The project "City Stories" involving 80 artists from the 20 countries. Triennial will take place in several spaces in Vilnius - the Contemporary Art Center, in the former premises of the Ministry of Health, Str. 27 and in the private apartment, with its exposure to an opportunity to see the special tours every Wednesday at 15 am. Triennial Until the end of 22 November will be held on 15 additional events (performances, project presentations, lectures, film reviews). Contemporary Art Center, 2 times per day will be held at the exhibition tour (13 hr. And 18 hours.), And the audience, atėjusiems at other times, the exhibition will focus on printed exhibition guide. The project "City Stories", additional events and news delivered in a special website www.urbanstories.lt. Later will be released in full catalog and documenting Triennial Triennial for the magazine "Contemporary Art Interview Issue.
Triennial "City Stories" is the main exhibition "Black Swan, a history and a private truth" Contemporary Art Center (curators Ann Demeester and Kestutis Kuizinas) and the project "Vilnius COOP: cracks, fiction and practice" Str. 27 (curator Vera Lauf and Ula Tornau). In the main exhibition in the Contemporary Art Center will present the works of many artists, "įvaizdinančius Wave" a local resident or unauthorized eyes. From 2008 Autumn artists from around the world traveled to Vilnius to explore the city, and now presents his experiences in the form of new works. As stated by Kestutis Kuizinas curator, "This year's theme -" City Stories "- Choose to both contribute to the Riga - Capital of Culture year and to oppose them. Great Christmas speech and their local image is always run through the official rhetoric and public relations tactics mesh, so we hope the images and stories about Vilnius traffic add humor, reflection and even criticism - characteristics of the piece of modern art. "Curator Ann Demeester recalls novelist Jonathan Franzen attempts to avoid clichés, writing in the dark blindfold: "Something like the artists, and we asked: blindfold, darkness, a response to Vilnius. The result was a series of works that offer parallel stories developed from the rumors, half-real, irrefutable facts and reliable information of the mixture. "Movies, sculptures, performances and installations will present Vilnius as a ubiquitous city or town anywhere missing, explore the real places of a fictitious character and imaginary reality sites.
Source: culturelive.lt
