Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress Friday, 22 July 2005 "THESSALONIKI, GREECE.- The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art presents The Gesture: A Visual Library in Progress, on view through 18 September 2005. During the late Sixties experimental practices have argued new cultural conditions by collapsing form and content into a constantly fluctuating state. Emphasizing the body art these artists amplified the role of process over product and extended the boundaries of painting and sculpture into real time and spatial movement. What began in the late Forties, as an awareness of the gesture in painting became gradually an understanding of how process informs practice. Yet, live arts are impossible to classify within the narrow definition of “performance”. They usually diverge between physical manifestations, conceptual acts, activism, happenings, demonstrations, and events, private or public, constructive or destructive gestures. Contemporary artists are able to create a new dimension of space, time, power and awareness within human relations and the geopolitical arena."