{"id":7812,"date":"2011-05-26T10:15:27","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T10:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=7812"},"modified":"2021-08-31T13:21:32","modified_gmt":"2021-08-31T13:21:32","slug":"maaria-wirkkala-wondering-emst-new-productions-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/maaria-wirkkala-wondering-emst-new-productions-2011","title":{"rendered":"Maaria Wirkkala – Wondering"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within the framework of the series EMST Commissions<\/em>, held with the kind support of the Bombay Sapphire gin and presented in the Museum\u2019s Project Room, five commissions have been scheduled for 2011. The aim of this series is to offer artists from Greece and abroad, who work with different genres and mediums, by showcasing multiple artistic and transcultural pursuits, the opportunity to draw inspiration, to experiment and to create new works for this particular site, which will then be added to the Museum\u2019s permanent collections.<\/p>\n

For the summer of 2011, we have invited the Finnish-born international artist Maaria Wirkkala, who will present an installation entitled Wondering. The idea for this work emerged after the artist visited last year the adjacent \u2013and unseen to passers-by\u2013 archaeological site of Aristotle\u2019s Lyceum, one of the greatest philosophical schools of antiquity. The initial artistic concept which couldn\u2019t be realized but already exists in our imagination, included an intervention with light, during the night, on the shelters of the excavation site by projecting words from treatises by the philosopher from Stagira. In the work\u2019s final form, the mental connection between the invisible, hidden site of the ruins is achieved through words and fragments of texts (Metaphysics, Nicomachean Ethics, On the Soul, and Poetics<\/em>), which are inscribed or projected on white garment covers hanging from a large-scale revolving construction in the neighbouring space of the Project Room. In its multiple metaphoric utterance, the implied in its absence, or covered, human body suggests through the familiar mechanical motion the connection of history to the present, and the idea of wandering as a starting point for thinking and poetical reflection.<\/p>\n

“My starting point is the state of things.<\/em>
\nSituation.<\/em>
\nThe situation is defined by time and place.<\/em>
\nMy work is defined by the environment and the circumstances.<\/em><\/p>\n

EMST National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens,<\/em>
\nis located next to the excavations of Aristotle\u2019s Lyceum.<\/em><\/p>\n

The idea is to underline the site.<\/em>
\nTo underline the existing connection between<\/em>
\nthe art museum and the historical site.<\/em><\/p>\n

To illuminate the shelters of the ongoing archaeological excavations.<\/em><\/p>\n

To see the shelter as A PAGE.<\/em>
\nTo use light to make the PAGE float in the darkness.<\/em><\/p>\n

Only one significant word linked with Aristotle is added.<\/em>
\nThe word will be visible only in the dark.<\/em><\/p>\n

Peripatetic
\nWalking as a method of thinking.<\/em><\/p>\n

To combine thoughts and movement (walking)<\/em>
\nWORDS\/TERMS\/TEXT linked with Aristotle<\/em>
\nare present.<\/em><\/p>\n

I am an artist, not a scholar.
\n<\/em>I am wondering while wandering.<\/em><\/p>\n

Maaria Wirkkala, April 2011<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within the framework of the series EMST Commissions, held with the kind support of the Bombay Sapphire gin and presented in the Museum\u2019s Project Room, five commissions have been scheduled for 2011. The aim of this series is to offer artists from Greece and abroad, who work with different genres and mediums, by showcasing multiple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":7807,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7812"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76882,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7812\/revisions\/76882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7807"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}