Saturday September 26th
last night opening at the breeder gallery artist Kalup Linzy
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Saturday September 26th
Alexandra Merkouri, Natasha Papadopoulou and Dimitris Andreadis at Kalup Linzy performance.
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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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Thursday September 03rd
Also, a preview at the Breeder gallery showing a unique display of drawings, photos andcollages
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