Dear reader,
Welcome to ArtGate-Ink, where I will use my ink not just for my poetry, but mostly and especially to create a gate for you to navigate in the modern and contemporary art world. You are here because we have something in common, we love art and I want to talk with you about art, share knowledge, and make art more accessible, through my articles, reviews, and photographic material, related to art galleries, museums, art exhibitions, cinema, from all over Europe. Please, enjoy your time in the Art-Gate-Ink! Feel free to contact me and share your thoughts, knowledge, and feelings.
Eleni Kosmidou Poet, Art Curator
How I approach art and art Curation
Being inspired by the reality which surrounds us, my beliefs for a better world, and my respect for the sensitive nature of artists and in general creative individuals, I try to create an experience that can move the public's emotions and mind. My interest is to concentrate on the contemporary, fresh, and timely, artists and artworks that can leave an impact on our souls and mind. That's why I research themes and ideas related to contemporary social reality; from social issues that need to be resolved to what makes us happy.
My curatorial approach is based on the combination of two theories about art under an alternative perspective and a contemporary interpretation. The theory considers art as a form of expression which means that the artist expresses his/her/@ unique individual emotions. Tolstoy said that “art is a human activity [...] that one person consciously, by certain external signs, conveys to others feelings he/she/@ has the experience, and other people are affected by these feelings and live them over in themselves”. The second theory is the art and the truth, which originally is perceived by Heidegger as “being capable to reveal someone else’s world and producing a shared understanding”, but under a contemporary interpretation I alternate the term in Art and Reality, it is the shared world in which inside live the artist and the audience, and the artist takes the role to point out an issue and potentially contribute to a changing for a better reality or simply highlight the positive things and benefits that one has in reality. This approach allows me to bring in an exhibition of alternative curatorial perspectives, combine contradictory narratives, include various themes and artistic perspectives, and leave the margin to the artist and the audience to express and interpret alternatively the current context of reality.
Ultimately, even if I am a supporter of traditional art exhibitions, and the miracle of interacting with the artwork, thinking of how to give access to a bigger audience and how to reduce the environmental burden, having in mind alternative instruments to make an exhibition as a parallel option, I started to search the possibilities that new technologies give us. Art is a country without borders, open to be explored by everyone.
A serene life is like art’s procedure: it usually follows an organized sequence.
That said though, man’s reality doesn’t necessarily lead to a serene life. Deviations and irregularities are to be expected. Such asymmetries are hard to express, but they must be expressed nonetheless, since humans participate on them, willingly or not.
Thus, people often need help to find their path towards serenity.
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Hi there,
I’ve got a plan for you. I’ll take you out from your sofa’s place of power. I’ll make you bite your pillow, maybe even take out your self-righteous chastity belt.
The same happened to me writing what you read.
The psyche is heavy, don’t you think? Shall we liberate it?
Easily are set the words on paper, like raindrops on the edge of the world.
