Art and responsibility

The book « the treasures of the earth » is a fairy tale on our common responsibility for environment, written by Yolanda Ziaka. The children of a Greek school and those participating in a Municipal Artistic Center have worked on the tale and created paintings to illustrate it. The tale has been edited in Greece – in Greek and in French – by the South European Team of the Charter. Between March (...)

We are honoured to invite you to the opening of the Art Exhibition Human responsibilities: Responsibilities of All Sao Paulo SP - Brazil - December 1, 2008 in the Conjunto Nacional, Paulista Avenue, center of the city, crossed by 40 thousand people every day. Together with the Brasil Fund of Human Rights in commemoration to the 60 years of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. First (...)

Art exhibition on the theme: "Environment: common good - common responsibility" from Monday, 10 March till Friday, 14 March 2008 Place: Charles-Léopold Mayer Foundation 38, rue Saint Sabin, 75011 Paris (Métro : Bréguet-Sabin [ligne 5] ou Chemin Vert [ligne 8]) opening hours: 9h00 à 13h00 & 14h00 à 18h00 The European coordination Committee for the Charter of Human Responsibilities is (...)

We are an Iranian team of artists active in different fields including painting, writing, photography, film making and theater. We are interested in all activities which could help renew and rebuild this world. Our first step: To have a better communication and to deploy the sense of “human responsibility charter”; conveying information, seeing and showing, exchanging thoughts and ideas (...)

INVITATION TO THE ARTISTS - (deadline for application : June 2007) Environment: common good - common responsibility Dear Friend, We invite you to participate in a series of collective and travelling exhibitions on the theme of our responsibility - individual and collective - with respect to environment, gathering Greek, Brazilian, Georgian and US artists. The first exhibition will (...)

On March 16 2007, the Georgian Charter facilitation team has organized a workshop with the children’s art studio. There were two groups of children participating the project: 1. The children from the Centre for Rehabilitation of the Homeless Children, from the Risk Group (Tsisartkela, Begurebi), from a school in Ananuri and from the former orphanage of Temka. 2. The children from the Art (...)

Five moons and a red mountain Wood, acrylics, 25Χ35 cm Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Andreas Kargsten was born in 1965, in Stockholm, Sweden. He studied sculpture in the School of Fine Arts of Stockholm (1984-89). He won the first prize for the graduates and a scholarship from the School of Fine Arts of Stockholm. His work was displayed in individual exhibitions in the gallery (...)

Saint Isidoros blessing the Schinos tree Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Konstantinos Pantelakis is an icon painter and a researcher in Orthodox iconography and popular painting. He paints icons following the Byzantine way (Cretan School). He is currently teaching the painting of icons and he participates in an art-therapy project in the public psychiatric hospital of Dromokaitio. He (...)

Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Giannis Andriomenos was born in Athens, Greece, in 1976. He studied painting at the School of Fine Arts of Athens and was trained in engraving at the Willemm De Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, Holland. He is currently working as a high-school art professor. He has presented his work in group exhibitions in Athens, Chania, and in Tsesme, Turkey. Contact (...)

Conscience mixed technique, 50 x 70 cm Artist’s statement Nicola Damiani is an Italian amateur painter living in Greece. He has been painting since 1996 and has followed courses on painting and pottery. He has presented his artwork in three individual exhibitions in Ioannina, Greece, as well as in various group exhibitions. Contact with the artist: Address : Souliou 35, 45445 Ioannina, (...)

Passage Seduction, appropriation and endurance Artist biography The Brazilian artist Noêmia Nunes has studied painting and drawing at the Fine Arts University of São Paulo. She is post-graduated in Museology, and has presented a thesis on “Art as cultural education”. She has taken part in various cultural and activism shows, on environmental and social issues, (...)

Catharsis - the rubbish and us Artist’s statement Artist’s biography Eirini Tsiraki was born in Chania, Greece, in 1980. She studied design at the School of Visual Arts “Choros” in Chania. She followed courses in the Department of Fine Arts of the University of Crete. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome, Italy, during 2000-2004, following the courses of professors A. Trotti and C. (...)

Save THIS planet Artist’s statement Artist’s biography The artist Inna Cymlich Janse, native of Australia, has studie

Three constructions Titles of works: 1. Ladder, mixed media on wood, 11”X 17.5” 2. Inside the Two Halves, mixed media on wood, 11”X17.2” 3. Window, mixed media on wood, 17”X17.6” Artist’s statement Artist biography The Australian / Greek-Cypriot artist Chri

“Carroceiros III” (Rubbish collectors) Acrylic on canvas. 50 x 70 cm. Thematic description Artist biography The artist Luci Torres was born in 1964, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. She has studied architecture and she is currently

PEACE Description of the work Artist biography Writer and illustrator of children literature, Brazilian from Minas Gerais, dyslexic and self-made man. I live astonished in a world that I don’t understand. My literature and drawing try to translate the chaos that surrounds me. With books published by many different publishers, I overcome my personal crisis and those imposed by the virtual (...)

Τ-R-E-E-S Description of work Artist Biography Elpida Iatrou was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1974. She studied painting and sculpture at the School of Arts of Athens, where she also followed the workshops of photography, scenography and mosaic. She has displayed her work in 4 individual and various collective exhibitions in Greece. She has prepared the costumes and was responsible for the (...)

Purge #1 Statement The Environment: Common Good - Common Responsibility Artist biography Constance Thalken is a photographer and intermedia artist whose recent work incorporates video, digital technologies, and performance. Her work is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, The Birmingham Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, The Bunnen (...)

A musical version of the Charter in English, French, and Wolof proposed by our African partners: Also, A new musical CD on responsibility, peace, governance, social right, here.

The second meeting of “Artists Having Coffee” took place at the Pólis Institute on April 28 as part of the events of the World Network of Artists in Alliance set up in the late nineties. These meetings are attended by artists or persons involved in culture in Brazil or abroad. Following is an interview with Hamilton Faria, coordinator of the Pólis Culture Team and facilitator of the (...)

Co-sponsored with the Center for Positive Futures, the Painting Messages for the Earth was undertaken with the participation of the Department of Education and the public schools in San Mateo and Montalban in Rizal, a province adjacent to Metropolitan Manila. 46 schoolchildren from fifteen schools participated in a painting and slogan contest was held March 22, 2004 in Villa Milagros, (...)