PREVIEW:Tinos ZIG ZAG Festival 2022 – dreamideamachine ART VIEW

The contribution of Tinos island to modern Greek art, especially marble art and sculpture, is valuable. Having the northwestern part (Pyrgos, Panormos, Isternia, etc.) as a core of culture and tradition that dates back to ancient times, the island was a major artistic center and place of origin of the major sculptors of the 19th century. The Tinian marble sculptors made their island famous worldwide by winning a high reputation, the island is also well known for its sculptors and painters, such as Nikolaos Gysis, Yannoulis Chalepas and Nikiforos Lytras

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Entitled “Future-Nature, Dialogues on Change” and presenting the work of 30 sculptors, painters, artists of various art disciplines and musicians, that present their work both indoors and in public spaces within the traditional village of Isternia. The ZIG ZAG/ Festival 2022 transforms the village of Ano Isternia into a vibrant and engaging artistic canvas, while art installations, music events and guided tours reclaim one’s attention to our environment and natural heritage. The ancient Greek conception of the four basic elements—Air, Earth, Fire, Water—dates back to the pre-Socratic era, and was maintained throughout the Middle Ages until the Renaissance, deeply influencing European thought and culture. One of the earliest ontologies has the fundamental forces of the universe to be the four basic elements. By combining these elements and having them interact with one another, all materials emerge both as immaterial (invisible) and material (visual) objects of our Universe. Modern science, on the other hand, does not claim the four elements as the material basis of the physical world. The atomic theory, leaving behind early philosophical thoughts and latter misconceptions and false beliefs, classifies atoms into more than a hundred chemical elements that form chemical compounds. Solids, liquids, gas, and plasma, however, are similar to the classic elements of Air, Earth, Fire, and Water. In the history of art one encounters numerous allegorical re-presentations of the four elements. Similar to planets or days of the week, the four elements have been associated with mythological deities. For example, the earth is symbolized by Kyveli / Rhea, water by Poseidon, air by Hera, and fire by Zeus. Artists borrow references from these elements to develop an environmental toolkit, an artistic habitat. The term ökologie was introduced in 1866 by the German biologist Ernst Heckel, deriving from the Greek words oikos + logos which literally means “the study of the natural house-(oikos)”. Ecology was not always synonymous with the environment, environmentalism, or natural history. It is more relative to evolutionary biology, genetics, and ethology, explaining the mechanisms behind biodiversity in response to the ecosystem. The environment of any living organism is the proximate or extended area that affects its living conditions. Between environment and ecology there can be interaction, exchanges of matter, energy or information.

Participating Artists: Ageliki Augoustidena & Leftheris Naftis, Philipp Benkert, Piyi Daniilidi, Onoufrios Despiris, Evdokia Kyrkou, George Palamaris, Despoina Pantazi, Nikos Rizopoulos, Eirini Roumpi, Mary Roussioti, Elio Samara, Stratos Sterianos, Martha Tsiara, Voula Ferentinou, Dimitris Christidis, Werner Widmer/ Myrto Apostolou, Lamprini Boviatsou, Nikos Kryonidis, Sophia Kyriakou, Dimitris Lempesis, Alexandros Maganiotis, Margarita Petrova, Maria Stamati, Konstantina Sylikou, Irini Vazoukou, Costas Vittis, Maria Zygomala/ Curator Efi Michalarou.

Zig Zag Festival 2022 Program

OPENING: Monday July 18, 19:00, Old Medical Center, Isternia

DURATION: July 18 – 24, daily 19:00-21:00

MONDAY, JULY 18
/ 19:00 Inauguration / Introduction to the program
/ «Dialogues on Change: Mapping the Materials of the Future», group exhibition, Old Medical Center, Isternia, and outdoor exhibition.
/ 21:00 Stratos Sterianos, music performance, Sochos Square
/ #IsterniaZigZagHunt Treasure & word hunt

TUESDAY, JULY 19
/ 19:00 – 21:00 «Dialogues on Change: Mapping the Materials of the Future», group exhibition, Old Medical Center, Isternia, and outdoor exhibition.
/ 19:30 Marble demonstraton by sculptor Onoufrios Desypris.
/ 21.00 «say_it_olo», Don Stavrinos (synths, trumpet) Nefeli Stam (bass, vox) and Stefanos Chytiris (drums), performance based on free improv. Anna Apergi, Dance
/ #IsterniaZigZagHunt Treasure & word hunt

WEDNESDAY, JULY 20
/ 19:00 – 21:00 «Dialogues on Change: Mapping the Materials of the Future», group exhibition, Old Medical Center, Isternia, and outdoor exhibition.
/ Isternia Zig Zag Hunt, Treasure & word hunt

THURSDAY, JULY 21
/ 19:00 – 21:00 «Dialogues on Change: Mapping the Materials of the Future», group exhibition, Old Medical Center, Isternia, and outdoor exhibition.
/ 21:00 Classical music concert and choreography, Cristina Basili, Cello, Nafsika Peppa-Triantari, choreography, Sochos Square
/ #IsterniaZigZagHunt Treasure & word hunt

FRIDAY, JULY 22
/ 19:00 – 21:00 «Dialogues on Change: Mapping the Materials of the Future», group exhibition, Old Medical Center, Isternia, and outdoor exhibition.
/ #IsterniaZigZagHunt Treasure & word hunt

SATURDAY, JULY 23
/ 19:00 – 21:00 «Dialogues on Change: Mapping the Materials of the Future», group exhibition, Old Medical Center, Isternia, and outdoor exhibition.
/ 19:00 «Poetry and environment, readings», Haris Vlavianos, Talk-reading, Sochos Square
/ 20:30 Prize winner’s draw #IsterniaZigZagHunt, Treasure & word hunt, exhibition space

SUNDAY, JULY 24
/ 19:00 – 21:00 «Dialogues on Change: Mapping the Materials of the Future», group exhibition, Old Medical Center, Isternia, and outdoor exhibition.

Isternia Tinos/ ZIG ZAG Festival 2022

Georg Georgakopoulos, Fotini Kapiris, Eva Dalla

#isterniazigzag2022

CHEAPART, organizer
With the financial support and auspices of the Hellenic Republic, Ministry of Culture and Sports (Dialogues on Change, contemporary art exhibition and art events)
National Bank of Greece, Sponsor
Non-Profit Civil Company AEGEAS, Donor
Austrian Embassy Athens, Support
Under the auspices of the Municipality of Tinos
Isternia President Mr. Iakovos Malakates, support/collaboration
APART, coordination
TOGIAS Travel, Golden Star Ferries, Transportation sponsor
Vlachakis Eggs, Breakfast sponsor
Dreamideamachine, support