Gold und Liebe, Liebe für Gold
29 March - 21 April 2018
Works by: Margarita Bofiliou, The Callas / Lakis & Aris Ionas, Arbit City, Dora Economou, Socrates Fatouros, Hypercomf
Stelios Karamanolis, Charalambos Kourkoulis, Manolis D. Lemos, Panos Papadopoulos, Ilias Papailiakis, Sofia Stevi, Iris Touliatou
Curated by Amalia Vekri
It’s a Saturday night and I am at a basement club in Athens dancing to Liebe Auf Den Ersten Blick by the German band D. A. F.
Everything is so smoky and dark. The dance floor is so crowded that everybody is pushing you around. I try to move but the smoke is so deep that I loose my sense of place. As I try to come out of the smoke I turn around and I see a man with a golden head. I move closer and I see an old inscription on his forehead: ‘You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold’. [1]
According to alchemical thinking body and soul should reach unison. Through gnosis gold finds a canal to a higher state, symbolically creating the philosophers stone. Gold the most precious of materials, its benevolence abide materiality and wealth. Its capital evokes the pursuit of happiness and satisfaction through possession. Love a feeling of lust simulating a higher goal in life, one that in accordance can lead to true happiness or denial. Life without love. Can one go on without it? To love and feel loved is a step closer to spirituality and perfection. Can love exist without gold? Do they feed each other or do they devour each other?
[1] ‘Holy Mountain’ Alejandro Jodorowsky
Press: Daily Lazy
Iris Touliatou
One or the other will disappear before this exhibition ends 2018
The cement is just for weight, dear 2012, and a rare feather
Panos Papadopoulos
Ecke - corner 2018
Panos Papadopoulos
Ecke - corner 2018
Charalambos Kourkoulis
Discreet 2018
Margarita Bofiliou
25: Saoyr (Pseudo platform) 2018
5b: Fisherman and mermaid (Pseudo platform) 2009
Margarita Bofiliou
5b: Fisherman and mermaid (Pseudo platform) 2009
Panos Papadopoulos
Balcony night view 2016-2017
The Callas / Lakis & Aris Ioanas
Kill, Kiss, Piss 2008
Back: The Callas / Lakis & Aris Ioanas
Kill, Kiss, Piss 2008
Front: Margarita Bofiliou
32: Pyor Tana (Pseudo Platform) 2008 , 34: Tyar Po (Pseudo Platform) 2008
Sofia Stevi
Fabric work 1+2 2018
Margarita Bofiliou
Left: 8b: One after the other (Pseudo-platform) 2009
33: Ryp (Pseudo-platform) 2008
4b: Mos (Pseudo-platform) 2008
Right:
Dora Economou
Sulfurs of Spring 2018
Dora Economou
Sulfurs of Spring 2018
Sofia Stevi
Entry phone 2015
Manolis Daskalakis Lemos
Tommorow's Corporate Love 2018
Left:
Arbit City
Paradise Paper No7 (When Fortune Frowns, Faith is Changed) 2018
Right:
Margarita Bofiliou
30: Noo (Pseudo-platform) 2008, 2b Sunset (Pseudo-platform) 2009, 1b: Runner (Pseudo-platform) 2009
31: Pom (Pseudo-platform) 2008, 3b: I will not be terrified (Pseudo-platform) 2009
Charalambos Kourkoulis
Gabi 2018
Dora Economou
Kawasaki's Spiral Snail 2/6 2017
Stelios Karamanolis
Untitled 2018
Socratis Fatouros
Thanks 2018
Socratis Fatouros
Left: Einstein in the beach on two, three, four 2018
Right: Thanks 2018
Socratis Fatouros
Einstein in the beach on two, three, four 2018
Left: Ilias Papailiakis, Night Summer of 1987, 2017-18
Right: Hypercomf, Enterpise chair #4, 2018
Ilias Papailiakis, Night Summer of 1987, 2017-18
Hypercomf
Enterprise chair #4 2018
Ilias Papailiakis
Left: Salvatore 2018
Right: Study for Mr's Pagoulatou's Portrait