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Your ultimate summer guide to art in Greece.
Cathryn Drake (https://news.artnet.com/about/cathryn-drake-593), July 12, 2017
Eva Presenhuber's location in Greece, Kastro, on Antiparos. Photo by ©Gertraut Presenhuber,
SHARE In the wake of the worst heat wave in more than a decade, Athenians are decamping, as ever, to the Greek islands for the rest of the summer, and so ! is the art world. Cypriot collector Dakis Joannou pioneered a new trend by opening the DESTE Foundation space on Hydra in 2009, and new " contemporary art projects have since been popping up all around the Aegean archipelago, providing compelling reasons not to miss the boat.
+ That also means that last-minute visitors to documenta 14 in its closing days have plenty of options for a seaside holiday with the excuse of seeing $ international art exhibitions on a number of alluring isles.
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Kubrick’s Space Odyssey 2001 screened at last year’s drive-in event by Myrto Tzima, at Syros International Film Festival
Your first stop might be the Syros International Film Festival (https://www.facebook.com/syrosfilmfest/) (July 14-19), co-founded in 2013 by young Americans Jacob Moe and Cassandra Celestin to occupy a distinctive niche among the art, music, and film genres. Curated around various meanings of the term “Cracking Up,” both comedic and tragic, this year’s program includes a drive-in double feature of Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom and Nightmare, by Errikos Andreou; live scores for 1920s films performed by DJ Yves Tumor in a former tannery; an audiovisual performance by Elektronik Meditation; and a workshop by filmmaker Martha Colburn, all in traditional and unconventional sites around the elegant neoclassical city Hermoúpolis, capital of the Cyclades. The festival will close with a Balinese-themed celebration in a quarry, where avant-garde musician Mike Cooper and the Syros Gamelan Orchestra will contribute to a multimedia extravaganza.
PAROS AND ANTIPAROS
Joe Bradley, Sculpture for Billy Hand, Installation view at Neokastro, Antiparos. Courtesy Eva Presenhuber
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From Syros, a one-hour ferry ride to nearby Paros and a five-minute boat from Pounda will take you to serene Antiparos. Tom Hanks is a resident of the island, and Madonna is reported to be a fan, and yet the tiny island remains tranquil and unpretentious.
Swiss dealer Eva Presenhuber runs a space there called Kastro (https://www.presenhuber.com/home/exhibitions/2017/Wyatt-Kahn0/Press- Release0.html), located in the old town, that has hosted shows of artists Joe Bradley (http://www.artnet.com/artists/joe-bradley/), Oscar Tuazon, and Sam Falls since 2014. This year the gallery presents five works playing out variations on a theme in different mediums by American artist Wyatt Kahn (July 23-August 31).
In Parikia, the port town of Paros, the Archaeological Museum will host the contemporary art exhibition “Orange Water 3,” curated by Apostolis Zolotakis, with works by Greek and Dutch artists Ad Arma, Αngelika Vaxevanidou, Katerina Kaloudi, Eugenia Coumantaros, Jan Mulder, Gert van Oortmerssen, Apostolos Fanakidis, and Dimitra Chanioti (July 16-October 21).
HYDRA
Guests at the opening of Kara Walker’s Figa at DESTE’s Project Space, in Hydra. Photo ©Maria Markezi.
Immortalized in Henry Miller’s travelogue The Colossus of Maroussi, Hydra has been a cosmopolitan cultural outpost since the 1950s, associated with longtime residents such as the late musician Leonard Cohen and painter Brice Marden (http://www.artnet.com/artists/brice-marden/) as well as native artist Nikolaos Chatzikyriakos-Ghika, whose work is being shown in documenta 14.
Collector Pauline Karpidas has organized art shows on Hydra since 1996. This summer, the harborside Hydra Workshop (http://www.hydradirect.com/arts-culture/hydra-workshop/) presents six vivid new paintings by American artist Jamian Juliano-Villani, in the latest of many shows organized by Sadie Coles (on view July 22 to mid-September). If you make your way uphill on the winding stone streets, you will find the Hydra School Project (http://www.hydraislandgreece.com/portfolio/hydra- school-project/), a former high school where artist Dimitris Antonitsis curates international group exhibitions every summer. (This year’s show, “Gestalt,” runs until the end of September.)
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It was DESTE Foundation (http://deste.gr/)’s annual exhibitions—mounted around a former slaughterhouse (http://deste.gr/hydra/) overlooking the sea and opening with a post-Art Basel gala for art-world luminaries including Jeffrey Deitch, Massimiliano Gioni, and Jeff Koons (http://www.artnet.com/artists/jeff-koons/)—that established the island as an international art mecca. The very first project, Matthew Barney (http://www.artnet.com/artists/matthew-barney/) and Elizabeth Peyton (http://www.artnet.com/artists/elizabeth-peyton/)’s unforgettable “Blood of Two,” required a sunrise hike to watch a glass vessel full of pencil-and- blood drawings of mythical animals being dredged from underwater and carried by fisherman to the slaughterhouse in a ritual procession, where a dead shark was barbecued. This was followed up with shows by the likes of Maurizio Cattelan (http://www.artnet.com/artists/maurizio-cattelan/), Doug Aitken (http://www.artnet.com/artists/doug-aitken/), Urs Fischer, Pawel Althamer, Paul Chan, and this summer Kara Walker (http://www.artnet.com/artists/kara-walker/)’s “Figa”: the disembodied hand of the sphinx-like sculpture A Subtlety, made for Brooklyn’s Domino Sugar Factory, tellingly reformed in a pointed gesture of the thumb, to be interpreted as spiritual or provocative (until September 30).
MYKONOS
The rooftop terrace of Dio Hora, Mykonos.
In 2015 Marina Vranopoulou, the coordinator of DESTE’s Hydra platform, started up Dio Horia (http://www.diohoria.com/), a residency and gallery space tucked among the designer shops in the main town of Mykonos, notorious for its gay party scene and notable for its proximity to the ruins of sacred Delos. In late July, summer resident Aurel Schmidt (http://www.artnet.com/artists/aurel-schmidt/) will show her filigree drawings, alongside an exhibition by David Adamo and Margarita Myrogianni, and “Build Your Own Home,” a structure by artist Jannis Varelas that will house works by other artists including Alex Da Corte (http://www.artnet.com/artists/alex-da-corte/), Oliver Laric (http://www.artnet.com/artists/oliver-laric/past-auction-results), Alex Eagleton, Atelier van Lieshout, Carly Mark, Danai Anesiadou, and Sue Williams (http://www.artnet.com/artists/sue-williams/) (July 28-August 22). https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-best-art-shows-in-the…pe%20July%2012&utm_term=New%20Euro%20%2B%20Newsletter%20List Seite 4 von 16 Island Hopping: The Best Art Shows in the Greek Islands This Summer | artnet News 12.07.17, 09 41
TINOS
Artist Alyssa Moxley in the green marble quarries. Photo by Petros Touloudis
Culturally rich Tinos, a mecca for Catholic pilgrims next to Mykonos, was the home of late sculptor Yannoulis Chalepas, whose house is now a museum. In 2015, the artist-run Tinos Quarry Platform (https://tinosquarryplatform.com/) also opened on the eponymous island. Every summer the Platform hosts several artists in the village of Isternia to develop work related to the local context, culminating in an exhibition. This year’s “Reassembly” responds to the restricted movement of our paranoid era through immaterial artworks that employ musical notation and are digitally portable. The show features works by its curators, Petros Touloudis and G. Douglas Barrett, along with pieces by artists Adel Abidin, Francesco Gagliardi, Giorgos Koumendakis, Alyssa Moxley, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Hong-Kai Wang, and Samson Young, among others (Cultural Foundation of Tinos (http://www.itip.gr/maineng.htm), July 5-October 31).
In the village of Loutra, the Convent of the Ursulines will host the “Serviam Project,” a show of Greek contemporary artists including icon painter Konstantinos Ladianos, whose works will activate the history and spaces of the complex and nearby ancient baths (July 15-September 4).
NISYROS
Greg Haji Joannides, founder and artistic director of Sterna Art Project, photo Nyssos Vasilopoulos 2015
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The geologically spectacular Nisyros, a volcanic island in the Dodecanese archipelago near Turkey, is home to the Sterna Art Project (http://sterna.com.gr/en/project/art-project), a residency program run by artist Greg Haji Ioannides. “Living in a crater provokes strong emotions, feelings, thoughts—offering great ground to create,” he says. “I wanted to share this with artists from around the world and see how each responds to this extraordinary environment.” This year’s project, “Paradoxically Paradox,” kicks off the evening of July 27 with a violin performance by Michalis Hazoglou in the medieval Castle of Emporeios. The exhibition comprises site-specific interventions by Jason Karaindros and Virginia Mastrogiannaki in the suggestive ruins of Loutra Mandrakiou—a bathhouse set for subsequent restoration—that play with perception of the unnatural triggered, or echoed, by elements of physical space (July 30-August 25).
SAMOS
Art Space Pythagorion – the Schwarz Foundation’s exhibition space on the Greek island of Samos at the port of Pythagorion
The islands along the Turkish coast are in fact where its at in August, when Samos’s Art Space Pythagorion (http://www.schwarzfoundation.com/en/art- space-pythagorion/about/concept.html) will host “Summer of Love,” curated by Katerina Gregos to reflect on the year 1967, when love entered into politics, and how we have strayed since. The show features new work by artists including Mikhail Karikis, Marko Mäetamm, Marge Monko, and Uriel Orlow. Established by the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation in a retrofitted hotel on the harbor of Pythagoreio, the space inaugurated in 2012 with “Between Eye and Hand,” a first-rate survey of politically charged videos by Harun Farocki.
LESVOS
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Nicolas Vamvouklis, artist and director of K-Gold Temporary Gallery. Photo by Cathryn Drake
The third largest island in Greece, Lesvos (aka Mytilene) is the birthplace of the poet Sappho and, more recently, the site of Ai Weiwei (http://www.artnet.com/artists/ai-weiwei/)’s controversial work on the refugee crisis.
At the Municipal Gallery of Mithymna on Lesvos, K-Gold Temporary Gallery (http://kgoldtemporarygallery.tumblr.com/), a nomadic exhibition project initiated by artist Nicolas Vamvouklis in 2014, will present “Body Is Victory and Defeat of Dreams.” The show is curated by Athena Hadji with work by artists Orestis Lazouras, Alix Marie, Lito Kattou, Lydia Dambassina, Christos Mouchas, and HOPE (August 11-September 10). The hill town overlooking the sea is also home to the Athens Fine Art School residency, housed in an Ottoman mansion just below the castle that is worth visiting for its stunning Related Articles period frescoes. “Art Refugees” Join Kara Walker on Dakis ANAFI Joannou’s Pleasure Island to End the So- Called (https://news.artnet.com/art- Superkunstyear world/the-art-worlds- (https://news.artnet.com/art- superkunstyear-ends-in- world/the-art-worlds- hydra-1000607) superkunstyear-ends-in- hydra-1000607)
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The biennial project “Phenomenon (http://www.phenomenon.fr/),” a residency and exhibition organized by Parisian collectors Piergiorgio Pepe and Iordanis Kerenidis, is well worth planning ahead for. Anafi, a remote island in the Cyclades, has evolved from a place of penance, as an exile outpost from ancient Roman to modern times, to a contemporary paradise—
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a rare retreat from the drudgery of daily life. With only 270 inhabitants, there is a sense of isolation and silence, with only the whoosh of the high winds through the empty streets of whitewashed dwellings, the sun so bright you can’t possibly see your electronic screen.
In its second edition this summer, the program considered the constant renegotiation of historical narratives through physical and ephemeral fragments that appear and disappear in a week of presentations—such as Christodoulos Panayiotou’s ever-evolving performance “Dying on Stage,” a moving consideration of tragic irony—and a surprisingly cohesive research- based show at the schoolhouse, along with site-specific installations (many produced in collaboration with residents) that will remain until they vanish naturally in the elements. The program runs through July 16, yet if you come later in the summer you will still find relics left behind or returned: Mario García Torres’s Once remembered is a postcard, now for sale in local shops, depicting an ancient statue taken from the island and exhibited in the Louvre. Julien Nédélec has painted a giant Z on a building as a tribute to the letter that disappeared from the Roman alphabet for two centuries.
Anafi’s austere peninsular monolith, Mount Kalamos, is second largest in Europe to the Rock of Gibraltar.
Anafi, whose name derives from ἀνέφηνεν, or “to reveal,” is the perfect place to contemplate the wonders of life. If you need more convincing on where to spend your summer, I conclude with an observation from Miller’s Greek travelogue: “The light of Greece opened my eyes, penetrated my pores, expanded my whole being.”
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This week's guide features Mary Heilmann, Bob Thompson, Michael Boyd, and more.
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Rose Marie Cromwell, The Beach. Courtesy of Sara Nightingale Gallery.
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SHARE What better place to celebrate the summer art scene than in the Hamptons? This year marks the seventh edition of the Market Art + Design ! (http://www.artnet.com/events/art-fairs/market-art-design/) fair, which brings together a compelling selection of Modern and contemporary art in " Bridgehampton. If you’re lucky enough to have a foothold over there—I’m officially jealous—you should spend your weekend visiting local venues as + well. Explore C Fine Art (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/c-fine-art/)’s eclectic group show of sculpture, or visit the uncanny valley of magical realism in paintings at RJD Gallery (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/rjd- $ gallery/). The master herself, Mary Heilmann, is the subject of a lovely exhibition at the Dan Flavin (http://www.artnet.com/artists/dan-flavin/) Art % Institute, and that frankly is enough to justify the entire drive out there, if you ask me. Jeff Lincoln Art + Design (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/jeff- lincoln-art-design/), meanwhile, offers a range of gorgeous abstract work, including the likes of Yayoi Kusama (http://www.artnet.com/artists/yayoi- ' kusama/), Al Held (http://www.artnet.com/artists/al-held/), and John Chamberlain (http://www.artnet.com/artists/john-chamberlain/). Lastly, be sure to head to Rental Gallery for a show curated by Rashid Johnson, wherein the artist explores his lifelong fascination with the indelible and colorful work of Bob Thompson (http://www.artnet.com/artists/bob- thompson/).
Slather on the sunscreen, and find our full list of picks below.
Exhibition: “#FRIENDSWITHBOATS (http://www.saranightingale.com/exhibitions/#/current-exhibition- friendswithboats/)” When: Through July 11, 2017 Where: Sara Nightingale Gallery, 26 Main Street, Sag Harbor, NY
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Norman Mooney, I Want You No. 2 (2013). Courtesy of C Fine Art.
Exhibition: “Out of Bounds: Sculpture Beyond Material (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/c-fine-art/out-of-bounds-sculpture-beyond- material/)” When: June 11–July 31, 2017 Where: C Fine Art at the White Room Gallery, 2425 Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY
Alexander Kingspor, The Other From the Self & Other Trilogy. Courtesy of RJD Gallery.
Exhibition: “Suspension of Disbelief (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/rjd- gallery/suspension-of-disbelief/)” When: June 24–July 24, 2017 Where: RJD Gallery, 2385 Main Street, Bridgehampton, NY
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Bob Thompson. Courtesy of Rental Gallery.
Exhibition: “COLOR PEOPLE: Curated by Rashid Johnson (http://rentalgallery.us/exhibitions/color-people-curated-by-rashid-johnson- 2)” When: July 1–July 25, 2017 Where: Rental Gallery, 97 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY
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Per Kirkeby, Inferno (1992). Courtesy of Jeff Lincoln Art + Design.
Exhibition: “The Organic Impulse in Contemporary Art & Design (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/jeff-lincoln-art-design/the-organic-impulse- in-contemporary-art/)”
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When: May 26–July 31, 2017 Where: Jeff Lincoln Art + Design, 200 North Sea Road, Southampton, NY
Ivan Alifan, Marshmallow (2015). Courtesy of Roman Fine Art.
Exhibition: “Art on the Edge 2017 (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/roman- fine-art/art-on-the-edge-2017/)” When: July 1–July 23, 2017 Where: Roman Fine Art (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/roman-fine-art/), 66 Park Place, East Hampton, NY
Mary Heilmann, installation view. Courtesy of the Dan Flavin Art Institute.
Exhibition: “Mary Heilmann: Painting Pictures (https://diaart.org/program/exhibitions-projects/mary-heilmannpainting- pictures-exhibition)” When: June 29, 2017–May 27, 2018 Where: The Dan Flavin Art Institute, 23 Corwith Avenue, Bridgehampton, NY
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Michael Boyd. Courtesy of Eric Firestone Gallery.
Exhibition: “Michael Boyd, That’s How the Light Gets In: 1970–1972 (http://www.ericfirestonegallery.com/exhibitions/thatshowthelightgetsineh)” When: June 21–July 5, 2017 Where: Eric Firestone Gallery, 4 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY
Colby Bird, installation view. Courtesy of Halsey McKay Gallery.
Exhibition: “Colby Bird: Mine Is Not to Reason Why Mine Is But to Do and Die (http://www.halseymckay.com/colby-bird-mine-is-not-to-reason-why- mine-is-but-to-do-and-die-installation-images)” When: June 17–July 5, 2017 Where: Halsey McKay Gallery, 79 Newtown Lane, East Hampton, NY
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Jeff Muhs, Water Escape.
Exhibition: “Sacred Balance (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/mcneill-art- group/sacred-balance/)“ When: June 5–July 14, 2017 Where: McNeill Art Group (http://www.artnet.com/galleries/mcneill-art- group/), 142 Sag Harbor Turnpike, East Hampton, NY
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# CITY REPORT - 14 AUG 2017 TWITTER $ FACEBOOK % EMAIL TO& Summer of Love PINTEREST Fifty years after the term was coined, a show in Samos re!ects on ‘the unlikely liaison between love and politics’
BY JENNIFER HIGGIE
In 1967, around 100,000 young people gathered on the streets of Haight Ashbury in San Francisco (or ‘Hashbury’ as Hunter S. Thompson dryly described it). For a few giddy months, they https://frieze.com/article/summer-love-0 Seite 1 von 11 Summer of Love | Frieze 15.08.17, 11 55
danced, talked, performed, got out of it and into it, united in the main by their rejection of government, materialism and militarism. To cope with the in!ux, locals formed The Council for the Summer of Love – and the catchphrase of an era was born. Come autumn, the kids had dispersed, but the legend lingered on, as did the echoes of psychologist writer and LSD-advocate Timothy Leary’s famous invocation to ‘turn on, tune in and drop out’.
Mikhail Karikis, Love Is the Institution of Revolution, 2014 wall text-painting, courtesy: the artist; Tomomi Itakura, Untitled, 2017, signposts, courtesy: Tomomi Itakura and Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Installation view, Art Space Pythagorion, Samos
In the 1960s and ’70s, hippies !ocked to Greece, attracted by the sunshine, unspoilt beaches and inexpensive way of life. On the island of Samos there’s still a taverna called ‘Hippy’s’ that was named after its clientele in the mid-1960s. Around 50 years later, in 2012, the Schwarz Foundation opened the non-pro"t Art Space Pythagorion on the island. The building, formally a derelict hotel, was renovated by local architects Peni Petrakou and Stelios Loulourgas. Each summer it stages an exhibition and hosts a https://frieze.com/article/summer-love-0 Seite 2 von 11 Summer of Love | Frieze 15.08.17, 11 55
fellowship and residency programme, a music festival, bazaars, "lm screenings and events. Throughout the rest of the year it also has a rich outreach education programme, including classes for refugee children: Samos is only 1.5km from the coast of Turkey and is one of four small Greek islands that, in recent years, have been landing points for thousands of refugees !eeing the horrors of the war in Syria and Afghanistan.
Mikhail Karakis, The Politics of Love: An Audio-Library, 2017, wooden amphitheatre, books, printed texts, record player, vinyl records, stereo sound. Courtesy: the artist
Last summer, Katerina Gregos, the Foundation’s curator, put together ‘A World Not Ours’
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"lms, paintings, installation and sculpture by nine artists, along with posters from 1967 from the collection of the International Institute of Social History. Despite the breezy optimism of its title, the exhibition’s atmosphere could best be described as thunder at a picnic. In 1967, hippies might have been putting !owers in their hair but it was also the year that marked the beginning of Greece’s brutal seven-year military dictatorship and the Six-Day War between Israel and its neighbours, which resulted in the long- standing con!ict in the Middle East.
In a nutshell, the question that hovers is: what has changed in the past 50 years and what have we learned? Let’s see. Militarism? I am writing this on the day that Donald Trump has vowed to unleash ‘"re and fury’ on North Korea. Materialism? Rampant. Sexuality? Still confused. Feminism? Inching forward. Nationalism? Who’s asking? That said, even when it rains, a picnic is still a get- together.
Marge Monko, Lucy in the Sky (The More I Make Love, the More I Want To Make Revolution), 2017, photo wallpaper, vinyl wall sticker, magazines, custom-cut acrylic glass. Courtesy: the artist
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Mikhail Karikis, would, I think, look on the bright side: his installation, The Politics of Love: An Audio Library (2017), is possibly the most optimistic work in the show. A convivial, green, orange and grey wooden amphitheatre next to windows overlooking the absurdly blue sea, it’s a communal place to sit, talk, play records from a selection released in 1967 and read a selection of books by Roland Barthes, Simone de Beauvoir, Luce Irigaray and others on the subject of love. (There are also, of course, books in Greek. What they are about, I cannot tell you.) The installation faces Marge Monko’s Lucy in the Sky (The More I Make Love, the More I Want to Make Revolution) (2017), a large wallpaper work comprising a blown-up 1960s advert featuring four glamorous people smoking, overlaid with a geographical timeline about the legalization of the contraceptive pill. Smoking and sex: fun activities that can kill, exploit or liberate you. Every cloud, etc?
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Uriel Orlow, The Bitterlake Chronicles, 2011, archival pigment print, dimensions variable, included in the installation The Short and the Long of It, 2010- 17. Courtesy: the artist, LaVeronica, Modica, and MorCharpentier, Paris
Melanie Bonajo’s disturbing, impressive video Night Soil – Economy of Love (2015) is a portrait of a group of Brooklyn-based female sex workers who see their job as a way of reclaiming their power in a patriarchal society. The sincerity with which they talk about themselves and their bodies is often startling and heartfelt. It also veers into a kind of kitsch earth-mother-goddess rhetoric that recalls the essentialist feminisms of the 1960s – something I have a lot of problems with. Liberation or just another form of enslavement? I’m still thinking about it. The four black-and-white "lms from 2012–15 by Nicolas Kozakis and Raoul Vaneigem – one of the founders of the Situationist International and the author of The Revolution of Everyday Life (1967) – also explore how to live in the
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world. The two artists have been collaborating since 2012: Kozakis shoots his silent, meditative "lms, which Vaneigem narrates: isolated, the sentences are a little ponderous – ‘a grain of poetry in a desert of sand’; ‘money men capitalize on our slow agony’– but the combination of exquisitely shot images of everyday scenes – birds swooping, workers digging, a mother braiding her child’s hair – is mesmerizing and moving. God, it would seem, is still in the details, even if you’re an atheist.
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Uriel Orlow’s fascinating installation The Short and Long of It (2010– 17) unearths the story of 14 international cargo ships that were stranded in the Suez Canal during the Six-Day War and held there for eight years. Orlow is interested in history’s blind spots; like a good detective, he tracked down some of the sailors who had lived on the ships, many of whom were happy to give him photographs and Super-8 footage of their experience. It would seem that many of them had the time of their lives, turning their strange isolation into a self-contained society: they partied, swam, held drag parties and even designed their own postage stamps.
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Marge Monko, Lucy in the Sky (The More I Make Love, the More I Want To Make Revolution) (detail), 2017, photo wallpaper, vinyl wall sticker, magazines, custom-cut acrylic glass. Courtesy: the artist
Some of the work in ‘Summer of Love’ is more literal in its response to the 50th anniversary. Tomomi Itakura’s Untitled (Signs) (2017) are a series of signposts on the footpaths outside the gallery which juxtapose the terminology of 1967 with that of 2017: free love versus sharing economy; hippies versus hipsters, etc. What’s in a name? A lot. Similarly, Marko Mäetamm took a familiar, unauthored diagram from 1967 of a curly-headed character in round glasses in front of sun-rays and re-painted it again and again, emblazoned with contemporary slogans: ‘people should not fear the government’; ‘no ban no wall’; ‘women have equal rights’. If only!
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Johan Grimonprez, Every day words disappear: Michael Hardt on the Politics of Love, 2016, video still. Courtesy: ZAP-O-MATIK
The most a#ecting works in the show are by Johan Grimonprez. His 15-minute "lm, Every day words disappear: Michael Hardt on the Politics of Love (2016) juxtaposes an interview with the philosopher of the title, who advocates a new kind of love – one that expands beyond the conventions of the nuclear family and into the political realm – with excerpts from Jean-Luc Godard’s great protest "lm, Alphaville (1965), which portrays a society that has outlawed certain words and emotions. Anna Karina, in one her most powerful roles, explains, with great pathos, that ‘every day, words disappear … weeping, autumn light and tenderness’ – all are banned. Grimonprez’s extraordinary feature-length "lm Shadow World (2016) – based on Andrew Feinstein’s book of the same name from 2012 – is a portrait of the global arms trade. Screened in the outdoor cinema to coincide with the show, it’s a brilliant, horrifying glimpse into an economy whose currency is death. In the middle of it, Hardt poses a deceptively simple question. ‘What’, he asks, ‘would our world be like if it was run on love rather than fear?’ It’s a question that people were asking 50 years ago. It’s tragic that we still don’t know the answer.
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By Nadja Sayej
SAMOS, Greece -- In the east part of the Aegean Sea, this island has the usual hallmarks of a peaceful travel hotspot: homey restaurants, fisherman’s boats and stray cats sleeping in the sun. It also has one unlikely addition; a contemporary art venue in the village of Pythagorion, which conjures a miniature Museum of Modern Art.
The Art Space Pythagorion was built by the Munich-based Schwarz Foundation, which is an independent, non-profit. It has no commercial interests and no art collection. The goal of building the space - a two-story box sitting on the shore of the marina - was to enrich the island’s cultural life.
Schwarz Foundation/Art Space Phthagorion The Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos
Why isn’t this space in Athens, or somewhere more populated? After all, this is no cosmopolitan island, unlike Mykonos or Santorini, which cater to the upmarket clientele.
The foundation’s co-founder Chiona Xanthopolou Schwarz, fell in love with the island as a young woman. The Athens-born philanthropist who is married to Dr. Kurt Schwarz, the chairman of BioScience Ventures, first discovered Samos when she was a student at university. After spending time on Samos, she wanted to support the culture of the island, partly because of its illustrious history—it has archaeological ruins from the 6th century and is the birthplace of Greek philosopher Pythagoras.
Described as the border between ‘the Orient and the Occident,’ the art center’s mission is tied to the location. Turkey is so close, one can see the color of its flag.
“It’s a symbolic place for geopolitics in the region, the refugee crisis and what’s happening here,” said curator Katerina Gregos during her remarks of the art space’s latest exhibition opening. “It’s small initiatives that go a long way, and we feel the same way here on Samos, a small island.”
Schwarz Foundation/Art Space Phthagorion The Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos, Greece.
The building is a former hotel built in 1968, one of the first which introduced tourism to the island. It was abandoned from 1998 until the foundation took over the space in 2012, when Schwarz submitted an application to the island’s port authority. She made a request to rent this abandoned hotel, and once it was approved, signed a two year agreement and rented it for €400 a month after forking over the costs of a €400,000 renovation.
“It was in bad condition, walls had to be rebuilt, demolished, put in cement floors,” said the building’s architect Penny Petrakou. “It was initially for two years, we didn’t know if it would stay, but we wanted to make it look like a museum.”
Petrakou, who redesigned the building with her husband Stelios Loulourgas, wanted to maintain the building’s original structure. They led a local team through a minimal approach to new window frames and doors, as well as replace the plumbing and electricity. After a local construction team finished it, Petrakou noticed something different. “They began treating it like their own,” she said.
Schwarz Foundation/Art Space Phthagorion The Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos, Greece.
Walking through it today, it looks like a seamless, clean art museum with smooth walls, chic artworks, a youthful staff working the front desk and a stunning crystal view to the harbour.
At the opening reception for the latest exhibition, people mingled as they sipped wine and munched on chunks of cheese. One conversation had two Athenians chatting about how they just flew in for this exhibition opening; another was between a British magazine editor and a Greek artist.
Over the past five years, this retro hotel has been turned into a stunning five- room exhibition space. It has showcased exhibitions that have ranged from solo surveys by German filmmaker Harun Farocki to group exhibitions on the refugee crisis. Their current group exhibition commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love.
While the main floor is the only exhibition space, Petrakou showed me the unfinished parts of the second floor, which still has its hotel rooms intact. There is still some of the retro furniture in the dusty rooms and traces of spray paint on the bathroom tile walls, as the hotel was abandoned for 14 years before it was taken over by the foundation.
Schwarz Foundation/Art Space Phthagorion The Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos, Greece.
Hidden within the walls, an old-fashioned spiral staircase snakes up to the rooftop. Some sort of patio could work as a restaurant on the rooftop, but Petrakou explained the art center didn’t want to compete with local businesses. Their plan is to stick to what they’re good at: showing art and cultivating a creative community.
Even if they won’t open their own restaurant, the space is making an impact on the local community. “It’s like ‘the Bilbao effect,’” said Petrakou, half- serious. She’s referring to the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, which helped bring a city landmark to a former rundown area of Spain. Architect Frank Gehry's museum design helped turn Bilbao into a hotspot of cultural prestige and economic growth.
Since the art center here has opened, it has helped local businesses, like the Two Spoons café, which opened next door to the art space, shortly after it opened. And while entry to the art space is not free (its €2), all profits from the foundation’s entry tickets are donated to local cultural associations in the nearby districts of Chora and Pythagorion.
In a world of monolithic art museums, blockbuster chains, brands and spinoffs, they’ve taken a scaled-down community approach to their creative leadership. They are concerned with connecting to locals—adults, children and refugees—as well as bringing in international artists and curators to this small, intimate village (four curatorial fellows live and work at the space).
Schwarz Foundation/Art Space Phthagorion The Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos, Greece.
It’s a mini grassroots machine, as the foundation offers educational art programs and host an annual music festival which supports Greek and international classical musicians.
They even found their way to leak through the cracks at the €37m art event Documenta, which took place this year in Kassel, Germany, and Athens, Greece, (the event was notoriously criticized for its smug approach and was dubbed as Crapumenta).
The foundation produced a local, grassroots art map called the Athens Independents Art Index, which highlights a broad network of spaces that have been important in keeping the Athenian art scene alive throughout the crisis. “It’s necessary to scale down, slow down and allow for time,” said Gregos in her introductory speech at the opening of the Summer of Love exhibition. “We want to allow for sustainable projects in terms of time, for the artistic economy and for the visitor.”
The refugee crisis was hit hard by the easternmost Greek islands of Kos, Lesvos and Samos, which had a dramatic impact on the locals. Today, on an island with a population of 30,000, Samos currently has 1,500 refugees.
Schwarz Foundation/Art Space Phthagorion The Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos, Greece.
The art center has created an education program full of workshops for refugees, which is spearheaded by its education coordinator and Athens- based artist, Katerina Zacharopoulou, who explains there are also workshops for local adults, children and even Greek children’s art classes, but the most prominent are the workshops for the refugees.
Leafing through pages of children’s notebooks, which were printed in both Greek and Arabic, Zacharopoulou said the basis of the workshops were asking the question: ‘What does the contemporary world mean?’
She visited the refugees camp in the island’s Vathy district, which has a team of roughly 40 workers, and where refugees live in plastic containers and decade-old chalets. “The refugee kids are hungry to learn,” she said. “The goal is to be honest with the children and show them a spectrum of artistic expression, from minimal to maximal.”
Schwarz Foundation/Art Space Phthagorion The Art Space Pythagorion on the island of Samos, Greece.
Some would argue that the children and adults need more of a “real” education than what contemporary art knowledge would bring. While the art space has hosted computer training workshops, among other kind of non-art workshops, there is something to be said of art education on an island where even the local schoolchildren don’t have an official “art class.”
Take the current "Summer of Love" exhibition, which is much more than just art education. It ties into grassroots movements from the 1960s, how the birth control pill came to be legalized and civil rights movements. By learning the past, gallery-goers learn to open themselves to the present.
“People who live here still feel like working with refugees is a new thing, but what I have seen is that love is the answer, it’s a tool to exist with the other,” said Zacharopoulou. “It’s the only way to be revolutionary.”
Nadja Sayej is a Berlin-based arts reporter and a journalist in residence with the Berlin School of Creative Leadership.