再度要來老王賣瓜,雖然當事者可能會怪我太過高調,但我實在很開心,覺得與有榮焉。這篇文章不是炫燿,而是表達身為姐姐的喜悅和驕傲,除了口頭當面恭喜她之外,也希望和我的朋友分享。

 

我妹,那個藝術家老妹,入選了今年的雅典雙年展啦!!!!

 

2nd Athens Biennale 2009

HEAVEN



15 June – 4 October 2009

Preview Days:
June 13th & 14th 2009



Curators: DIMITRIS PAPAIOANNOU & ZAFOS XAGORARIS               Chus Martinez

Cay Sophie Rabinowitz                                      ?PADJA ARGYROPOULOU

Diana Baldon                                                        CHRISTOPHER MARINOS



Artistic Directors:
XYZ



Exhibition Design:
?D?hdreas angelidakis

The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 will take place from June 15th to October 4th 2009. The exhibitions and events of the biennial will unfold along the coastline of Palaio Faliro in various buildings as well as public spaces.

The 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 HEAVEN is designed as a large-scale, multi-faceted contemporary art event, with several exhibitions, actions, music and theatre performances, film screenings, symposiums, etc, with the participation of more than 100 international artists. Artistic directors XYZ (Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio, Augustine Zenakos), who previously curated the 1st Athens Biennale 2007 DESTROY ATHENS, invited an eclectic group of curators to contemplate the subject of Heaven. Heaven as a wide topic touches upon notions such as lost innocence, nature and ecology, utopias and ideal communities. From this premise, a creative dialogue begins, which will reflect upon the theme itself as well as the methodology surrounding large-scale periodical exhibitions. The diverse approaches of the 2nd Athens Biennale 2009 team of curators will retain their autonomy, while interconnecting creatively and claiming a narrative cohesion.

SPLENDID ISOLATION (ATHENS) curated by CAY SOPHIE RABINOWITZ
As one of the curators invited to contemplate the subject of Heaven, Cay Sophie Rabinowitz oriented her approach to this immeasurably broad topic by naming her exhibition Splendid Isolation, Athens. Guided by an immersive approach rather than a topical or thematic one, her selection and presentation let the viewer ponder if and how creative activity, social practices, and aesthetic experience may be directed. Splendid Isolation, Athens includes a number of art works that employ some formal or structural principle, whether it be as rigid as scaffolding, as symbolic as a monetary exchange, as modular as blocks, or as flexible as narrative. For many artists in the show, some existent form—be it physical or immaterial, biographical or contrived, religious or scientific—offers a means by which to re-consider, re-form, re-imagine or even re-structure a momentary or lifelong place of inspiration.
Splendid Isolation artists: Lara Almarcegui, Anastasia Douka, Michael Gibson, Benita-Immanuel Grosser, Hsuan Hsuan Wu, Em Kei, Kalup Linzy, Miltos Manetas, Ryan McNamara, Malcolm McLaren, Martin Oppel, Christodoulos Panayiotou, Mai-Thu Perret, Angelo Plessas, Ry Rocklen, Willem de Rooij, Ettore Sottsass, Adrian Williams.

For more information: +30 210 5232222, +30 210 5232232 & www.athensbiennial.org <http://www.athensbiennial.org>

 


雖然說,這才第二屆,但至少是個國際事務,跨出台灣,和全球各地藝術家交流,我相信對她、對我們、對其他各國的藝術家來說,都會是一場絕佳的彼此學習。

 

我妹一直非常嚮往走藝術工作的領域,但在現實生活的壓力下(心理壓力),她也不得不嘗試一些商業的創作。或許商業比較貼近人心,對像我們這種凡夫俗子來說,比較"看得懂",也主觀地認為這比較像是個工作吧。但我想若試著站在她的角度來想,或許她做得不快樂,但又得面臨『不得不』和別人不解甚至斥責眼光的兩難中。原本的工作日夜顛倒,包括她自己都不甚茍同,但當面對別人因此質疑她時,她心裡的難過程度我想不亞於我們,畢竟她自己才是承受最大壓力的人。有人覺得,既然不是自己那麼想做的那就別做不就好了,但如果生活真能那麼單純,那這樣想的人頭腦未免也太簡單了點,或許應該說,那都是沒有站在別人立場想,沒能感同身受,甚至根本不了解別人生活的人,才會說出來的風涼話罷了。總之,即使我不是很懂得她的藝術,但起碼我很願意支持她,鼓勵她向她喜歡的路發展,很高興她在國際間再度累積更多的經驗,老妹,再多送幾幅作品給我,讓我佈置嬰兒房吧!當然,如果因此讓她更加揚名國際的話,或許可以虛心地建議她,可以慢慢地改掉懶散和睡懶覺的習慣吧~~哈~

 

Congrats! Sis!!

 

 

 

 

 

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