Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej ŁAŹNIA 1, ul. Jaskółcza 1, Gdańsk–Dolne Miasto
1.06.2017 (Thursday), 6:00 pm

Free entry

What is the meaning of performance nowadays? Is it really a new form of artistic expression or maybe just a continuation of the old desire to make the life a work of art and the art way of life? Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, the Greek tragedie and the presocratic philosophers (especially Heraklite) lent a strong energy to the performers such as Joseph Beuys or Marina Abramović. During his lecture Davvetas – professor at the University of Paris, colaborator of such artists as Beuys, Andy Warhol, Cy Twombly, André Masson – wants to trace through the history of art the desire to make it possible for everybody to feel as an artist and at the same time to make the art work to be piece of life. Oscar Wilde said that „it is not the art who imitates life but the life who imitates art”. Through the works of Beuys and Abramović Davvetas is going to reflect on the amounts of invention that human being shows as he/she pursues inner voice and… the cosmic energy.

 

Démosthènes Davvetas was born in Athens and heʼs poet, a writer, a performer. He published in „Art Forum”, „Art in America”, „Art Studio”, „Beaux-Arts Magazine”. Since 1982 has a cultural column in „Risk”.He has a doctorate degree in Aesthetics from the University of Paris VIII. He is a professor at the IESA in Paris and gives masterclasses on Poetry and Modern Art at the University of Paris IV. He has also taught Philosophy of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, the University of the Peloponnese, the University of Piraeus, the Strate Écolede Design in Sevres and the Créapol in Paris. Furthermore, he has delivered seminars on Philosophy of Art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and seminars on Philosophy of the Applied Arts at the School of Engineering at the University of Patras.

 

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