Opening: 24th April, 20:30
Venue: Gallery of the Society of Macedonian Studies
Duration of Exhibition: 25th April-17th June 2007

The State Museum of Contemporary Art certainly would never intend to leave out from its programme our ‘little friends’ and within this framework it embraces the 3rd Children’s Biennale within the parallel programme of the Biennale. The opening is planed for Wednesday, April 25th, at 20:30, in the gallery of the Society of Macedonian Studies (Nik. Germanou 4 Str.) and the event will last until the 17th of June. Since 2000 and every 2 years, the Museum and the Academy of Children’s Art in Xanthi have been organizing and presenting the International Biennale of Children’s Art.  On behalf of this year’s Biennale, children from 4-17 years-old from all around the world were invited to create works of art based on the theme of ancient Greek philosophy and geometry.  This initiative for children’s creativity was inspired by a reference that Plato once made on real art.  More precisely, Plato stated that “real art is created by geometrical shapes and lucid colors”.  Therefore, based on this concept and guided by their love and the capacity of their imagination, the children of the world created masterpieces. Through geometrical shapes and lines, abstract and symbolical images, in tones of two or three basic colors, the children’s works of art render concepts that can be found in every model of creativity, writing and numbers.  Consequently, without their parents’ or teachers’ guidance, the children depicted a part of the reality that surrounds them in order to share it with us. This genuine artistic activity is embraced by the 1st Thessaloniki Biennale which places it among its parallel program of activities of the 3rd Children’s Biennale.

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