Remap 4 Part 5

Remap 4

part 5

point 15

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 ]

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 ]

3rd Athens Biennale - part III

3rd Athens Biennale 2011

MONODROME

23 October – 11 December 2011

_Curators_

Nicolas Bourriaud

Nicolas Bourriaud is a curator, art theorist and critic. In 1999 he founded Palais de Tokyo - Site for Contemporary Creation, in collaboration with the curator Jerome Sans, which he directed until 2006. He has been the Gulbenkian Curator at Tate Britain, London (2007-2010), where he curated the 4th Tate Triennial entitled “Altermodern”.

In addition, he has been a consultant of the Victor Pinchuk Foundation in Kiev (2004-2007) and of Parco d’ Arte Visuale in Turin (2005-2006). As an independent curator, he has collaborated with many international foundations, such as Espace St Nicolas, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art and CRAC Contemporary Art Centre in France, San Francisco Art Institute and Basilico Gallery in the USA and Kunsthalle Fri-Art in Switzerland.

He has curated numerous exhibitions, such as the 2nd Moscow Biennale (2005, with Rosa Martinez, Daniel Birnbaum, Joseph Backstein, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Lara Boubnova) and the “Aperto” exhibition at the Venice Biennale (1993).

Bourriaud is widely known for his books “Relational Aesthetics” (1998), “PostProduction” (2001) and “The Radicant” (2009).

In particular, the Relational Aesthetics theory that he introduced in the book of the same name, which has been translated in 16 languages, proves to be influential to the critical approach of contemporary art that came into prominence in Europe during the early 90s. Nicolas Bourriaud is Head of Inspection of Artistic Creation for the French Ministry of Culture, Paris.

Xenia Kalpaktsoglou

Xenia Kalpaktsoglou is a curator and member of the XYZ curatorial trio. In 2005, together with Poka-Yio (Polydoros Karyofyllis) and Augustine Zenakos, she founded the Athens Biennale, which she co-directs.

She has curated solo and group exhibitions of Greek and foreign artists and she has recommended several Greek artists to participate in international exhibitions, such as the 1st Prague Biennale (2003), the “Mediterranean Dialogues” (Saint Tropez, 2006 & 2007), the Protonic Moment (Ljubliana, 2007), the Lyon Biennale (2007, as XYZ) and the Istanbul Biennale (2007, as XYZ).

Furthermore, she participates in artist selection committees in Greece and abroad: MAK: Center Artists and Architects in Residence Program (Vienna/Los Angeles, 2008), Photo-academy: Month of Photography Exhibition of the Year Award (Ljubljana, 2008), DESTE Prize Selection Committee (Italy, 2009) etc.

She often collaborates with art magazines in Greece and abroad, she writes artists’ catalogues and she contributes to publications concerning artistic projects, like Old News, Charley etc. In 2008 she was selected by the Frankfurter Kunstverein (together with the art critic and curator Christoforos Marinos) for the Deutsche Börse Curatorial Residency Program.

From 2006 to 2008, she was the director of the DESTE Foundation – Contemporary Art Centre. Since 2008 she has been a member of the International Association of Curators of Contemporary Art (IKT).

Poka-Yio

Poka-Yio was born in Athens in 1970. He studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (Bachelor’s degree at Painting in 1996 and Master’s degree at Digital Art Forms in 2003).

In 1999, he founded the A-Station, Athens Centre of Contemporary Art, which he directed until 2005. He is a member of the XYZ curatorial trio, co-founder and co-director of the Athens Biennale (2005), together with Xenia Kalpaktsoglou and Augustine Zenakos.

He has curated and participated in several Greek and international exhibitions and has carried out three solo exhibitions. Since 2002 he teaches at the Athens Cultural Group. He has been a journal editor (1998-2004) and a member of ILIOS music group (1992-1996).

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