For its 2017 wishes ART for The World
has chosen the artwork Part Two/The
expectation of the Greek artist Maria Tsagkari, produced by Pauline
Simmons, founder of ΗΥΑΜ* and presented in the summer 2016 on the island of Hydra in
Greece.
A monument for a young hero who was dedicated to the unattainable, an
anarchic, asymmetrically structured ‘blue garden,’ comprised of 320 plants found
in Hydra’s landscape, becoming a monument dedicated to the marginal, the
self-grown, the allure of the lie, the hopes that are never confuted due to
their very nature as fantasies that never touch the limits of reality.(..) (..)The main
reference is the novel Heinrich von Ofterdingen, by the German philosopher and poet Novalis (1772-1801), which is about the myth of a young boy. Heinrich is a medieval troubadour
who leaves everything behind and goes in pursuit of a small blue flower -which
had haunted his dreams- and which mythically embodies the values of the ideal
life and pure poetry. (..) Maria Tsagkari
*ΗΥΑΜ is a
Paris based Art Association for the realization of an artistic purpose through
different events in Paris and in Hydra. More specifically, every two years a
prize award, with artists from a different Mediterranean country takes place in
Paris in collaboration with the Foundation Jean – Luc Lagardère. The final
event is to support the prize – winner to proceed with an in situ installation on the island of Hydra. In 2014 the winner was
Maria Tsangari.
