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19/9/2001

Balkan cultural season

Apollonia, Strasbourg

ASPECTS OF CONTEMPORARY CULTURES IN THE BALKANS THE SOUTH EAST AT THE CENTRE OF EUROPE

Apollonia and its partners are pleased to invite you to attend to a Balkan cultural season. Strasbourg is coming alive to the sounds and colours of the Balkan peninsula through a series of events: visual arts, video, music, debates and so on. An opportunity to show the curious spectator a wide and varied range of current artistic creation in this little known region. These events, which are supported enthusiastically by a number of associations, artists' collectives and local institutions, have been organised in collaboration with art critics, cultural managers and artists from the countries in question, as well as with their national representatives with offices in Strasbourg. Many of these events will go on to tour a number of European cities.

DES ANGES ET DES HOMMES
Exhibition
15 September - 14 October 2001:
La Laiterie - CEJC, 11 rue du Hohwald, 67000 Strasbourg
Artists: Zahary Kamenov (Bulgaria), Aneta Svetieva (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Aurel Vlad (Romania)
Opening on Friday 14 September at 6.30 p.m.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed on Monday
Free entrance, required bookings for the groups
Brochure in French
In collaboration with La Laiterie - CEJC and the help of: Artexpo Foundation, Bucharest, Romania ATA Rai, Contemporary Art Centre, Sofia, Bulgaria Contemporary Art Museum in Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia

Spotlight on plastic artists who use elements of a traditional style in their search to create a continuity between the styles, signs and images of different eras and different cultures. Their work is highly individual, but they all use a formal vocabulary that has been handed down by the work done in raw art.


STREET
Photographic exhibition by Milcho Manchevski
20 September - 7 November 2001:

Apollonia Space, 12 rue du Faubourg de Pierre, 67000 Strasbourg
Opening on Wednesday 19 September at 7 p.m.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed on Monday
Free entrance
December 2001: Thessaloniki

As well as being a well-known film director - his film "Before the rain", won the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival in 1994 - Milcho Manchevski also excels as a photographer. His incisive compositions, raw lighting and bright, almost saturated colours are the hallmark of his very personal style, which is firmly anchored in the contemporary reality of his country. Born in Skopje in 1959, Manchevski records unique, fleeting moments for all eternity: street scenes, daily life, the activities of ordinary people... His style is based on the sharpness of his outlook on life, with its often-wry humour, his technical skills and his lucidity. His photographs are reminiscent of the grain and the coloured magic of his films.


THE EUROPEAN NIGHTS - BALKAN VARIATIONS
7th Modern Music Festival
Taraf de Haïdouks & Kocani Orkestar Gypsy Brass Band
Thursday 18 October 2001 at 8.00 p.m.:
Cultural Centre of Neudorf, 5, place Schweitzer, 67100 Strasbourg
Organisation: Arcane 17, regional branch of the "Printemps de Bourges" festival
Information: + 33(0) 3 88 84 90 00
arcane17@club-internet.fr

The "European Nights" were created in 1995 in Strasbourg as an opportunity for creating a veritable cultural exchange. They are an original presentation of "rising international stars", sponsored by French artists working in the field of contemporary music. The "Nights", which have always been organised in this spirit, have three objectives: to increase the circulation of artists throughout Europe; to unearth international artists to present them to new audiences and music professionals; to turn the spotlight on to innovative contemporary forms of music. "The Nights" are an area of creativity and a living experiment into new forms of action in the field of cultural co-operation. Little wonder, then, that the discovery of Balkan musicians should fit it so naturally with the aims of the 7th Festival, with a show presented by Arcane 17, to sing the Balkan soul of yesterday and of today


BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Exhibition
Cypriot and French Artists
23 October - 16 November 2001:
Palais du Rhin, Place de la République, 67000 Strasbourg
Opening on Monday 22 October at 7 p.m.
Open from Monday to Friday, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. Closed on Saturday and Sunday Free entrance
December 2001: Contemporary Art Centre, Thessaloniki
January-February 2002: Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
Artists: Caroline Belardy, Cyril Barrand, Orthodoxia Constantinou, Melita Couta, Katerina Kana, Panayiotis Michael, Andreas Savva
In the memory of Caroline Belardy
With the support of: Laïki Group Cultural Centre, Cyprus - Monum - Centre des Monuments Nationaux - Cyprus Airways

After Nicosia and Corte, it is Strasbourg's turn to discover the work of seven young Cypriot and French artists who have collaborated to produce an exhibition entitled Beauty and the Beast. The fairy tale, in which a Beast, by his shows of kindness, wins over the heart of a beautiful princess, has inspired the artists to produce works in which the notion of beauty in its various dimensions and deviations is examined, and its veritable existence questioned. For Orthodoxia Constantinou, the relationship in question involves the body, an entity in suspension, transition, which casts doubt on all forms of certainty. Panayiotis Michael also uses his own body to define beauty and invites the audience to participate in his work. For Melita Couta, beauty is embodied in contradiction, in opposition, but also in the harmonious blending of the materials used. As for Caroline Belardy, it is the Mediterranean which is to be found at the heart of her conception of the subject; the memory, the imagination and the love of its coastline. It is through personal autobiographical elements, set in a phantasmagorical world, that Katerina Kana traces the boundaries of her relationship with beauty, whereas Andreas Savva gives priority to the concept and the idea, thus producing a varied series of works. Lastly, Cyril Barrand invents a vocabulary of objects, images, historical, mythological and botanical references and discovers a new equation of beauty.


PROJECTED VISIONS
Video art festival
Tuesday 23 and Wednesday 24 October 2001 at 8 p.m. :
Auditorium of the Modern and contemporary Art Museum of Strasbourg, Place Jean Hans Arp, 67000 Strasbourg
Information and bookings: + 33 (0) 3 88 23 31 31
Friday 9 November 2001 from 7 p.m. to dawn:
Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg, 1 rue de l'Académie, 67000 Strasbourg
Free entrance
Information: + 33 (0) 3 88 35 38 58
December 2001: Thessaloniki
Curators:
Lilia Dragneva, director of the Contemporary Art Centre in Chisinau, Moldavia
Zoran Eric, art critic, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Marina Grzinic, art critic and curator, Slovenia
Boris Kostadinov, curator of the festival "Videoarchaeology", Bulgaria
Zoran Petrovski, head of the video, film and photographic department of the Contemporary Art Museum of Skopje, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia
Dodo Santorineos, art critic, Fournos multimedia Centre, Athens, Greece
In collaboration with the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Strasbourg and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg

A festival devoted to video creation in Bulgaria, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Moldavia, Slovenia, Greece. On the programme: works which illustrate the rather caustic world of video art in the Balkans selected by several personalities of the region.


GAZET'ART. Cultural and artistic reviews
Lectures-debates
With:
Irina Cios for Artelier (Romania)
Ruxandra Balaci for romanian-art.com (Romania)
Darka Radosavljevic for Remont (Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)
Monika Matraszek for Arteon (Poland)
and Hüseyin Alptekin for Art-ist (Turkey)

Thursday 25 October 2001 at 3 p.m.:
Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg, 1 rue de l'Académie, 67000 Strasbourg
Free entrance
Information: + 33 (0) 3 88 35 38 58

Apollonia and the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg are organising a series of talks given by critics, editors and publishers from Romania, Poland, among others, who produce, often in rather difficult circumstances, art reviews and magazines in order to promote the contemporary art scene in their respective countries.

Friday 26 October 2001 at 8 p.m.:
Apollonia Space, 12 rue du Faubourg de Pierre, 67000 Strasbourg
Free entrance. Bookings: + 33 (0) 3 88 45 20 27

Debates between these redactors and the responsible of French reviews, Rhinocéros and Germain Roez and Sylvie Villaume for Compresse.

Saturday 27 October 2001:
Badischer Kunstverein, Waldstrasse 3, 76133 Karlsruhe
Information: +49 (0) 721 28226
In collaboration with the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs de Strasbourg and the Badischer Kunstverein in Karlsruhe December 2001: Thessaloniki

ARTIST'S COLLECTIVES - THE EXAMPLE OF subREAL
Exhibition, encounter, debates
From 3 to 8 November 2001: Project "Interviewing the cities"

Wednesday 7 November 2001 at 8 p.m.:
Apollonia Space, 12 rue du Faubourg de Pierre, 67000 Strasbourg
Free entrance. Bookings: 03 88 45 20 27
Meetings, debates between the members of subREAL and French collectives: Rhinocéros, Cape, Le Faisant.

Thursday 8 November 2001 at 7 p.m.
Syndicat Potentiel, 13 rue des couples, 67000 Strasbourg
Lecture/debates on subREAL work.
Free entrance.
Information: + 33 (0) 3 88 37 08 72

December 2001: Thessaloniki
In collaboration with the Syndicat Potentiel

What does "collective work" mean for artists today, particularly when it is carried out on the periphery of the major centres of financial and cultural power? Can an artists' collective go beyond simply grouping together for material purposes (sharing a workshop and production tools, etc.)? What position will it adopt with regard to contemporary political and social questions, with regard to the market?
These are just a few of the elements that will be addressed in the debates organised by the Syndicat Potentiel, a Strasbourg collective and Apollonia, on the role of collectives and the practical issues they face in the current artistic world.
The presence of "SubREAL", a Romanian artists' collective, will enable visitors to discover an Eastern European collective and to compare approaches from different perspectives.


HOTLINE:
apollonia / european art exchanges
33, route du rhin / f-67100 strasbourg
tel : + 33 (0) 3 88 45 20 27
fax: + 33 (0) 3 88 44 37 18

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