Island Hopping: The Best Art Shows in the Greek Islands This Summer | artnet News 12.07.17, 0941 artnet (http://www.artnet.com) artnet Auctions (https://www.artnet.com/auctions/) Ӿ෈ (http://artnetnews.cn) Art Guides (https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/art-guide) Island Hopping: The Best Art Shows in the Greek Islands This Summer 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. % SYROS ' https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-best-art-shows-in-the…pe%20July%2012&utm_term=New%20Euro%20%2B%20Newsletter%20List Seite 1 von 16 Island Hopping: The Best Art Shows in the Greek Islands This Summer | artnet News 12.07.17, 0941 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 WERBUNG https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-best-art-shows-in-the…pe%20July%2012&utm_term=New%20Euro%20%2B%20Newsletter%20List Seite 2 von 16 Island Hopping: The Best Art Shows in the Greek Islands This Summer | artnet News 12.07.17, 0941 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.) https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-best-art-shows-in-the…pe%20July%2012&utm_term=New%20Euro%20%2B%20Newsletter%20List Seite 3 von 16 Island Hopping: The Best Art Shows in the Greek Islands This Summer | artnet News 12.07.17, 0941 Recommended Reading These Intrepid Art Handlers Had to Deliver Kara Walker’s Sugar Sphinx Up a Greek Mountain (https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-handlers-carry- kara-walker-sphinx-1004528) (https://news.artnet.com/art- world/art-handlers-carry- By Janelle Zara kara-walker-sphinx- (https://news.artnet.com/about/janelle-zara-246), Jun 1004528) 23, 2017 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, 0941 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 https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-best-art-shows-in-the…pe%20July%2012&utm_term=New%20Euro%20%2B%20Newsletter%20List Seite 5 von 16 Island Hopping: The Best Art Shows in the Greek Islands This Summer | artnet News 12.07.17, 0941 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.