‘Tree’
Installation art for the Film Festival of Thessaloniki
This “tree” is not a tree.
Rather, it is a cue, an opportunity. It does not seek to describe, comment on, or teach anything. Instead, it wants to become a personal myth, riddance from necessity.
A dark hall, a dream and a journey towards freedom from the bounds of reason, beyond any measure or scale. Cinema – light and motion; moving “still” lit pictures giving life to the non-existent.
This motion through stillness creates another perception of time, urging us to encounter the otherness, before attaining “catharsis” – the relief from excessive passions. Art primes us to become more receptive to the search for things, to the unity of the up and the down, to the real tree.
The installation was commissioned by the Ministry of Interior (Sector Macedonia–Thrace) on the occasion of the 47th Film Festival of Thessaloniki. The brief was to provide a public art installation that should refer to a tree.
The art is based on the idea of movement, expressed through metal parts and tube lights. The trapezoid ends (alluding to leaves) of the branches bear pictures of iconic personalities from the world of cinema.
COMMISSIONED BY
Ministry of Macedonia and Thrace
LOCATION
Olympion Public Square, Aristotelous Str.,Thessaloniki
DESIGNED BY
Dionysis Tsasis
CONSTRUCTED BY
Angelos Vogiatzoglou
DIMENSIONS
6.5m high, 8.5m long, 1.5m wide
PHOTOS OF INSTALLATION
Stratos Kalafatis , Dionysis Tsasis
Date
21 November 2006