4th International Art Festival – Chania 2006 Begins
The 4th International Art Festival will be held from 2nd November to 15th November at the Old Customs public exhibition center in Chania, Crete, Greece. The exhibition under the patronage of the prefecture of Chania, Omma Center of Contemporary Arts is spread over an area of 4,000 square meters. Considered one of the largest annual art exhibitions in Greece, and the largest in Chania, it exhibits art work in all media including painting, sculpture, mixed media, digital art, photography and Nano-art.
Nano-art is a recent art form that represents the latest technological invention of the 21st century. Nanotechnology features the synthesis and manipulation of matter at sub -100 nanometers level. Cris Orfescu is exhibiting the art form at Chania. He presents the microscopic views of nano-art in the form of high resolution electron microscopic scans created through chemical processing and physical interaction. The monochromatic electron images are created digitally and printed with archival inks on fine art paper or canvas. His creativity thus finds artistic expression different from other at forms. It is different from photography in the sense that it has a 3-D look about it and the images are created by electrons and not photons as is the case in photography.