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“Confession…” of Martina Anagnostou_solo exhibition in Greece
In the work of Martina Anagnostou, the marginal, the forgotten and the sickly are immortalized.
Opening: Wednesday 25 September, 20:00
Duration: 25 September – 20 October 2013.
After 15 years of living and exhibiting her work in numerous countries (England, Ethiopia, Spain, Netherlands, Pakistan, Russia, Sudan), Martina Anagnostou returned to Greece last September. Her return, she claims, brought face to face with one of her fears, the fear of not belonging. Ever since she returned, the ideas of nation, identity and citizenship have affected her more than ever.
Athens and Monemvasia have been the only geographically constant locations in her life. For this reason she uses their landscapes as symbols of reconciliation with the idea of returning back to one’s home and the loss of the sense of belonging and identity. Bold colors, in addition to picture prints, textiles and objects “covered with the dust of a century,” all taken from her maiden home, create restless urban landscapes, in compositions that is reminiscent of street art.
The personal quest for one’s roots, the nostalgia of a childhood home and the intrusive sense that despite her return, she remains a foreigner with a sincere confession of both love and hatred for her home country.
Exhibition Sponsor: Monemvasia Winery | G. Tsimpidis
See more at: http://www.livinlovin.gr/
Bone & Blood: Structural Bodies in Motion
Surreal Art In The Macabre Barts Pathology Museum, London
The impressive permanent co has been largely closed to the public since the 1970s but it’s filled with fascinating and macabre specimens such as a conjoined twin skeleton and the rotting hand of a leper.
The collection usually only opens to the public alongside special events and seminars; but for the next two weeks, it’s open to the public, giving you the opportunity to see such treasures as a collapsed windpipe simply labelled ‘strangulation’, with the rest of the story left to visitors’ imagination.
Until 27 of August 2013
For more info, check here
Leonardo da Vinci_The Mechanics of Man
Leonardo da Vinci_The Mechanics of Man
The Queen’s Gallery, Palace of Holyroodhouse
Long recognised as one of the great artists of the Renaissance, Leonardo da Vinci was also a pioneer in the understanding of human anatomy. Had his ground-breaking work been published, it would have transformed European knowledge of the subject.
This exhibition displays thirty sheets of Leonardo da Vinci’s anatomical studies, which date from the winter of 1510-11 when he carried out some 20 autopsies at the University of Pavia in collaboration with the professor of anatomy, Marcantonio della Torre, and uses the latest medical technology including CT and MRI scans, computer simulations and 3D film of the body to explore the modern relevance of his anatomical research. This juxtaposition shows how far-sighted Leonardo’s work was, and how close he came to 21st-century medical thinking.
More info about the exhibition here
Brains: The Mind as Matter_Wellcome Collection_MOSI
This exhibition asks not what brains do for us, but what we have done to brains in the name of medical intervention, scientific enquiry, cultural meaning and technological change. On display for the first time outside London, Wellcome Collection’s hugely popular exhibition comes to Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI), featuring previously unseen objects and artworks which explore Manchester’s contribution to understanding the brain. Open daily until 4th Jan 2014. More info, here and here! 
PROJECT ANATOME of Rachael Allen
Project ANATOME
Commenced October 2012 (funding applications in progress)
The collaboration between artist and medical academics,students and physicians will explore how contemporary art can offer new perspectives on how we come to see and know ourselves through anatomical studies.
The artist will be resident in Newcastle, Northumbria and Durham University anatomy labs (UK) during the academic year 2012-2014, with the dissemination of the project and artworks scheduled throughout this period.
Past and Current projects and exhibitions from Project ANATOME:
Death and Dissection: (solo exhibition)
Let Be Be Finale of Seem
A series of events presenting work about death and the way it structures life
studio 41, Glasgow
25th – 26th May 2012
Death and Dissection contemplates moral issues associated with the practice of human dissection, and offer a view into the anatomy lab through a sensual screen. Paying homage to the 16th-18th century medical students who would bear witness to bodily decomposition, and thus, were closer to death, the workshop invites one to view, and handle, the vital process without which life would not be possible – decay.
The waiting room (solo exhibition)
Newcastle Arts Centre, Newcastle Upon Tyne
7th September- 15th October 2012
Life Bioscience Centre, International Centre for Life
15th October – December 2012
In ‘The waiting room’, artworks of high skill and material expertise serve a richer, more creative perspective on human illness and suffering than can be achieved by quantitative measures, medical diagnoses’ and bioethical regulations.
‘Specimen Life (death) Drawing’ presentation & ‘Death and Dissection’ experimental project
Drawing in the University, International Meeting on Drawing, Image and
Research, University of Oporto, Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Architecture, Portugal, May 31 and June 1, 2013
Abstract for ‘Specimen Life (death) Drawing’
Abstract for ‘Death and Dissection’ experimental project
Picturing Diagnosis (workshop with medical students)
Published on The Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine
Picturing Diagnosis will call upon the student as detective, to listen to dramatic stories of patients with debilitating symptoms, their challenges with medical treatment, the vagaries of medical tests, and the distress of diagnostic errors. Unaware of the patients’ condition, they will utilise visual material such as clinical and anatomical imagery to help assist in the diagnosing process.
Upcoming
‘Picturing Diagnosis’ conference paper, A Narrative Future for Health Care, King’s Guy’s Hospital Campus, London, June 19 to 21, 2013
For more information about PROJECT ANATOME, click here.. and here!
InSight 2_Engaging the Health Humanities_An International Exhibition
‘Narratives of Medical Miniatures’ exhibition, InSight 2: Engaging the Health Humanities, Fine Arts Building Gallery, University of Alberta, Canada, May 14 to June 8, 2013
For more information on the exhibition, check here
