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Old ice-chamber building, Post of Thessaloniki
Collaborating institutions:
AICA International
The European Centre for Contemporary Art in Brussels “La CTwenty-two art schools in 22 European countries... "come together" through the works of 29 of their graduates who transcend all borders and provide proof of the common - although with many different "dialects" - language of art... |
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| Katerina Christidi: Charcoal Overload!
Katerina Christidi presents a new series of large-scale drawings on canvas, created in 2007 and 2008. It is in fact a series of portraits, in which it is hard to determine either the age or sex of the individuals depicted. The latter are but hybrid beings, the solitary inhabitants of a world that is not readily recognizable. The grotesque, a quality which seems to have haunted the... |
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| Selective Knowledge
When faced with a library, an archive or simply any large databank, the artist must be clear about his/her purpose before starting the quest for the ultimate documentation or representation. Any enquiry into the nature, focus, and inspiration of research results in as many individual responses as there are respondents. Some artists follow self-imposed methods, others lean on far more... |
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| Urban Behaviours
Vassilis Karakatsanis
‘Urban Behaviours’ 2007/2008
6-24 May 2008
Ekfrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou is pleased to announce ‘Urban Behaviours’
an exhibition with painting by Vassilis Karakatsanis (Athens 1957)
Opening reception: May 6th, 2008 from 19:30
The exhibition opens May 6th, 2008 and will run through May 24th, 2008
In ‘Urban Behaviours’ exhibition,... |
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| Dimitris Baboulis : RESERVOIR D AMES
Dimitris Baboulis is presenting drawings created with India ink on rice paper and wood, as well as two installations/sculptures in fiberglass.
The artist’s works are narrative in character and each story he tells demonstrates a keen attention to detail. Baboulis uses a rapidograph to “embroider” the surface of the rice paper with anthropomorphic motifs, consistently... |
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| Toulouse-Lautrec and the Belle Epoque in Paris and in Athens
The Museum Herakleidon is presenting the exhibition "TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND THE BELLE EPOQUE IN PARIS AND IN ATHENS" from December 6th until May 4th 2008.
At the center of this exhibition is a rare collection of approximately 70 original works on paper by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which the organizers have placed in the historical, social, artistic, and aesthetic context of the time... |
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| anti+thesis group exhibition
Trigono Gallery is pleased to announce ‘anti+thesis’ an exhibition with painting, sculpture, photography, graphics & installations by:
Athina Antoniadou (Cyprus / Germany)
Rea Afantitou (Cyprus)
Burhan Ahmeti (FYROM)
Marianna Constanti (Cyprus)
Luís Deza (Perú / Sweden)
Genti Korini (Albania)
Iseult Labote (Switzerland)
Juanjo Oliva (Spain)
Frixos Papantoniou (Cyprus /... |
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| Family Affairs - new work by Dimitris Tsoublekas
In “Family Affairs”, Dimitris Tsoublekas revisits the sites and landscapes of childhood and contemplates them through the eyes of the adult. In his photographs, videos and installations, the artist employs the language of fable and fairy tale to narrate allegorical tales of family life. Animals, incidents of transformation, secret dens in the woods, steaming pots: these are some of... |
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| Susan Rothenberg
Susan Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York in 1945. She received a BFA from Cornell University.
Her early works that came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, were mainly large acrylic, figurative paintings of horses.
In these paintings, life-sized horse images, are diminished to their most essential elements and have a glyph-like quality. The horses, together... |
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| Toulouse-Lautrec
At the center of this exhibition is a rare collection of approximately 70 original works on paper by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, which the organizers have placed in the historical, social, artistic, and aesthetic context of the time (1800 to the beginning of the 20th century). Furthermore, there has been an effort to approximate the prevailing historical and artistic conditions of urban... |
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| Group Show: Gravity's Rainbow
Group show GRAVITY'S RAINBOW, its title taken from that of the famed postmodern Thomas Pynchon novel, includes several new works by the following artists:
ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS
Dan ATTOE
Amie DICKE
Kaye DONACHIE
Delia GONZALEZ and Gavin RUSSOM
Matt GREENE
John KLECKNER
Bruce LABRUCE
Paul LEE
Kirstine ROEPSTORFF
Matthew STONE
Mark TITCHNER
Opening Hours: Thursday -... |
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| Francesco Scavullo (1929 - 2004): Celebrity Portraits
The private Museum Herakleidon, Experience in Visual Arts in cooperation with the Francesco Scavullo Foundation and the Motion Picture Group www.scavulloeditions.com, will present from September 14th 2007, for the first time in Greece, one of America's greatest photographers and portraitists, Francesco Scavullo (1929 - 2004, New York). The exhibition will include 90 of his most famous... |
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| Loukia Alavanou wins The DESTE Prize 2007
The DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art is announcing that the winner of DESTE Prize 2007 is Loukia Alavanou.
The winner was decided by this year's Jury, consisting of Dakis Joannou - President, The Deste Foundation, Pawel Althamer - Artist, Laura Hoptman - Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Hans Ulrich Obrist - Co-Director Exhibitions & Programmes and Director of... |
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| GROUP SHOW at the Bernier/Eliades Gallery
Haluk Akakçe, Walead Beshty, Alan Charlton, Alberto Garcia-Alíx, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Mike Kelley, Bharti Kher, Moshekwa Langa, Nikos Navridis, Jim Shaw, Jeffrey Vallance, Monique van Genderen, Marnie Weber, Katerina Zacharopoulou
Haluk Akakçe (born 1970, Turkey) is a child of the digital revolution who works in a broad range of media, effortlessly moving from low-tech... |
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| 1st Athens Biennial 2007 Destroy Athens : Folkert de Jong
Dutch artist Folkert de Jong makes lifelike, figurative work often presented as sculptural installations in order to give shape to the darker, violent side of existence. His sculptures are made from the unconventional industrial insulation materials, Styrofoam and polyurethane foam, whose seductive colour palette and inherent toxicity are what he refers to as, ‘one big moral... |
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