17 september 2011,
Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
In collaboration with Open Arts Foundation, Plovdiv.

The Plovdiv Night of Museums and Galleries will offer a concentrated experience of the visual and performing arts for the 7th consecutive year. More than fifty locations – museums, galleries, bookshops, clubs, streets and parks – will remain open to the public for the duration of 10 hours on the night of 17th September, turning Bulgaria’s second largest city into a giant art stage.

VisualContainer is honoured to present for the program “THE CITY AND PUBLIC SPACES” a special video screening whose artworks show more links to movie and narration than usual in videoart offerings: these actually are the coordinates of the most recent contemporary art research in Italy and beyond, mixing everyday life into a brand new art fiction that represents our very world within a fantasy show capable of alluring both the art followers and the general audience.

The features and great questions of our time become the audio-video pretext for a new epic visual communication that magnetically flows to our eyes and involves us also on the screen, as the co-actors of a new chance for poetic resolving and existential redemption in the ordinariness of our urban and domestic living.
Giorgio Fedeli

Selected Videos:

Maria Korporal
A Midwinter Night’s Dream
3’37”
2010

Rebecca Agnes
Miele
4:02
2010

Luca Christian Mander
Stand by
1:23
2010

Jacopo Jenna
Dove c’è molta luce l’ombra è più nera
11’00”
2009

Nicola Giunta
Foggy Mistake
3’45”
2009

Barbara Brugola
Wrapped Love
3:49
2010

John Criscitello
Il bacio azzurro
5:41
2010

Francesca Fini
Note Off
4:07
2010

Salvatore Insana
Varchi
4:28
2010

Albert Merino
The white rain
07’49”
2010

Alessandra Arnò
Earth
3:14
2010

Riccardo Arena
25.765
07′ 00″
2008

The Plovdiv Night of Museums and Galleries will offer a concentrated experience of the visual and performing arts for the 7th consecutive year. More than fifty locations – museums, galleries, bookshops, clubs, streets and parks – will remain open to the public for the duration of 10 hours on the night of 17th September, turning Bulgaria’s second largest city into a giant art stage.

40 000 visitors and guests attended last year’s edition of the Plovdiv Night of Museums and Galleries, which makes it one of the largest cultural events in Bulgaria. Organised by the Open Arts Foundation, the festival takes its cue from the best traditions of art cities around the world, while at the same time serving as a catalyst for local cultural processes. The program this year includes exhibitions, educational programs for adults and children, interactive performances, meetings with artists, live events across the town, concerts, screenings and workshops.

Visitors and guests of the festival can put together their itineraries with the help of the Night’s catalogue, which includes a map of all locations, as well as on-line at www.gallery-night.info and the official blog of the festival – www.gallery-night.info/blog. Free downloads with the full program will be available for ipad, iphone and android, while daily news will be posted on www.facebook.com/museum.night.plovdiv.

The Plovdiv Night of Museums and Galleries is organised by the Open Arts Foundation in partnership with the Municipality of Plovdiv and the financial support of the America for Bulgaria Foundation and Vivacom.

For additional information:

OPEN ARTS FOUNDATION
organiser of the Plovdiv Night of Museums and Galleries

36 Otets Paisiy St., Plovdiv 4000, Bulgaria
www.openarts.info, office@openarts.info

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