Tuesday/August 10/2021 by Nikos Podias is presented as part of FRONTPAGE at the Limassol Municipal University Library, from November 20th to November 29th, 2024.
The Department of Fine Arts at the School of Fine and Applied Arts of Cyprus University of Technology (CUT) develops and organises the second part of the international investigative project FRONTPAGE in collaboration with the European Communication Institute (ECI), in partnership with the Athenian Macedonian News Agency (AMNA) and the open visual arts group AxionArt and the collaboration of the Video Art Festival Miden (Mηδέν). It is supported by various academic institutions, including Donau-Universität Krems (DUK).
The 2nd sequential exhibition of FRONTPAGE project is presented at the Limassol Municipal University Library and wishes to bring in both physical and conceptual proximity, ongoing investigations and negotiations of the cultural relationship of word and image. Through curatorial gestures and relational configurations that involve and develop contemporary interdisciplinary and intermedial formations -between and across multiple fields of knowledge-, the exhibition unfolds within the spaces of the Municipal University Library, taking the form of an expanded art installation.
This installation is conceived under the curatorial intention to examine and negotiate cultural dialectics of what we consider as news, coming from the field of journalism and the event of the news, itself. The event itself, could, therefore, be re-interpreted and potentially re-invented in the Arts. The exhibition is developed as a conceptual and visual choreography throughout the library, where the visitor finds themselves in a new condition of study.
More specifically, the exhibition develops along five main axes: Timeliness - Communication - Image - Word - Memory and will include visual works from already recognized and upcoming visual artists, photographers, photo reporters, and video artists.
The themes developed by the creators have a referential and conceptual approach regarding the transmission of the message, the concept of news, writing, text, and the power of words and images.
The purpose of this project is to achieve an artistic and dynamic outcome through the interaction and collaboration of creators from both the visual arts and the broader fields of journalism and communication. Participants are inspired by front-page newspaper articles they choose and by prominent news from the media, both international and Greek print and digital press. These ‘front pages’ serve as a canvas for creation, commentary, expression, and positioning.
The FRONTPAGE has already been presented at the Melina Mercouri Cultural Center in Athens in 2023, and a new presentation is scheduled in Vienna that involves the participation of creators and communicators from Central Europe’
Eva Marangaki, Visual Artist/Concept/Curator (AXIONART)
Marios Nottas, Director of the European Communication Institute, ECI
Gioula Papadopoulou, Director of the Video Art Festival Miden.
Vicky Pericleous, Assistant Professor | [Ρε:Re] Speculative Fine Art Practices Lab, (CUT)
Andreas Savva Special Teaching Staff, (CUT)
Julia Sysalova, Curator, Art Critic, and Art Communication Educator
Rebecca Taki, Curatorial Assistant, MA Student|MA History and Theory of Art, (CUT)
Production: European Communication Institute E.C.I., AXIONART in partnership with the Athenian Macedonian News Agency (AMNA), AxionArt, Cyprus University of Technology, Festival, Miden
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Nikos Podias, Tuesday/August 10/2021, 2023, pencil on paper, drawing, 76 x 57 cm.
