ART, SPACE AND FORM
Artists and their works.
Sculptures, installations, photographs and moving images bring contemporary artistic practice into dialogue with architecture.
Angelos Antonopoulos
Affinities
The architectural shell becomes a vehicle for personal narrative and collective history. Constructions and installations explore decay, collapse, otherness and coexistence.
Mixed-media works
Jimmy Chitas
Time Columns
Seven transparent columns contain ash from seven fire-stricken areas of Greece. The installation approaches absence, time and ecological destruction through the material traces of fire.
7 Plexiglas columns · height 203 cm, diameter 8 cm · base 200 × 200 × 15 cm
Nikos Kampianakis
Where the Cretan land meets the skies
In the high mountains of Crete, wind, snow and rain carve stones and trees. The landscape’s forms emerge through an ongoing process of destruction and renewal.
Photographic work · White Mountains, Anopoli Sfakion
Zissis Kotionis
The ecstatic mountain
A triangular multimedia installation sits between mountain, tent and open book. Sound documents and material traces from Mount Pelion create an experience of temporary dwelling and multisensory reading of the landscape.
Multimedia installation · 5 × 5 × 3 m · Collaborator: Achilleas Agravanis
Manousos Manousakis
Fragments of Deconstruction
Eighteen ink drawings acquire depth and movement through digital media. The exhibition presents the video sequence focused on the urban landscape, where architecture merges with flesh and plant matter.
Video · 3′56″
Michalis Manousakis
In the homes of the Greeks of Asia Minor
Everyday objects, plant stands and carpets become traces of an inhabited world that survives in memory. The work approaches the home through loss and displacement.
Mixed-media work
Maria Schina
Weaves
Tensioned threads, densities and successive layers turn weaving into a spatial experience. The compositions change with the viewer’s position and gaze.
Wood, nails, thread, plexiglass
Marios Spiliopoulos
The construction of a nation
A small house, a disproportionately large flagpole and simple materials question how homeland, collective memory and belonging are constructed.
Mixed-media works
Panagiotis Tanimanidis
Architecture of the nation, on the longlines of mourning
Mixed-media works explore fear, loss and memory. The titles and the artist’s accompanying poetic text connect personal images with violence and mourning.
Mixed-media works
Kostis Velonis
Assembly of a Tenement (polykatoikia)
Assembling a sculpture meets the gathering of a building’s residents. Made from concrete and wood, the work explores the relationship between the private apartment and shared space.
Concrete, wood · 184.2 × 132.1 × 204.5 cm
Vana Xenou
ELEUSIS II
The installation connects mythological space, the earth and architecture. Twenty-six bronze sculptures on metal tables explore the common ground between visual art and architecture.
Sculptural installation, 2007–2008 · 26 bronze sculptures · 1260 × 120 × 60 cm
