Urban Stonehenge

A manhole that became a monument

#monument #stonehenge #manhole #urban

Monument to a Shadow at My Studio at 2AM, 2025

Monument to a Shadow at My Studio at 2AM, 2025 

chalk paint, acrylic and plywood on wood panel 
200 x 130 cm 
For the ones who never arrive, but never leave
@perasmaistanbul
Cur.by @burcufikretoglu , @gizemnazkudunoglu
“Folding the sea into dresses that dissolve like salt” opens june 29th on Leros
#Monument #Shadow #Studio #2AM #night#perasmaistanbul #silhouette 

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Thighs of Demeter

Thighs of Demeter, 2022

2,5 x 8,2 x 12 m

 

The goddess Demeter and her daughter, Persephone, offer the ideal narrative for the merging of the inorganic with the organic element and how seemingly different entities and physical phenomena, defined by movement or immobility, animate and inanimate matter, flourishing and withering, can overlap and not work in opposition. The installation is a strict geometric delimitation that functions as a mechanism of gestation and harvesting, with agricultural activities being linked to the erotic act. However, the erotic narrative in this monumental sculptural installation is not only underlined by the triangular shape of its structure, but is also found in the functionality of the construction. The “thighs of Demeter” function as an insect shelter with floors consisting of different recyclable materials and plants, which “seduce” all kinds of insects that assist in the pollination process. The architectural scale of the construction connects to the notion of moira as protractor measurement unit with the notion of moira as destiny and luck. The stakes of this upright and vertical anthropomorphic field do not only concern the surface of the earth and the height of a “wind-friendly” structure, but also address a reverse course, where height can be understood as an ultimate depth. All the agricultural activities that Demeter (earth mother) takes care of by plowing, sowing and harvesting, also involve the chthonic element. Persephone and her stay in Hades for some months of the year reflect the continuation of a permanent existential narrative with the natural life cycle of plants as a symbol of birth, death and rebirth. 

 

MYSTERY 22 | Straw falling on concrete floors
Kostis Velonis

2023 Eleusis European Capital of Culture @2023eleusis 

Wednesday-Sunday 17:00-21:00

Old Olive Mill, Elefsina

28/8 - 23/10

 

Cur. by Zoi Moutsokou @zoi_moutsokou , Ioanna Gerakidi @ioanna.gerakidi 
Architectural curation: A Whale’s architects @a_whales_architects & Diogenis Verigakis @diogenisver 
opbo studio @opbostudio 
Scientific and material contribution: Agricultural University of Athens @agricultural_university_athens 

 

“Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting”

«Γλυπτική είναι αυτό  που σκοντάφτεις  όταν κάνεις πίσω

 για να δεις  ένα ζωγραφικό έργο»

 “Sculpture is what you bump into when you back up to see a painting”

Barnett Newman 

Ειδική βιβλιογραφία, σημειώσεις

References, works cited, notes

 

Τέχνη στο συγκείμενο (Art in context ) 

Αμφισβητήσεις της δεξιότητας στη νεωτερικότητα 

ΑΣΚΤ -Χειμερινό εξάμηνο/ Εαρινό εξάμηνο

Αμφιθέατρο νέας βιβλιοθήκης,  Πειραιώς 256

Κωστής Βελώνης

 

 

Αριστοτέλης, Πολιτικά, μτφρ. Λεκατσάς Π., Αθήνα: Ι. Ζαχαρόπουλος, 1939.

 

Αριστοτέλης,  Περί ζώων μορίων, μτφρ. Συλλογική,  Αθήνα : Κάκτος, 1995 

 

Brascusi’s Studio

https://www.centrepompidou.fr/en/collections/brancusis-studio

 

Burton, Tim, On Brancusi, NYC:  The Museum of Modern Art, 1989

https://assets.moma.org/documents/moma_catalogue_2133_300062903.pdf

 

 

Castañeda, Luis M., “Doubling Time,” Grey Room 51 (Spring 2013): 12–39. 

http://www.greyroom.org/issues/51/14/doubling-time/abstract/

 

 

Detienne Marcel. Συγκρίνοντας τα μη συγκρίσιμα,  μτφρ. Μαρκέτου , Πελαγία,  Αθήνα : Μεταίχμιο, 2003 

 

Detienne, Marcel. Vernant, Jean Pierre, Μήτις : Η πολύτροπη νόηση στην αρχαία Ελλάδα, μτφρ. Παπαδοπούλου, Ιωάννα, Αθήνα : Ζαχαρόπουλος, 1993 

 

Eco, Umberto. Η ομορφιά της λίστας,  μτφρ. Δότση Δήμητρα, Αθήνα: Καστανιώτης, 2010.

 

Hess Thomas B., Barnett Newman, NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1971

 

Jones, Jonathan.  Newman's Broken Obelisk: the end of a political dream, Guardian 22 oct. 2008 

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/oct/22/barnett-newman-obelisk  

 

Όμηρος, Ιλιας, ραψωδίες Α-Ω, μτφρ. Μαρωνίτης,  Δημήτρης , Αθήνα: Αγρα, 2012 

 

Newman, Barnett, Broken Obelisk 

http://www.barnettnewman.com/broken-obelisk/   

 

Newman,  Barnett , Achilles 

https://kostisvelonis.blogspot.com/2019/11/achilles.html

 

 King, Martin Luther. I have a dream Speech, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C

 

https://www.archives.gov/files/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf

 

 

Krauss, Rosalind. Sculpture in the Expanded Field
, October, Vol. 8, Spring, 1979, pp. 30-44

http://www.onedaysculpture.org.nz/assets/images/reading/Krauss.pdf

 

 

Polcari, Stephen. Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, Art Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4, Sculpture in Postwar Europe and America, 1945-59 , Winter, 1994, pp. 48-55

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/777561?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents   

 

Rosenberg, Harold. Broken Obelisk and Other Sculptures,  

Index of Art in the Pacific Northwest, Number 2. Henry Art Gallery / University of Washington Press ,1971

 

 

Velonis, Kostis. Conflicts in the City: Between Hypsipolis and Apolis, State of South spring / summer 2014

https://www.academia.edu/13654296/Conflicts_in_the_City_Between_Hypsipolis_and_Apolis  

 

 Vernant, Jean Pierre. Ο «καλός θάνατος» του Αχιλλέα,  Ανάμεσα στον μύθο και την πολιτική, μτφρ. Γιόση Ι Μαιρη, Αθήνα : Σμίλη, 2003

 

 

 

 

Indestructible ( broken)

Indestructible (broken), 2020 

Marble, wood, stones 

199

#Destefoundation, #gravity #masonry#petrification  #sculpture #kostisvelonis #hydra #hydraslaughterhouse,# exhibition #199 

 

199

199, Hydra Slaughterhouse until November 1
Deste Foundation/ National Historical Museum of Athens
#funerary #masks #destefoundation#nhmuseumofathens #collection #brass#sculpture #kostisvelonis #fighters#greekrevolution #filikietairia #hydra #199 — at Hydra Island Greece.

Indestructible (Broken)

Indestructible (Broken), 2020
Marble, wood, stones
199
27.6.2020-1.11.2020
Deste Foundation Project Space, Slaughterhouse, Hydra
#destefoundation #gravity #masonry #debate#sculpture #kostisvelonis #hydra #indestructible#marble #stones #transfiguration #boecklin#petrification #solidity #instability#hydraslaughterhouse #exhibition #199 — in Hydra, Greece.

Broken Obelisk

Thomas B Hess, Barnett Newman, NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1971

Σπασμένες πτέρνες και Οβελίσκοι / Broken Heels and Obelisks

Σπασμένες  πτέρνες και οβελίσκοι   / Broken Heels  and Obelisks 

Martin Luther King, I have a dream Speech, delivered 28 August 1963, at the Lincoln Memorial, Washington D.C

https://www.archives.gov/files/press/exhibits/dream-speech.pdf

Polcari, Stephen,  Barnett Newman's Broken Obelisk, Art Journal, Vol. 53, No. 4, Sculpture in Postwar Europe and America, 1945-59 , Winter, 1994, pp. 48-55

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/777561?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Krauss, Rosalind, Sculpture in the Expanded Field
October, Vol. 8, Spring, 1979, pp. 30-44

http://www.onedaysculpture.org.nz/assets/images/reading/Krauss.pdf

Jonathan Jones, Newman's Broken Obelisk: the end of a political dream, Guardian 22 oct. 2008 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2008/oct/22/barnett-newman-obelisk

 Hess Thomas B., Barnett Newman, NYC: Museum of Modern Art, 1971

 Vernant, Jean Pierre, Ο «καλός θάνατος» του Αχιλλέα,  Ανάμεσα στον μύθο και την πολιτική, μτφρ. Γιόση Ι Μαιρη, Αθήνα : Σμίλη, 2003

 Vernant, Jean Pierre, Περί ορίων: Ανάμεσα στον μύθο και την πολιτική ΙΙ,   μτφρ. Γιόση Ι, Μαιρη, Αθήνα : Σμίλη, 2008

Eco, Umberto, Η ομορφιά της λίστας,  μτφρ. Δότση Δήμητρα, Αθήνα: Καστανιωτης, 2010

Όμηρος, Ιλιας, ραψωδίες Α-Ω, μτφρ. Μαρωνίτης,  Δημήτρης , Αθήνα: Αγρα, 2012 

Barnett Newman, Broken Obelisk 

http://www.barnettnewman.com/broken-obelisk/  

Barnett Newman, Achilles 

https://kostisvelonis.blogspot.com/2019/11/achilles.html

Brancusi, Endless Column

https://www.sculpture.org/documents/scmag02/janfeb02/column/column.shtml