Art confronting Covid-19
MOMus, still socially active and in the present condition, recommended selected works from its collections and its exhibitions in its online program "MOMus Resilience Project". Willing to be closer to the people who work, create, express themselves through their homes, MOMus began recommending aspects of "home", that is home life, as artists have perceived it to be in tempore non suspect (#MOMus Domus).
Today MOMus is expanding its resilience and calls you to share with us an image created by you that has artistic qualities, in response to the conditions of confinement that we experience. Give your own tone and let's make the digital album of these days all together (#SoFarSoClose).
[MOMus intends to use for its actions (which might include exhibitions, research, the purchase of works of art) certain works that will be posted on the platform and in which can be found trends that are in line with the institutions' artistic interests in terms of aesthetics, techniques, and content. In this case, the respective creators will be contacted.]
Giorgos Gerontides
Ιt’s a Rust lab, Rust collection laboratory, 2019-2020.
The photo of the installation is by pSari Visual productions the other photos are courtesy of the artist. For the drawing 60x80 cm, courtesy the artist and zina athanasiadou gallery.
WORKSHOP
PINHOLE
Photographs from the improvised pinhole camera workshop by Giorgos Gerontides at the 3rd SSC of Thessaloniki in October 2019. Risograph print Keda press.
- Thirty seconds for a photograph? An entire minute?
- Yes, that is how long it takes for an improvised camera to capture a photograph, to let the light through the tiny hole of the shutter (a piece of plastic pierced with a hot needle) and burn the light onto the photosensitive printing paper.
- How will the photo emerge? Will it be a regular photo? Will it illustrate us clearly?
- Black and white for sure, and fuzzy, for the rest we are not certain until we develop them.
In the practical part of the workshop, the participants came into contact with the basic principles of optics that were necessary for the production of our own camera. They showed great interest in the way such a simple device can operate and capture photos. The main topics of the project were the rhythm and life in the prison school.
Participating students
Abbas, Alvaro, Ahmed, Andrei, Besnik K., Bledar, Edmond, Endri, Dimitris, Marin, Letjon, Seiti, Raphael, Robert, Qamar, Theodor.
The photo of the installation is by pSari Visual productions the other photos are courtesy of the artist.
portrait
Self-portraits, from Giorgos Gerontide’s drawing workshop at the 3rd SSC of Thessaloniki in the summer of 2018, coal, markers and colored pencil on paper.
Participating: students from 2018
The photo of the installation is by pSari Visual productions the other photos are courtesy of the artist.
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