum of Thessaloniki, Folk life Museum of Xanthi, with foreign institutes (Goethe Institute, French Institute, Italian Institute), as well as with many municipalities and prefectures.
It has also become known in the Balkans during the last fifteen years due to the development of collaborations and exchanges with individual photographers, but also with all the important institutions and festivals (museums, universities, galleries, photography centres, and photography festivals) that foster the photography in the Balkans through events under the name "Aspects of Balkan Photography".
Since 2005, the activities of the Photography Centre of Thessaloniki are spread across Europe through its involvement, as founder member, in the Photofestival Union, in which take part the most important nongovernmental photography festivals from all European countries.
The site of Photography Center of Thessaloniki www.fkth.gr accomplished something unique: To provide with documents, CVs and photography material almost all of its exhibitions and also to include links with photos from the most prominent Greek and Balkan photographers.
The Photography Centre of Thessaloniki publishes also many catalogues, photo albums and DVDs, especially for its international exhibitions in Greece.
The future orientation of Photography Centre of Thessaloniki consists in organising important festivals and collaborations with prominent agents and festivals in Greece, the Balkans and across Europe. This orientation will follow the way the company paved so far, through institutions that the same company created and developed successfully ("Aspects of Balkan Photography"), involved in their foundation and later supported (Photofestival Union) and through which it is presented on the occasion of the 1st International Meeting of Photography Centres in May 2008 in Spain.
The standards, according to which the photographers are judged whether to participate in the company or not, are very high and is given emphasis on the enrichment of the company with young and competent photographers, encouraging their participation in high level festivals for grabbing opportunities and collecting experience.