Art Exhibitions At The Phoenix Athens Gallery & Residency
- by XpatAthens
EVENT INFO
- When: 20 Feb 2020 - 29 Mar 2020
- Where: 87-89 Asklipiou - Neapoli, Athens
- Title: Art Exhibitions At The Phoenix Athens Gallery & Residency
- Email: c.makri@phoenixathens.org
- Contact Number: 213 0457868 / 6970516245
- Website: www.phoenixathens.org/
Phoenix Athens is a non-profit art gallery and residency in Athens that provides workshops and opportunities for local and international creatives to develop and showcase their practice in Greece.
ORGUE - PAYSAGE
Opening: February 20th
Duration: February 21st - February 28th
Opening: February 20th
Duration: February 21st - February 28th
Phoenix Athens is happy to present the music event and exhibition show by Alexis Paul (Saudaá Group).
Alexis Paul (Saudaá Group) and his street organ has lead a nomadic and poetic adventure since 2016. With the aim of creating a transversal experience, Paul draws inspiration from the heart of this instrument and illustrates its music as a ‘tool’ enabling us to discover every aspect of the music’s context.
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.
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