The Second Death of the Painter Keraca Visulčeva
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Title
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The Second Death of the Painter Keraca Visulčeva
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Format
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en
JPG
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Date
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2021
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Description
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Artwork created and submitted in the context of the ECHO II project which was dedicated to inviting artists in residence to create original artworks, inspired by selected local traditions
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Type EDM
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en
Image
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Rights
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
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Extent
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64cm x 50cm
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Bibliographic Citation
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“The Second Death of the Painter Keraca Visulčeva”. 2021. Artist: Yiannis Selimiotis. Source: https://echo-heritage.eu/myomekas/s/repository/item/1643. License: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Statement of Responsibility
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The art residency has been co-funded by the European Union and is part of the project ECHO II - Traditions in Transition, Creative Europe Programme. The artwork was produced with the financial support of the European Union. Its contents are the sole responsibility of its creators and do not necessarily reflect the views of the European Union.
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Abstract
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There is an old historic neoclassical palace in Resen, the Ahmed Niyazi Bey Saray. Inside this old palace, a princess is sleeping, but no one seems to remember anymore. The visions and dreams of our time concern more practical aspects of life. Long forgotten, the princess and the French-style mansion were consigned to oblivion. This artwork is a tribute to the painter Keraca Visulčeva, who made me see the second death of myself, the rotting of my paintings, the inevitable end. A portrait of her, painted from combining photos and self-portraits that she painted. To this, I added some flowers from the ones that still decorate an old photograph of her with her father. A small rectangle space for drawing the old photograph. Behind the flowers, the old Saray, that the Ottoman Bey Ahmed Niyazi had dreamed. A story curved on the glass of an old window frame, a window that the people threw in the garbage to be replaced with a newer, uglier, but more practical one. Yiannis Selimiotis
