[spectre] COSMOPOLIS 1 MICROCOSMOS X MACROCOSMOS

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From: Magda <magda.carneci at wanadoo.
COSMOPOLIS 1 : Microcosmos - X - Macrocosmos 
December 17th 2004 - February 13th , 2005
Thessaloniki, Greece 

First Balkan Biennial, organized by the State Museum of Contemporary Art
from Thessalonica, director Miltiades Papanikolaou, and by the
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, director Xanthippi
Skarpia-Hoipel.

Cosmopolis versus Globalism. Cosmopolis versus National Prejudices.
Cosmopolis versus Contemporary Exclusivism against Past Traditions and
Spiritual Heritage.

Under the title Microcosmos X Macrocosmos, the exhibition attempts to
explore the relationships between the regions and globalisation,
localism and cosmopolitanism, urban and rural landscape, social
engagement and spiritual motivation through the works of 90 artists from
10 South-Eastern European countries selected with the help of 10
national curators.

The aim of this exhibition is to promote specificity and differentiation
inside a more and more unified world. And to try to oppose the
present-day economic and cultural amorphousness as well as the mass
cultural industry, through the strong reassertion of the ideas of
personal evolution, individual inner accomplishment, cultivation of
complementary identities, but also through social and political
responsibility, hierarchy of true human values, planetary belonging,
spiritual ecology. Cosmopolis should remind that the role of the artist
has always been and still is to reinvent a dignified and conscious
position of Man in the universe. And to promote a more equitable, more
humane and a truly ecumenical universalism. 

General Curator: Magda Carneci.
National selectors: Miltiades Papanikolaou (Greece), Ruxandra Balaci
(Romania), Eleni Laperi (Albania), Igor Zabel (Slovenia), Maria
Vassileva (Bulgaria), Branislava Andjelkovic (Serbia and Montenegro),
Genco Gulan (Turkey), Ivana Udovicic (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Susana
Milevska (Federal Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia), Nada Beros (Croatia)

Artists:
ALBANIA: Flutura and Besnik Haxzillary;Rudina Memaga; Merita Koci;
Najada Hamza ; Gazmend Leka; Piro Koci; Suela Muca
BOSNIA - HERZEGOVINA: Kurt and Plasto; Danica Dakic; Sejla Kameric;
Muhidin Tvico; Nebojsa Seric-Shoba
BULGARIA: Alla Georgieva; Luchezar Boyadjiev; Nedko Solakov; Boris
Missirkov/ Georgi Bogdanov ; Pravdoliub Ivanov; Boryana Rossa; Valentin
Stefanoff and Nina Kovacheva 
CROATIA: Dalibor Martinis; Mladen Stilinovic; Aleksandar Battista Ilic/
Ivana Keser/ Tomislav Gotovac; Ksenija Turcic; Kristina Leko; Dragica
Antolovic; Slaven Tolj
GREECE: Elli Chrysidou ; Kostis Georgiou ; Emilia Papaphilipou ; Yiorgos
Lazongas; Evanthia Tsantila; Eleni Theophylaktou; Kostas Varotsos;
Richard Whitlock; Dimitris Xonoglu; Christos Bouronikos; Yiorgos
Tsakiris; Theodoulos
F.Y.R.O.M.: Slavica Janeslieva; Aleksandar Stankoski; Zaneta Vangeli;
Dijana Tomic-Radevska; Hristina Ivanovska; Igor Tosevski
ROMANIA: SubREAL ; Irina Botea ; Mona Vatamanu & Florin Tudor ; Calin
Man ; Mircea Cantor ; Ion Grigorescu ; Marilena Preda-Sanc 
SERBIA: Rasa Todosijevic; Goranka Matic; Vuc Vidor; Darinka Pop Mitic;
Zdravko Joksimovic; Milena Gordic
SLOVENIA: IRWIN; Apolonja Sustersic; Ziga Kariz; Polonka Lovsin ;
Son:DA; Tao Grega Vrhovec Sambolec
TURKEY: Ali Akay; Gulsun Orhon; Selda Asal; Nancy Atakan; Memed Erdener
ARTISTS invited by the general curator Magda Carneci: Costas Tsoklis
(Greece); Vlasta Delimar (Croatia); Braco Dimitrijevic (Bosnia/France);
Vadim Fishkin (Russia / Slovenia); Sanja Ivekovic (Croatia/ Germany);
Wanda Mihuleac (Romania/Paris); Paul Neagu (Romania/London); Milica
Tomic (Serbia/Austria); Alain Snyers (France)

INFO
COSMOPOLIS 1 MICROCOSMOS X MACROCOSMOS

State Museum of Contemporary Art
(Moni Lazariston, Warehouse 1 - Port of Thessaloniki) 
Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art 
Duration: Friday December the 17th 2004 - Sunday February the 13th 2005
Time: Daily from 10.00 to 18.00

Media sponsor: ERT 3

For more information:
State Museum of Contemporary Art 
21 Kolokotroni Str, 546 30 Moni Lazariston, 
Thessaloniki, Greece 
tel: + 30 2310 589140, +30 2310 589142 
info at greekstatemuseum.com ; 
http://www.greekstatemuseum.com

Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
154, Egnatia str., International Exhibition
56436 Thessaloniki, Greece
tel :+30 2310 240002
mmcart at mmca.org.gr