Flying over the Abyss
Exhibition duration | 02 May – 27 September 2015
Opening Hours
THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART OF CRETE
Tuesday - Friday 09:00-14:00 & 19:00-21:00
Saturday - Sunday 10:00-15:00
Monday Closed
THE IBRAHIM KHAN MOSQUE, FORTEZZA
Daily 09:00 – 19:00
NEON presents the exhibition ‘Flying over the Abyss’ in collaboration
with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete and its Director, Maria
Marangou who, along with Dimitris Paleocrassas, is co-curating the show.
The selection of the participating artists, both international and
Greek, is influenced by ‘Ascesis: The Saviors of Gods’ (Ασκητική), the
spiritual exercises written by the renowned Cretan thinker, Nikos
Kazantzakis. The exhibition will establish a creative dialogue among the
artists’ works and the essay, tracing the enlightenment of a human
life’s pathway, from the time of birth ‘till death. The original
manuscript of Ascesis will be on display, a courtesy of The Nikos
Kazantzakis Museum.
The exhibition includes works from the following artists:
Marina Abramović | Alexis Akrithakis | Matthew Barney | Hans Bellmer |
Louise Bourgeois | Heidi Bucher | Paul Chan | Savvas Christodoulides |
Robert Gober | Asta Gröting | Jim Hodges | Mike Kelley | William
Kentridge | Martin Kippenberger | Sophia Kosmaoglou | Gabriel Kuri |
Sherrie Levine | Stathis Logothetis | Ana Mendieta | Maro Michalakakos |
Doris Salcedo | Beverly Semmes | Kiki Smith | Costas Tsoclis | Adriana
Varejão | Mark Wallinger
Flying over the Abyss
ΝΕΟΝ and Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete
2 May – 27 September 2015
Installation View
Photo Credit @NikosMarkou
Beforelight | Urban Lightscapes
Urban Lightscapes, an initiative of the artist
lighting group beforelight, is a European project whose aim is to
explore and experiment on urban lighting and its impact on city
identity. It is an action that embraces visual and urban lighting with
architecture and active citizenship and connects to local communities,
academics, artists and light professionals, through three successive
actions in three European countries. Two public light installations,
lasting from July to September 2014, in two neighborhoods of Maastricht
in the Netherlands, form the core of Urban Lightscapes. The
interventions Mosaic and Color ex Machina, are the culmination of a
research process that started in Athens in November 2014, with a
European symposium in Onassis Cultural Centre and continued in Barcelona
with a three-day experimentation workshop in the Institute of Advanced
Architecture of Catalonia.
Urban Lightscapes is initiated and organized by Beforelight, in
collaboration with the Institute of Advanced Architecture of Catalonia
and Stichting SoAP, and has been awarded a European Collaboration Grand
by the European Cultural Foundation.
The publication for Urban Lightscapes is funded by NEON.
BEFORELIGHT is a Greek-based creative group formed to
experiment with light. They have presented their work at the Biennale of
Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, the Folklore Museum of Thessaloniki,
the Rotterdam Museum Night, the Benaki Museum, the Theocharakis
Foundation, the Eugenides Foundation, the foyer of the Acropolis Museum
and has created lighting interventions in public spaces in Athens,
Thessaloniki, Volos, Chania, Rotterdam and Maastricht.
BEFORELIGHT members are: Eliza Alexandropoulou, Dimitra Aloutzanidou,
Cristina Ampatzidou, Konstantina Evangelou, Kelly Efraimidou, Dimitris
Theocharoudis, Maria Lazaridou, Vasilis Ntovros, Eirini Steirou.
For more information you can visit the link
here
© η φωτογραφία τραβήχτηκε από μέλος των Beforelight.
This is a photo from the sea. It's a strange photo taken from my mobile and as I was in the water I couldn't see what I was taking. But is was so nice... swimming in November I mean. And mind that I'm not the bravest of swimmers!!
Every summer, the City and the Regional Unit of Rethymno co-organize the
“Cretan Diet Festival”, an open-air gastronomic event at the Municipal
Garden.
