NEW HORIZONS: MICHAEL SNOW EXHIBITION

MACEDONIAN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART
Duration: 22 November - 7 December 2003

Cinema was merely the pretext. Michael Snow unquestionably constitutes a point of reference in the history of avant-garde cinema. But to limit ourselves to the exclusive presentation of Michael Snow's cinematic oeuvre would be tantamount to an artistic mutilation, because Snow constitutes a point of reference in the history of avant-garde art in general. His works -films, paintings and musical compositions- span the decades like a solid whole based on the same principles: the search for the deeper constructs of artistic expression and our perception of them. Given this, New Horizons will be presenting, alongside SnowΥs film anthology, an exhibition of his artwork hosted by the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art. This exhibition, for which Snow has made and will present a brand new work, does not merely aim at introducing the work of such an important artist, unknown for so long in Greece, nor to complement the tribute to his films which features prominently in this year's New Horizons program. The Selections from the Spectrum exhibition is an integral part of an artistic personality who had once declared that "my paintings are made by a film director, my films by a painter, my music by a sculptor... and sometimes they decide to all work together".

Dimitri Eipides