Remap 4 part 1

Remap 4

part 1

point 02

STATE OF CONCEPT

Nostalgia Nervosa

Artists: Felipa Cesar, Basim Magdy, Taus Makhacheva, Panos Papadopoulos, Poka-Yio, Anahita Razmi, Panos Tsagaris, Dimitra Vamiali  Curator: Iliana Fokianaki

Social media like tumblr, twitter as well as popular culture platforms such as press, tv and film, are reinstating the past. Of late the phenomenon of a younger generation “worshiping” film stars, musicians, writers, lifestyles and values from previous decades, as well as “living” their era by manifesting a different time through appearance and objects of eras that are not part of their personal past, or even that of their immediate ancestors has risen to an interesting extent.

What draws us to the past? Is it an assumption that things used to be better before, or a fear that the world is spiraling to its end as time passes? “Nostalgia Nervosa” aims to examine through the works of Greek and international artists the mystery of fixating on something that we have not experienced ourselves.

The notion of nostalgia, as a longing for a memory we own, is replaced by a manipulation for a past that does not belong to us but seems interesting enough to highlight, worship or mock. This “fake” nostalgia can become an idealistic approach to previous times, or an ironic position against them or simply a vehicle to express our discontent with our present. Is nostalgia simply a defiance of death? [ link ]

CONTEMPORARY TREASURES – PART Ι

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center

Artists: Dimitris Andreadis, Savvas Christodoulides, Ioanna Pantazopoulou, Alexandros Papathanasiou, Mihut Boscu Kafchin, Daniel Subkoff

The Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center presents “Contemporary Treasures – Part I”, a group show of Greek and international artists that are mainly concerned with notions of ephemeral luxury and issues of material culture in an era of constant doubt.

The show aims to explore the correlations and contradictions that derive from the juxtaposition of works by artists of different conceptual backgrounds through the usage of various media. [ link ]

JONATHAN VINER PRESENTS THE STILL HOUSE GROUP

Jonathan Viner Gallery

Artists: Isaac Brest, Nick Darmstaedter, Louis Eisner, Jack Greer, Brendan Lynch, Dylan Lynch, Alex Perweiler and Zach Susskind

The Still House Group was founded in 2007 by Alex Perweiler and Isaac Brest, with the goal to provide emerging artists with an alternate outlet to exhibit. Through assembling a team of young creatives, most of whom chose not to pursue Fine Art as their undergraduate focus, it became clear that there was a need to create a path different than the standard so many emerging artists are pressured to follow. 

Throughout its existence, Still House has produced many exhibitions in unorthodox spaces, displaying work by those whose studio practice deviates significantly from that of the average singular artist. From their facility in Red Hook, Brooklyn, they have nine studios, eight for permanent artists, and one for a three-month rotating residency program. The studios are three-walled, allowing for a free exchange of references, techniques, ideas and critiques amongst all artists. This is a creative climate often lost once students have completed their formal education, and Still House finds this an important environment to support and preserve. [ link ]

Daily Unsimplicity

Daily Unsimplicity

Dimitris Andreadis

"The new solo show of Dimitris Andreadis is his personal storyboard with signs that originate from his daily life. Daily Unsimplicity articulates the artist’s personal vocabulary regarding simplicity in contradiction to a vague complexity that may occupy our personal territory.

Through his paintings the viewer recognizes and re-evaluates familiar images which prevail in a black background with the use of chiaroscuro treating light and shades in a strong emotional current.

Using a rough brush Andreadis deforms his images and creates a floating environment. The absence of light in the whole surface and its accentuation directly on the sign dramatizes the context that the artist wants to define. This context refers either to actual or to illusory conditions.

Τhe artist depicts his own personal examples of a contemporary still life. Daily Unsimplicity captures the momentum and the ‘’magic power of tansubstantiation’’".   -- Katerina Nikou

Grande Classicism

Timoleon Livaditis

Duration: 06.03.2013 – 13.04.2013 [ + info ]

I Would Prefer Not To

 “I Would Prefer Not To” - Maro Michalakakos

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center
29.03.2012 – 26.05.2012

 

The exhibition title «I Would Prefer Not To» is inspired by the enigmatic character of Herman Melvill’s Bartleby (“Bartleby the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”, Herman Melville), who persistently uses the above phrase.

 

 Facing space as a philosophical entirety and not just as an environment where things just happen, the artist presents two installations; “Red Carpet” and “Happy Days”. For the first one, the pile of the velvet is being removed and for the second the process of abstraction; the sound and the red fluff falling down, become artwork. Both these installations have direct references to authority, power, as well as the forced intimacy between life and death.

 

The “Red Carpet”, a velvet with the prints of a predator is spread all over the gallery, developing a relationship of intensity with the space. The danger of subverting the roles within the relationship between the victim and the abuser, predator and prey is charming, frightening and stimulating

 

 The title of her second installation “Happy Days” (Oh Les Beaux Jours) has been chosen by Paul Verlaine’s homonym poem and Samuel Beckett’s work. The gallery columns; white, simple and with the desire to remain invisible while they support the building, are fully covered by fluff, adding to it and to dust a monumental dimension.

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R.E: Texas

 

  

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre presents Texas and R.E.

 

 

Ground Floor:  Reconfigured Etiquette / Ioanna Pantazopoulou

First Floor: Texas / Dimitris Tsoumplekas

until 10.03.2012

The New Disorder

 

THE NEW DISORDER

curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Katerina Nikou

 

The Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center presented the group show «The New Disorder» curated by Michael Bevilacqua and Katerina Nikou.  Duration:  8 December 2011 - 28 January 2012

 

 

"In an age of ready-mades installation art, video art, performance, the question of what is art practice is more complex. Since 1960s the medium or material condition of the work has tended to become increasingly relative to the means, location and context of utterance. Nowadays, where information and technology, are dominant it is hard to place artists as painters, sculptors, photographers etc.

 

Artists : Dimitrios Antonitsis, Michael Bevilacqua, Panos Famelis, Leo Gabin, Aris and Lakis Ionas / The Callas, Thanos Kyriakides, Bjarne Melgaard, Eva Mitala, Mason Saltarrelli, Dean Sameshima, Casey Spooner, Michael Stipe

 

The artists of the New Disorder are from varying backgrounds in music, visual arts, fine arts, performance and they are using their unique vision to create art that can "help" us to make sense of our complex relationship in the outside world. They feel the need to understand the relationship between art and society and to conceive at the level of idea and concepts how art and life might be realigned.

 

Art that is happening in the real world, in film sets, in design studios, on fashion shoots, in workshops, in the streets. The artists invite their audience to question ways of seeing and experiencing art and to constantly change their perspectives. They also explore feelings of alienation, displacement and distance in time and space. "

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