ΠΡΟΚΑΤ

ΠΡΟΚΑΤ = Prokat = Prefab. 

Abbreviation of Greek word prokataskevasmenos = prefabricate

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In 1913, four years before creating his infamous Fountain, Marcel Duchamp presented the "Bicycle Wheel", his first ready-made work of art. Ready-mades essentially challenged conventional notions about visual arts as manual labor and originality of creation were no longer prerequisites for the production of works of art. On the occasion of 100 years since the premiere of "Bicycle Wheel", the “Research group of artists for the first ready-made century” attempts to reexamine the applications and various manifestations of the ready-made in 21st century art. [ info ]

The “Research group of artists for the first ready-made century” is comprised of: Andreas Vousouras, Apostolos Zerdevas, Irini Karayannopoulou, Babis Karalis, Maria Lianou, Iliodora Margellou, Thanasis Moutsopoulos, Kamilo Nollas, Konstantinos Patsios, Panos Skouloudis, and Giorgos Tserionis.

SAVE

SAVE

(To make safe; to procure the safety of; to preserve from injury, destruction, or evil of any kind; to rescue from impending danger; as, to save a house …)

“SAVE” participants submit a critical commentary on the relationship between contemporary cultural and the political conditions in our country. A country with cracks in the perspective of modernity which prompted once the romantic request for a “total experience of Utopia” beyond the limiting distance overcoming space and time. “Is this the end or the beginning of the nightmare?” Each answer remains pending until viewers search for possible participation in the universe of the image and they find their own “Native Land” through this journey.

On the occasion of the above considerations, the exhibition deals with the conditions of protection, rescue, and healing from potential risks in a morally changing world.

“SAVE” is curated by George Tserionis and is held in collaboration with ENTROPIA Theater. The exhibition constitutes part of its new international production «P.I.G.S», which has been conceived and directed by Marilli Mastrantoni.

Participating artists: Andreas Voussouras, Georgia Kotretsos, Lina Gaki, Nikos Palaiologos, Efi Fouriki, Giannis Sinioroglou, Giorgos Tserionis, Lea Petrou, Babis Karalis, Giannis Christakos, Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Maria Tsagkari, George Gyzis, Panos Famelis, Kostantinos Stamatiou, Natasha Poulantza, Villy Manolakou, Kostantinos Ladianos

Curated by: George Tserionis   [ more ] 

Remap 4 Part 5

Remap 4

part 5

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BLIND ADAM

The Breeder is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Blind Adam, as part of the fourth edition of Remap KM. Using black wool yarn Blind Adam creates a hand knotted universe of miles and miles of thread. A procedure that started mechanically in 2007 has now evolved in a solid art practice that includes wall based works, sculptures and installations.

Blind Adam has retinitis pigmentosa, a genetic condition that constricts the visual field resulting in visual impairment. His canvas works, presented on the gallery’s ground floor resemble the Braille system. They represent the process of articulating a personal language, the crystallization of thought, like a basic form of manuscript. Each black knot representing a letter or a word in an abstract flow of sentences upon the white background.

“Melting Safety” a monumental sculpture is hanging in the center of the space. Part safety net, part floating demon the long threads of knotted yarn that constitute the work come together in an imposing black mass. Each knot is at an equal distance from the other, that is dictated by the size of the artist’s hands when they tie them. A symmetry that offers rhythm and sequence to the structure.

The gallery’s basement floor is transformed in an ancient temple consisting of twenty-four Corinthian columns. Each one of them an ethereal elegant structure of black yarn, like monuments of transcendental meditation or rather the ghostly exoskeletons of columns, they highlight the absence of volume. They are the impressions of columns, drawn from the artist’s memory. Against the gallery’s white walls, the sculptures resemble drawings with black pen on paper that have come to life claiming a three-dimensional existence.

Blind Adam (1971, Athens) is based in Athens, Greece. Blind Adam has presented his work in solo exhibitions at Kunsthalle Athena (2013), Athens and at Suzy Tros Project Space, Athens (2012). Group exhibitions include “Hell As Pavillion” curated by Nadia Argyropoulou at Palais de Tokyo in Paris (2013), The Art of This Century at the Alex Mylona Museum in Athens (2011), at ASVOFF (A Shaded View On Fashion Film) festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, (2011), at Chagallesque, Hydra School Projects in Hydra (2010). [ link ]

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ΤHE CABINET (FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT): AN INDEPENDENT PROJECT 

Curators: Dionisis Christofilogiannis, Giorgos Tserionis, Andreas Voussouras

A transportable box with dimensions 200X230X200cm (made of chipboard and painted inside with black paint) has a clear reference to the cabinets of curiosities or wunderkammer, which served as the first platforms of collecting things until their transformation to current museums. The orientation of the participants (contributing at the exhibition with paintings, sculptures and artists books, in small dimensions at the size of a miniature ) comment on the course and the political situation of the Greek reality, a country with strong political changes, while exhibited in the area of Metaxourgio, a place affected strongly by these changes ,issuing themes such as immigration, marginalization, etc.

The box is an intermediate space and acts as a file repository, can be transferred while hiding what is inside it. Visitors of the exhibition can have a fragmented view of the exhibited artworks through specially designed, small windows, holes while can have a comprehensive view of the box going up a ladder and watch inside from above. [link]

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MY CRAP IS BIGGER THAN YOURS!

My crap is BIGGER than yours! is a project by Eleni Bagaki curated by Annie-Claire Geisinger. Examining the borderline between image and object.  [ link ]

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POKA-YIO

Smelly

This is a smelly neighbourhood. Those guys smell great, the streets smell sweet. Poka-Yio’s new work is a tribute to the essence of the city. Both repulsive and attractive this is the Core Essence of Athens. [ link ]

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STIGMA LAB

Dialogue

Dialogue is a project consisting of 5 murals that “communicate” with one another. The results of the collaborations emerging from the artists participation in the dialogue.

The dialogue “draws” images with familiar characters from the city streets, in an attempt to awaken the viewers on the todays sociopolitical problems.

The 5 murals of the “Dialogue” : anger, hate, fear, jealousy, lust. [ link ]

back to Athens 2013 (II)

RE-FRESH

the new mind of design and art

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Fresh Hotel Athens

There has never been a better time to present the re-freshed, new face of the contemporary designer and artist whom explores and re-defines concept, form, esthetics and function involved in the creative process, often with cutting humor and/or playfulness. Contemporary sociopolitical issues such as the global recession, re-evaluation of national elements within the work and the re-use of objects inspire new and fresh ideas.

Designers and artists in dialogue

From April 19- May 15, Greek and international designers and artists will come together within the Fresh Hotel Athens (member of the Design Hotels) an urban, unconventional resort within the heart of the city center. This collaborative presentation introduces a dialog on creative values involving both arts. With the assistance of a special brochure, the visitor may “discover” the work at specified locations within the hotel including the reception area, rooms, lobby, the Air Lounge and the ArtWall project space the on ground floor of the hotel.

For the duration of the exhibition the work placed within the hotel and the ArtWall, will be in constant dialog with the hotel visitors and visitors of the exhibition. Designers are encouraged to present their work before the public and demonstrate processes and techniques developed as a part of their creative identity.

Participants:

Bllenddesignoffice, Helen Brasinika (Designer)

Post Folk, Maria-Olga Vlachou, Kostis Vassiliadis (Design)

Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Visual Artist

G Design Studio, Michael Georgiou, Alexandros Gavrilakis and Dimitris Stefanidis (Visual Communication)

Georgos Gyparakis (Visual Artist)

Maria Halios (Interior Designer)

ΚΑRAGEORGIOU (hand made furniture & interiors)

[Hauwai] Mari Goga, Stefanos Nasopoulos (Architects)

Kontakidesign, Spiros Kontakis (Object Design)

Panagiotis Megalooikonomou (Jewelry and Object Designer)

Pieris Architects, Pieros Pieris, Stella Pieri (Architects)

Spacelab, Sotiris Hainis, Vana Krimnioti (Architects)

Andreas Vousouras (Visual Artist)

Godefroy de Virieu & Stefania Di Petrillo (Designers)

OZON Raw Magazine presents Studio LAV(Designers)

Curated by: Fotini Kapiris

Co-organized by: Fresh Hotel and the ArtWall Project Space     [ more ]

Mature Topography

Mature Topography

Giorgos Tserionis

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The ArtWall

George Tserionis is presenting his new work entity under the title ‘MATURE TOPOGRAPHY’ at the ArtWall Project Space. The exhibition presents two series of collages with images from archival material, a sculpture, a video piece, and an artist book, each contemplating the development of capitalism in relation or at the expense of nature.

  

As noted by art historian Thanassis Moutsopoulos:

“One of the key demands of George Tserionis, if not of the artist in general and after Cezanne, is the familiarization and / or the deconstruction of Nature. 

Within his work «Mature Topography» Tserionis arranges existing photos, either by folding thus distorting their meaning, either through producing an architectural composition. In effect, the artist not only converses with aspects of the past such as Dada or the detournements of the Situationists, but invents new models that enclose the art of Japanese Origami and applies in on to the photographic collage”.  [ more (in Greek) ]

  

Postscraps

Postscraps curated by Provo Principles

The exhibition POSTSCRAPS curated by PROVO PRINCIPLES, refers to boundaries and the perception of space in relation to memory, using random construction materials as the main installation objects and acting like a contemporary archaeology.

 Thus the participating artists attempt a different approach, referring to the area’s existing emotional weight of old objects, ruins, memorabilia etc, as vessels of the boundaries of the registered space and as a means to identify the mystery that somehow surrounds it.

 In a way, the artists wander like «smelling the past» of the area under investigation, try to capture its atmosphere, and to decode writer Thomas Pynchon s “Rainbow of gravity”.

As a part otheir artistic habit PROVO PRINCIPLES invite the design group “busy building“ to design the logo of the exhibition ,which will be exhibited as a site specific project in the gallery area.

Participating artists:
Gerasimos Avlamis, busybuilding, Thodoris Chrisikos, Andreas Diktyopoulos ,Apostolos Zerdevas, Stefanos Kamaris, Giorgos Karagiorgos, Giorgos Karagiorgos, Lilian Lykiardopoulou, Dimitris Merantzas, Aliki Pappa, Kostantinos Patsios, Dimirtis Protopappas, Nikos Sepetzogloy, Giannis Sinioroglou, Giorgos Tserionis, Andreas Voussouras.

PROVO PRINCIPLES is an artist- run group (Giorgos Karagiorgos,Dimitris Merantzas,Kostantinos Patsios, Nikos Sepetzogloy, Giorgos Tserionis, Andreas Voussouras) formed in September 2011, based in Athens whose aim is to produce and promote a dialogue between:

art , art history, social and political facts , both in Greece and abroad. The group acts in a morally deviant world , producing artworks or inviting artists and curators for site specific projects functioning like “though” islands.

For their first exhibition at TAF -The Art Foundation in December 2011 under the title” LOL” the group deals with the fluid states and uncertain mechanisms of the current social environment in Greece .                                         [ more info ]