PRESS RELEASE
Press Conference on Exhibitions
Τhe Photography Museum recounts stories in black and white through Nysos Vassilopoulos’ “Street Sonnets” photo exhibition, presented during the 12th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, and through “Searching for the Lost Homeland” exhibition by Pavlos Kozalidis, also at the Museum.
Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival noted: “It is our pleasure to present a young artist such as Nysos Vassilopoulos. His vision is sensitive, and has a clarity that is not that far from the documentary genre”.
Vangelis Ioakimidis, Director of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography explained: “Nysos Vassilopoulos’ exhibition, done through the initiative of Dimitri Eipides, Artistic Director of the Documentary Festival and with the kind support of Canon, is presented to the public for the first time, while Pavlos Kozalidis’ exhibition, a production of the Benaki Museum, is presented at our venue for the first time”.
The two artists engage in a dialogue through their work. There are 57 works presented in the Nysos Vassilopoulos exhibition. In a theatrical way they record stories hidden in the streets of Berlin and other European cities, while the 60 black and white images by Pavlos Kozalidis focus on the lives of Greeks in the Black Sea, living in various areas of Turkey, Georgia, the Ukraine and Russia.
Nysos Vassilopoulos, referring to the exhibit said: “Through my work I try to record melancholy, loneliness and human introversion”, while Pavlos Kozalidis noted: “My curiosity was what prompted me to travel to these places, and that’s how some pictures were made”. Speaking about Mr. Kozalidis’ work, the exhibition curator Georgia Imsiridou called his images “simple, moving and peaceful”.
The two exhibitions, part of the “Photography and Cinema” cycle of the Thessaloniki Museum of Photography will last until April 18.
