LANZAROTE ART FESTIVAL
International Visual Arts Festival - twinned with Larroque Arts Festival, France
26 July - 16 August 2019
2019 is the inaugural year of the Lanzarote Art Festival, with more than 200 physical artworks and more than 80 digital artworks across Lanzarote for a three week period, including a number of workshops, talks and presentations.
The Theme of this year festival is "Surface/Support". This theme is taken from perhaps the last modern art movement from France. The experimental movement named “Support/Surface,” and led by the influential Louis Cane.
After the failure of Situationism and the socio-political May 1968 events in Paris - the Support/Surface artists had to reconsider the function of art; what it should be; what it could be…
Acting almost in direct rebellion to the political scene of the time, they chose the most 'establishment' of artistic mediums to do so; placing painting at the center of their exploratory practices. However, despite this traditional material choice, they rejected many aspects of 'past art’ to try and find an art suitable for the 1960s/1970s.
Whether they were successful/failed is open to discussion.
“Support/Surface” was the last international avant-garde art movement coming from France and active artists were in touch with the Abstract Expressionists in the USA. Following this period Pop art, neo Dada, Performance, video art, Conceptualism, Postmodernism and so on all took place. These were and/or are all trans-national movements.
The theme is also open to any painting, printing, sculpture, film which emphasizes the surface or the medium rather than the content/subject.
Darko Taleski is representing his video art work "Selfie 2"
ARE YOU AN IMMIGRANT TO ?
Ar Exhibition - Macedonian Culture and Info Center in Sofia, Bulgaria
20 June - 22 July 2019
On June 20, 2019, at the Cultural and Information Center of the Republic of Northern Macedonia in Sofia, was opened the exhibition "Whether you are a migrant?" By the artist Darko Taleski. The exhibition itself is part of the program of the Ministry of Culture of the RSM and represents five thematic works about migration from native land to somewhere and covers the individual destinies of migrants over the past hundred years.
The five posters of Darko Taleski tell individual stories through the digital code of the works, with the help of the augmented reality visitors could watch artists' view of migration during the Balkan wars, the civil war in Greece, the Yugoslav-Turkish treaty of the fifties of the last century, including two emigrant contemporary stories of an artist and art historian from Prilep.
Of course, Taleski's work is socially committed to the intention to change something for the better in the life of modern man, and of course to depict the emotional state of those who inspired him. In the last two years, with his artistic performances and exhibitions, he has twice visited the Culture and Information Center in Sofia and has attracted the attention of the visitors.
The exhibition included guests from the cultural life of RSM, colleagues from Spain, as well as representatives of the civil war emigration in Greece, who expressed an emotional attitude to Taleski's work, along with the guests of the CEC.
The event was opened by the director of CIC, Dr. Sasko Nasev.
Exhibition posters
To experience the augmented reality of the exhibition poster follow the instructions bellow.
ACTION HYBRIDE
I Am my Body, I Am my Memory
Action HybrideAction Hybride is a collective of international artists, started by Francesca Sand in
January 2018.
The first Action Hybride exhibition - ANGST - took place at La Capela in Paris from 8 - 11 March 2018 and federated its active members: Fur Aphrodite, Maria Clark, Loredana Denicola, Louise Dumont, Pascaline Rey, Francesca Sand, Vanda Spengler, Anne_Marie Toffolo, Elisabette Zelaya.
Action Hybrid’s main purpose is to organize exhibitions, meetings, reflections, workshops around
the theme of the body and the human condition. Its orientation is defined by a Manifesto - “ The
Social & Political Body”. At its events, the collective welcomes artists and invites guests.