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Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis - (4 July – 30 December 2012) Exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre [Old Power House]
The exhibition at the Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre aims at detecting, investigating and presenting contemporary art...ists’ reflections on today’s universal landscape of economic, political, religious, social, but also deeply existential crisis of identity. The Mediterranean, beyond being an enclosed sea, is in essence a political space and operates as a conduit for the transfer of great energy that dates back to antiquity, from the Orient to the Occident and vice-versa, and has included movements of people, innovative ideas and ideologies, in times of both peace and war. Today’s world crisis is now universally recognised as affecting socio-political, economic, ethnic and cultural structures across the board. In addition, and to a very significant degree, the contemporary postcolonial realities of the Eastern Mediterranean region, an area with a marked colonial past and a charged geopolitical fate, contribute towards determining East-West relations. A dynamic group of 41 artists from Cyprus, the surrounding area and beyond (Greece, Egypt, Israel, Lebanon, Turkey, Bulgaria, Great Britain, United States) will be scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, especially as viewed through “Mediterranean” eyes, from both a political and a poetic stance.
LIST OF PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 1. Klitsa Antoniou 2. Katerina Attalidou 3. Banu Cennetoğlu 4. Savvas Christodoulides 5. Kyriaki Costa 6. Joseph Dadoune 7. Tom Dale 8. Peter Eramian 9. Sumer Erek 10. Theodoulos Gregoriou 11. Elizabeth Hoak-Doering 12. Mustafa Hulusi 13. Pravdoliub Ivanov 14. Lamia Joreige 15. Constantinos Kalisperas 16. Stelios Kallinikou 17. Stefanos Karambabas 18. Gülsün Karamustafa 19. Susan Kleinberg 20. Servet Kocyigit 21. Glavkos Koumides 22. Νikos Kouroussis 23. Phanos Kyriacou 24. Yannis Kyriakides 25. Michel Lasserre 26. Υοussef Limoud 27. Maria Loizidou 28. Martin Meason 29. Panayiotis Michael 30. Panagiotis Mina 31. Demetris Neocleous 32. Erkan Özgen 33. Vicky Pericleous 34. Yorgos Sapountzis 35. Andreas Savva 36. Efi Savvides 37. Socratis Socratous 38. Constantinos Taliotis 39. 242 art group 40. Paola Yacoub 41. Akram Zaatari
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