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Who

Who be my valentine

Who lift this heavy load

Who share this taxicab

Who wants to climb aboard

Who is an honest man?

Who held a dying soldier?

Far from his own hometown

Carry these men and women

Who get lost when the Sun goes down

Who is an honest man?

Who walks this dusty road

Who always proves her way

Who’s this?! Inside of me

Who made a big mistake

Who sees these constellations

Seen in those spinning round

Counting these men and women

Who get lost when the Sun goes down

Who is an honest man?

With a graceful motion she sat down slowly

Drank a cup of coffee and she fold her laundry

She begins to tell us all her life story

All around the table, everybody’s staring

Who shouts out hallelujah

Who’s gonna sing out loud

Carry these men and women

Who get lost when the Sun goes down

Who’s getting out of here

Who thinks they’re hungry

Who’s gonna be my friend

All around the table, everybody’s staring

David Byrne and St.Vincent

FOFI’S Berlin

FOFI’S, Berlin
Fofi Akrithaki’s Berlin: 1969 - 1997

 

Curators: Denys Zacharopoulos & Alexios Papazacharias
Duration: 17 May – 3 Nοvember 2013

 

Museum Alex Mylona – Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art presents the exhibition FOFI’S, Berlin - Fofi Akrithaki’s Berlin: 1969 – 1997, curated by Denys Zacharopoulos and Alexios Papazacharias. This exhibition is a tribute to Fofi Akrithaki’s ΕΣΤΙΑΤΟΡΙΟΝ (ESTIATORION), which had been for twenty years one of the most famous “hangouts”, not only in Berlin but across Europe, and will be remembered by the name Fofi’s. The exhibition will run until the 3rd of November.

 

According to Alexios Papazacharias, the curator of the exhibition:
From 1972 to 1997, the exuberant personality of cosmopolitan Fofi Akrithaki brought together international leading figures in art, literature, cinema, theater, fashion, music and politics. Throughout its operation, Fofi’s will remain not only a hangout, a rendezvous, a place to socialise and a top restaurant, but also a meeting point for endless discussions, at a time and a city where the history of Europe was being rewritten.

 

In the exhibition FOFI’S, Berlin – Fofi Akrithaki’s Berlin: 1969 -1997, documents from the restaurant’s years of operation are presented as well as works by: Alexis Akrithakis, Christos Bouronikos, Yannis Kourakis, Rebecca Horn, Robert Rauschenberg, Francis Bacon, Max Ernst, Robert Wilson, Ed Kienholz, Jannis Kounellis, Thierry Noir, Markus Lüpertz, Günter Brus, Yannis Psychopedis, Pavlos, Michel Würthle, Lizzie Calligas, Jakob Mattner, Heiner Müller, Thomas Brasch, Wolfgang Rihm, Bernd Koberling, Lucio Fanti, Takis, Oswald Wiener, Gerhard Rühm, Dieter Roth, Hermann Nitsch, Martin Kippenberger. [ source ]

 

Holding on to black metal

It's a darkness you can't deny

But it don't belong in a grown up mind

Suppose you'll find this place in a youngster's eyes

Coming into life you needn't cry

But as a boy you gotta let it go

Or 

You'll find out something is good

Oh black metal you're so misunderstood

Holdin' on to black metal

Black metal you've been holding on too long

Oh black metal, so misunderstood

Don't turn yourself into Lucifer's fool

Black metal feeds those young, enough is enough

Wants refills out of Lucifer's cup

Black metal lead to and your teenage pop

Look at you starchild you're all grown up

Still holdin' on to black metal

Black metal you've been holding on too long

Catch your waves on Lucifer's beach

Taking shade and underneath Lucifer's trees

Getting sustenance from Lucifer's peach

Oh black metal it's a fact in all your speech 

Holdin' on to black metal

Black metal you've been holding on too long

Oh bring them to me

Oh making me think.

My Morning Jacket

Indoor plus and regarding the remembrance of evils

Dimosthenis Kokkinidis, 

…and regarding the remembrance of evils …1967-1997

The National Museum of Contemporary Art presents, in the framework of the series Every Month, twelve works from its collections by Dimosthenis Kokkinidis, from the important entity …and regarding the remembrance of evils..., enriched with fourteen more works from the artist’s collection. The works exhibited here were created during the seven years of dictatorship in Greece and offer the chance to the audience to look back to the country’s recent political memory. [ source ]

Indoors Plus, The National Garden

Spiracle

When I was a child

I toyed with dirt

an I fought

As a child

I killed the slugs I bored with a bough

in their spiracle

When I was a child

peers pushed me hard

In my head

In my neck

in my chest

in my waist

in my butt

I still beg

please help me

When I was a child

I threw with dung as I fought

As a child, I killed all thugs

and I bored with a bough

In their spiracle

When I was a child

foes pushed me hard

In my

In my neck

in my chest

in my waist

in my butt

I still beg

please help me

When I was a child

I rend my tongue, distraught

As a child

I killed my thoughts

and bored with a bough

In my spiracle

When I was a child 

Fears pushed me hard in my head

In my neck

in my chest

in my waist

I never loved

I still beg

please help me

When I was a child

I bred a whore in my heart

A stillborn child

I gasp for -

The devil into my spiracle

I was a child

I was a child

I am a child

Soap and Skin

DESTE PRIZE 2013

DESTE PRIZE 2013

The DESTE Prize was established in 1999 and is awarded biennially to a Greek or Cypriot artist living in Greece or abroad. The prize aims to showcase an emerging generation of artists and is integral to the foundation's policy of supporting and promoting contemporary art.

The six shortlisted artists for the DESTE Prize 2013 – Marianna Christofides, Elias Papaeliakis, Michail Pirgelis, Kostas Sahpazis, Maria Theodorakis, Alexandros Tzannis – will present work in an exhibition hosted by the Museum of Cycladic Art, which is scheduled to run from 24th April through to 30th September, 2013. Collaboration between the DESTE Foundation and the Museum of Cycladic Art falls within the scope of the latter's “Young Views” program, which aims to engage a younger audience, bring the public up to date with developments in contemporary cultural production and open up a dynamic space for the exchange of ideas.

The winner of the prize will be selected by an international Jury of six and announced during an award ceremony to be held on September 9, 2013. The winner receives the amount of €10,000. 

Following a suggestion of this year's Selection Committee, the current edition of the Deste Prize Exhibition will feature a performance by the Nova Melancholia theater group, which is marked for its use of a highly diverse, hybrid language.

1. Maria Theodoraki

References and associations, typologies, works evolving into different ones and works interacting with one another, process as content and the art object as pretext and testimony of action are the main characteristics of Maria’s Theodoraki work. 

The public space and other artists’ work act as open fields for developing actions concerned with defining and claiming one’s own identity in the context of the city.

2. Ilias Papailiakis

Ilias Papailiakis focuses on the image and its relationship with the physical object. The process on which his work is based interrogates figurative painting through an array of fragmented or partial forms that seem to belong to larger wholes in small or medium sized paintings. His iconography is sparse as the images he creates are abstract and formed mostly by color. For Papaeliakis color is a language through which to express one's ideas. As the artist himself remarks: “I use white, black, yellow, red, and blue, to give shape to the need for yet another new proposal; to paint the hope for yet another new language”. 

3. Michail Pirgelis

Michail Pirgelis explores the notion of flight, seeking all over the world the resting places of obsolete airplanes and transforming their remnants into sculptures. Following a different process each time, the artist decontextualizes the fragmented aircraft parts while keeping the aura of the objects intact. Michail Pirgelis explores the fragility and the awe of flying as well as the human desire to defy gravity, which entails also the danger of complete failure. The archaic, mythical dream of flying is unveiled through the minimalistic forms that signify the perpetual technological evolution. The artist’s modernist discourse is reminiscent of the drives that open up new possibilities of looking, thinking and thus acting. Pirgelis creates a “contemporary archaeology” where the aircraft’s pieces are strange amalgams of the past, seen in the present while denoting the future.

4. Kostas Sahpazis 

Kostas Sahpazis' work is often three dimensional. His practice is based on the performativity of materials as both physical substances and mental constructs. Gestures, forms, ideas, and materials are archived, broken, condensed and finally used in order to shape an object that is characterized by the permanent tendency to undermine its own form. 

Through a process of assemblage the sculptural object results from constant displacements of the original concept. Narratives and fictions always surface in an oblique way.

5. Alexandros Tzannis 

Alexandros Tzannis mainly aims to speak of time by bringing to our attention things soon to be forgotten. His intention is made manifest in the manner of his work – a laborious, time-consuming process – as well as in his choice of lowbrow materials that combine with a futurist aesthetic, linear drawings, cosmic sculptural forms and neon lights to produce a varied visual counterpoint.

6. Marianna Christofides

“Recorded realities” are explored through metonymy in the work ofMarianna Christofides. Images are treated as visual records of histories and sites to which the prospect of revision and reconstruction is inherent. Removed from their original context secondary coincidental narratives provide the space for a journey, a cross-section through multiple layers of space-time and scientific disciplines. Shifts, flash-forwards, and metaphors are basic devices employed in her creative approach, which rests on a use of various media and methods of production. The routes along which this journey unfolds take the form of image, text, and object sequences that develop in space in the manner of installations. 

[ source ]

Autumn

There's a sign, possibilities 

Failing on who I wanna be 

And I lost it all, and I lost it all 

when I lost it all. 

Autumn day

That's enough for me 

And I've lost all the certainty 

I think I can hold 

I think I can hold on. 

Kill it when night fall 

Reckless sometimes hold

I wish I'd say no 

I wish I'd say no

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