Orange Water Art Festival Catalog Presentation at NIA

Dear all,
On Monday, November 16, 2015 at 20.30 the Ambassador of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Mr Caspar Veldkamp, will present the catalog of the Orange Water Art Festival at the Netherland Institute of Athens. (Makri 11, Athens. Next to Acropolis Metro Station)

You are all welcome!

The first Orange Water festival is built on the idea of exchanges between
contemporary artists from Holland and Greece with the main theme
"Memory Landscape". The venues used are non-profit, possessing artistic
and touristic interest. The first festival was hosted in sites located in
Crete (Heraklion and Chania), Paros (Naousa, Paroikia, Lefkes) and
Athens, some of which are historic monuments. The aim of the festival
is to provide a bridge of culture between Greece and Holland, especially
in the field of the visual arts, attempting to spread later to more countries
by organizing exhibitions both in Greece and abroad.

"Memory Landscape"
The "Memory Landscape" is the central idea of all the exhibitions of the
first Orange Water festival. In these exhibitions are joined the projects
by distinguished Greek and Dutch artists, as a representative sample of
the contemporary art scene in both countries, stretching from abstract
art to realism.
The exhibitions deal with the relationship of the gaze to memory and reality.
The notion of memory entails also that of amnesia, whether it is
selective - via a conscious or unconscious process - or through prejudices
and ideas that affect the filtration of information. The rapid developments
in neuroscience and brain mapping have revealed extraordinary
details about the memory function. The human eye is not only a receiver
of external images but also works as a projector of images displayed by
the brain. Thus, each person sees - and therefore understands - the
world in a completely different way. The artists in this exhibition are invited
to explore the subjective nature of memory using it as a creative
stimulus for their work. They process the idea of memory in historical,
political, mythological, dreamy, psychedelic, spiritual ways.
The exhibitions present paintings, sculptures and installations using
mixed techniques, digital media and conceptual art.

Apostolis Zolotakis
Art Director, Curator

Kelly Athanasiadou
Operations and Development Director, Curator Assistant

Attached please will find photos of some of the festivals exhibitions
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