{"id":72331,"date":"2021-02-25T10:13:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/web3\/\/?p=72331"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:04:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:04:01","slug":"visualizing-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/visualizing-humanity","title":{"rendered":"Visualizing Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cVisualizing humanity\u201d: the first project by the Network of Contemporary Culture Museums of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports<\/p>\n

The Network of Contemporary Culture Museums of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports introduces itself with its first official project, the digital exhibition under the title \u201cVisualizing humanity\u201d, <\/strong>which is now available on the platform res.momus.gr<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The exhibition hosts over 100 works of art by 62 artists from the permanent collections of the organizations participating in the Network \u2013the National Gallery-Alexandros Soutsos Museum (EPMAS), the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) and the Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki (MOMus)\u2013 and is co-organized and curated by the art historians of all three collaborating institutions.<\/p>\n

This project attempts to capture not only the global humanitarian and financial crisis that humanity has to face in the Covid-19 era, but also further unprecedented challenges related to growing economic inequalities, uncontrollable culture of fear, arbitrary restrictions on individual human freedoms and job insecurity. These challenges highlight the human rights\u2019 debate as more relevant than ever, 70 years after the signing of the European Declaration of Human Rights.<\/p>\n

The exhibition \u201cVisualizing humanity\u201d is focusing on the healing power of art that can overcome barriers such as language, culture and politics. Structured in three chapters, each of which includes works by all three participating organizations of the Network, this exhibition attempts to present directly or refer to images of courage and injustice, hope and despair, small or big successes and failures of humans to protect humans.<\/p>\n

The chapter entitled \u201cAnimus Immortalis Est\u201d raises the critical issue of human life\u2019s value and dignity at a time when fundamentalism, fascism, religious extremism and terrorism threaten the humanitarian values \u200b\u200bon which post-World War II Europe was built.<\/p>\n

The second chapter, entitled \u201cFeels Like Home\u201d, <\/strong>deals with the concept of \u201chome\u201d both literally and figuratively: globalization has turned millions of people from citizens to immigrants; the right to housing, social security and self-determination is more urgent than ever. What does \u201chome\u201d mean to each of us?<\/p>\n

Finally, the chapter entitled \u201cClimate Crisis\u201d presents artworks that aim to demonstrate the major issue of climate change and its fatal, irreversible environmental, social and economic effects, already felt worldwide, questioning whether humanity intends and is able to correct its environmental mistakes.<\/p>\n

VISIT THE EXHIBITION<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Network of Contemporary Culture Museums<\/p>\n

The Network of Contemporary Culture Museums was established on the initiative of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture\u2019s Directorate of Visual Arts, Architecture, Photography and Contemporary Culture Museums; it operates in the form of a collaborative platform with the participation of the supervised (by the Ministry) museum organizations of contemporary culture.<\/p>\n

The idea was born due to the urgent need of our times -as well as the international museum practice of creating networks of synergies and collaborations- to save resources, find collaborative methods and tools, exchange know-hows and jointly promote the artworks that belong to the public collections of the state.<\/p>\n

The digital exhibition \u201cVisualizing humanity\u201d is the first official project of the Network for which the National Gallery \u2013 Museum of Alexandros Soutsos, the National Museum of Contemporary Art and the Metropolitan Organization of Museums of Fine Arts of Thessaloniki altogether. It is a collective digital exhibition in which the largest museums of modern and contemporary art in Greece collaborated, in order to create a digital exhibition of an international character that functions as a major presentation of their permanent collections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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