Events - Suggestions The Museum of Cycladic Art presents for the first time in Greece, from 23/5/2014 until 28/9/2014, Stefanos Tsivopoulos’ “History Zero”. Tsivopoulos with this work represented Greece in the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013. The piece comprises of a film structured in three parts (each 11 minutes), accompanied by an archive of 32 texts and imagery with alternative non-monetary exchange systems. The theme includes the concept of money, the value of material goods today and the alternative exchange systems. The film depicts the experiences of three people, with very different conceptions of the value of money; its narrative explores the effect that monetary exchange can have in human relations as well as the political and social implications. It shows a young immigrant from Africa wandering around in the streets of Athens pushing a supermarket trolley and collecting scrap metal, a foreign artist who visits Athens seeking inspiration for a new artwork in the confusing landscape of the city, and an elderly art collector who suffers from dementia due to Alzheimer’s disease and lives all alone in her museum-like house surrounded by artworks of contemporary art. The initial unrelated stories of these three heroes connect through small random events. The film is presented exactly as in the Greek Pavilion with some necessary changes to the scale of the exhibits. Also, there is a set of 7 new archives “alternative currencies” that examine the history of currency in Greece from the Obol to the Euro. These 7 new archives are especially designed for the Museum of Cycladic Art (The Stathatos Mansion, Vasilissis Sofias ave. & 1, Irodotou st., Athens 106 74 Greece, tel. +30 210 7228321-3). https://facebook/photo.php?v=10152243195362336&set=vb.18313967335&type=2&theater
Posted on: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 08:00:05 +0000
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