“THE FIRST IMAGE” EXHIBITION OPENING,
MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
The “Proti Eikona” exhibition opened on Saturday, November the 14the at the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, in the framework of the celebrations for a double anniversary: TIFF’s jubilee and the Museum’s 30 years of life. Present at the opening were Greek minister of Culture and Tourism Pavlos Geroulanos, Xanthippe Skarpia Hoipel, president of the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, TIFF’s president Giorgos Corraface and TIFF’s director Despina Mouzaki.
The exhibition’s curator Dennis Zacharopoulos gave to the guests a tour of the exhibition, which is organized by the Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, TIFF and the Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon.
The exhibition was met with great success in France last summer, where it was hosted by the Sete Art Center in Camargue. The exhibits are video installations of the works of 12 male and 12 female artists. Its theme focuses on historic figures and the exhibition aims at increasing the audience’s understanding of modern artistic creation. The artists’ works also deal with gender roles in human relationships, the family nucleus and society at large. Gender roles and their anxieties in Greece have been brilliantly captured by Kostas Tahtsis, especially in his text «I Proti Eikona», which inspired the exhibition’s title.
