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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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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: | Stefanos Tsivopoulos
| | Director of Photography: | Marcel Rategui
| | Sound: | Christian Schossig | | Editing: | Roland Oeller, Stefanos Tsivopoulos | | Actor: | Baki Davrak
| | Production: | Dutch Fonds BKVB |
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Summary |
In “Reverse” (2008) the integrity of the protagonist’s persona –actor Baki Davrak- is at stake as during his improvised narration personal memories are mixed with excerpts from already played scripts.
Cinema roles about Turkish immigrants living in Germany infuse the personal memories of a Germany born actor of Turkish decadence.
The uncanny situation having to listen to a semi-fictitious, half-real persona actually questions the very concept of identity (ethnic, national or self-acclaimed), which is seen as an act that is rehearsed all the time, much like a script.
This script becomes a reality, as we perform these actions over and over again, as we fill up with borrowed images and lent experiences.
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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