Artist and km resident katerina kana, is creating an online real time visual diary of what is happening in the neighborhood during Remap 2. This project will lead to a special publication, designed by the artist and produced by Remap KM.
Wednesday September 23rd
OPEN AIR PROJECTIONS AT THE SCREENING ROOM, IASSONOS 8
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Thursday September 17th
ARTIST STELIOS FAITAKIS AT THE BREEDER GALLERY
...to a blessed land of new promise
Stelios Faitakis
17.09.09 - 17.10.09
Preview Thursday 17 September 2009, from 8pm to 10 pm
Opening Hours: Tuesday - Friday 12.00-8pm, Saturday 12.00-5.00pm
The Breeder is pleased to announce the second solo show of artist Stelios Faitakis, opening on Thursday September 17th, 2009.
The work of Stelios Faitakis negotiates diverse styles and traditions, combining street art culture with Byzantine iconography, Cretan folk art, Mexican Muralism and Japanese art. Eastern traditions intermingle with Western culture in a unique artistic vision, where scenes from everyday life can be viewed through a plethora of metaphors and symbols. The invocation of religious conventions through the depiction of halos and extensive use of gold elevates his earthly figures to a divine status and moreover invests the scenes with a sense of eternality.
The dystopian future described in a series of surreal images evidences a political and social critique at work in Stelios Faitakis’s oeuvre. Man’s relationships with both his surroundings and his inner self are explored in a complex array of everyday scenes and exaggerations that at times conflate to depict extreme or even impossible situations. The works divulge a chaotic reference system at play, within which even the most apparently incongruous elements conspire to exist in a coherent ‘reality’.
Stelios Faitakis graduated from The Fine Arts School of Athens and now lives and works in Athens. In 2008 his first solo show was held at The Breeder. In 2007 he participated in the first Athens Biennial, “Destroy Athens”, curated by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Augustine Zenakos and Poka-Yio with the large-scale mural, “Socrates drinks the conium”, which received great attention. He has also participated in group shows such as “Anathena” (2006) at the DESTE foundation, curated by Marina Fokidi and Marina Gioti, and the “What remains is future” (2006) in Patra curated by Nadja Argyropoulou. Works by Stelios Faitakis have been recently presented in the show “Borderline Pleasure”, curated by Lukas and Sebastian Baden at the Galerie Michael Janssen in Berlin.
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Sunday September 06th
WWF GREECE/ ARTIST DANAE KOTSI
on sunday morning i had coffee at the swimming pool, top floor of the big hotel on karaiskaki square. At noon , i got a message that artist Danae Kotsi and wwf/greece were installing work at 36 Leonidou street.
entittled 'apple of my life:' wishful doodles' consists of an installation of huge prints on pannels, creating a landscape collage.
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