| Art
Participate in that project of Social and Cultural Responsibility through the promotion of the Charter of Human Responsibilities (CHR) and the support of the Fundo Brasil de Direitos Humanos (Brasil Fund of Human Rights). Carried out by the CHR Brazilian Committee and the World Network of Artists in Alliance. The CHR exhibition started in Greece, then it went to Paris, to (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Latin America -
Invitation - Art Exhibition
, 2 December 2008
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 (...) | |
The Committee of the European Charter of Human Responsibilities organized in 2007 a travelling art exhibition on the theme “Environment: Common good, common responsibility” that presented works by Greek, Brazilian and North American artists, as well as drawings made by children of Georgia. The purpose of the exhibition was compiling and presenting works of art that reflect the vision of (...) | |
Organizers
Global Citizens for Sustainable Development (Bangalore, India), Beijing Eco-Group, (Beijing, China), China-India Forum and Asian Citizens Alliance Supporting Organizations
Polis – International Network in Environmental Education (Greece), Charter of Human Responsibilities (US), Response Trust (New Zealand) and Pacific Asia Research Center (Japan)
Water Concerns
Water is (...) | |
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 (...) | |
40cm x 40cm – mixed technique on wood
Artist’s statement
Artist biography
Dimitra Goussi was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1976. Between 1994 and 1999 she studied at the School of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her biography includes an individual exhibition in January 2007 in Ioannina and the participation in several collective exhibitions (...) | |
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 (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Asia -
Children of Iran
, 11 October 2007
We are witnessing the build-up to yet another horrendous war. The drumbeat is growing louder, in the words of our "leaders," and in the language of our press. Daily, the American public is being presented with more "reasons" to justify an attack on Iran. The process is sickeningly familiar. It comes as no surprise that Iran’s unpopular "leader" has failed to ease the developing tensions. (...) | |
The European coordination Committee for the Charter of Human Responsibilities is organizing a series of group and travelling art exhibitions on the theme "Environment: common good - common responsibility".
There are 28 artists participating in the exhibitions: 18 Greek artists, 2 artists from the USA, and 8 artists from Brazil.
There is also a series of paintings by children from Georgia, a (...) | |
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 (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Niki Kapokaki – Greece
, 26 September 2007
Athens 2004
Photographs - Video projection (6 minutes)
Description of work
Artist’s biography
Niki Kapokaki studied painting in the School of Fine Arts of Thessalonike, in Greece and in the School of Fine Arts of Paris (E.N.S.B.A.). She foll | |
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 (...) | |
Sunday Luncheon on the Lawn
A small garden in calle Ágata 18, Pozuelo de Alarcón, Μadrid, 1991.
Montage with photos, 40X70 cm.
Description of the work
; Every little garden constitutes for its owner a small universe. The garden is a fragment of nature which takes its form expressing the personal Utopian paradise of its owner.
This artwork is the elaboration, a second reading of an action (...) | |
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 (...) | |
Viewing Nature through Angel P.
50 cm X 70 cm – mixed technique
Artist’s statement:
Artist’s biography:
The Brazilian artist Nancy de Andrade Pinto has presented her artwork in eight countries. Her work is classified in nine Art Journals, in Brazil and abroad. Fletea’s art expressions are: mixed techniques, oil on canvas, acrylic, collages, and watercolors.
Contact with the artist:
e-mail: (...) | |
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 (...) | |
Artist statement
Artist’s biography
The Greek artist Anastasios Presvelis was born in Athens in 1969. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Naples, Italy. | |
Silent protest
Artist statement
Artist’s biography
The Greek artist Sotiria Thomopoulou works as a social worker. She is a painter, a stage designer and a poet. Some of her paintings and her mosaics have been presented in group exhibitions in Egaleo, Perisso, in the edifice of Zappion in Athens and elsewhere. Since 2004, she has been collaborating with the School of Drama and the (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Nicola Damiani - Italy
, 12 August 2007
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, (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Elsa Tatsi - Greece
, 11 August 2007
Isolation
Dimensions: 50cm x 100cm
Material: charcoal, acrylics
Artist biography
Elsa Tatsi was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1978. She studied at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in Greece, as well as at the School of icons painting of K. Georgiadis, in Thessaloniki. She has presented her work in two individual exhibitions in Ioannina, as well as in (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Noêmia Nunes – Brazil
, 11 August 2007
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, (...) | |
Seed of life’s tree
Artist’s statement
Artist biography
Cristina Schleder was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, in 1952. She has studied “Design and Visual Communication”. Since 1992, she has started to present her art work in individual shows in places like the Romero Britto Gallery – Miami - USA, as well as in various galleries in Sao Paulo – Brasil. She (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Eirini Tsiraki - Greece
, 11 August 2007
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. (...) | |
Magnifying lens
Artist’s statement
Artist’s biography
Elli Xatziantoniou was born in 1986 and grew up in Thessaloniki, Greece. She is currently studying at the Department of Products and Systems Design Engineering of the Aegean University in Syros, Greece. | |
Save THIS planet
Artist’s statement
Artist’s biography
The artist Inna Cymlich Janse, native of Australia, has studie | |
Imprints
Artist’s statement
Artist’s biography
Dimitra Gousi was born in Ioannina, Greece, in 1976. Between 1994 and 1999 she studied at the School of Fine Arts, Department of Visual Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her biography includes an individual exhibition in January 2007 in Ioannina and the participation in several collective exhibitions in Greece, in Thessaloniki, (...) | |
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 | |
In our hand
About the painting
Artist biography
The Brazilian artist Marcelo Bicalho, born in 1962, is a designer and illustrator. He teaches Art and Design History in the Design School of Minas Gerais State University, in Brazil.
In the last 10 years he has been well known by his works in paper sculpture, creating pieces that combine figurative rendering with simulated perspective, (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Luci Torres - Brazil
, 8 August 2007
“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 | |
The colors of life
2006, Painting oil, 80 x 65 cm
About the painting
Artist biography
Caterina Canellis was born in 1945 in Athens. She grew up and was educated in Greece but before she was 20, she left and got married in Paris. There she started a late career in painting. She has followed courses in the “Ecole des Beaux-Arts” but she is mainly self-taught. During the last 20 years, the (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Osório Garcia - Brazil
, 8 August 2007
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 (...) | |
Fragments of nature
Description of work
Artist biography
Caterina Aslanidou was born in 1978 in Athens, Greece. She has studied painting in the School of Arts of Athens. She followed the workshop of engraving in the Faculty of Arts in Sevilla, Spain. Since 2005, she works in the island of Chios, in Greece, as a professor of Art at the high school. She has participated in six collective (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Elpida Iatrou - Greece
, 3 August 2007
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 (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Oscar Araripe - Brazil
, 26 July 2007
Reflected Caraiva
Acrylic and others on synthetic sail-cloth
60 cm x 50 cm, 2007
Description of work ; This painting shows images reflected in the water, one of the most familiar subjects of the art of painting.
The canvas shows the houses of the people of Caraiva, a small village in the south of Bahia State, Brazil. "Caraíva" in tupi-guarani language means : One that eats men. These (...) | |
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 (...) | |
Regional Activities -
Europe -
Melody Reeves - USA
, 26 July 2007
Contemporary Pursuit
Description of Work
Artist Biography
The work of Melody Reeves investigates the complex of worlds framed by our intertwining economic, social, natural and cultural spheres. She uses a wide range of materials and systems of thought, examining pivotal points of spiritual navigation through a trans-disciplinary vocabulary of assimilation, improvisation, and (...) | |
| |
The Youth Festival 2006 was successfully held last December 1-3, 2006 participated in by 80 young people from different parts of the region. Although the event started with an off-season typhoon hitting Metropolitan Manila, the participants braved the weather forecast to come together, conduct a series of lectures and discussions on the theme: “Weaving Responsibilities to Confront the (...) | |
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 Center for Positive Futures culminated its program towards promoting environmental responsibility among schoolchildren by conducting the 2nd Painting Messages for the Earth program. From rurban San Mateo and Montalban in the province of Rizal, this year’s environmental responsibility program was brought to the rural municipalities of Puerto Princesa in the island-province of Palawan and (...) | |
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 (...) | |
In 2005, we have been stepping up our activities.
1. Printing and electronic communication
Website: Continuation of our website with updates of fresh inputs
e- group: For constant interaction with all IT-enabled people the e-group is being strengthened.
On-line workshop: An on-line workshop, derived from the informal forum, is being taken up further.
From the experience gathered from (...) | |
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, (...) | |
|