The book as a work of Art 28 September 2018, Athens.
This year is meant to be the year of the Book. In Athens, the following September, the gigantic installation, The Book, will open again its pages..
COLLABORATION...
with the sculptors Giota Papakiriakou, Saskia Peterson, jemologist and jewellery producer Johanna Badjan de Junnemann, art teacher Simon Admond, and costume designer Alexandra Huan Munoz for the construction of the two large- scale sculptures.
The whole task was each moment at risk. We had to take under consideration many pause factors that could have made the work impossible.
Difficult but amazing, we managed to get the first sculpture in two times and the second- with two actual models, and not ones.
One That Holds Everything
"One That Holds Everything" was a group exhibition of the second year's MFA post graduate students of WCA. Twenty-eight emerging artists were participating and collaborating for the creation of this show, in October 2017. The show lasted four days and each artist, apart from generating a site specific work, was attributed certain responsibilities regarding the organisation, planning and curation of the show.
Being part of the curating team, a group of five people artists, was an interesting and useful experience for myself and the rest of the group. The work of curating an exhibition, especially a collaborative one, is a tricky and not so easy work. We had one day to complete the set up of the show. In order to be sure that each work was placed in accordance with the one next to it, we changed the setting scenery multiple times.
We tried numerous combinations of arrangements of our work. This brought out our different perspectives of space and presentation. Each one of the five participants of the curating team expressed his/her opinion on where the best place of the works would be. Communicational problems and disagreements inevitably occurred. We needed to take into account the whole "balance" of the exhibition, the volume of visitors on the private view event, health and safety precautions, lighting and placing works with specific requirements, such as audio / video pieces, works hanging from the ceiling or the wall, in the appropriate place, as no more stabilising and constructive additions could be applied on the underground space of the Crypt.
The task of creating a site specific work, requires an adequate research, from the part of the artist, concerning the history of the place, the previous usage and surrounding of the site, environmental changes that happened in the area before, during and after the building's construction, when all the previous took place and more.
The site specific work that I created for this show was a personal baptismal font. "The Font", consisted only of natural materials: plaster and soil, and had larger dimensions comparing with the traditional baptismal fonts, used in churches to baptise the babies. (please follow the link for work presentation and info)
Interval, Heterotopia, 11/17
Life in a ShoeBox,
04/16
Interval was a group of second year, UCA Farnham students, we are proud to present Interval. It was a fantastic pop-up art exhibition focusing on the role of time in the kitchen space. Held on Wednesday the 29th November 2017, Interval takes the role of Michel Foucault’s Kitchen Heterotopia and explores the transition between one space into another, conveying multiple meaning, combining the element of time in relation to the kitchen, food and the process of making.
This one day ‘kitchen-exhibition’ took place within the Undercroft of The Pepperpot, an iconic building nestled within the historical market town of Godalming, Surrey.
Challenging the way in which the kitchen space has become a status symbol over time and influenced not only by the evolution of gadgets that supposedly make life more convenient, but also how much the kitchen space is subjected to social trends that influence the look, feel and practicalities of the kitchen.
This timeless, ‘gallery-white’ kitchen void allows us to exhibit work including 2D, video and performance in exploration with the idea of transforming the kitchen space into a gallery space and how the passage of time and social status prejudices how we view the kitchen.
17 Square Metres
Life in a Shoebox was the first group exhibition of the MFA Wimbledon course.
I was part of the construction team along with other four artists. The task was fairly easy, as the organisation and preplanning was adequate.
We had one and a half day to finish the set up which we finished with great success and no damages! The area of the room-gallery was fresh, cool and invinting to chill after the two hard days of work. ....
Visiting Art
EXHIBITIONS in Venice
FONDAZIONE PRADA
“The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied.”
Filmmaker Alexander Kluge,
artist Thomas Demand,
stage and costume designer Anna Viebrock
and curator Udo Kittelmann.
The Magic World
Roberto Cuoghi, Adelita Husni-Bey, Giorgio Andreotta Calò.
Imitazione di Cristo (The Imitation of Christ) by Roberto Cuoghi, the first of the three installations presented in the pavilion, investigates the transformation of matter and the fluid concept of identity through a research on the historical depiction of Christ in Italian art.
The entrance space of the Italian pavilion has been transformed into a sort of workshop, a factory which produced devotional statues inspired by the De Imitatione Christi, a medieval text describing the path to achieve a state of ascetic perfection.
The statues of Christ manufactured in the workshop are then moved to an array of tables positioned inside a long tunnel made in transparent plastic, thus creating a sequence of “bodies” in progressing conditions of deterioration and crumbling of the matter.
The statues, almost decomposed, are subsequently “dried” in an oven to stop their decay.
The most inspiring of this work consisted in the fact that the artist was showing the work in progress and was literally exhibiting his imaginative studio - laboratory. The idea of art in process, that requires specific conditions for its realization appears to gain ground, as the public understands that art is not meant to be only for representing perfection but the different stages of a creation.
Giorgio Andreotta Calò
Conceived a large-scale installation in relation to the architecture of the building.
Walking through a sequence of scaffolding, the viewer reached the upper part of the installation that consisted the actual piece. The view was staggering and powerful; it took me some minutes to apprehend what it actually was!
A tank of 25cm depth full of water was laying horizontally, in the middle of the space, mirroring the ceiling on its surface and creating a miraculous effect!
In the other end of the room, the wall was
covered with a mirror to create the utmost
darkness. The concept and presentation of
this illusionary work were amazing and to my
perception, outstanding, together with the other
two exceptional works of the Italian artists.
Paris
In twelve halls, the Center Pompidou wish we flatten the ground with the greatest experiences of horizontal sculptures. We find there the Trebuchet, the first sculpture on the floor,
which made cataclysm when Marcel Duchamp stared at the ground a coat rack that should be placed on the wall in
1917, but the woman murdered by Giacometti lying on t
he ground, and The Opening Spiral (Spiral in Deployment) of Tony Cragg, made of odds and ends perfectly
aligned to the ground.
Rodin Augustin – Retrospective Exhibition in Grand Palais, Paris
Research upon material, texture, size, expression of a sculpture, creativity and ideas upon work set up were taken under consideration in the retrospective exhibition of Augustin Rodin. Early sketches of the sculptor were presented along with the work of artist influenced by him, presenting their similarities and differences.