#mark wallinger

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'ecce homo' by mark wallinger, 1999 in eretica: the transcendent + the profane in contemporary art - demetrio paparoni (2007)

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Yesterday I attended the evening lecture with Turner Award winning artist, Mark Wallinger. Admittedly, I went into his talk slightly too tired to receive the knowledge he imparted about his work. I found him to be engaging in the reasoning behind his work, but not quite an engaging speaker. I found it difficult to keep up with some of the points he made about his work. Of the pieces he spoke about, I was very taken by the ideas he detailed about "Ecce Homo".

Given the religious ideals behind my current project, I was fascinated by his reasoning for creating this sculpture. Wallinger said his sculpture of Christ was not meant to be perverse or tongue in cheek. 'I wanted to show him as an ordinary human being, Jesus was at the very least a political leader of an oppressed people[...]' I was taken by humanising the image of Christ, I have come across this concept before, in a painting by John Millais: "Christ in the House of his Parents".

I was aware that upon it's public exhibition, Millais was met with public outcry of heresy that how dare he place the messiah amongst the meanness of the carpenters shop along with such iconography of poverty. One thing I was disappointed in learning about "Ecce Homo" however, was that it was not carved, but cast to look like a marble statue. This raised notions of what could be construed as "cheating" to me. That said, it also raises questions of why choose to cast something over carve, does its cheapen the idea? Or is Wallinger trying to suggest an idea behind using casting and moulds? Either way, I am intrigued by material use, for its meaning, from my own work in using Oak, considered to be a holy tree in pagan faith.

After the talk I walked down to the Poly to visit the 2nd year Fine Art & Drawing exhibition. This being my first experience of a Preview night for degrees, I was overwhelmed by how busy and bustling it was. I couldn't quite appreciate what was on display. I was intrigued by the work the collective groups had created, but couldn't stop to penetrate their meaning. I came away feeling overwhelmed and wondered if my own preview night would be equally as overwhelming. That said, I spoke to Duncan about what his take away from the exhibition was and he put my mind at ease saying that the purpose of the preview night is for socialising and conversation rather than taking meditative time to appreciate the art itself. There is a constant learning curve to being a creative. I am slowly piecing together all that this life I am embarking on entails. Sometimes I need to feel overwhelmed to learn the lesson involved. Either way, I was happy to see all the other students enjoying the fruits of their labours, even if I couldn't quite meditate on what they had made.

[kobikiyama]

Writ in Water

Mark Wallinger

[dollarbin]

The Last of World Party Week:

Love is Best and Rolling Off a Log

I know the week of Karl Wallinger's passing is long past but I can't resist one final, for now anyway, entry. I've played a lot of World Party this month, relishing the music and the fact that my wife doesn't complain when I've got them cranked.

(The later of these benefits is decidedly not in place during a lot of the deep auditory research work needed for this august blog. This weekend I heard several, very reasonable, spousal sighs while the Stills-Young Band did their fairly terrible thing for this week's Shakey Sunday. Turns out that coked up tunes from Stephen Stills about deep sea love making with Jesus as your only witness are not the best basis for marital bliss. I therefore put on a pair of headphones.)

But at 9:15pm on Saturday evening my wife woke me up from a way too early, book in my lap, snooze with a groovy question.

"I want to hear that one World Party song you played lately," she announced as I came back to some form of consciousness and remembered that I had yet to brush my teeth. "I don't really know how it goes. And I don't know the words. I think there's 'love' in the title."

She then hummed something incredibly vague: it could have been a version of Thank You World, or Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, or Bach's 65th Piano Concerto or Raffi's Baby Beluga. My wife had no other hints, theories or guidance to offer. She wanted me to figure it out and play her that song. Now.

Well, I love this kind of thing. Seriously. Ask me out of the blue what Neil Young song rhymes "knees" with "frozen peas" and I will not rest until I've (without any help from google; I can't stand that approach) identified the track (Dirty Old Man), played it through twice and decided, after nearly two decades of loathing, that the song is actually kinda great.

Well, maybe it's not that great after all. But we get to learn about what happens when you drink on the job and then get caught doing something or other with the boss's wife in the parking lot. So that's good information to have. Thank you Neil.

Anyway, it took me three false guesses and ten minutes on Saturday night before I identified the World Party song my wife wanted to hear: Love is Best from the band's fourth, too long and occasionally dull, record Egyptology.

I'm so glad my wife set me the challenge. Love is Best is a fantastic, richly textured dream I'd never fully appreciated.

Until now:

There must be 16 vocal tracks floating through this homemade, yet polished, track. We also get a tiny, perfect bridge, sweet, understated electric guitar and the corny title is given a perfect home in the all-too -sudden ending.

The song also highlights yet another of Wallinger's manifold gifts: his surprising, richly rewarding sequencing. Want an example? Goodbye Jumbo's two timeless pop singles (Way Down Now and Put the Message in the Box) are bridged by the spacious and epic background track When the Rainbow Comes.

Indeed, here's a fitting sister song to Love Is Best: a full twenty seconds pass before the track really begins, allowing us time to savor not just Karl's rats and bleeding in the sewer but also the harmonies that carried us in Way Down Now; and then at the 35 second mark we get a surprise, beautifully bent, second hook. There's just enough happening in the lyrical postman bridge to grab us fully and then the song just glows for another two and a half minutes, fading out with perfect la la las, and leaving us fully prepped for the record's central motif in Message in the Box.

Love is Best serves a similar purpose on Egyptology, setting us up for the record's most ambitious and rewarding song:

Wallinger's approach is so thoughtful here. The Sergeant Pepper strings, the spoken bridge, the balance of falsetto with strength, the muscular but respectful guitar that only arrives a full five minutes in, and the surprise vocal gymnastics that chase us soon after: Rolling Off A Log echoes the complexity of a Disintegration-era Cure track without ever losing its identity as a World Party classic.

So good! I can't wait for my wife to vaguely order up more World Party greatness.

[shelleytheodore]

CV

SHELLEY THEODORE Born in Brisbane, Australia Lives and works in London, Barcelona and France https://shelleytheodore.tumblr.com/ https://www.axisweb.org/p/shelleytheodore/ EDUCATION 2012 MA Visual Art (Fine Art), Camberwell College of Art, University of the Arts, London 1995 Bachelor of Fine Art (Hons), Goldsmiths College, University of London 1992 Dept of Continuing Education, Goldsmiths College, University of London, Certificate in Art 1980 Bachelor of Social Work, University of Queensland, Australia SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PUBLICATIONS 2022 Artist Feature Special Issue: Best Artists of 2022 Magazine 43, Hong Kong 2022 Magazine 43 Film Friday featured artist April 2022 https://magazine43.substack.com 2021 Deptford X Festival, Art in the open Supported Application Guide shapeslewisham introducing@shelley_theodore 23 March 2021 Deptford London 2021 Post Analogue Labyrinth IV, virtual exhibition, https://www.artsteps.com/view/ 6092eeaca33cc06fe89a823f 2019 Post Analogue Labyrinth Ill, as part of DEPTFORD X FRINGE, AAJA Deptford 2018 Post Analogue Labyrinth 11, Sister Midnight Records 4 Tanners Hill London Gaze, Axisweb: Contemporary Art UK Network, online exhibition Aesthetica Issue 81, p157, Artists' Directory, Published on Jan 24,2018 2017 Drawing Open, 26 -28 May, No Format Gallery, Arch 29, Rolt Street, Deptford 2016 Prison Drawing Project, Dean Road Prison, Scarborough, UK Artrooms Fair 2016, Melia Whitehouse Hotel, London 2015 Uncertain States Annual, Mile End Art Pavilion, Mile End 2014 Pala, an online digital program of artist's film and video works curated by Laura Mansfield 2013 Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2013, Spike Island, Bristol, and ICA, London 8 STUDIOS FROM HERE, Faircharm Studios, Deptford Postcard From My Studio, Acme Project Space 44 Bonner Road, Bethnal Green, London 2012 Crash OPEN, Charlie Dutton Gallery, 1a Princeton Street, London The Salon Art Prize Exhibition 2012, Matt Roberts Art, 25b Vyner Street, London Jerwood Drawing Prize Exhibition 2012, Jerwood Space, London No Now, Space Station Sixty Five, Kennington Bend over Shirley, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art 2011 CCW Artist Moving Image, HMV Curzon, Wimbledon 'Chain letter' worldwide exhibition 2011, GIBSMIR family, Zurich, Switzerland. Flash in the Pan, curated by Naomi Sidefin and David Crawford, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art The Unsung Heroes of the studio, ASYLUM, The Chapel, Caroline Gardens, Peckham 2010 Peckham Space Open, Peckham Space, Peckham Deptford X Fringe Award, Deptford X Fringe Nunhead Open Art Exhibition, The Surgery, Nunhead 2009 Creekside Open, selected by Mark Wallinger, APT Gallery, Deptford Creekside Open, selected by Jenni Lomax, APT Gallery, Deptford 2008 London Art Fair, Islington, Beverley Knowles Fine Art 2007 London Art Fair, Islington, Beverley Knowles Fine Art RESIDENCIES 2022 Studio Residency, San Quirze Safaja, Barcelona 2021 Photography Workshop with Architect Lisa Harmey and architecture students University of Cardiff, UK 2015 'Backs to the Future' Residency, FIVE YEARS 66 Richmond Studios, 8 Andrews Road, E84QN 2014 2014 LUX Critical forum, London 2012 Gasworks Curatorial Workshop, Gasworks 2011 Urban fabric 2 (UF2) Paradox Conference, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland 'Sculptural Drawing Collaboration', The Woodmill Project Space, Bermondsey

[kgoldtemporarygallery]

ICARUS: Κατάλογος | Catalog Εκδότης | Publisher: K-Gold Temporary Gallery Καλλιτέχνες | Artists: Absalon, Bas Jan Ader, Γιάννης Βούλγαρης | Yannis Voulgaris, Daniel Everett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Κατερίνα Κομιανού | Katerina Komianou, Γιώργος Κόντης | Giorgos Kontis, Mark Wallinger, Άγγελος Φρέντζος | Angelos Frentzos, Christian Michael Filardo, Virginia Russolo Διευθυντής Εκδόσεων | Publishing Director: Νικόλας Βαμβουκλής | Nicolas Vamvouklis Συνεργάτης Εκδόσεων | Editorial Collaborator: Χρήστος Μούχας | Christos Mouchas Art Director: Bianca Otilia Ghiuzan Κείμενα | Texts: Alain de Botton, Νικόλας Βαμβουκλής | Nicolas Vamvouklis, Βασιλεία Ταφύλια | Vasilia Tafylia Ευχαριστίες | Acknowledgements: Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, Michele Brunelli Collection, Absalon Estate, The Estate of Bas Jan Ader, Mary Sue Ader Andersen, Meliksetian | Briggs, carlier | gebauer, Εκδόσεις Πατάκη | Patakis Publishers Υποστηρικτής | Supporter: Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού & Αθλητισμού | Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports

PH: Olga Saliampoukou

[0utcsts0utlet]

🎵Tell me what’s in your eyes baby red green or blue🎵

Here’s the entire article for y’all

Along with Ian being presented with wings here

We also see the horned figure featured on the miito album itself and in the piece of One Shot we see don’t go insane and it flicker to Ian which could be the ego side

Then you have the prominent color red which is the same color as Mars

This is Ares the God of War Ian did say that the song was supposed to be epic and these albums are his way of showing the battle with his mindset

Ares is also known to be the God of Lust which we heard on the song one shot

His music does in fact help us with our personal problems

It’s also an important to note that in the comics the same powers here are depicted in the film

There was a singular bird shown in one shot

this could link to moods and the phone call when he was wondering around asking who was there

That’s all I have now y’all

[biglisbonnews]

'The World Turned Upside Down' in London, England Outside the London School of Economics (LSE), you find The World Turned Upside Down, a sculpture by award-winning British artist Mark Wallinger. The artwork features a 13-foot (4-meter) inverted globe resting on its North Pole and displaying Antarctica on the top. All the place names have been rebranded to be read from this new direction. Unlike a flat, rectangular Mercator projection, this globe shows the immensity of the oceans as well as the appropriate scale of Africa and South America in relation to other continents. Shortly after being unveiled in 2019, the upside-down globe, which is based on a United Nations-endorsed map and therefore marks both Israel and the West Bank, was vandalized. Some students crossed out Israel and wrote "Palestine" and the "Gaza Strip" with marker pens on the £200,000 sculpture. Stickers and post-it notes with similar messages were placed on the artwork as well. Wallinger's globe also provoked anger among mainland Chinese students at LSE due to the fact that the island of Taiwan was shown as a sovereign entity, instead of as being a part of China. In addition, the artist had marked Lhasa, Tibet, as a national capital, even though Beijing alone is recognized as having that status. When asked for a comment, Wallinger said he had made "an error." As a disclaimer, LSE has installed a plaque below the sculpture saying that "the designated borders, colors, and place names do not imply endorsement by LSE concerning the legal status of any territory or borders." https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-world-turned-upside-down

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'A New Dawn, A New Day' exhibition at the Bomb Factory Art Foundation

Caroline Ashley | Rong Bao | Rana Begum | Pallas Citroen | Richie Culver | Jeremy Deller | Janette Parris | Jim Rampage | Catriona Robertson | Jacob Talkowski | Erika Trotzig | Nicola Turner | Mark Wallinger | Osman Yousefzada

[katrinastaitf3000]

The artist’s garden at Vétheuil (no date) Art Object Page. Available at: https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.52189.html (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Previous work - Nessie Ramm (2022) nessie ramm - contemporary landscape artist. Available at: https://nessieramm.co.uk/previous-work/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Jungbauer, J. (2019) Intricate collages of cities by Anastasia Savinova, IGNANT. Available at: https://www.ignant.com/2016/03/01/intricate-collages-of-cities-by-anastasia-savinova/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Cirrus clouds (no date) Met Office. Available at: https://www.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/learn-about/weather/types-of-weather/clouds/high-clouds/cirrus (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

(No date) Vincent van Gogh. the starry night. Saint R��my, June 1889 | moma. Available at: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79802 (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

About Labyrinth by Mark Wallinger: Labyrinth (2016) Labyrinth |. Available at: https://art.tfl.gov.uk/labyrinth/about/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

(No date a) Matt Peers. Available at: https://www.mattpeers.photography/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Gunseli Yalcinkaya |3 October 2018 Leave a comment (2019) Rick Owens sets runway on fire at Paris fashion week show, Dezeen. Available at: https://www.dezeen.com/2018/10/03/rick-owens-spring-summer-2019-show-paris-fashion-week/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Admin (2022) Henriette Ousbäck, the keeper of the fire, 2013., TextileArtist.org. Available at: https://www.textileartist.org/henriette-ousback-stitches-upon-stitches/henrietteousback-eldvakten/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Trigg, D. (no date) Albert Reuss, Studio International: Visual Arts, Design and Architecture. Available at: https://www.studiointernational.com/albert-reuss-review-truro-cathedral-newlyn-art-gallery-holocaust-memorial-day#:~:text=Woman%20Reading%20with%20Mother%2Din,%2C%20Rosa%20(n%C3%A9e%20Feinstein). (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Kieron Cropper - Picture interview (2015) Kollektiv Gallery. Available at: https://www.kollektivgallery.com/artists/kieron-cropper/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Stitched botanicals (no date) HILLARY WATERS FAYLE. Available at: https://www.hillarywfayle.com/new-page-5 (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Dmitry (2019) Artist paints creatures she sees ‘living’ in the walls due to Pareidolia, Design You Trust. Available at: https://designyoutrust.com/2019/03/artist-paints-creatures-she-sees-living-in-the-walls-due-to-pareidolia/ (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

Snail trail 1 - limited edition 1 of 1 art print (no date) Saatchi Art. Available at: https://www.saatchiart.com/art/Printmaking-Snail-Trail-1-Limited-Edition-1-of-1/423916/3349282/view (Accessed: 08 November 2023).

(No date a) Banksy. Available at: https://www.banksy.co.uk/out.html (Accessed: 12 November 2023).

Hydrangea by colour (no date a) Hydrangeas by colour / RHS Gardening. Available at: https://www.rhs.org.uk/plants/hydrangea/shrubby/by-colour (Accessed: 12 November 2023).

Dezeen. (2015). Fall dress by Birce Ozkan drops its panels like leaves. [online] Available at: https://www.dezeen.com/2015/06/03/fall-interactive-dress-parsons-fashion-graduate-birce-ozkan-drops-panels-seasons-autumn-leaves/ [Accessed 12 Nov. 2023].

‌Saxby, C. (no date) CAROLYN SAXBY MIXED MEDIA TEXTILE ART. https://www.carolynsaxby.co.uk/ [Accessed 12 Nov. 2023].

Dazed (2018). The artist using synesthesia to interpret this season’s scents on canvas. [online] Dazed. Available at: https://www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/article/41840/1/synesthesia-this-seasons-scents-on-canvas [Accessed 12 Nov. 2023].

[eleristanton]

// mark wallinger, labyrinth project \\

i finally looked into mark wallinger project along the london underground, where he created some simple labyrinth that replaced some of the tiles along 270 platforms of the underground.

"Wishing to forge a poetic link with the Tube’s rich history of graphic language, he has made a work that sits comfortably alongside the two of its major design icons, the roundel and Harry Beck’s Tube map, and yet stands out as a new symbol marking the Tube’s 150th year."

i liked how the project was so simple and yet it still created a hype to a group of people that could search for each labyrinth, some more difficult to find than others.

[londranotizie24]

The Italian Effect: la mostra d'arte che celebra l'Italia all'Iic di Londra

Di Simone Platania @ItalyinLDN @ICCIUK @ItalyinUk @inigoinLND Otto artisti per The Italian Effect: la mostra d'arte che celebra l'Italia all'Iic di Londra dal 3 al 27 ottobre. Tra cultura e valori ecco The Italian Effect: la mostra d'arte che celebra l'Italia all'Iic di Londra Ora che l'estate è giunta al termine, l'arte italiana e gli eventi dedicati a essa sono tornati a riempire di date il calendario di settembre e ottobre. E tra questi, non potevano mancare quelli organizzati o sostenuti dall'Istituto Italiano di Cultura a Londra. Ma questa volta non si celebrano artisti e opere connazionali, tutt'altro. Lo scopo di The Italian Effect, questo il nome della mostra, è proprio quello di mostrare che effetto ha il nostro Paese nei confronti degli artisti stranieri, nello specifico quelli britannici. L'evento si durerà tutto ottobre, dal 3 al 27, dal lunedì al venerdì, dalle 10:00 alle 17:00 presso la sede dell'Iic di Londra. Inoltre è possibile prenotare gratuitamente il proprio ingresso per una visita privata il 3 ottobre. La mostra è curata da Stephen Farthing, RA e sostenuta dall'Iic e presenta una selezione di opere d'arte di artisti residenti nel Regno Unito che, per un motivo o per l'altro, hanno scelto di influenzare i loro sforzi creativi con contenuti tratti dalla cultura italiana. Alcuni di questi artisti hanno un rapporto duraturo con la cultura italiana, altri hanno avuto un incontro breve ma fondamentale per il loro processo creativo. Il punto della mostra è che oggi, le accademie hanno poca influenza sulle ragioni che spingono un artista a viaggiare dal Regno Unito all'Italia. Tuttavia, quest'ultima è uno dei pochi Paesi in cui la cultura del passato rimane visibile ovunque, sia come oggetti concreti sul territorio sia come parte integrante della nostra percezione della società odierna. Questo è il motivo principale per cui gli artisti desiderano recarsi in Italia per affinare la propria arte. Otto artisti per una mostra The Italian Effect ospita le opere di otto artisti britannici influenzati dalle loro esperienze e rapporti con l'Italia. Durante la mostra gli ospiti potranno ammirare le opere di: - David Austen + Josephine Baker + Stephen Farthing - Mali Morris  + Stephen Nelson + Joseph Tilson  - Jake Tilson + Mark Wallinger ... Continua a leggere su www.

[dollarbin]

World Party Week, Day 3:

Love Street

Karl Wallinger loved a bridge. Just after the two minute mark of one of his supremely hummable but somewhat formulaic songs, Call Me Up, from his fourth record, Egyptology, he shuffles in a fourth wall breaking bridge for the ages, asking us,

Whatever happened to those bits in the middle? You know those crazy piano bits I used to think that it went like that But it really went like this...

Yes, indeed? Where did those detours-down-a-musical-cul-de-sac-and-back bridges go?

(And speaking of detours, how about this silly video? I was studying at Cambridge and had to put pound coins into a slot on my dorm wall so as to access heat so obviously I had no access whatsoever to music videos of any kind when this album came out. So I have no idea how Egyptology was received in the States - and did anyone actually see music videos in 1997? MTV was pretty done, yeah? And the internet basically was not up and running... But, regardless, I'm guessing this video didn't compete with Weezer or whatever nonsense was big at that moment.)

But back to pop song bridges: some of the best ones are too good for words; take, for example the workmanlike to soaring chord progression and harmony in Simon and Garfunkel's The Only Living Boy in New York.

Wallinger could play a fantastic guitar. But he always built his best bridges on harmony and words. In two of his very best, and best known, songs, Way Down Now and Put the Message in the Box, both from his masterpiece, Goodbye Jumbo, Wallinger slams on the breaks mid-song, once to let us picture clocks running backwards, and then to describe the planet itself begging us for love, before he dives joyfully back into his final hooks.

But there's no better example of this particular genius of his than on one of that same record's lesser known tracks, Love Street. At first we simply enjoy yet another solid ballad, nodding along while Wallinger takes nothing more than the title and general concept from the hapless Doors song of the same name. Karl shows us around life on a glittering and precious little street named after romance. It's nice! But that's about it.

Until, once again, the two minute mark. Then things get righteous; then Wallinger busts out his big ass wok and turns up the heat to 11, then 12: he's suddenly mounted a stage in Love Town and is making a musical meal the whole damn city will savor.

I told you Wallinger could play guitar. He's a very white guy version of Jimmie Hendrix by the end of the bridge and it suddenly makes sense why Wallinger was all set to open for Neil Young in the early 90's before his record company - stupidly - pulled the plug on that tour and ordered him back into the studio.

Wallinger really takes his time on this song; he floats back down to earth after the bridge and his solo, and he places us gently on water, letting us float, satiated, out of town. We've left Love Street behind on day three of World Part Week.

But it's coming with us all the same.

[qudachuk]

Leading artists including Tracey Emin, Mark Wallinger, and musician FKA Twigs will participate

[kgoldtemporarygallery]

ΙCARUS

Έκθεση Σύγχρονης Τέχνης

10/12/2022 — 05/03/2023

Η Κ-Gold Temporary Gallery παρουσιάζει από τις 10 Δεκεμβρίου 2022 έως τις 5 Μαρτίου 2023 την έκθεση ICARUS στην Αγία Παρασκευή Λέσβου, σε επιμέλεια του Νικόλα Βαμβουκλή και με τη συμμετοχή των καλλιτεχνών: Absalon, Bas Jan Ader, Γιάννης Βούλγαρης, Daniel Everett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Κατερίνα Κομιανού, Γιώργος Κόντης, Mark Wallinger και Άγγελος Φρέντζος.

Η έκθεση ICARUS αναπτύσσεται σε ένα αεροπλάνο κατά τη διάρκεια μιας πτήσης. Οι καλλιτέχνες, ως επιβάτες, παραθέτουν το έργο τους σε ένα ακραίο περιβάλλον παρατεταμένης αιώρησης, διερευνώντας το πώς η ανθρώπινη επινοητικότητα σχετίζεται με το φυσικό και το νοητικό ταξίδι. Τι μπορούμε να μάθουμε από τις διαπολιτισμικές περιπλανήσεις στο (καλλιτεχνικό) σύμπαν; Ποιοι είναι οι συνοδοιπόροι μας σε αυτήν τη διαδικασία μεταμόρφωσης; Πώς μπορούν οι διαδρομές αυτές να λειτουργήσουν ως θεραπευτική δύναμη και να συμβάλλουν στην κοινωνική αλλαγή;

Εννιά καταξιωμένοι καλλιτέχνες από την Ελλάδα και το εξωτερικό, μοιράζονται προσωπικές ιστορίες γύρω από την προσδοκία, τον έρωτα, την απώλεια και την πτώση με αναφορές στην επικαιρότητα. Ο μυθικός Ίκαρος κατορθώνει, μέσα από τις αναζητήσεις της κάθε εποχής, να εκφράσει την αρχέγονη επιθυμία του ανθρώπου για υπέρβαση. Σε αυτήν την κατεύθυνση, τα έργα - μαρτυρίες (φωτογραφίες, βίντεο, γλυπτά και εγκαταστάσεις) αποτυπώνουν τη σχέση μεταξύ κοινωνίας, πολιτισμού και τεχνολογίας σε διευρυμένες γεωγραφίες.

Σε αυτό το πλαίσιο, μια παράλληλη έκθεση στον δεύτερο όροφο της Κ-Gold Temporary Gallery παρουσιάζει επιλεγμένα έργα από τη συλλογή της, που συνδέονται με σημαντικές στιγμές της πορείας της ως νομαδική πλατφόρμα. Μεταξύ άλλων, μια φωτογραφία του Christian Michael Filardo και ένα γλυπτό της Virginia Russolo εξετάζουν θέματα χαρτογράφησης και πνευματικότητας.

Το εκπαιδευτικό πρόγραμμα της έκθεσης ICARUS πραγματοποιείται σε συνεργασία με το βιωματικό πολυχώρο τέχνης Λευκό Χαρτί στη Μυτιλήνη. Περιλαμβάνει δημιουργικά εργαστήρια και προβολές για μικρούς και μεγάλους (επιμέλεια: Μαρί Μουσταϊζή & Μιχάλης Μεϊμάρογλου). Περισσότερες πληροφορίες θα ανακοινωθούν στα κοινωνικά δίκτυα.

Τέλος, κυκλοφορεί ένας κατάλογος (ελληνικά/αγγλικά) με συνεισφορές από τους Alain de Botton και Every Ocean Hughes που τεκμηριώνει όλες τις δράσεις και τις συνέργειες που πραγματοποίησε η Gallery το 2022.

ΠΛΗΡΟΦΟΡΙΕΣ

Εγκαίνια: Σάββατο 10 Δεκεμβρίου, 19:00

Ωράριο λειτουργίας: Σάββατο-Κυριακή, 15:00-20:00

Είσοδος ελεύθερη

Για τα εγκαίνια της έκθεσης, θα υπάρχει δωρεάν λεωφορείο μετ’ επιστροφής από τη Μυτιλήνη προς την K-Gold Temporary Gallery. Αναχώρηση από το σταθμό υπεραστικών λεωφορείων, το Σάββατο 10 Δεκεμβρίου στις 18:00. Κρατήσεις: 6942202222.

Διεύθυνση: Αγία Παρασκευή, 81102 Λέσβος

Τηλέφωνο: 6942202222

Με την υποστήριξη του Υπουργείου Πολιτισμού & Αθλητισμού.

ΙCARUS

Contemporary art exhibition

10/12/2022 — 05/03/2023

K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents the exhibition ICARUS in Agia Paraskevi Lesvos, curated by Nicolas Vamvouklis. With the participation of the artists: Absalon, Bas Jan Ader, Yannis Voulgaris, Daniel Everett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Katerina Komianou, Giorgos Kontis, Mark Wallinger, and Angelos Frentzos.

ICARUS is developed as an exhibition in a flight condition. The artists-as-passengers present their work in an environment of extended levitation, exploring how human ingenuity relates to physical and mental journeys. What can we learn from the cross-cultural wanderings in the (artistic) universe? Who are our fellow travellers in this transformation process? How can these voyages act as a healing force and contribute to social change?

Nine acclaimed Greek and international artists share personal stories about expectation, love, loss, and fall while referencing current affairs. Through the quests of each era, the mythical Icarus manages to express the primordial desire for transcendence. In this direction, the exhibited artworks (photographs, videos, sculptures, and installations) testify to the relationship between society, culture, and technology across expanded geographies.

In this context, a parallel exhibition on the second floor of K-Gold Temporary Gallery presents selected works from its collection linked to important moments of its course as a nomadic platform. The display includes a photograph by Christian Michael Filardo and a sculpture by Virginia Russolo that address themes of mapping and spirituality.

The educational program of the ICARUS exhibition is developed in collaboration with the experiential art space Lefko Harti in Mytilini. It features creative workshops and screenings for children and adults curated by Mari Moustaizi and Michael Meimaroglou. More information will be announced on social media.

Finally, a catalog (Greek/English) is published with contributions from Alain de Botton and Every Ocean Hughes, documenting all the actions and synergies carried out by the Gallery in 2022.

INFORMATION

Opening: Saturday 10 December, 19:00

Opening hours: Saturday-Sunday, 15:00-20:00

Free entrance

For the opening of the exhibition, there will be a free round-trip bus from Mytilini to K-Gold Temporary Gallery. Departure from the KTEL bus station (Saturday 10 December at 18:00). Reservations: +30 6942202222.

Address: Agia Paraskevi, 81102 Lesvos, Greece

Telephone: +30 6942202222

Supported by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture & Sports.

PH Daniel Everett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Παραχώρηση του Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation © Estate of Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation), Angelos Frentzos