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It was actually group exhibition but I've made pics only from this painter. I don't know why I choose her, but probably because of the style that she promote.
There was also photography, some installations and some other modern shit :))

about her:
Carine Mougin is painter that create acrylic paintings in various formats for all ages. .. most of them fulfill with childish vibe and imagination. style that produce happiness and smile on ur face :D


..she is most of the time commercial painter, that is not very expensive, but in general she's unique, funny and the characters that she draw are happy and like part of our imagination. Inspiring smiles and messages that are playing with our thoughts, perfect combination of the colors, ambient that was reflecting positive vibe in the space of the gallery. She is amazing illustrator that is ready to create some world of fantasy. We'll be here to enjoy it!

Check some pics here or if u want u can check my fb album with the paintings that were exposed in Galerie des Galeries in the mall in Metz. ..otherwise u can check her web page.

Freeze ton Pompidou [flash-mob performance]

This is one of the few things that I attend during my stay here and I haven't still write anything. The flash-mob performance 'Freeze' happen in Metz while after the opening of the center Pompidou. The idea about this performance come from the Municipality of Metz, actually from Mr.Tomas Scuderi who invite the prim dancer from the national opera and ballet from Paris, Vincent Chaillet to lead this freeze/ performance/ flash-mob.

It start in a front of the train station in Metz - one of the central points in the city and it was planned to finish in a front of Pompidou. Separated program in 3 steps, the first warm up freeze in a front of the train station, the walk together (all in white t-shirts) using the special road made from the station to the center Pompidou and in a front of the center the ballet dancer is waiting for the crowd in frozen pose.
The municipality was expecting to see around 1000 people from the city involved in this flash-mob but on the end there were maybe around 100 people.

In basic I didn't catch the main idea for this flash-mob, it was confusing, the direction, the steps, the orders..on the end I decide to be passive observer and try to analyze the moves, the dance and the forms that the participants were doing leaded by this guy. The experimental sound start and the people try to bring wind of creativity, acting birds, animals, some physical theater moves that like choreography was nice but like whole still (for me)..even after long time, I'm still looking for the connection of the idea and the realization.

Named freeze' even that we were not frozen in one moment, pretty contemporary,a? You can check the video, anyway it was good experience. Mix of meditation trough the nature, the beginning, the learning how to fly (live) and good experimental sound. I like the music a lot.

#streetart workshop @ voiceOfaRt

This Youth Exchange [YE] is something like vol.II of the YE Power of art. On the first one I lead sticker art workshop and on the open space in discussion with the participants there was the interest of learning more about street art. For this one [Voice of Art] we decide to accept the idea and to share more information for this wave in the contemporary art.

The participants firstly have the opportunity to hear something about the sticker art and the different styles of creating them and during the time for workshop they had the chance to try to create pieces of art in which they will mix different materials as sprays, markers, paper, colors, stencils etc..for the one that were interested in vis a vis conversation I explain more about the old school graffiti, colorful, 3D, characters etc. My idea was to try to mix both styles on one board. Big stickers vs. Colors, sprays, stencils..composition. They were pretty interested in the idea also as in the topic and all of them invent creative and unique ideas. One of the participants on the workshop for art installations decide to use stickers in her installation, so basically she was attending 2 workshops in same time and create and learn more about 2 new forms for her. Also there were participants who create more then 10 stickers that after we scan and apply on big board that was also part of the exhibition in 'maison de la familles'.





All of the participants mainly understood the meaning of street art because besides this program that guides them directly trough the process of creating art piece they also learn more about the Youth in Action (YiA) program that actually finance this kind of youth activities in which the young people via informal way learn. On this exchange the participants hear new things about the contemporary art that comes from their countries, their culture, tradition etc.
The final results from my workshop I see as very progressive. All of the pieces on different way are bringing the message for solidarity. The works are nice and unique as their understanding the meaning of solidarity filtered trough this techniques.

Art #installation @ Voice of art

The installation workshop come as result after the first project 'Power of art'. It was obvious that the young people are more inform about the contemporary art nowadays, and even that they made great stuff on the painting workshop, they had a deeper concept and more progressive ideas. It was the same with my workshop 'sticker art that this time was updated in street art..

The idea that Bruno de Sario [Italy] on the first project give to Us [Together] was a perfect method/ process of creating conceptual/ contemporary art works/ installation from organic and recycled materials. Project very, very ecoLOGICal, trying to invent art concept from low budget materials that are easy for recycling or already recycled for me is science. The connection of them with organic stuff, associate me on connection with nature, one of the first rules that we need to respect if we are aware persons. That was excellent starting point for raising better youth values trough this specific art.

The participants who attend his workshop [I wish I was one of them] were amazed from the way of getting into the materia, from the explanations about the history of this field of art, and the knowledge that without reserve he share with them. ;)
He help them bringing their ideas in the cleanest and purest forms that were catchy for the eyes of all of us (participants) and also the public on the opening of the exhibition.
Solidarity as topic is important for the civil society today. We must be active in creating society in which solidarity is accepted in way of producing it, not just on a level of understanding it as definition.

This post is written just because I'm grateful to Bruno for being there and being that what HE is :)
check his blog to see more of his art works - Bruno de Sario

Enjoy few more photos:

APV for Voice of Art

This Friday we had opportunity to organize the APV meeting for our next PRoject that should take place in October in Arry. The group leadres from 6 different contry arrive in Metz then with the Together minibus we went to Arry. During the weekend we've discuss about the program and the activities that we want to implement for this project. How better we can improve our youth exchange, what we can change from the basic idea, what we can add more in the program so it will be more interesting for all the participants. ..



We speak about the workshops: street art, painting, making art installations from organic and recycled materials and about one new workshop that is result from this meeting. Video and multimedia workshop in which we will try to mix some art moments that will be recorded during the exchange and mixed with the music that will be composed on the sound workshop.
We also speak about showing the best photography that the participants will create.


This APV meeting helps the leaders to explore the place where the project will be held and to see how we can use all the facilities provided by it.
During one of the days we had opportunity to show them the center for contemporary art Pompidou where we'll have part of our activities and also to show them some of the important places in Metz.
The perfect dinner in the city help Us to become friends and try to give the best from Us so we can make a great project that will be part of the beautifull memories of our participants.

We all hope on effective youth exChange.

more photos from Pompidou in the album @Potru vs. @Pompidou

~interactive theater performance

Few months ago I visit interesting theater performance in Metz. It was troupe of actors that before the show collect different topics from the audience.
I've missed that part because I was almost late for the performance.. I catch them few minutes before they start with the rolls. For me it was difficult in the beginning to understand what are they speaking about, I try to hear some words that are familiar to me. My french was bad in that time, not that now is perfect but at least I'm in the learning process for all this months here and I hope that I have a bit of progress.

So, there was one actor who lead the whole performance, he was reading from the papers from the audience and the group had few seconds to invent situation connected with the subject written on the paper. The topics were connected with some celebrities from France, with the history and the politics here. The actors were creating humorist sketches and every next one was even better then the last one. It was not only conversation, dialogs, it was physical theater, pantomime, theater of the absurd, grotesque theater etc..they were mixing all forms of stage performing.








There were people from the audience that sometimes start speaking in the middle of their sketch but the actors in the same moment reinvent the whole situation in a way that they take the information from the person.
It was show in two parts. While they made a break, there was the bar inside the theater so we had a time for a drink also.

They continue in the same way, with a lot of jokes and funny moments. The guider trough the whole performance change more then 30 personalities and the group create about 15 small roll acts in which they use the most sophisticated way to transform in every second in every move. Not a lot of stage design, not a lot from costimography, even the technical team was not so good, they had few sound problems. But I'll never forget the dynamic that they had on the stage, the list of music that they choose and also the was how they combine the stories, mix them and how they make 2 hours and a half show without any problem in a front of every type of audience. I hear that from October they start with new idea, with a new concept, but with the same free style idea so I'll use the first opportunity to go and see them and this time understand bit more. All at all this is show for laughter. And this team have the best skills for making the people happy and with a smile on their faces after watching their show.

Perfect 2 hours and something!

p.s. and on the end, the funny part was that they open the main door from where the audience can go out and basically that was their last roll for the show.

Eclats - Projet participatif de l'artiste Maider López

Like part of the youth exchange Power of Art we were invited to participate in the big performs that the Spanish performer Maider López was planning to do for the inauguration of the Pompidou Museum on the night of the Museums.

She is playing with the transformation of the landscapes and the buildings and try to put the audience in active participation in her works.
Involving people in her works makes her works very interactive and dynamic. The dusk is perfect time for her project when all Museum is lit.

This project, entitled "Eclats" set in motion the Centre Pompidou-Metz by moving the crowd and by the use of a utilitarian object: an umbrella lighted inside. The umbrella structure that mimics the architecture of the museum, each participant was symbolic miniature of Centre Pompidou-Metz and the sum of all the umbrellas create an architecture similar to that of Shigeru Ban.

photo by: Lydia Barone - Daily

Like thousands of atoms orbiting the Centre Pompidou-Metz, and like so many miniature replicas of his poetic and grandiose architecture, participants composed a work that is astonishing: the metaphor of an open, living, defined by its audience.

It was great performance, the people under the umbrellas were one with the Museum, there was created different way of moving, different way of understanding the passengers, smiles and flashes under the lights.
From the sky we were like ants around our house, moving closer to our door. Like message from the wind: go, go..closer to your home, then make a brake, then again go. In the night like new born stars we make Pompidou Museum even more lighter than it is.
Honored that I was part of it!

Thank you Julie Przedmojski for the invitation and for the umbrellas, the crowd actually was double and it was difficult to be part of the performance if you are not part of some groups leaded by the performer.




More about the artist Maider López

Pompidou_Metz, museUM for MODErn & c0n.temp0rary Art

(old post) 

the Museum is open .. now! :)

Видов информација на интерет за новиот музеј кој ќе се отвара наскоро во градот во кој живеам. Станува збор за Музејот за Модерна и Современа Уметност Помпиду.

Информацијата оди вака:

“Центарот „Помпиду“ во францускиот град Мец, настанат според замислата на јапонскиот архитект Шигеру Бан во соработка со парижанецот Жан де Гастине, е хексагонална градба, која се простира на површина од 10.660 квадратни метри

Над неа се надвиснува брановидна покривна структура, чија кула е висока дури 77 метри. На 5.000 квадратни метри ќе се простираат изложбените простори, распоредени во галерии, тераси и парк.

Како и во оној парискиот, во центарот „Помпиду“ во Мец акцент ќе биде ставен на претставувањето на современите уметници на 20 и 21 век, а проектот е поведен за децентрализација на оваа уметничка институција.

Свеченото отворање е најавено за 1 мај, а првата изложба, според многумина, еден од најубавите музеи на светот, ќе биде посветена на ремек-делата на уметници од минатиот век.”

Нова Македонија


Во наредниов период еден од проектите на кои ќе работам, а се однесува на полето култура и уметност е во просториите на овој музеј. Среќен сум што ќе бидам дел од проект кој ќе се случува и ќе биде презентиран токму во овој познат Музеј.
За него во последно време премногу се зборува. Најмногу затоа што отварањето на овој Музеј доцни едно три години затоа што комбинирањето на повеќето видови стакло, плексиглас, дрво и други материјали одзело повеќе време одошто им било планирано на проектните изведувачи.. Но, секако тоа е дел и од маркетиншкиот трик на Музејот со кој во текот на изминативе години, уште неотворен овој Музеј стигна на нивото на неговиот претходник, истоимениот во Париз. За оној во Париз се смета дека е најпосетуваниот Музеј за современа и концептуална уметност во светот или Европа, а овој одгранок само ја надополнува славата на Паришкиот. Градот Мец очекува разбранување во полето на туризмот со отварањето на овој значаен за Франција објект. Се очекуваат многу туристи од блиските држави како Германија, Швајцариjа, Белгија и Луксембург.

Како дел од овој музеј се спомнуваат неколку прекрасни, огромни, осветлени, со високи тавани галериски простории, простории за времени инсталации, изложби и перфоманси, неколку кафе барови, книжари и простории за одржување на најразлични презентации, саеми и работилници од областа на уметноста. Трајни постановки од едни од најпознатите иноватори во современата уметност за кои ќе зборувам и јас после отварањето. Оригиналноста на овој објект е препознатлива како од надвор по својот уникатен изглед и покрив, така и внатре во прецизната структурираност на просториите и нивната намена. Како простор за релаксирање имаат вградено две градини и тераса.

photo by: Magnolias Productions

...повеќе инфо за овој сеуште неотворен Музеј можете да најдете овде, или пак нешто повеќе за архитектите Shigeru Ban од Jапонија и Jean de Gastines од Франција. Доколку сакате можете да ги следите и на twitter.

My EVS stay in France

I started my European Voluntary Service (EVS) in about 3 months ago. I live in the city Thionville, that is on a half an hour train ride from Metz and Luxembourg, the cities in which my organization has offices/spots. I love this part of France as much for its geography as for its culture.

My stay here is related to the promotion of the organization in different ways, varying from fairs to group presentations in high schools. I often take part in youth exchanges and seminars, and sometimes I am also a trainer for some workshops where I share my prior experience. Currently, I design some promotional materials for TOGETHER and I prepare for my workshop “stickers art” that is part of the youth exchange Power Of Art. In this period of several months, I managed to meet many young and positive people, who also have chosen the association Together as their host organization, as well as volunteers from other organizations who have chosen France as a country for their volunteering stay. I visited several quite good places in the country and managed to make new contacts with many creative people involved in the active society. The French classes help me and motivate me to learn the language.



European Voluntary Service is a perfect opportunity for young people to meet new people, to learn new language (as much as they can), to acquire new skills, to share knowledge and also to learn new techniques and methods of education.

Together is a youth association that has accepted me as a part of the team that opened the doors to my ideas, which also gives me tasks in which I can realize my capacities and which fulfill me. I am happy that I am doing my EVS here in Together.


македонска верзија:

Мојот европски волонтерски престој го започнав пред речиси 3 месеци. Живеам во градот Thionville, кој е на половина час од Мец и Луксембург, градовите каде мојата организација има канцеларии.Овој дел од Франција ми се допаѓа многу како географски, така и културолошки.

Мојот престој овде е поврзан со промовирање на организацијата на најразлични начини од саеми до групни презентации на ученици во средните училишта. Учество на младински размени како учесник, но и како тренер за некои работилници за кои имам претходно искуство. Во моментов дизајнирам некои промотивни материјали за TOGETHER и се подготвувам за мојата работилница која е дел од агендата на младинската размена “Power Of Art”. Во овој период од неколку месеци успеав да запознаам многу млади и позитивни луѓе, кои исто така ја одбрале асоцијацијата Together за нивна host организација, како и волонтери од други организации кои ја избрале Франција како држава за нивниот волонтерски престој. Посетив неколку исклучително добри места во државата и успеав да создадам нови контакти со многу креативни луѓе кои се вклучени во активното општество. Часовите за француски јазик ми помагаат и ме мотивираат да го научам јазикот.



Евроскиот Волонтерски Сервис е одлична можност за младите да запознат нови луѓе, да научат нов јазик (колку можат), да стекнат нови вештини, да споделуваат знаење како и да научат дополнителни техники и методи за едукација.

Together е младинска асоцијација која мене ме прифати како дел од тимот и која ги отвори вратите за моите идеи, која исто така ми дава задачи кои се блиски на мојот капацитет и кои ме исполнуваат. Среќен сум што го избрав мојот ЕВС овде во Together.