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4/10/2002

MoTeR 2

Centre of Contemporary Art, Rhodes

21 contemporary artists
1+21 exhibitions
330 consecutive days of art

The Museum of Modern Greek Art of the City of Rhodes presents, for the second year in a row, the art organization MoTeR at its Centre of Contemporary Art. The exhibition hosts 21 contemporary Greek and foreign artists. The leading group exhibition of the 21 artists is followed by their solo exhibitions. (1+ 21 exhibitions). Every other Saturday (except Christmas and Easter holidays), a new exhibition commences while, during all that time, a series of educational programmes, lectures, meetings of the artists with the public and parallel cultural events will take place.

The Museum of Modern Greek Art of the City of Rhodes presents, for the second year in a row, the art organization MoTeR at its Centre of Contemporary Art.

>From October 5th 2002 until September 5th 2003, ÌïÔeR2 hosts 21 contemporary Greek and foreign artists. The leading group exhibition of the 21 artists is followed by their solo exhibitions. (1+ 21 exhibitions). Every other Saturday (except Christmas and Easter holidays), a new exhibition commences while, during all that time, a series of educational programmes, lectures, meetings of the artists with the public and parallel cultural events will take place. Within 330 days of continuous art, painting, sculpture and photography or even installations, video and digital art will be presented.

A STRONG MOTOR* DRIVING UP THE HILL OF ART
By Haris Kampouridis

Success on the way of art needs guts, talent, perseverance, patience, stamina and a suitable cultural environment. Most of the time, if just one of these factors is absent, the road of establishment becomes even more difficult to tread, almost impassable. And in those few blessed cases when circumstances are right, an experienced art critic senses the painters accelerating, overcoming the obstacles on the way and change their motor gears rapidly, one after the other, "nailing them in" as a motorcyclist would say.

Coming from Athens and a former inhabitant of Salonica, I know how difficult it is for a dynamic art movement, with values and roots in its surroundings, to develop in a smaller town. At the rare occasions in which I have experienced that as an art critic, I thanked God, as I was present at a beginning with potential.

I get that sweet feeling every time I see the exhibitions in the Centre of Contemporary Art of the Museum of Modern Greek Art in Rhodes, this last year.

For years I dreamt to see an art group with claims and destiny, painters with individual visions and common root, spring out from this blessed island. Maybe they existed long before Polly Hatzimarkou showed up to undertake with such zeal the coordinating task and long before the Gallery of Rhodes walked its way through the Panhellenic world. But I believe that my young colleague, with the vigor, the will and the abilities she has in abundance, is the one that created the necessary common platform so that all artists' step will grow, accelerate, conquer the road that lies ahead.

MoTeR is already on its second gear and it is certain that it has, like all well-made machines have, a lot more -the first for ignition, the next ones for speed, the last for overdrive.

>From the works and the artists I have met, three conclusions are drawn. First, the island of Rhodes has very important, talented, and enthusiastic painters, who express a special outlook on the world, like their crossroad island.

Second, Rhodes attracts painters from other parts of the country as well; it is a small metropolis of art, preparing for a greater leading role.

And third, the first cluster of those creative factors has already been harvested as a beautiful overall work that offers to art as a whole. Artists like A.Fasianos, K.Tsoclis, H.Karas and others, who have come and seen the works, have confirmed that.

art works
> Michailidou
> Papakiriaku
> Kourti
> Dimitropoulou
> Ponis
> Hatzidiakou
> Kouroupas
> Captain Fly
> Guterstam
> Koumou
. > Papadimitriou
> Papadogonas
> Spartalis
> Ã… 2.13
> Anezia
> Michailidis
> Gravalou
> Kyourh
> Brademas
> Volonaki
> Tasso

> Organizer-Curator: Polly Hatzimarkou
Associates: Zafiris Skandaliaris, Ôania Ipsilanti-Hioti
Catalogue design & multimedia development: Angelos Spartalis
Design of educational programmes: Mika Pavlidou
Translation: Matina Chatzimarkou, Dimitris Mistriotis
Photographs: A.Koumoulis, S.Pardalos and provision from the artists

Centre of Contemporary Art
179 Sokratous str, Medieval Town
Rhodes
+30 2410 77071

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