FEATURED PROJECT
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ΟpenShowstudio at Frown Tails: The Vitrina Project / a co-operation with Frown Tails (www.frowntails.com), -which succeeds us at Agias Eleousis 14 space-, to continue the Vitrina Project at the glass door of the space.
Μια συνεργασία με την Frown Tails, που μας διαδέχεται στον χώρο της Αγίας Ελεούσης 14, για τη συνέχιση του Vitrina Project.
Vitrina Project, the oldest project of OpenShowstudio, has been on, nonstop, since June 2010. Prresented artworks are visible from the street and lighted 24hours per day, as an effort to introduce and incorporate contemporary art scene to urban everyday life in a simple and direct manner.
*the switch of works on the vitrina is NOT accompanied by an opening event
**works are to be watched from outside the space.
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bound: 1. A boundary, a limit. / 2.tied / 3. to leap forward or upward; spring(*http://www.thefreedictionary.com/bound)
Under the multiple readings of the title, “Bound” presents artists from the Balkan region.
Given that the issue of ever-reforming identities is constantly present in the region –where historical, racial, political, gender, artistic, ontological terms are at stake-, the exhibition explores the interrelationship of participants within this reality of continuous flux, their interaction with and their attitude towards it.
Artists from different starting points and backgrounds and looking towards different directions, each one with his/her own artistic language, negotiate issues of how to define and abolish limits, divisions and restrictions, in a direct and caustic manner.
Participants: Pravdoliub Ivanov/Bulgaria, Νemanja Nikolić/Serbia, Marko Tadić/Croatia, Ender Gelcec/Turkey, Stela Vula/Albania, Dušica Dražić&Sam Hopkins/ Serbia&Kenya, Jana Stojaković/Serbia, Filippos Gountzos/Greece-Albania, Vasilis Chatzopoulos/Greece, Fani Sofologi/Greece, Em Kei & Nicolaich/Greece
Co-curated by Nana Sachini, Maria Lianou, Sofia Touboura
Comes as participating project in Through the Roadblocks project of NeMe (www.neme.org)
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In the current financial situation, according to which culture tends to be institutionally treated as a needless luxury, OpenShowstudio held an Open Call inviting art students to respond through their work to this very question: Why art now; a question, which actually troubles the majority of creators in Greece and in Europe. The welcome to this call was warm and strong proposals came both from students in Greece and abroad.The selected participants are: Úlfur Karlsson (Iceland), Jean-Philippe Paumier (France), Martinka Bobrikova (Slovakia) and Oscar de Carmen (Spain), Kristian Zara (Albania / Greece), Vassiliki Spyrou, Dimitris Lambrou, Vassia Katsarela , Athena Pappa, Giorgos Tsakalis, Philippos Vassiliou, Joanna Gouzeli, Elias Polichroniadis, Anna Vassof, Vassiliki Sifostratoudaki. *
At the opening, Saturday 31th March, the presentations of their proposals will be accompanied by actions (performances) of emerging Greek artists. Kangaroo Court group, a collective, whose core consists of Ameladiotis Dimitirios, Simos Veis, Philippos Gkountzos, Elena Koukoli, Jordan Papadopoulos, Nana Sachini and Ioanna Stratoglou, will present an action of various expressive art forms which will interact and function as communicating vessels. In a joint project entitled “Deliver Your Virgins Or We Burn The City”, which refers to the spirit of the times, Stelios Karamanolis, Georgia Karidis and Tula Plumi are trying to approach the concepts of conflict and negotiation. By realizing combat tactics as a means of creating a shell to harden oneself, they create an ode to toughness.Vassilis Botoulas will negotiate the theme of the exhibition in an unorthodox way, in the documentary Why Art Now. People widely regarded as irrelevant to the matter, are being interviewed and offer their view on the subject. Maria Lianou will “vandalize” the outer wall of the studio drawing one of her signs- messages which are part of her work.
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A phantom limb: the sensation that an amputated or missing limb is still attached to the body and is moving appropriately with other body parts.
The Phantom Limb consists of a selection of works by Greek and Chilean artists. The exhibition is brought together at a time when in Greece the whole nation is protesting against the capitalistic reorganization of the country and in an almost exclusively privatized Chile people are out on the streets demanding free education and a real welfare state. We put forward the interaction of ten artists and one documentarian using these circumstances as a starting point of convergence.
In the epicenter of a polyphony of themes and mediums, are the artists and the solutions they turn to, caught between the dichotomy of their function as social beings and their own authorial practice.
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After an open call, 30 collectors of everyday indescribable snapshots join their caustically, sensitively, to the point, sharply, poetically shot documents, to create an archive of the unexpected, surrealistic, absurd side of the present.
The Collection: A fragmental archive, a chaotic mosaic of the invisible exciting everyday life. *it consists of more than 70 pictures and videos and will keep being updated after this first presentation.
participating :Panagiotis Voulgaris, Fani Sofologi , Panos Sklavenitis, Thanos Tsakonas, Konstantinos Georgiadis, Yiannis Sinioroglou, Eri Skyrgianni , Anargyros Drolapas, Venia Spala,Antonis Kioupliotis, Maria Lianou , Giorgos Alexandridis, Anna Dionysia Moustaki , Iwanna Triantafillou, Katerina Papazissi , Ultra Violet, Pavlos Tsakonas, Sofia Touboura, Ζ7, Caesar Vrettos, Anastasios Xiros, Victor Jaque, Alfredo Da Venezia, Carlos Silva, Jorge Catoni, Maria Christoforatou, Panagiotis Samsarelos , Nicolaich + The Race Behind the Hill- www.endoparasite.tumblr.com
Friday 4, Saturday 5, Sunday 6 of November, from 2pm to 11pm.
(www.openshowstudiocontemporarylife.tumblr.com)
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ANTIOXIDANTS
Openshowstudio participates in Platform Project @ Art-Athina (organization and coordination: Artemis Potamianou) with the triptych presentation ANTIOXIDANTS, recalling the primal importance of the artistic production for the mental health of the collective:
Lights on:
exhibition and free distribution of relevant poster
Praise the Benefactor:
symbolic exhibiting of works by the major sponsor of Open, who has, over the last three years, contributed to the lease and renovation of our old space in St. Eleousis 14, to the making of several successful projects that you can check on our site, to the presentation of numerous young artists, who continue their very interesting course,, or most acclaimed ones that honored us by participating and experimenting, in what we hope would be a refreshing way.
//Ladies and Gentlemen, my dad * / /
* Mr Michael Toubouras is a retired doctor / professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki / Thessaloniki and maniac micro sculptor.
Fetishism of the imported * and its side effects on the local art scene:
Mini speech of Sofia Touboura, artist/sociologist, within the frame of Platform Project Talks of Art Athina, Sunday 19/5 at 4:00 PM
(http://www.art-athina.gr/2013/parallel-programme/platform-project /)
* The phrase "fetishism of the imported" is not referring to the presentation of foreign artists in local showrooms. This presentation is very positive and essential to a scene of art that respects itself, and indeed OPEN has presented occasionally artists from different countries and different continents. The phrase is referring to the tendency of some art factors, to degrade the value of domestic artists, through their purchasing or exhibiting behavior.
Concept / Direction: Sofia Touboura
Assistant Editor: Maria Dialektaki
Booth P10
16 - 19 May 2013
Faliro Pavilion (TaeKwonDo) P.Faliro
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Εμείς που παντού την περιπέτεια αναζητούμε
Δεν είμαστε εχθροί σας.
Να σας χαρίσουμε θέλουμε απέραντες και παράξενες περιοχές
Που το μυστήριο σαν άνθος προσφέρεται
σε κείνον που θέλει να το δρέψει.
Υπάρχουν εκεί καινούργιες φωτιές,
ανέκδοτα χρώματα,
Χιλιάδες αβαρή φαντάσματα,
που πρέπει να τους δώσουμε υπόσταση
[...]
Τον οίκτο σας για μας
Που πολεμούμε πάντα στα
σύνορα
Του απεριόριστου και του μελλοντικού
La Jolie Rousse
Guilliaume Apollinaire
Public Issue #4: British Holiday/ local views
Tην Κυριακή 14 Απρίλη η Giucy Pirrotta θα προβάλει σε δημόσιους χώρους της γειτονιάς της, το Turnpike Lane του βορειοανατολικού Λονδίνου. slides των 35mm από προσωπικά και οικογενειακά αρχεία ανθρώπων που δε γνώρισε ποτέ. Τα slides είναι μέρος της προσωπικής συλλογής της από ευρεθέντα slides και εξοπλισμό που της αρέσει να μετατρέπει και να επαναχρησιμοποιεί.
Τα οικογενειακά και ταξιδιωτικά αρχεία συνήθως βλέπονται και υπάρχουν ιδιωτικά, προβαλλόμενα στο ιδιωτικό σαλόνι, στην οικιακή σφαίρα, ή απλά ξεχασμένα σε κάποιο ντουλάπι. Η Giucy Pirrotta θα εξετάσει με περιέργεια το πως αυτές οι εικόνες μπορούν να λειτουργήσουν μέσα σε ένα διαφορετικό πλαίσιο, αυτό της δημόσιας σφαίρας. Ονομάζει το πρότζεκτ κατά το όνομα που είχε το κουτί με τα slides, British Holiday: local views
*Το Openshowstudio συνεχίζει το νέο του project, Public Issues:
μια σειρά εικαστικών και όχι μόνο παρουσιάσεων, που αφορά στη δημόσια σφαίρα. Νέοι καλλιτέχνες αφήνουν το στίγμα-σχόλιό τους σε διάφορα σημεία του δημόσιου αστικού, ευρωπαϊκού, και όχι μόνο, χώρου. Το Openshowstudio αναλαμβάνει να συντονίζει, να καταγράφει, να επικοινωνεί και να αρχειοθετεί τις δράσεις τους
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We who look for adventure everywhere
We're not your enemies
We want to give you vast and strange domains
Where mystery in flower spreads out for those who would pluck it
There you may find new fires colors you have never seen before
A thousand imponderable phantasms
Still awaiting reality
[…]
Pity us who fight always at the boundaries
Of infinity and the future
La Jolie Rousse
Guilliaume Apollinaire
Public Issue #2:*
“the go go boots”
Theodora Malamou re-records everyday sights through her personal point of view, one that tends not only to lighten up some heavily charged snapshots, but even to cancel their unpleasant context, turning them in a way into an imaginary musical scene.
A series of riot police figures in special action is presented in poster format around the area of Psirri up to Monastiraki. The posters will be hanged on the neighborhood walls on Thursday 21st March, and will remain visible until they get covered or destroyed by other public wall users and weather conditions.
* The Openshowstudio continues its new project, Public Issues:
a new series of visual, or other, presentations concerning the public sphere. Young, or other, artists leave their comment-stigma in different parts of the urban, or other, public space. Openshowstudio is responsible for the coordination, documentation, communication and archiving their actions.
** More info at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . After the realization of each project, you will be receiving documentation.
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We who look for adventure everywhere
We're not your enemies
We want to give you vast and strange domains
Where mystery in flower spreads out for those who would pluck it
There you may find new fires colors you have never seen before
A thousand imponderable phantasms
Still awaiting reality
[…]
Pity us who fight always at the boundaries
Of infinity and the future
La Jolie Rousse
Guilliaume Apollinaire
Public Issue #1:*
New Moon
Pavlos Tsakonas, on February 10, on the new moon, cleans a feeble wall somewhere in Kypleli area, central Athens. He does it the traditional way, using lime, which is killing the germs as well, and afterwards he decorates, in order for it to be, other than clean, very beautiful as well.
(a symbolic gesture of purification and redefinition, on a day of the lunar month, interculturally and traditionally considered to be the most appropriate for detachment from the past and new beginnings)
* The Openshowstudio announces its new project, Public Issues: a new series of visual, and more, presentations concerning the public sphere. Young, or not, artists leave their comment-stigma in different parts of the urban, or other, public space. Openshowstudio is responsible for the coordination, documentation, communication and archiving their actions.
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