”When Images narrates”
A Tribute to Tonia Nikolaides
National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation (MIET) Thessaloniki
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The exhibition presents the works of students of the Department of Visual
and Applied Arts of Florina. Artworks were established on occasion of
the exhibition of Tonia Nicolaides at the Museum of Contemporary Art in
Florina organized by MIET in autumn 2011. The aim of the project, which
was carried out during 2011-2014 was to investigate the work of the artist
as a case study on issues relating to the production of artistic work.
The artworks in the exhibition were based on the idea of creating projects
in variations, the processing of a visual vocabulary, as Tonia Nicolaides
develops her work in series, creating visual narratives mentioning stories
common to all and yet so different in their details. The students studied
the sections of the work of Tonia Nikolaides, along with the writings and
edited this or similar subject, based on personal experiences or using
recommended literature to create a narrative with images. For the
implementation of the artwork they didn’t used traditional methods of
printmaking, choice that keeps up with the modern and very personal artistic
idiom of Tonia Nicolaides. The exhibition was curated by Zoe Godosi and
Dimitra Siaterli.