Trickster (details)

 

Trickster / The variable practice

curators : Alexandros Psychoulis , Kostis Velonis

theoritical support: Phoebe Giannisi

 

 

The vision of the curator of this exhibition is to assemble works of contemporary artists who, by their tactics, bring forth the reading of the world as a permanent global variation, where apparently insignificant details of daily practice find their meaning in the evolution of things, and the conjunctures are no longer problematic imponderable factors but the field of genesis of new dynamics.

In those works and tactics, a kind of intelligence still survives, which does not paralyze in front of the unpredictable (the conjunctions), which is able to cope with perplexities in front of the distance that separates an ideal project from the effort of its implementation.

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Participating artists: A Whales Architects, Arvanitis Nikos, Kamaris Stephanos, Karga Valentina, Kessanlis Nikos, Kotionis Zissis, Kotsoni Eleni, Ntelakos Apostolos, Pantazopoulou Ioanna, Sachini Nana, Sachpazis Costas, Sagri Georgia, Sepetzoglou Nikos, Touloudis Petros. 

 

 

Amputee

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I can only come on strong

'cause I've finally found a way

to right a wrong

and all my sickness which there is

no forgiveness.

But its with you that I belong

To ask is selfish of me

but when you leave my company

do you sometimes feel like

an amputee?

If yes,please write yes

on my ceiling.

Scott Matthew

Action

Dream of a vacant pier

Move all your maps to here

If I could run my fingers through your hair

If you could run along the shore and air

I would...








Keep all my mornings clear

Move all your bees to here

If I could run my fingers through your hair

If you could run along the shore and air

I would...

Move

S. Carey

In Bloom

Sell the kids for food

weather changes moods

Spring is here again

reproductive glands

Hey - He's the one

Who likes all our pretty songs

And he likes to sing along

And he likes to shoot his gun

But he knows not what it means

Don't know what it means, when I say:

He's the one

Who likes all our pretty songs

And he likes to sing along

And he likes to shoot his gun

But he knows not what it means

Knows not what it means when I say aahh ...

We can have some more - nature is a whore

Bruises on the fruit - tender age in bloom

Hey - He's the one

Who likes all our pretty songs

And he likes to sing along

And he likes to shoot his gun

But he knows not what it means

Don't know what it means, when I say:

He's the one

Who likes all our pretty songs

And he likes to sing along

And he likes to shoot his gun

But he knows not what it means

Knows not what it mean's when I say:

He's the one

Who likes all our pretty songs

And he likes to sing along

And he likes to shoot his gun

But he knows not what it means

Knows not what it means

Knows not what it means when I say aahh ...

Nirvana

Aspra Spitia

Aspra Spitia is a small settlement planned by Doxiadis Associates for the company "Aluminion de Grece" to house industrial workers and personnel employed at itsnearby aluminum plant.

Aspra Spitia (modern Greek for "White Houses"), situatedon the coast of the Corinthian Gulf about one hour's drive from Delphi, was designed for a projected population of 5,000. The program proposed the construction of a totalof 1,100 dwellings, including one and two-storey houses,bachelor apartments, stores and shops, a customs house, a school and recreational and other facilities.

Doxiadis Associates carried out not only the pure planning work (general plan and layout plans for residentialcommunities and central areas), but also the study of the house types and buildings, the design of the infrastructure (water and electricity supply, sewer andstorm water networks), the compilation of the tender-documents and the supervision of the implementation. The project was assigned in 1961. The last house of theinitial program was completed in 1965.

When they started the planning of Aspra Spitia, DA'splanners were faced with the question of what type of settlement they should create on that coast of the Corinthian Gulf that would best serve the needs of itsindustrial population and still harmonize with theenvironment and its history; that would do no violence tothe marvellous site that had been selected, with its delicate lines formed by the surrounding hills and theolive trees; and that would constitute the proper settingfor the life of the workers who would be recruited mostly from the rural population of the surrounding area

It did not take them long to reject the idea of a typical industrial settlement with uniform apartment buildings where the people would feel like expatriates and refugees,and where living would be but a continuation of workingin the mechanized environment of the new factory. Onthe contrary, they decided that they should create a"Greek town" in which people could easily identify all thecultural traditions they were brought up with and couldpreserve them as a most valuable inheritance.

This was an easy thing to say. It was more difficult to decide how it could be achieved without reverting to superficial imitation, picturesque trivialities oranachronistic sentimentalities. How could visual richness and individuality of expression be effected without resulting in structural confusion and aesthetic chaos?

The conclusion drawn by DA's planners was that they needed a simple, clear and strong plan incorporating these desirable qualities and with its "invisible geometry" holding the varied parts together. That they needed asimple, strong and "primitive" architecture composed of natural, local materials, which the people could add to with flower pots and pergolas, rather than a modern architecture in which the visual equilibrium can be upset by the addition of a dot.

These thoughts are reflected in the general plan of the town: on the L-shaped site (the short leg of which isbordered by the sea, while the long one is flanked by two hills) four neighborhoods were created, each surroundedby a peripheral road and penetrated by culs-de-sac inselected locations only. At the junction of the two legs ofthe L, the shopping, business and civic center was set up,with the administrative center just below it. A zone along the water front was reserved for recreational and tourist facilities.

Then, each neighbourhood and the center were studied ingreat detail with particular attention to the feeling ofspace one would have in walking through its pedestrianways, small squares, streets and piazzas. The aim of DA'splanners was to create a sequence of spaces in whichscale, form and character would follow the sequence ofimportance of "events" in the life of the town. Each littlestreet and square were studied separately, using sketchesand three-dimensional models as well as the facades ofthe buildings that would constitute the main closure of space.

A comparison of the completed structures with aphotograph of the model and a sketch of a proposed rowof houses shows that the desired result was achieved to aremarkable degree. [ .pdf ]

Bloodstain

They say if you took it all away

This love would fall apart

I say, no way

You don't know the size of my heart

Vicious, suspicious

It doesn't matter what I say

Users and losers

There's nothing here to make me stay

Bloodstain on a blue vein

Take it with no shame

Love tracks on a loose train

Bloodstain

No gain with no pain

My scars are deeper than you think

Tie me, try me

One more time before I sink

Big lies, big times

This love is not what we're about

It's too late and I'm too straight

It's time to blow this fire out

Bloodstain on a blue vein

Take it with no shame

Love tracks on a loose train

Bloodstain on a blue vein

Take me softly

I'm going crazy for your touch

Bloodstain on a blue vein

Take it with no shame

I'm alone

And dissatisfied

And someone else is alone

And dissatisfied

You are alone?

UNKLE

ROOMS 2014

ROOMS 2014

Contemporary Art Show

Kappatos Gallery presents from 13 to 28 February 2014, for the fourteenth time since 1999, the annual contemporary art exhibition, ROOMS 2014 at St George Lycabettus hotel, in Dexameni-Kolonaki.

In one of the most popular and historical exhibitions of contemporary art, 20 curators, art historians and art theorists, choose an artist or artist group each and present them in hotel rooms. Twenty five different artists take part with sound, photography and visual art installations, painting, sculpture, projects, design, performances, films, etc.

The exhibition ROOMS expands on a whole floor of the hotel, where each artist or group is shown in a room, with the hotel room transformed into the private space of the artist. In this way a great opportunity is given for the documentation of contemporary trends and perspectives in visual arts, while a creative dialogue is initiated.

The choice of the space of a hotel for the organisation of this exhibition has been a combination of priorities, such as the independent showcase of artists and at the same time, the need for each artwork to claim and acquire its own -both private and public- space, in complete accord to the character and the meaning of the current conditions.

The space of the hotel constitutes a facility with a historical structure and a social role in the framework of the urban environment; a space to visit, a space of meeting and getting to know, a space for rest and communication. Together with the strict mode of function that is the temporary hosting of the city’s visitors, the accommodation of professional agendas and activities of leisure take place. In the case of the exhibition ROOMS there is an extra, unprecedented use: the accommodation of artworks. Thus the social role of the hotel is expanded and acquires an artistic and communicative element; it becomes the podium for artists to address the major public. For many of them indeed, the magnificent space of St George Lycabettus hotel, lying in one of the most central and most wonderful points of Athens, is a great opportunity to create artworks especially for the exhibition, related to the varied functions of the hotel as a signifier of passage, speculation and amusement.

St George Lycabettus hotel highly estimates art and relentlessly continues to support and promote cultural activities through participating for the umpteenth time in this particular organisation, hence approaching the fields of contemporary art and critical thinking.

ROOMS 2014

Curators:

Vana Verriopoulou, Christiana Galanopoulou, Dio Kangelari, Christina Kalli – Minas Minatsis, Charis Kanellopoulou, Margarita Kataga, Valia Katsimpa, Isavella Kladaki, Petros Kosmas, Panagis Koutsokostas, Tasos Koutsouris, Giota Konstantatou, Giannis Mpolis, Out of the Box Intermedia, Ourania Panoutsou, Elena Pougia, Charis Savvopoulos, Kostis Stafylakis, Faye Tzanetoulakou, Lina Tsikouta

Artists:

Margarita Athanasiou, Giorgos Alexandridis, Panagiotis Vorrias – Panos Kompis, Alberto Bourdeth, Thanasis Giotakis, Efi Gousi, Giannis Kapellos, Maria Karachristou, Lito Kattou – Leontios Toumpouris, Georgia Lale, Alexandros Maganiotis, Matina Megkla, Natasa Mpiza – Vasiliki Ralli, Giorgos Oimpak, Tasos Papatsoris, Panagiotis Profitis, Antonis Titakis, Olga Miliaresi-Foka, Voula Frasiola – Akis Karanos, Sofia Chousou

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