now women

works from the FKPCOLLECTION

FOUGARO ARTCENTER 2023

FOUGARO is dedicating 2023 to the work of female artists with the project now women. A sui generis visual environment will be in progress in every part of the ARTCENTER, sometimes in the guise of renewable exhibitions, at others in the form of an installation or reference and tribute to the artistic work of Greek and other international creators in the FKPCOLLECTION.

The exhibition presents 182 works in the FKPCOLLECTION by 73 female painters.

The FKPCOLLECTION is the personal collection of the founder of FOUGARO, Florica P Kyriacopoulos, and includes contemporary Greek and international artworks all spanning recent decades. It is perhaps the only big collection of contemporary art in which 50 % of the pieces are by women.

Seven workshops of female visual artists for teenagers and adults will be held alongside the now women project this summer.

At the epicentre of now women is the main exhibition in the FOUGARO GALLERY, which encapsulates the theme of the whole project. Works of painting, sculptures, engravings, photographs, installations and video interact in harmony, or in opposition, documenting the pulse of the artistic scene of the last 45 years. Works so different in style and intent – bonded only by the common trait that each is an expression of femininity – come together in compositions that spark associations and dialogues around values and issues that remain relevant and timeless.

In the rest of the ARTCENTER another four exhibitions will run concurrently, bringing together work, learning and living spaces with the aura of creations by visual artists, some well-known and renowned, others overlooked or emerging. This fruitful coexistence with significant works of art is characteristic of FOUGARO ARTCENTER and finds its most ideal expression at the core of the concept of now women!

Now women also includes the solo exhibition of Emilia Tsekoura, in the Blue2 Room, entitled homeland landscapes. The well-known artist presents her latest works here, a collection of compositions using digital techniques.

In the context of today’s historic and social climate, one in which the role of women is being internationally renegotiated, it is not the aim of now women to naval gaze with the presentation of yet one more tribute at what seems to be a “convenient” moment in time. The exhibition’s real ambition is to present a broad and more comprehensive look at contemporary women’s art, challenging the viewer to engage in his, or her, own readings and thoughts around what female art is, and what ultimately differentiates it from other dominant models of expression.

curators
Florica P. Kyriacopoulos
Antonis J. Kontroyiannis

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