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Biography |
Stefanos Tsivopoulos (b. 1973), is a Greek artist who lives and works in Amsterdam and Athens.
He recently completed a 2 years residency at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
Recent shows include the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, 1st Athens Biennial, Kassel Kunstverein Friedericianum, International Project Space Birmingham,1st Thessaloniki Biennial, the Deste Prize, Museum Het Domein, Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, Montevideo Arts Institute Amsterdam, Center Photographique d_lle-de-France Paris, Sammlung Essl Vienna.
He is the winner of Golden Cube Award 2008, at the 25th Kassel film festival.
During 2009 he is an artist in residence at Platform Garanti in Istanbul. |
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Festival
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| 2008 Stefanos Tsivopoulos - The Real The Story The Storyteller, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade YU
2007 Land, Bytheway Projects, Amsterdam NL 2007 Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, GR |
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Filmography |
2008 Untitled (In Plato's Cave), video installation
2008 Reverse, video installation
2007 The Remake, film
2007 The Interview, video installation 2006 Land, film
2006 Play, video installation 2005 Three men, film 2005 True Fiction, video installation 2005 Occupation Unknown, documentary
2004 Actors, video installation 2004 Under Construction, documentary
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Contact |
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Tommaso Albinoni 36
1083 HM, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31611107914
E-mail: stefanzabba@yahoo.com
AD Gallery
3 Pallados Street 105 54 Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 322 87 85
Fax: +30 210 322 87 85
E-mail: ad@otenet.gr
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Composers |
| | Director, Scenario, Montage: | Sefanos Tsivopoulos | | Performers: | Jafar Ahmadi, Barak Akal, Mustafa Younis | | Production: | Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten Amsterdam |
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Summary |
In the work “Land” we see three individuals laying -seemingly sleeping- on the rocks of an inhospitable landscape as if they were washed ashore.
From their first words we realize that they are not familiar with the space and their intentions are not clear as well.
They are slowly moving around this empty land and in their efforts to give a definition of the place, the name and location they exhaust a series of questions.
Their quest for the identity and condition of the land continues but without getting any answer.
The film ends abruptly with a total shot of the scenery that illuminates the dimensions of the actual island and its location.
The whole scene creates a tragicomic ‘finale’ imposed by the physical and mental deadlock of the view of the land where they stand on.
The work Land focuses on principal questions over the notion of space as someone’s own property and how such a condition can be established?
The director about his film
Truth begins with an axiom of truth.
It begins with a decision.
Decision to say that an event has taken place.
Alain Badiou, The Political As A Truth Procedure
In the centre of my artistic practice is the research, collection and analysis of archive photos, newsreels, film archives and other historically related imagery that constitute part of our collective memory.
These documents are taken out of their historical context and used in my work in a reverse mode instead of serving their purpose they are deployed to tell a new story.
By questioning the axiomatic value of a document, I'm at the same time stating that we are strongly appealed by the document as it is.
Trying to expose the aura of photographic document while revealing my own suspicion in its power to prove validity.
To show the paradox of the document and its inherent contradictions without using the witness, but rather the document itself as subject.
In the core of my work exists the following assumption that: It is the way a story is been told rather the story itself.
The origin of the story as a true or a not true event comes second to the image’s ability to create genuine emotions and overlook facts.
So archives are not necessarily serving as ‘representatives’ of the Historical truth rather are just another way to tell a story.
-Stefanos Tsivopoulos |
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Distribution |
Stefanos Tsivopoulos
Tommaso Albinoni 36
1083 HM, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: +31611107914
E-mail: stefanzabba@yahoo.com
AD Gallery
3 Pallados Street 105 54 Athens
Greece
Tel: +30 210 322 87 85
Fax: +30 210 322 87 85
E-mail: ad@otenet.gr
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