ICUL CTION meets ART A C o n t e m p o r a r y A r t R e v i e w Nikoletta Tzanne My work is an attempt to explore the possibilities of various materials, the combinations and limits that may have, in order to produce aesthetic objects that comment on different emotional situations, issues such as confrontation, confusion, calmness, balance, pressure, conflict and movement. The process that is being followed for the production of my works plays a key role in defining the idea through the material identity of the artwork. It includes drawings and constant changes of each piece by going back again and again, by taking away pieces and adding others. The continuous transformation of the immanent relations of the objects may seem gratuitous but still very essential to me in order to define form and idea and to reach the completion of each piece. In that aspect, I recently realized the comment of Edward Allington that is as keeping a diary. From my point of view a diary that records the formation of human reactions to different kind of emotions. An interview by , curator as an artist? In particular, how does your and , curator cultural substratum due to your Greek roots direct your current artistic research? Nikoletta Tzanne: Hello it is a pleasure to Hello Nikoletta and welcome to be in ARTiculAction ARTiculAction: we would like to start this interview with a couple of questions My five years training in the department of regarding your background. You have a Sculpture in the Aristoteleio University of solid formal training: after having earned Thessaloniki was crucial for the your Bachelor in Fine Arts Department in development of my practice.In the late Sculpture from the Aristotelio University of nineties the way to get in an art school in Thessaloniki, you movede from Greece to Greece was the very good knoweledge of the United Kingdom to nurture your life drawing . In the first three years of the education with a Master in Fine Arts, that study the development of observing and you received from the Slade School of Art, trying to depict what you see, on a piece of University College of London: how did paper or with the use of clay concider to be these experiences address your evolution very important along with the good use of
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