International Pincotheque of Gergeri, Crete

Messakos Watermill2
On the window, work on Plexiglass by Alessandro Cardinale, Venise, Italy

The Foyer1, photo by Dores Sacquegna Italy

The Foyer1

Work by Angioletta DeNitto, Mesagne, Brindisi, Italy,

courtesy of Primo Piano Living Gallery, Lecce, Italy

The Foyer1

Sculpture by Gheorge Zaharia, Romania

and painting of the trace of a meteorite in Gergeri by Bassiliki Sofra from Athens

Le Foyer1

Scuplture by Christos Alevras from Thessaloniki,Greece, paintings by Alberto Casiragay from Leche, Italy, Dev Udaiyan from India and B. Sofra from Athens Greece

Gargling Sky international Pinacotheque of the Municipality of Rouvas, Gergeri, Crete

in the Messakos Watemill 2,
work by Cristine Gori from Venise, Italy and on the side,work by Hera from N.Y,U.S.A

Messakos Watermill 2, work by Rye Ilseon and Rye Ilji from Korea and Dellavilla from Paris, France

Messakos Watermill 2

Athena Tsiblostefanaki from Crete, Dellavilla from France, Manolis Prinianakis from Crete, Bechara from France

Campus 4
Georges Syrakis from Athens, Greece, Lena Kelekian, Hilda Kelekian from Lebanon

Sculpture by Sifakis, Crete

Campus 4

Aggelika Korovessi from Athens, Greece, Fausta Squatriti from Milano,Italy, Hagop Sulahian from lebanon and Gefso Papadaki from Athens, Greece

Gargling Sky 2009, Gergeri, Crete

Part of the international pinacotheque of the municipality of Rouvas. [Campus 4]
works by Easton Houle and DavidRoche from Canada, U.S.A,
Doustikhah and Picazo from K-DrozParis, France
Virginia Videa from Romania,
Piero Ferroglia from Torino,
Khurshid Saleem from New York, U.S.A
Romero, K-Droz Paris, France


Salutation from Homo Ludens Team [Urania's Gardens 5]

The polycentric international Pinacotheque of the municipality of Rouvas in Gergeri

welcoming Gargling Sky artists in Gergeri, Forest of Rouvas, Crete, Auguwt 2009

GARGLING SKY, GERGERI, 2009

Urania's Garden nb.2
Gargling Sky in Gergeri, Municipality of Rouvas, Crete, August 2009.

The mountainous village Gergeri, in central Crete, becomes an international pinacotheque, in the form of a constellation.
Curated by Polyxene Kasda {Athens} and Chrysa Vathianaki {Crete}
with the collaboration of K-Droz , artistic association {Paris}, rivista Poesia e Spiritualita {Milano}

We thank the selected artists, from all-over the world, who have donated their works to the Municipality of Rouvas.

France
K-Droz, Paris
Dellavilla, Fournier Claudine, Jaquemart Michel, Legrand Marie-PierreLevine Colette, Métier Monique, Bregent Edwige, Monreal Rafael, Picazo Sara, Romero Miriam, Soler Estela, Vial Magdalena, Winter Sonia

Italy
Poesia e Spiritualita
Daniela Tomerini, Fausta Squatriti, Michele Cannao’, Alberto Schiavi
Luisella Carretta, Alberto Casiragay

Italy
Cristina Gori, Alessandro Cardinale, Piero Ferroglia,
Angioletta De Nitto {Primo Piano Living Gallery}

Romania
Virginia Videa, Gheorghe Zaharia,
Grama Gabriel Valemtin

Iceland
Dadi Guobjornsson,

India
Dev Udaiyan

Australia
Annee Kelly

Lebanon
Lena Kelekian, Hilda Kelekian, Hagop Sulahian

Caribbean
Roopnarine Geeta

Canada
Houle Daniel JAYD, Houle Easton, Roche David

Korea
Ruy Ilseon, Ruy Ilji

New York
Hera. Khurshid Saleem

Greece
Georges Syrakis, Gefso Papadaki, Christos Alevras, Vassiliki Sofra,
Aggelika Korovessi, Antonis Papantoniou, Manolis Priniarakis,
Rena Mataliotaki, Athena Tsiblostefanaki,
Chryssa Vathianaki, Polyxene Kasda
.

GARGLING SKY, GERGERI 2009

Urania's Garden nb.2

Gargling Sky 2009 in Gergeri,

Municipality of Rouvas, Crete

Gergeri, the mountainous village of central Crete becomes an international pinacotheque, in the form a of a constellation

Curated by Polyxene Kasda {Athens} and Chrysa Vathianaki {Crete},

with the collaboration of the artistic association K-Droz in Paris and Poesia e Spiritualita review in Milan

We thank the selected artists who have donated their works to the Municipality of Rouvas

France
K-Droz, Paris

Dellavilla, Fournier Claudine, Bechara, Jaquemart Michel, Legrand Marie-PierreLevine Colette, Métier Monique, Bregent Edwige, Monreal Rafael, Picazo Sara, Romero Miriam, Soler Estela, Vial Magdalena, Winter Sonia

Italy
Poesia e Spiritualita

Daniela Tomerini, Fausta Squatriti, Michele Cannao’, Alberto Schiavi
Luisella Carretta, Alberto Casiragay

Cristina Gori, Alessandro Cardinale, Piero Ferroglia,
Angioletta De Nitto {Primo Piano Living Gallery}

Romania
Virginia Videa, Gheorghe Zaharia,
Grama Gabriel Valemtin

Iceland
Dadi Guobjornsson,

India
Dev Udaiyan

Australia
Annee Kelly

Lebanon
Lena Kelekian, Hilda Kelekian, Hagop Sulahian

Caribbean
Roopnarine Geeta

Canada
Houle Daniel JAYD, Houle Easton, Roche David

Korea
Ruy Ilseon, Ruy Ilji

New York
Hera. Khurshid Saleem

Greece
Georges Syrakis, Gefso Papadaki, Christos Alevras, Giota Vorgia, Vassiliki Sofra, Antonis Papantoniou
Aggelika Korovessi, Manolis Priniarakis,
Rena Mataliotaki, Athena Tsiblostefanaki,
Chryssa Vathianaki, Polyxene Kasda
.

Project Grandmothers, by Mariana Ziku, North Greece

Grandmothers

Girls who lived in the villages of Epirus made in the middle of the 20th century ravishing artifacts. Now in 2009 I met them as grandmothers in the same villages. They kept their handmade rugs (kilimia) in chests (baoula). I asked them to choose one “kilimi” and narrate whatever they wanted about it and about their lifes.
Handicrafts represent a wide and prominent category of material cultures. The weaving textures, the patterns, the stuff and the fiber colors of a rug, may testify the place from which it comes from, comprising this way features and other informations of cultural identities. As in every artifact that follows a long life tradition, the traditional handicraft is a work closely related with the place where it were made and the people who made it.
The weaving art is a universal expression of human civilization. Every culture adjust this craft in their natural and social reality. Geophysical elements as climate and time or social elements as morals, religion and economy, have their traces in artifacts of material culture like rugs.
In the county region of Ioannina there are many villages with tradition in woolen weft-knitted, made by women. Knitting and broidery were a womanly domestic work for every age, used also as pastime. Women that lived in traditional societies weaved to decorate their houses, made clothes and worked the loom.
In modern societies these needs of cloth wear and house decoration are supplied by the industry. However the girls in the villages who used to weave and knit, kept on living. They became grandmothers…


As in ancient times people used to imagine and name constellations in the sky map, I imagined on the earth map one constellation, in which every star represents the village of every grandmother I met. I named this constellation “Grandmothers” (Yayathes).

The idea of the “Grandmothers Constellation” started as sensitization act for the elderly people, for the city-counties which gradually get desolated and for a traditional craft which fades in time. The grandmothers I met talked with passion and humour about their lifes and showed with proud their artworks. They moved me really deep and I wish the Constellation of Grandmothers will grow continuously and bring to light unique stories and artworks.

Mariana Ziku, 10th of July 2009,
Ioannina