Kostis Velonis, A Sea of troubles, 2012,wood, oil, acrylic ,62 x 41 x 6 cm, private collection
Hell
as pavilion / Hell as text / Hell as art practice / Hell as
exhibition / Hell as method / Hell as modus operandi / Hell as modus
vivendi / Hell as exodus
“Hell As Pavilion” is an
exhibition that examines the question of “being contemporary”
within a culture in crisis. It is conceived as a strange fresco gone
wild, an inhabited migrant wall of “horrible mixtures,” which
brings together Greek artists from various generations, explores a
neglected field of rhizomatic relationships and unexpected
affinities, and urges us to “read history in unforeseen ways,” to
imagine into existence new mobile and minor networks. With a title
inspired by the briefly glimpsed “HELL AS” in Jean-Luc Godard’s
Film Socialisme, the Greek Pavilion could be understood as a
fantasma, a premonition or a twinge of remorse, a disturbing
idiorrythmy, the monster (teras) par excellence in the current temps
des crises. The European bête noire hangs on a wall in an
undetermined borderline condition considered here as a possible
tactic; a laboratory of the para-logon (that which lies next to and
beyond logos/ reason); a precarious position from which current takes
on humanism, punishment, radicalization, the collective and the
connective can be reexamined.
“Hell
As Pavilion” can be perceived as a toolbox for the understanding of
various Greek paraloga in the rather common and unsettled struggle to
“be in” the present; as a chance to consider the viability of
deviations, abnormalities and inconsistencies, in the xaos (chaos) of
a situation where nations, states and all kinds of entities suspect
and monster one another for economic misconduct and “lack of
progress.”Curated by
Nadja Argyropoulou.
List
of artists:
Alexis Akrithakis, Loukia Alavanou, Vlassis Caniaris, Savvas
Christodoulides, Costis, Dimitris Dimitriadis, Antonis Donef, Andreas
Embiricos, Nikos Engonopoulos, Haris Epaminonda, Stelios Faitakis,
Takis Giannousas, Hollow Airport Museum (Nikos Charalambidis), Lakis
& Aris Ionas/The Callas, Vassilis Karouk, Andreas Ragnar
Kassapis, kavecs/Vana Kostayola & Kostis Stafylakis, Anja
Kirschner & David Panos, Panos Koutrouboussis,Thanos
Kyriakides/Blind Adam, Konstantinos Ladianos, Stathis Logothetis,
Andreas Lolis, Panayiotis Loukas, Rallou Panagiotou, Nikos-Gavriil
Pentzikis, Kostas Sahpazis, Saprophytes, Kostas Sfikas, Christiana
Soulou, Thanassis Totsikas, Ira Triantafyllidou, Souzy Tros (Maria
Papadimitriou), Iris Touliatou, Nanos Valaoritis, Marie
Wilson-Valaoritis, Jannis Varelas, Lydia Venieri, Vangelis Vlahos,
Kostis Velonis, Tassos Vrettos, Takis Zenetos
Hell
as Pavilion
27/02/2013
- 04/04/2013
Palais
de Tokyo, Paris.
