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Exhibition At FokiaNou Art Space
Chris Hawtin: “The Angel, The Engine”
Opening: Saturday, February 8th at 19.00 p.m.
Duration: 8 – 29 February 2020
Hours: Thursday – Saturday 17.00-20.00
FokiaNou Art Space is pleased to present a solo show of painting and sculpture by British artist Chris Hawtin. Using computerized imagery woven with painting and sculpture, Hawtin explores the relationship between organic and cybernetic structures and the effect of technological acceleration in relation to geographic space. Hawtin's work looks outward towards other dimensions to offer a glimpse into an alternative existence of a hybrid identity while referencing both high art and pulp/pop culture. Seemingly technological alien forms float within atmospheric landscapes or architectural spaces. These machine-entities imbue their environs with an apocalyptic sense of unease, calling to mind science fiction films or post-apocalyptic video games.
Born in Ely, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom in 1974 Chris Hawtin attended Northbrook College, Worthing and Chelsea College of Art and Design. He has exhibited widely, including solo shows at Bearspace, C & C and No Format Galleries in London, Malgras/Naudet in Manchester and Artlounge Gallery in Lisbon, and a two-person show with FilipposTsitsopoulos at EleftheriaTseliou Gallery in Athens. His work was featured prominently in The Immediacy of Paint: Surface symposium at the University of Suffolk at which he was a key speaker. Hawtin has participated in many group shows, most recently in The Sky’s Gone Out at Arthouse 1, London, and Life is Elsewhere at We Need Books Gallery in Athens. His work is in private collections worldwide and The Saatchi Collection, London.
FokiaNou Art Space is an artist-run project space in the intimacy of a small apartment in an old building in the center of Athens. The space encourages collaborative creative efforts between Greek and foreign artists, thereby promoting and supporting the local art community. The space hosts exhibitions, workshops and projects under the direction of two artists, Mary Cox and Panagiotis Voulgaris.
XpatAthens is proud to be a Non-Profit Sponsor of FokiaNou Art Space
Athens From East To West, 1821-1896 At The Benaki Museum
A historical documentary by Maria Iliou and a photographic exhibition
"For These We Fought..." - National Archaeological Museum
2nd Athens Fashion Film Festival
Valentine's Night At Jazzét Café
Carnival In Athens
IMPORTANT PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT - Carnival celebrations cancelled!!
Kostas Bakoyannis: the City of Athens celebrates Carnival Season with festive and colorful events all over the city!
The peak, however, of the carnival period comes on Kathara Deftera (Clean Monday), the 2nd of March. We meet up at Filopappou Hill to fly our kites and celebrate the “Koulouma” tradition. Headliner of this festive day is GogoTsampa! The singer who managed to revive the audience’s interest for folk music will be there and nothing will stop us from dancing! This year, Athens gets dressed in its most beautiful and fancy jewels and invites us to celebrate Carnival through a colourful mosaic of activities and events, be carried away by the music and experience our city as we’ve never had before…
"Another great opportunity to see Athens dressed in colors and festivities. We have carefully designed a number of Carnival events so that Athenians of all ages as well as our visitors feel that they belong here. It's the Carnival itself which has this familiar, sweet taste of tradition while at the same time is in an open dialogue with the fresh and the new! It's the Carnival itself that's not afraid to have fun, to dress up in the craziest colors and laugh out loud" points out the Mayor of Athens, Kostas Bakoyannis.
ACS Students Jazz Ensemble
Art Exhibitions At The Phoenix Athens Gallery & Residency
Opening: February 20th
Duration: February 21st - February 28th
The intention of his work, which has greater importance than the cultural production itself, is built around the concept of *ORGUE - PAYSAGE. Behind it is a multifaceted project inspired by the cultural heritage of the street organ, which consists of gathering the imagery and inspiration from popular cultures, exploring them, and extracting the most beautiful aspects with a contemporary and collaborative perspective.
For the “ORGUE - PAYSAGE” show, Alexis Paul invites people to discover his musical path, exploring the poetic side of his nomadic project. His practice includes a variety of mediums from soundscapes to photographs and collages. Paul has recently started exploring the links between embroidery and sound alongside the idea of repetition. Using the traditional perforated cardboard and punching on it ancient patterns from the Cyclades, his aims is to play a loop of textiles.
During the opening night, Alexis Paul will be presenting, for the first time a "light" solo set blending audio sample extracted from his street organ to selected analog synthesizers.
THE PERFECT ENDING
Opening: February 20th
Duration February 21st - March 29th
Phoenix Athens presents the solo exhibition The perfect Ending by Leandros Pigades.
The artist, based in New York and Athens invites the viewer to embark on a psycho-geographical detournement of time and space. An experiment in situational awareness and cultural appropriation, the artworks, weave a cinematic narrative encouraging the viewer to question their perceptions and comprehension of the environment as a means to better understand the contemporary world on a local and global level.
The exhibition explores the relationship between the universality of myth and aesthetic-terrorism. Pigades practice, inherently derivative of art history, insists that it is not unique but continues the tradition which simply juxtaposes new and old ways of art-making as a projection of the future. An authentic advocate of the avant-garde post-humorist art movement, which should not be confused with “posthumous” because the artist is not dead yet.
Pigades encourages the capitalistic community to “BUY NOW” and consume his works before its too late. Using the gentrifying anarchist hotbed of Exarchia as a launching point for dialogue and to discuss the many contradictions and blah blah blahs it possesses, the artist hopes to shine new light on post-crisis Athens and the changing urban reality.
XpatAthens is proud to be a Non-Profit Sponsor of the Phoenix Athens Gallery & Residency
Tsiknopempti At Acropolis Museum's Restaurant
Visitors can enjoy delicious typical Tsiknopempti recipes and piano music.
For reservations, please contact the restaurant during Museum opening hours on +30 210 9000915.
3rd PAMEMMAZI Forum At The American College of Greece
On February 22nd, 2020, at 10:00 a.m., the American College of Greece, Pierce Theater, will be hosting PAMEMMAZI’s third forum entitled “Integrative Approaches on Cancer Care: Evidence and Strategies.”
PAMEMMAZI was founded in 2017 for the psychosocial support of oncology patients and their families and to fight stigma through programs of art, programs for health and wellbeing, programs to encourage creativity and share information, through annual forums about integrative care, through participation in awareness-raising races with the team “Untouchables by Pamemmazi” and through publishing stories on our blog www.scarsandscarves.com
The aim of this year’s forum is to highlight the importance of palliative care in the framework of embedded integrative care, the role of complementary therapy programs as well as the research that supports their use. We stress the powerful effect that psychology can have on psychosomatic health, with the therapeutic qualities of music, dance, and of art in general, as well as the importance of expression, communication, and personal strength and resilience in dealing with cancer, resulting in better results and better quality of life.
The forum is directed at health professionals, doctors, nurses, social workers, psychologists and the students of those fields, but also to the general public who are interested in approaching cancer in a holistic manner, or who are interested in matters of health generally.
The Program includes an open discussion amongst scientists, health professions and the audience as well as informative/interactive workshops with topics such as the therapeutic approach of music and tango, advice of dentists for good dental health from diagnoses to post-treatment, and the works of two non-profit organizations that also support cancer patients and their families, KEFI and Pnoi Agapis.
The first part of the Forum (10:15-12:30 and 13:00-14:30) will include presentations and round table discussions. The second part (14.30-16:30) will include 5 different workshops to address the variety of interests held by our audience.
In the reception area we have a) Art Exhibition that represents the work done by Eva Grigoriadou, Art Therapist, in the Art Therapy program offered by PAMEMMAZI at the G.O.H.K. hospital “Agioi Anargyroi” b) Therapeutic Photography exhibition, a program offered by PAMEMMAZI in collaboration with Eyes of Light and Dimitra Ermeidou and, c) Drawing exhibition by students from the program SMOKEFREEGREECE of the Institute of Public Health of the American College of Greece.
Participation in the forum and the workshops is free.
Register HERE!