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We are happy to inform you that art platform DIO HORIA is opening two new solo shows on Friday, July 8th: Incognito, by Greek painter Elias Kafouros, and Swapping paint by American painter Taylor McKimens. Along with the solo shows, a new reading of the group show love; honey; pheromones, curated by artist Rallou Panagiotou will be presented.

--- exhibitions openings: friday, july 8th, 20:00 - 00:00 exhibition duration : 08.07.2016 - 25.07.2016 opening hours: monday - sunday, 11:00-14:00 & 18:30-02:00

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Seeworthy, ink on archival paper, 119 x 99 cm, 2016 elias kafouros Incognito

(July 8th - July 25th, 2016)

Incognito, a new series of works by Elias Kafouros, presents two simultaneous ideas that are ever-present yet often unspoken.

The first component looks into the fluidity of masks as a social lubricant manipulating atten- tion and attribution. Its different functions interfaced through a shared geographical space, Mykonos island, and projected through the digital realm everywhere. The secrecy of celebri- ties, the fake business smiles, the camouflaged paparazzi, the posing, the excess, the vanity.

The second component is the fleeting feeling of summer vacation. The fresh smell of the Cy- cladic winds rushing through the alleys, the warmth of bright sun act like an anaesthetic to the bathing bodies, the Aegean waters simulating neurotransmitters in splashing sheer joy into the brain. dio horia dio horia contemporary art platform contemporary art platform panahra square 84600 hora mykonos panahra square 84600 hora mykonos +30 22890 26429 +30 22890 26429 [email protected] [email protected] www.diohoria.com www.diohoria.com

Mixing these two components together is providing the grip that invites the viewer to experi- ence the works themselves as masks, projecting onto them their own personality, identifying, and looking through them back at themselves.

Of course, this is the function of every piece of Art that succeeds in moving its viewer. To point that out, Elias Kafouros has enabled a space, free from personality, to the place that usually the main character of the work would occupy. Instead, we find a hole in the drawing to be filled with a face, or toy glasses to masquerade oneself. Clearly, invitations for the visitor of the exhibition to mentally inhabit the works.

ELIAS KAFOUROS (b. 1978, ) lives and works in Athens. He studied at Athens School of Fine Arts and continued in animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York. He has visited India for several times either as a place of spiritual quest either as artistic orientation. Kafouros has presented his work in a number of solo and group exhibitions including Athens, New York, , and Munich. His work has selected to be included in the edition Vitamin D2- New Perspectives in Drawing (2013, Phaidon Press, London), an overview of trends in the contemporary field. dio horia dio horia contemporary art platform contemporary art platform panahra square 84600 hora mykonos panahra square 84600 hora mykonos +30 22890 26429 +30 22890 26429 [email protected] [email protected] www.diohoria.com www.diohoria.com

Bronzed, Acrylic, fashe, wax crayon, paper and butterfies on canvas, 70 x 50 cm, 2016 taylor mckimens Swapping Paint

(July 8th - July 25th, 2016)

Dio Horia is thrilled to present Swapping Paint, a new series of paintings by Taylor McKimens. As part of Dio Horia’s residency program, Taylor created this brilliant new series during his month long residency in Athens. The show’s title Swapping Paint is about coming together and exchanging ideas, like paint transfer on fenders. McKimens new body of work is a gesture towards his most recent exhibi- tion Stoic Youth, where the artist continues to explore the same Hellenic figures, but inundates the figure, the ground and the composition with his uniquely colored experience in Athens and Mykonos, incorporating all those things he has picked up along the way. dio horia dio horia contemporary art platform contemporary art platform panahra square 84600 hora mykonos panahra square 84600 hora mykonos +30 22890 26429 +30 22890 26429 [email protected] [email protected] www.diohoria.com www.diohoria.com

Like the original Greek notion of stoicism, Swapping Paint is intended to have an awareness of all things, where polar opposites are acting simultaneously and many seemingly contrasting ideologies instead work together. Combining the old and the new in technique, medium, and style, the artist utilizes his inventiveness as a draftsman as a starting point to create a dynamic series that confates the boundaries of collage, painting and drawing into single and visually complex pieces. In doing so, the exhibition showcases difering techniques that are joined to- gether by a single subject matter and visual narrative. McKimens approaches all the pieces in the exhibition as if they are monochrome paintings. Where colors do appear, they are directly pulled from the brilliant Myconian palette of simple reds, blues and aquas seen throughout the city. Fascinated by the uniquely Mykonos painted sidewalks, McKimens incorporates this almost abstracted folk art element of the sidewalk into his paintings and adds the discarded freddo cappuccino cup to the potted plants that adorn the paths of the city. The black and white diptych of Hellenic heads echoes the architectural landscape, where the contrast of line seem to reverberate with the movement of the stark shadows as they change throughout the day. Complementing the elegance of the black and white paintings are the acrylic peels, where the artist begins by painting in reverse directly on clear glass, peels the composition from the glass, and then works directly onto the new surface. The resulting imagery reads as spontane- ous and fresh as drawing, while continuing to explore McKimens longstanding interest in lumi- nosity in metallics. Rather than simply using paint, the artist incorporates found items such as butterfy wings that he treats like scraps of paper, pops of color, or pigment and incorporates them into the works. No longer precious or delicate in nature, the artist preserves their opu- lence as they are coated in acrylic to reveal gorgeous luminescent and refective qualities. In all the works our eyes follow the line, color and composition in a way that is perhaps as gentle and mysterious as meandering through the winding streets of the city. Swapping Paint captures the beautiful chaos of McKimens’ experiences in a raw and animated manner that shows difering perspectives of a continuous experience. Inspired by the vibrant contemporary city that bustles above this rich historical landscape, McKimens encapsulates these energies in this new series of work. The result is as fresh, elegant and perplexing as the city in which they were created.

TAYLOR MCKIMENS (b.Winterhaven, CA 1976) holds a BFA form The Art Center College of Design in Pasedena, CA. Taylor has exhibited widely in both gallery and museum shows, and has work in many prominent collections. Recent solo presentations include The Hole, New York; Deitch Projects, New York; Perugi Arte Contemporanea, Padova, Italy; Galerie Zurcher, Paris, France; Loyal Galerie, Stolckholm, Sweden; Art Rock Project at , New York; New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Greater New York, MOMA PS1; The Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; Marco Museum, , Italy; The Garage Center in , Russia; The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, , Japan; The Williamson Gallery at Art Center College of Design, Pasedena, CA; Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, , Italy; Royal T, Los Angeles, CA; Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal; Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany; White Columns, NY. dio horia dio horia contemporary art platform contemporary art platform panahra square 84600 hora mykonos panahra square 84600 hora mykonos +30 22890 26429 +30 22890 26429 [email protected] [email protected] www.diohoria.com www.diohoria.com

Maria Efstathiou, detail of Hair I, black and white giclee print, 124 x 32 cm, 2016

honey; love; pheromones curated by Rallou Panagiotou

(June 24th - July 27th, 2016)

As part of a new project where Dio Horia invites guest curators or artists, to curate shows at the main exhibition space of Dio Horia, honey; love; pheromones, is a group show of Greek and International artists curated by Rallou Panagiotou.

The exhibition’s idea stems from a notion of the island as a volume of inorganic, natural mate- rials: the sea, the water, the rocks, the salt, all covered by an amorphous veil of desire that is produced by the living bodies (that find themselves on it or imagine it. This desire may some- times take specific forms in certain commodities, relations, food, consumption, expectations or else remains an abstract bliss. dio horia contemporary art platform panahra square 84600 hora mykonos +30 22890 26429 [email protected] www.diohoria.com

The use of works in the exhibition follows this sequence; from the natural materiality of the island to the examination of this desire and its artificial elements: images of butter and nivea cream, carved wood in primal form, magazine clips that reconstruct real relations, jigsaw puz- zles with tanned, rearranged bodies, wrapping paper as a thinking process, ice cream and money, hair and dust as drawings, travel paraphernalia, landscapes and emotions.

Participanting artists: David Adamo, Antonakis, Helen de Main, Maria Efstathiou, Jack McConville, Alan Michael, Margarita Μyrοgianni, Αliki Panagiotopoulou, Rallou Panagiotou, Natasha Papadopoulou, Sofia Stevi, Rhianna Turnbull

RALLOU PANAGIOTOU (b. 1978, Αthens) lives and works in Athens and Glasgow. Panagiotou has presented her work in a number of solo and group exhibitions including: Tate Modern (2015, London), Riis gallery (2013, Oslo) and IBID Projects (2010, London).