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I think the first time I discovered Christian Guémy, aka C215, it was totally by hazard, through two little books : The Blue Book and The Red Book.
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“I’m not so interested in how they move as in what moves them” Pina Bausch
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For centuries, we human beings have coped with our environment just thanks to the set of sensorial systems biologically developed for that scope.
“So I must leave, I'll have to go to Las Vegas or Monaco and win a fortune in a game, my life will never be the same”
Abba, Money, Money, Money, 1976.
Ἀερίων ἐπέων ἂρχομαι ἀλλ’ ὀν’ατων
With words of air I begin, for this reason they are words soft in hearing)
Sappho
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Poetry has its roots in human breath
and what would become of us if this breath diminished?
Giorgos Seferis
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The power to educate or to seduce, to heal or to scare, to tame or to arouse, to unite or to divide...
From cave murals to digital pictures, images have always had a profound impact on human thought.
Hence, they’ve been often seen as carriers of ideas, used by the political or religious leadership in order to propagate ideologies and direct the masses towards one direction or the other.
Written in response to the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art’s invitation to speak on the subject of art and worship, the following three short essays suggest possible readings of selected works by three contemporary artists that engage with significantly different concerns through their practice.
