Hunters: Feathers in the Wind
Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos
Cube Gallery is hosting Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos’ first solo exhibition entitled Hunters: Feathers in the Wind, in which different kinds of contemporary art such as painting, sculpture, video art and mixed media artworks coexist composing a large scale visual installation in the space.
Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos has participated in a number of group art projects and exhibitions in Greece and abroad. His recent participation was in the art project No – Ah – Fence, in the International Exhibition Art Athina 2018, for Cube Gallery.
This time, he returns with his first solo exhibition, at Cube Gallery, under the art platform Fresh Art.
Fresh Art, an art platform of Cube Gallery having started its action in the summer of 2012, aims to present selectively interesting works by young artists who are now starting to take action as professional artists.
Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos presents himself and his art working across video, sculpture and painting, creating large-scale installations which comment on the effects of Human nature and Identity.
The Hunters: Feathers in the Wind is a new work comprising two connected, yet distinct spaces, which draw on wide-ranging references, from Artists like Benedict Drew’s multimedia installations to the Figurine landscapes of Antony Gormley, continuing the artist’s exploration into materiality and identity, where the physical and digital meet.
Through experimental compositions, large-scale paintings, a sculpture installation and an accompanying visual poem, these works come together to take visitors on an emotional and sensory journey through the exhibition.
The title refers to a poem written by the Artist which describes an abstract notion of someone’s identity. Panagiotopoulos depicts this idea by using hand-drawn motifs, sculptures and video installations.
General Info:
Opening: Thursday, the 21st of February 2019, 20.00 – 22.30
Duration: 21 February – 16 March 2019
Opening hours:
Monday Wednesday Saturday: 10:00-14:00
Tuesday, Thursday Friday: 10:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00
Sunday: Closed
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli str. 26222 Patras
Tel: +30 2611110069
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Vasiliki Kaspiris
MeetMe …
But, my dear, this is not Wonderland and you are not Alice
Cube Gallery organizes the new art project by Vasiliki Kaspiris, entitled MeetMe … But, my dear, this is not Wonderland and you are not Alice, which is going to take place at Michanourgio, curated by Liana Zoza.
Liana Zoza, curator of the art project, states: “Vasiliki Kaspiris, up to this day, has created art pieces a lot of times, using for elements the ‘’mask’’ or the ‘’mirror’, ’but also in the form of art objects. Born in a city like Patras, where Carnival is part of the lives of the city’s habitants, her attraction to display symbols and ideas through her creations, might seem logical, considering them things she has experienced for lots of years. Her particularity though, the dipole ‘’mask-mirror’’ lies in the fact that for her, these two have the same object: ’’the one that is revealed, and the one that is hiding’’.
Through her art installation “MeetΜe …” , she takes a new step in her journey, having within her ‘’supplies’’, her continuous contact with the sets of theatre, which she knows so well that she decides to create a magic forest, where the viewer is called to coexist and communicate with ‘’faces’’ he is about to meet, wandering there.
Masks and mirrors are swinging in the space, in an unreal atmosphere, which is intensified by the special lights, curated by the director Gerasimos Ntavaris, and they wait for the visitor to reach out his hand and pick one of them, wear it in his face, and instantly play the game of transformation and discovery. Because in Vasiliki Kaspiris’ magic forest, as in real life, everything happens in a moment and for a moment. Using the words of Konstantza Maniatopoulou – which was the co-director of the sonic environment among with Gavriil Kamaris:
“… She has left the human conversations downstairs and then she ascended. In front of her lied a room, full of hanging masks and mirrors. Her sight fell onto a mask. She examined it closely, and realized that on the mask it was written with nice letters: Meet me. Meet me! “I’m going to meet you!” Alice whispered to herself, ‘’and if this is going to make me spiritually grow up, then may I will reach the key of self-knowledge. And if it is going to make me spiritually shorten, then maybe I will be able to crawl in the happiness of little things…”.
Liana Zoza adds “ … But, my dear, this is not Wonderland and you are not Alice’’, not to demystify the invitation of meeting and co-existing, but, in contrast, to empower it, in relation to the fictional story of Alice, which follows almost all of us that read it and are in search of the Wonderland. Maybe, though, we don’t need to look any further than our inner selves, or than what lies opposing us, as Alice’s wander was nothing more than the discovery of life through the surprised eyes of a girl full of curiousness, who struggled to decide if she wants to grow up, or remain forever a child? And wonders…”Do we really grow up by ourselves? And by growing up we lose something?” And she is not afraid to begin anymore. She finds out that growing up is like saying “goodbye”. But, as well as listening to a “goodbye” that is being told to you. So, MeetMe … my dear!
Short Bio:
Artist Vasiliki Kaspiris was born in Patras, where she is living and working. In her work, which is mainly sculptures and art creations, she chooses to use natural material, such as clay, paper, aluminium, gold and silver, and she uses to apply techniques that she has been taught, but some of them are not used anymore. Simultaneously with her art, she works as a stage designer in theatre, but also in the field of decoration. If she was asked to describe what art means for her, she wouldn’t hesitate to answer that “art is a forgotten and ancient language, which connects us with our universes’ history”.
Photos MeetMe … : Christina Spiliotopoulou
General Info:
Opening: Tuesday, 26/02/2019, 20:00 – 10:30
Duration: 26/02/2019 – 23/03/2019
Exhibition opening hours:
Monday – Sunday 18:00 – 21:00
Cube Gallery
Address: Miaouli 39, 26222 Patras
Tel.: 2611110069
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
l … as love
Gefso Papadaki
Cube Gallery, inaugurates its collaboration with the artist Gefso Papadaki and hosts her solo exhibition entitled “l … as love”.
It is her second exhibition which is related to love, and the fourth in which the paintings are inspired by Greek poet’s lyrics, and it also constitutes the sequel of “Love Syllables”.
Art historian, Iris Kritikou, in a quote from her text “In the shade of poetry”, concerning the exhibition “Love Syllables”, wrote: “Gefso Papadaki is a “mighty reader”. Starting with her favourite poems and assisted by their internal reason, she paints without simply looking, but instead she perceives their soft vitals. Her paintings leaving behind the explanatory narration, calls the spectator to look within them”.
Yes my beloved
Long before I met you
I was waiting for you
…………
And when we met for the first time-do you remember?
You spread your hands with tenderness,
Like you knew me for years
But of course you knew me.
Because before you enter my life,
You had lived in my dreams my beloved.
(Long before I met you, I was waiting for you – Tasos Leivaditis)
The lyrics taken by the poem of Tasos Leivaditis, “Afto to asteri einai gia olous mas (This star is for all of us)”, are not the only ones the spectator meets, in this interesting conversation between poetry and visual art creation in the exhibition “L…as love”. The images that are created are sensitive and magical, and how could they be different, when love works as a motive for the artist. It’s the love who revives, who gives you wings. The love which is the spark that becomes fire. Love which brings life in the world and love that cures. And who could imagine life without love!
In Gefso’s Papadaki works, love stories come and go, but in all of them love appears as a source of life, a life-giving eros that becomes love and affection, a love that isn’t completed and a love that disappears. Love … spelled or wordless, imaginable or alive, between the lyrics of Maria Polidouri, K.P.Kavafis, Giannis Ritsos, Tasos Leivaditis, Titos Patrikios and Maria Laina, becomes a game about love, which moves in circles. The limits between eros and love are hard to define and the reason is no other than the insignificance of their delimitation in this journey! And the journey of eros and love continues…
I wonder how desire
originates from nothing?
How desire become eros,
And how eros changes
into a distant memory?
I wonder how can a memory
die out into nothing?
(Kikliko, Titos Patrikios)
Gefso Papadaki
Born in Istanbul, Gefso Papadaki, graduated from Vakalo Art and Design College and she did further studies in Fine Arts, focusing on Drawing, Colour, Byzantine Icon Painting, Material Technology, History of Art and Sculpture Molds. She is a member of the Greek Chamber of Arts. She has worked on murals, stage paintings, book covers and has been teaching Art classes to primary school children. She has also been involved in arts creative activities for children with disabilities.
She is a columnist for the Kinsterna journal of Literature and Art and has published two painting related books. Her works are found in the collection of the Beijing National Gallery, in the collection of the Olympic Fine Arts 2008, in Beijing. Moreover in Moschandreou collection,in Hadjioannou collection, and other private collections in Greece, U.S.A, Belgium, France, Austria and Luxemburg.
She has participated in more than 100 exhibitions in Greece, Belgium, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Turkey, France, as well as in the 23rd Art Fair, “Artist 2013” in Istanbul,
In 2008 she was among the artists that represented Greece in the 3rd,Beijing Biennale.
Gefso’s latest work is inspired by the lyrics of great Greek poets.
Info
Opening: Thursday, the 21st of March 2019, 20.00 – 10.30
Exhibition Duration: 21 March – 13 April 2019
Opening hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Wednesday Saturday 10.00 – 14.00
Sunday & Monday closed
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli str. Patra, Greece
Tel: 2611110069
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
flux
Christos Koutsoukis
18 April – 25 May 2019
KROMA / Christos Koutsoukis / flux / The couple, 100 x 70 cm, Oil on canvas
Cube Gallery, hosts the new work of the artist Christos Koutsoukis in his solo exhibition entitled“flux”. This is his third solo show, with paintings, hosted in Cube, afterwards his two solo shows“Moments”, 2012 and “Let’s play”, 2016.
Christos Koutsoukis writes about “flux”:“In modern countries, with large populations of many millions of people clustered and packed in cities, urban landscape – while it expands to serve capitalist needs, at the same time reveals a strong feature of an uninterrupted movement of people, creating pictures with special visual interest.
KROMA / Christos Koutsoukis / flux / The bus stop, 80 x 70 cm, Oil on canvas
Human figures, with different starting points, cross the same point at the same time, creating an unceasing flow. This perpetual flow as an image, emphasizing on details, is a source of inspiration for these paintings. Through this intense urban centralization, we observe human forms that convey to us the sense of today’s urban reality, and the fatalities of what is happening in it, such as intense movement, anxiety, loneliness or even isolation. These images, either as personal capture of the mobile camera or as a research product from the internet, constitute a point of reference for the painting compositions of this section, called “flux”.
KROMA / Christos Koutsoukis / flux
This approach attempts to highlight the lack of communication between people in large urban centres, despite the fact that all of this often happens a stone’s throw from each other.
Is it an involuntary alienation or a conscious choice? It is definitely a response to the modern communication model that has been adopted and imposed upon us within this explosive economic growth, particularly that of the large economies of the rich countries. ”
KROMA / Christos Koutsoukis / flux / Flux III, 100 x 140 cm, Oil on canvas
Opening: Thursday, the 18thof April 2019, 20.00 – 10.30
Exhibition Duration: 18 April – 25 May 2019
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli str. Patra, Greece
Tel: 2611110069
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Opening hours:
Tuesday Thursday Friday 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Wednesday Saturday 10.00 – 14.00
Sunday Monday closed
Christos Koutsoukis / flux / Calm, 100 x 150 cm, Oil on canvas
Christos Koutsoukis
Christos Koutsoukis studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts. He has presented eight solo shows and has participated in many group exhibitions and art projects in Greece and abroad. He lives and works in Brussels.
Solo Shows
2019 “Flux”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2016 “Let’s play”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2012 “Moments”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2010 “Wanderings”, William James Gallery, Athens, Greece
2009 “The figure and the city”, Tzamaros Gallery, Patras, Greece
2005 “Personal Space”, Zervas Gallery, Patras, Greece
2002 “Figures in Shapes”, Barry Center of Arts, Patras, Greece
1993 “Lanscapes”, Arta, Greece
Group Shows
2018 “On the road”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
“No-Ah-Fence”, Art Athina 2018, Cube Gallery, Athens Concervatoire
2017 “Of Love and Other Demons”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
“Sequential Shift – Flux”, CliqueArt, Brussels
“Saturdays without a tale”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2016 “Memories”, Visual Artists Association of Patras, Agora Argyri Patras Greece
“Art Fare”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2014 “Art Sharing”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
“Honour to our teacher”, Agora Argyri, International Festival of Patras Greece
“Blue Stories”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2013 “Art Sharing”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2012 “Art Sharing”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
“Visual Artists Association of Patras” Ancient Municipal Baths, Patras, Greece
“Art & Technology” Visual Artists Association of Patras, Museum of Technology University of Patras
2011 “The Garden with the Illusions”, Cube Gallery, Patras, Greece
2006 “Artists of Patras” Ideal Arts Multi Space, Patras, Greece
2006 “3rd International Symposium of Painting” Vesomare, Patras, Greece
2000 “Man the Inner Space” Zervas Gallery, Rio Patras, Greece
1996 “Athens School of Fine Arts Graduates” Municipal Gallery of Alexandroupolis
“Graduates ‘95” Athens School of Fine Arts National Gallery of Athens
1995 “5 Graduates of Athens School of Fine Arts” Youth Center Diavlos Volos
1986 “Young Artists of Patras” Hotel Astir Patras 1st Prize
1985 “Young Artists of Patras” Municipal Gallery of Patras
Within
Brendan Kelly
Cube Gallery, hosts the new work of the artist Brendan Kelly, in his solo exhibition entitled “Within”. The exhibition includes paintings which are in a special interest because they had created by an Irish artist, with an important career in the contemporary art, who have inspired from beauty and harmony, as one can only meet them in Greek art.
Brendan Kelly writes about “Within”: “Painting is an act of faith; a belief that a brushstroke or a colour applied will inevitably lead to the following mark. The act of creation is a continuous dialogue between reason and emotion, between planning and spontaneity, order and controlled chaos.
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My recent paintings are inspired by Mediterranean culture, in particular classical Greek concepts of beauty and harmony. In all works of art there is an underlying structure based on geometrical systems and hidden codes. The existence of this hidden language fascinates me; it is a language of signs, ciphers and formulae, a language passed down from master to apprentice. One sees it in buildings such as the Parthenon, whose façade corresponds to the famous ‘golden section’, and in marks left by master masons in great stone constructions.
My exhibition comprises three series of paintings, each varying in scale; one series inspired by the human form, another by the geometry and ‘hidden’ codes intrinsic to all built structures, and a final series where I use a more poetic and expressive approach to the concept of ‘layering’, a metaphor for time.
The exhibition is entitled “Within”, inviting the viewer to consider more than just the surface of the works, to always look beyond and delight in the unexpected.”.
Brendan Kelly
Opening: Friday, 31/05/2019, at 20:00 p.m.
Duration: 31/05/2019-29/06/2019
Exhibition Opening hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Wednesday, Saturday 10.00 – 14.00
Sunday, Monday closed
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli street. 26222, Patras, Greece
Tel: 2611110069
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Tender is the Night
Art Project
“Tender is the Night” by Bleeps, 51 x 36,5 cm, Mixed Media on paper
The summer 2019 epilogue for Cube Gallery is the project Tender is the Night. The title of the art project is borrowed from the darkest, but at the same time the most real of Francis Scott Fitzgerald’s novels, as it includes a lot of autobiographic details, with an alcoholic hero like the writer and a female character with mental issues, like his wife Zelda.
Αλέξανδρος Μαγκανιώτης
Many interesting elements are found in the writing, in the concept but also in the author’s stimulus. At some point of the book we read: Strange children should smile at each other and say, “Let’s play.”, a phrase which gives us the style and the mental state of its creator. It’s not, also a random fact, that the title comes from a poem of John Keats “Ode to A Nightingale”, as for Fitzgerald, Keats was not only his inspiration, but he used to write his novels with the copy of Keats by his side.
Βασιλική Πανταζή
Among others, we can see that history ends up describing a whole generation, the lost generation of the Interwar period, through the glamorous pair of its protagonists. A story that is tender but at the same time tough, a world of a pernicious prosperity and a looted idealism. Ernest Hemingway closes the description of Tender Is the Night, with the phrase “The writing of Fitzgerald is so natural, just like the shape that is left on the dust by the wings of a butterfly”.”
Βασίλης Καρακατσάνης
Participating artists: Bleeps, Brendan Kelly, Nikos Vatopoulos, Anna Karatza, Vassilis Karakatsanis, Nikos Kryonidis, Sofia Kyriakou, Despina Konstantinou, Andreas Lyberatos, Alexandros Maganiotis, Eleanna Martinou, Ismini Bonatsou, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Vassiliki Pantazi, Gefso Papadaki, Xenofon Papaefthimiou, Sophia Paraskevopoulou, Constantinos Patsis, Voula Ferentinou.
Νίκος Βατόπουλος
Liana Zoza, the curator of the project Tender is the Night, writes:“Tender is the Night, is the swan song of Fitzgerald, who although, is considered one of the biggest writers of the 20th century and one of the most important representative of the American “Lost Generation”(term that is given to Gertrude Stein) with fellow travelers, like Ernest Hemingway, his novels can be count on the fingers of one hand. The man who declared: ”Show me a hero and I’ll write you a tragedy”, he only show published four of his novels before he suddenly died at the age of 44 from cardiac arrest.
Βούλα Φερεντίνου
Opening: Friday 5 July 2019, 20.00
Duration: 5 July– 7 September 2019
Exhibition Opening hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Wednesday, Saturday 10.00 – 14.00
Sunday, Monday closed
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli street. 26222, Patras, Greece
Tel: 2611110069
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Once Upon a Time
“We share the art”
“We share the art …” and support the
At Cube Gallery we love to “share the art …” every December but also throughout the year, because “sharing is caring”. Therefore, this year’s art project “Once Upon a Time”, on which the special collaborators of the gallery created their artworks, offers the chance to acquire a unique piece of art at a fair price and in addition to supporting children in need, as part of the proceeds will go to SOS Children’s Villages.
Driven by the principle that art is not a luxury but a commodity, we introduced the art platform “we share the art …” 8 years ago, with the aim of communicating contemporary art to the general public through actions and projects. At this year’s art project “Once Upon a Time” Cube‘s new and former artists meet, consciously believing that art is addressed to everyone, and consider equally important both the acquaintance with art and the acquisition of a work of art by everyone.
The outcome of this gathering is original works (painting, photography, art objects) at a fair price. The exhibits will be available for immediate purchase and will be renewed, if necessary, throughout the project.
The idea of the title, as well as the concept sprang to Liana Zoza’s mind, the curator of the project, from the desire to present visual stories either inspired by existing ones in our well-known fairy tales, or by a personal story of every artist involved! After all, as Yiannis Tsarouchis used to say:” It is only through fairy tales that people are conquered. “.
Participating artists: Bleeps, Felipe Chavez, Harshit Joshi, Brendan Kelly, Ilias Aidonidis, Nikos Vatopoulos, Vassilis Zozas, Vassilis Karakatsanis, Anna Karatza, Sofia Kyriakou, Despina Konstantinou, Fanis Logothetis, Andreas Lyberatos, Alexandros Maganiotis, Eleanna Martinou, Elli Barbagianni, Ismini Bonatsou, Tita Bonatsou, Andreas Nicolaou, Alexia Xafopoulou, Aristea Panagiotakopoulou, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Vassiliki Pantazi, Gefso Papadaki, Xenofon Papaefthimiou, Yorgos Papakarmezis, Sophia Paraskevopoulou, Georgia Paraschi, Constantinos Patsis, Spiridoula Politi, Voula – Paraskevi Ferentinou.
At the same time this year as well, during the festive season, Cube Gallery will host the original creations – art jewelry, exclusively designed for Cube Gallery by Betty Vakali, Irini Kanellopoulou and Eva Papastathi – selected Art and Design Objects by Betty Vakali, Marigo Kassi, Vassiliki Kaspiris and Vasia Patiniotou and the art diary 2020 “The Other Wind” with the Christos Kechagioglou’s paintings, to offer with your precious wishes.
General Info
Opening: Friday, 13 December 2019, at 20:00
Duration: 13 December 2019 – 11 January 2020
Operating hours: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday: 10:00-14:00 & 18:00-21:00
Wednesday & Satuday: 10:00-14:00
Monday & Sunday: Closed
Festive Opening Hours 2019 – 2020
Saturday 14.12, 10.00 – 15.00
Sunday 15.12, 11.00 – 15.00
Monday 16.12, 10.00 – 14.00
Tuesday 17.12, 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Wednesday 18.12, 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Thursday 19.12, 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Friday 20.12, 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Saturday 21.12, 10.00 – 15.00
Sunday 22.12, 11.00 – 15.00
Monday 23.12, 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 20.00
Tuesday 24.12, 10.00 – 15.00
Wednesday 25.12 & Thursday 26.12 κλειστά
Friday 27.12, 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Saturday 28.12, 10.00 – 15.00
Sunday 29.12, 11.00 – 15.00
Monday 30.12, 10.00 – 15.00
Tuesday 31.12, 10.00 – 15.00
Wednesday 1.1 & Thursday 2.1 κλειστά
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli str., 26222 Patras
Tel: 00302611110069 / 00306945399754
Email: lianazoza@cubegallery.gr
Website:www.cubegallery.gr
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Man on the Moon
art project
Leonidas Vassilopoulos / Man on the Moon at Cube Gallery
At Cube Gallery, we believe in nice collaborations, and this is the reason that the first exhibition of this year will be the art project Man on the Moon, in collaboration with The Project Gallery, curated by Alexandros Maganiotis and Yannis Bolis.
The project Man on the Moon that was presented at The Project Gallery (Athens) last summer, had also been of an anniversary character, coinciding with the 50 years since man first stepped on the moon, will be hosted in a new version at Cube Gallery this year, choosing by this way to continue this journey to the moon.
Fanis Logothetis Man on the Moon at Cube Gallery
Man in the Moon, through the works of the participating artists, attempts to focus and highlight, in an original, inventive and imaginative way, the relation of man to the moon, which has claimed an important place in mythology and religion, traditions and doctrines, art, literature and the imagination of all cultures over time: from the imaginary travels of Lucian, Julius Verne and Georges Melies to his eventual conquest in 1969, and from pagan and magical rituals to the directly associated with it, notions of melancholy and mysticism, romance and sensitivity. The Moon, with its phases, eclipses and different facets, is always there, a bright reminder and an imaginary border of an immeasurable and uncharted Universe, a powerful symbol and source of inspiration, a charming reflection of the emotional and psychological. The artworks presented in the exhibition give their own version of the moon with a multitude of references, approaches and illustrations, composing a unified and aesthetic visual environment.
Participating artists: Bleeps, Giorgos Alexandridis, Leonidas Vassilopoulos, Spyros Verykios, Nikos Giavropoulos, Antigoni Kavvatha, Jordan Kalimerakis, Nikos Lagos, Loula Leventi, Fanis Logothetis, Alexandros Maganiotis, Eleanna Martinou, Nikolaos Panagiotopoulos, Vassiliki Pantazi, Vivi Papadimitriou, Nikos Papadimitriou, Antonis Papadopoulos, Dionysis Pappas, Constantinos Patsis, Konstantinos Patsios, Kostas Tsolis, Voula Ferentinou, Marios Fournaris.
Exhibition duration: 17 January – 8 February 2020
Konstantinos Patsios / Man on the Moon at Cube Gallery
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Opening: Friday, 17 January 2020, 20.00 – 22.30
Cube Gallery, 39, Miaouli str., Patras, Greece
In collaboration with
The Project Gallery
Curators:
Alexandros Maganiotis and
Yannis Bolis
Opening Hours: Wednesday Saturday 10.00 – 14.00
Tuesday Friday 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Monday Sunday closed
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About The Project Gallery
The Project Gallery is an innovative art space located in Athens at Monastiraki area, at 3 Normanou Street. We organize and host thematic group exhibitions of contemporary Greek and international artists, as well as other art related events, like talks, open discussions, live acts and performances.
We aim to be part of the cultural life of Athens, discover and present the local visual art scene, while through international collaborations and cultural exchanges to create bridges between Greece and abroad for the promotion and diffusion of Greek art globally.
Our creative team brings together and generates young architects, graphic designers, curators and art historians who are involved in the visual arts field, embracing contemporary art. We focus on emerging, original, high quality and alternative artworks, while maintaining respectful towards artists, the public and the art world. We aspire to communicate, motivate and grant a crucial meaning to Art, as an alternative attitude to everyday life during these critical times.
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli str., 26222 Patras
Tel: 00302611110069 / 00306945399754
Email: lianazoza@cubegallery.gr
Website:www.cubegallery.gr
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Une liaison pornographique
Marigo Kassi ▪ Spiridoula Politi
At Cube Gallery, we welcome February with Marigo Kassi’s and Spiridoula Politi’s artistic dialogue, entitled Une liaison pornographique. Each of the artists comments on their own unique style, the love, the desire and also how the love act can be separated from the emotion. For Marigo Kassi and Spiridoula Politi, it’s not the first time they are invited to co-exist in an artistic dialogue, as they are both founding and active members of the Indoors art group, but it is the first time they are invited to discuss through a “pornographic” relationship, taking an extra boost from Valentine’s Day, as the exhibition opens on Friday, the 14th of February 2020.
“I am terribly alive, full of pain, and I absolutely feel the need to see you. I have to see you. I see you shining and wonderful, and at the same time I am writing to June and I am breaking into pieces, but you can understand me. You have to understand me Anais, and stand by my side. You are everywhere, all around me, like a brilliant fire. Oh, if only you knew Anais, how I feel right now… I want to know each other better. I love you. I fell in love with you as you came and sat in my bed – all that second afternoon with you was a warm humidity- and I hear again the way you speak my name- with your weird accent. You wake me up to such a mixture of emotions- I don’t know how to approach you. Just come near me, come near me, and everything will be beautiful. I promise you…’’ writes Henry Miller to his eternal lover and priestess of love literature Anaïs Nin, in one of the infinite letters exchanging between them. It is said that only in the year 1932, Miller sent nine hundred multi-page letters to his mistress, as mentioned in her book Henry and June.
So when can a relationship be described as ‘’pornographic’’? Are there boundaries and if so, when are they exceeded? Is it possible in a relationship to manage the emotion, and how? These and more questions that have bothered in the past writers, artists, filmmakers and well-known psychoanalysts, we decided to make them a ‘’female’’ issue and create a site-specific installation in Cube Gallery, where the visitor can browse through the works of the two artists, sometimes hard, sometimes airy, but always in a very personal way, with the desire to meet in another dimension!
Liana Zoza, Exhibition Curator
Are love and desire the same thing? They are certainly transportable containers, with an ever-changing ratio. Perhaps it is precisely what often distinguishes the boundaries between the two.
How do we experience and embody our emotions, love, lust, joy, fear, anxiety, pain, longing? What symbols do we use to picture them?
The body organs have the first word. The stomach, the liver, but the heart is dominating concerning the symbols. This is the most widely used, the most versatile and the most painted organ of the human body. Even from the mind. This is what you see in charge of the symbolism of logic, and logic is lost when passion prevails.
My heart aches. My heart has wings. My poor heart. It was like a knife in the heart. My heart became thousands of pieces. It breaks my heart In two pieces. You blacken my heart. Black or red heart, heart glowing, broken heart, cracked, melted, pierced by the arrows of love.
The use of the image of the heart in these works came to me spontaneously. An injured heart, like the ones that have lived and suffered. A heart that over time heals its wounds, unites its pieces and stitches them with golden threads.
On the contrary, the image of love through the raw, sometimes violent, cheap sex of sensual films of an emotionless subculture.
’’Erotic’’ designs have always been on my mind- eroticism is also a big part of our lives, but the more classical depictions of a couple didn’t feel like being enough for me. So I turned to a raw, more direct and at the same time more real source. Sensual movies. These have been the tool, may I say, of the designs.
The erotic act becomes something physical, hard, elusive, naked. The multiplicity of images in these films, the fragmentation, the focus, the intense physicality, gave me the solution about the form of this work.
The designs thus, acquired expressionist writing, multiple fragmentary images, close-ups, moving members and bodies as if they were sailing, or floating in a rather unspecified space.
Tension dominates as well as the sense of loss of perception of time and place. That was at least my artistic intention, as expressed by the almost transparent and fragile paper.
Marigo Kassi, Artist
The erotic element appears in my work from time to time, either in the form of design or construction.
An intervention in a garment of mine, drawing a garment, or a woman on the beach, a couple.
To a large extent, my work is based on memories and my experiences. It is the result of all this and the processes that take place within me.
Today’s intake of daily life witnesses a release of both leaves, eliminating the ridiculous feeling of shame that has caused the naked body in the past.
The tiny underwear, hot shorts, leggings and generally women’s fashion provokes.
The naked body is still banned in public view. However, it is not forbidden to collect erotic and emotional reactions experienced by the artist and the world.
It is a combination of favorable circumstances (such as fashion, visual arts, poetry, cinema) that mark the new era, removing taboos and human prejudices.
I idealize and envision the ideal relationship with projects with couples.
I modify and transform the negative aspects of life into positive ones.
Art gives me that opportunity and that gives me a purification.
Spiridoula Politi, Artist
Short CVs
Marigo Kassi
Marigo Kassi was born in Athens. She studied Painting and Ceramics at the School of Fine Arts with G. Moralis, N. Nikolaou, L. Kanakaki (1972-1978). She continued her studies in drawing in Paris (1978-1979), where she stayed for a year. Later she did her postgraduate studies in Painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts with a scholarship from IKY. She is a professor of painting and responsible for the arts at Vakalo Art and Design college. She is a founding member of the Indoors art team. She has presented 15 solo exhibitions and has participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her works exist in public and private collections in Greece and abroad.
Spiridoula Politi
Spiridoula Politi was born in Houni of Aitoloakarnania. She studied classical guitar at the National Conservatory of Athens (1976-1982) and painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts (1983-1987) with N. Kessanlis. She also attended philosophy classes with P. Christodoulidis at the School of Fine Arts (1989-1991). She presented her first solo exhibition at the Athens Gallery (1987). She is a founding member of the Indoors art group. She has exhibited 11 solo exhibitions and participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. Her works are in museums, banks and private collections.
Cube Gallery
Address: 39, Miaouli str., 26222 Patras
Tel: 00302611110069 / 00306945399754
Email: lianazoza@cubegallery.gr
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Info
Exhibition Duration: 14th of February – 7th of March 2020
Opening Hours: Tuesday ▪ Thursday ▪ Friday ▪ 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Wednesday ▪ Saturday ▪ 10.00 – 14.00
Sunday ▪ Monday ▪ Closed
Media Sponsor: KROMA Magazine
Under Negotiation
Curators : Sofia Dalamagka | Liana Zoza
“Human beings are born solitary, but everywhere they are in chains – daisy chains – of interactivity.Social actions are makeshift forms, often courageous, sometimes ridiculous, always strange. And in away, every social action is a negotiation, a compromise between ‘his,’ ‘her’ or ‘their’ wish and yours.”
― Andy Warhol
Cube Gallery welcomes the new year and hosts to its space the ongoing Art project Under Negotiation curated by Sofia Dalamagka and Liana Zoza and organized by Cube Gallery in collaboration with KROMA. The idea of this collective attempt was born by Sofia Dalamagka in January 2020 attempting to start a conversation about how visible a female photographer in Greece is. Then the pandemic started and everything that goes together with that and changed our everyday lives but also the balance and rules in the field of Arts. Meeting with Liana Zoza in the role of co-curating was creative in order to continue and make the project come alive in an era where everything is under negotiation.
Every single one of the participating photographers deposits her own opinion-picture by pointing out through her work the woman in today’s society and the role she has chosen for herself or the roles that are given to her. The female body plays the first role by working as a tool which drastically or dynamically changes in order to show the spectator direct messages or even hidden ones, which are, all of them, very loud.
Sofia Dalamagka, curator, writes: “At the beginning of January 2020 the idea of a collective attempt was born
targeting to start a conversation about the visibility of female photographers in Greece. What is it that hasn’t been said by women photographers? What is the true dynamic of a female photographer? Then the Pandemic started, two quarantines followed, then pause, Soul searching. The overwhelming consequences. The feeling of being imprisoned, the institutionalization of our Lives didn’t leave any of our work unaffected. If you have a closer look at each of our work, you will see that most of the pictures are taken indoors.
An instinctively attempt of trying to extern/express the picture inside of her and the psychological state of each of the creators in a wholesome evolution. Where were we? Where are we now? Are we the same? And then, the women killing. The Greek #MeToo. Violence. Sometimes hollow, sometimes silent, sometimes still and sometimes deafening. Inside of us, around us. Stereotypes of gender identity and the rules with which we grow up. Pink for the girls and blue for the boys. We are wandering through 2022 with the female body still being divided and exploited as a juicy piece of meat with standards and ISO approval. A body, if it has to know anything about gender identification, realizes it early enough and much better than society.
Since ancient years, patriarchal societies rule and as much as patriarchy may not have Gender, it has receivers and victims. We are here though, and each and every one of us has something to tell you through her pictures. Testifying her own personal truth and thorn. All of them almost the same yet so different. But always unique. Always there.”
Liana Zoza, curator, writes: “By listening to Sofia Dalamagka talking about the project Under Negotiation for
the first time even if I have until now curated many interesting projects automatically the desire to make it come true was born inside of me, because it is an Art project through which female photographers are uniting with pictures that each of them separately express their personal view. A project which is negotiating an up-to-date subject, especially nowadays.
The questions asked by not only both women curators but also by those participating start from the stereotypes that are evolving, but possibly don’t change through time and end at the point as to what the place of a woman in contemporary art. Questions that is might not be easy to answer but create images that work as a calling for the spectator so as to stand in-between them by creating his own stories. Hard images but also sensitive which take their place as a part of a imaginary puzzle where each of us has her own place.
Especially through the past years, right after our internment and our social distance due to the Global Pandemic for reasons some are questioning but others are trying to discover, women are at the top of the list on social media or the news and almost every day monopolize as bad news on TV. Women killing, social and business ostracization, commercialization of the female body are subjects for conversation after conversation, but not for negotiation.In a world that changes rapidly through financial-health-and social crisis, women, unfortunately must support and prove their identity.
But what about Art? An area where according to specialists in the field is the first one affected and the last one to recover in times of world crisis? Art has her voice and manages to survive even under the worst circumstances by putting her signature under subjects and situations where other areas are afraid to even mention or touch. That’s the reason why we decided Under Negotiation to be an ongoing project for it to be renewed and transfigured into the creative and loud voice of contemporary art.”
Participants: Evgenia Aravantinou, Barbara Vassilogianni, Danai Vlachou, Aliki Gotsi, Sofia Dalamagka, Athanasia Dadarou, Giota Efraimidou, Anna Karvounari, Vasiliki Pantazi, Anna Papachristou, Virginia Filippoussi, Ioanna Foskolou, Katia Christodoulou.
General Info:
Opening: 13 January 2023 20:00
Duration: 13 January – 4 February 2023
Exhibition Opening Hours: Monday | Wednesday 10.00 – 14.00
Tuesday | Thursday | Friday 10.00 – 14.00 & 18.00 – 21.00
Saturday 11.00 – 14.00 | Sunday closed
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