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“Removement, Athens 2017”
– GROUP EXHIBITION –
Contemporary Art Group Exhibition at Kairi Arcade in the context of Removement, Athens 2017
Kairi Arcade will host artistic interventions, installations and video art projections throughout the four different levels of the arcade. All artists were inspired by the real stories that accompany the arcade since 1930 when the arcade was built. Owners and renters recall the past glory of this narrow arcade that was once busy and crowded with various ship-owners such as Gloria chocolate factory, Tarassis and Faros brand stores, the historical artillery owned by the Papaioannou family, as well as several clothes and shoes manufacturers and retailers.
Artists: Tzeni Argyriou, Vasilis Gerodimos, Peggy Kliafa, Yorgos Maraziotis, Andreas Savva, Christos Tolis and Panagiotis Velianitis, each one using different means and materials, transform the spaces of the Arcade in a canvas full of changes, colours, emotions which both contribute to the revival of the urban memory and predispose the need of new ways of reuse.
WHEN
June 2-30, 2017
MON, THU: 10.00-20.00
TUE, WED, FRI, SAT: 10.00-18.00
WHERE
6 Kairi Street & Athinas, Metro station: Monastiraki
MORE ABOUT THE CONCEPT
Removement is inspired by the issue of abandonment of Athens itself, a direct effect of the financial crisis that has resulted in an abundance of empty or damaged buildings. Accordingly, the same phenomenon has stricken various neighborhoods of our city, which lost their unique identity, causing its people to move away because of fear and insecurity. Buildings that once stood as the columns of the active tissue of Athens now stand isolated as remnants of a busy past. Removement stands as an observer of these changes: it documents both realistically and conceptually every single movement in the passage of time, even when the change stays unnoticed by the human gaze. These rapid changes influence year after year what is called the urban memory, and it is this topic that moves Removement itself, which will be used by our artists as a motivating power to awake and recall through the most precious and direct call: art.
CONTRIBUTORS
Concept, Artistic Direction
Maria Vasariotou
Executive Producer/Artistic Consultant
Konstantinos Sakkas
Research & Social context
Polina Yoltzoglou
Curator Assistants & Line Producers
Yorgos Nomikos,
Georgia Eleni Tigkinagka
Production Manager
Katerina Kotsou
Communications
Yorgos Katsonis
Graphic Designer
komodo
Photography
Christos Karnakis
Social Media
Flora Kopelou
Production Management
Delta Pi
Produced by
DESCRIPTION
Removement: Athens 2017 links the stories of the past with a modern approach of reusing three different Arcades located in the centre of Athens: Praxitelous, Kairi and Arsaki.
Installations, artworks, video-art projections, performances and interactive events constitute a one-month artistic program that invites artists and audience to revive the city’s urban memory and to create or witness artistic interventions within these three historical arcades.
Tzeni Argyriou, Vassilis Gerodimos, Natassa Zouka, Mariana Kavalieratou, Peggy Kliafa, Yorgos Maraziotis, Mariela Nestora, Konstantinos Ntellas, Andreas Savva, Christos Tolis, Panagiotis Velianitis.
https://www.delta-pi.org/removement-kairi