Hermes /Apollo

 

Hermes (Column on the Move) 2025

Wood, gesso

Hermes Encounters Apollo (Monument to Movement) 2025

Wood, hardboard, chalk paint

Apollo lays down grids, boundaries, and monuments—he founds cities, maps territories, and calls it civilization. Hermes slips through the cracks, carrying messages, inventing detours, refusing to stay still. Their meeting is a reminder that politics is always torn between the urge to stabilize and the need to flow, between walls and pathways, between control and freedom.

Ο Απόλλωνας χαράζει πλέγματα, όρια και μνημεία, ιδρυει πόλεις, χαρτογραφεί τόπους. Ο Ερμής γλιστρά μέσα από τις χαραμάδες, μεταφέρει μηνύματα, εφευρίσκει παρακάμψεις και δεν μένει ποτέ ακίνητος. Η συνάντησή τους θυμίζει ότι η πολιτική είναι πάντα διχασμένη: ανάμεσα στην ανάγκη για σταθερότητα και στην ανάγκη για ροή, ανάμεσα σε τοίχους και μονοπάτια, ανάμεσα στον έλεγχο και την ελευθερία

Apollo #Hermes #Sculpture #politics #spacepolitics #expansion #boundaries #freedom #movement #mobility #communication #mythologies #planets #SolarAssembly #debate #SpatialPolitics #Architecture #kostisvelonis #vagabondsculptures

@ninettogallery  @artathina  

 

People Were Mostly Weather

People Were Mostly Weather, 2025
Acrylic, oil, colour pencil, oil pastel & chalk on canvas
130 × 130 cm
Not bodies, but forecasts
@perasmaistanbul
Curated by @burcufikretoglu & @gizemnazkudunoglu #meteorology #weather#painting #kostisvelonis #forecast
Photo:@leylapekin

Moon Landing

Moon Landing, 2024

Wood, chalk paint

140 χ 118 χ 15 cm

@athensconservatoire @trikasdimitris #tatlinsdream

#spaceage #sculpture #rocket #puppetry #toy #moonlanding #moon# frame #monitor #TV #scene #stage #vagabondsculptures #kostisvelonis #athensconservatoire

The Moon is no longer sky, it is screen, stage

The sculptural installation Moon Landing inscribes itself within a regime of image and memory defined by the so-called Space Age: the period stretching from the launch of Sputnik to the landing of Apollo 11 on the Moon.

The black surface with the central opening functions as a frame, recalling the bulky television screens of the 1960s that broadcast Armstrong’s “small step” on a global scale. The white form housed within the opening remains ambiguous: rocket, dwelling, puppet, or children’s toy. This ambiguity connects the work with puppetry and the theatricality of the model; the Moon here does not appear as the distant Other, but as a miniature stage inhabited by the handmade and the playful.

As a construction, it seeks to render a meta-representation of spectacle and to function as a commentary on how the televised image transformed the Moon into a desire incorporated into everyday life. Beyond a technological event, the “flight” is enriched as a scenic installation, reminding us that the utopia of space is at once a playful puppet theatre and a mass television event.

The starting point of Moon Landing concerns the utopia of outer space, which unfolds within systems of children’s design. The intensive use of design accelerated the collapse of distinctions between children’s imagination and adult projections, while at the same time contributing to the displacement of collective imagination: the Moon, once a mythological mirror of human desire, was transformed into the backdrop of a televisual experience.

Here, the Moon is not sky, but screen. And space is not only a site of physical expansion, but a realm where imagination, technology, and spectacle are entangled in a shared, ambivalent utopia.

Να μην παράγεις: Μια πολιτική πράξη

Μικρό μανιφέστο για τον χρόνο που δεν «αποδίδει». 

https://m.popaganda.gr/postscripts/na-min-parageis-mia-politiki-praxi/

Apollo Engine

Apollo Engine, 2025

Wood, acrylic paint, 200 cm (height)

Space as a machine of power

#ApolloEngine #Sculpture #Architecture#Apollo #engine #Ἀπόλλων #SpatialPolitics #Power #Structures #Territoriality #Colonies #SolarAssembly #kostisvelonis

Solar Assembly: A brief planetary drama

Solar Assembly: A brief planetary drama

A bunch of sculptures representing planets, orbiting a handcrafted Sun. A solar kind of politics, an “assembly” that evokes the ongoing tension between spatial control and freedom of movement. Somewhere in between, there we are, pretending there’s order.

How to guarantee conditions of contemplation to the older feline population

 

How to guarantee conditions of contemplation to the older feline population,  2006, wood, 310 x 165 x 52 cm

A shelter for cats who have grown older and watch the world go by

#WhyLookatAnimals  @emstathens
Cur.by @katerina.gregos

photo #melitininikolaidi

#γατες #αναστοχασμος #sculpture #shelters #domesticity #animals #EMST #WhyLookatAnimals #rethinkingcare #LeninTribune #ElLissitzky #cats #IlyaChashnik ##GavinSteingo #φροντιδα #interspiecescommunication #felines #shelter #contemplation #kostisvelonis #care #felineassembly

#kostisvelonis #publicart #cats #rethinkingcare #contemplation #inaction #sculpture #shelters #domesticity #animals #EMST

The Fabric of the Sky

  

The Fabric of the Sky, 2025

Wool embroidery, loom weaving

700 cm x 500 cm

On November 7, 1492, a meteorite fell in Ensisheim, a small town in Alsace, making

headlines of its time and even inspiring Dürer.

He created a double-sided oil painting: on the back, the meteor’s fall; on the front, Saint

Jerome in the desert.The tapestry began its journey at the Rizareios School in

Monodendri, Epirus, and reached The Ilisian (formerly Hilton).It’s a free interpretation of

Saint Jerome’s solitude — the thoughtful saint studying the sky, surrounded by rocks, a

lion, and a quiet mystery for the viewer: What detail reveals the fall of the meteorite?

For those who look upward, beyond the fabric of the world.