ART NEWS
With a very interesting group exhibition of sculpture, drawing and painting, Gallery Bernier / Eliades opens the art season, well known and remarkable artists through major projects, meet and cross their paths, others with common references such as Arte Povera and Land Art, and others using corresponding materials as a transformation of the above historical movements. Giovanni Anselmo, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Wim Delvoye, Yiannis Kounellis, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Franz West και Gilberto Zorio. Gallery Bernier/Eliades, 11 Eptachalkou Str.,Athens, Duration:2/10-13/11/14 Days & Hours:Tue-Fri:10:30-18:30, Sat:12:00-16:00, http://bernier-eliades.gr
Maria Loizidou is one of the most important artists of her generation with weighty work, where for many years’ grapples with the human figure and her psychosynthesis, sometimes partitioning it and sometimes recomposing it. Loizidou experiments by bringing into a dialogue the history of the Kalfayan family, which consists of three generations of art dealers, and the animated disorder that prevails in her studio in Nicosia, to a part of Athens that is in upheaval. This reflects, for her, “the philosophical question, ‘Why should something occur and not nothing?’” The re-appropriation of an entire series of media, themes and techniques that the artist employs in her work, channels and introduces a new perception of reality. Kalfayan Galleries, 11 Haritos Str., Kolonaki,Athens,Duration:7/10-15/11/14,Days&Time: Mon:10:00-15:00, Tue-Fri:10:00-20:00, Sat:11:00-15:00, www.kalfayangalleries.com
Jannis Psychopedis for the last 15 years-by pure chance- spents the month of August next to the house Byron inhabited in August of 1823, when Lord Byron arrived for the first time in Kefalonia in order to support the liberation movement and settled in the village of Metaxata. Gazing always over the same landscape –which altered imperceptibly through the years- the artist created each August a series of painted images, simple and direct. In the occasion for the 190 year anniversary of the death of Lord Byron this series of artwork is exhibited at the Benaki Museum, 1 Koumbari Str., Athens, Duration:17/9-25/10/14, Days & Hours:Wed,Fri:09:00–17:00,Thu,Sat: 09:00-24:00, Sun: 09:00-15:00, www.benaki.gr/index.asp?lang=en
Celeste Polychroniadi Helen Zervas, Nausicaa Pastras, Soso Choutopoulou-Kontaratou Alex Mylonas, Joanna Spiteri-Veropoulou, Chryssa Romanos Bia Davos, Niki Kanagini, Aspa Stasinopoulou, Silia Daskopoulou Rena Papaspyrou Maria Karavela, Vasso Kiriaki, Opy Zouni, Diohandi and Leda Papaconstantinou, these are the women that played the most important role in the Avant Garde of the Greek Art Scene, with their dynamic personalities and art works. In the critical period for the Greek Art between 1960-1980, when the meaning of the art movements like: modern art, avant garde, innovation, were the center of their concept and their materials, which were more different from the past, presenting pioneering artworks. This is the start for the Art Historian Charis Canellopoulos, who is the curator of the exhibition, that selects and presents the specific artworks that made the historical turning point. Contemporary Greek Art Institute-iset, 9α Valaoritou Str.,Athens,Duration:16/10/14-10/1/15, Days & Hours:Tue-Fri:10:00-17:00, Sat:10:00-15:00, www.iset.gr
Once again polyester resin is the dominant media it the artworks of Leonidas Papadopoulos. Female figures carry his sculptural hearts as a continuation of previous Cycladic forms and they are transformed into modern caryatids, where instead to keep the temple in their head, carry the heart as backpack on their back, while the hand of justice comes back again as pattern showing four children in black and white. Eleftheria Tseliou Gallery, 3 Hrakleitou Str.,Athens, Duration: 2/10-8/11/14, Days & Hours:Tue-Fri: 11:30-20:00,Sat:11:00-15:00, www.tseliougallery.com
Maria Bachas (awarded with the State Prize of illustration 2000, Prizes of Greek cycle ofChildren’s Book) in her 4th solo exhibition entitled “Let This World Remain”, represents in a series of acrylics and watercolors the everyday life violating artistic her secrets. Gallery 7, 20 Solonos Str., Athens, Duration: 7-31/10/14, Days&Hours:Tue-Thu-Fri:11:00 -14:00 & 18:00-21:00, Wed,Sat: 11:00-15:00, www.gallery7.gr
“Art in Progress”, is the title of the group show where three artists: Apostolos Delakos, Nikos Sepeztoglou and Petros Toulidis, coexist and interact using different art media and materials, with common starting point and concept the influence of the new media, the collection and the redefinition of information through the art expression.Zina Athanassiadou Gallery, 5 P. P. Germanou Str., Thessaloniki, Duration: 3-25/10/14, Days&Hours:Mon,Wed,Sat:10:30-14:00,Thu,The,Fri:10:30-14:00&17:30-21:00, www.zinaathanassiadou.com
The artistic process in the work of Ioanna Kazaki follows a research path of shapes and forms with an almost ideogramic status. The persistence of the artist to the the horizontal arrangement of the background (Oilpastel on paper) with painting impressions with with engraved interventions, combines painting, engraving and writing. Her painting narrate the speech and the forms of shapes, delivered through an almost poetic fragmentation of pictorialdiscourse.
TSATSIS PROJECTS/ARTFORUM,113 Tsimiski Str., Thessaloniki,Duration:6-30/10/14, Days& Hours: Tue-Fri: 11:00-21:00, Sat: 11:00-15:00, http://artforum.gr