Christos Tzivelos
Untitled 1994
Iron, resin, light
Christos Tzivelos
Untitled 1990
Iron, resin, light
Iris Touliatou
Untitled (Still not over you)
2018 Ceiling light fixtures with dying fluorescents, from abandoned offices in Athens
200 x 56 x 8
Chrysanne Stathacos
Black Widow Wand 2018
Silk, pendulum, sage, Courtesy of Breeder gallery
Left: Yorgos Prinos
Hanging Rock, New Heaven 2010
Pigment Print
Right: Iris Touliatou
Crash! 2018
Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Rallou Panagiotou
They were told they get burning hot (With leather trousers) 2017
Aluminium, iron, Volkswagen and Alfa Romeo car paint and leather trousers
180 x 91 x 17 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Bernier/Eliades gallery, Athens
Elena Narbutaitė
Billy 2018
Lume 20R luminaire produced by Ledigma
Elena Narbutaitė
Billy 2018
Lume 20R luminaire produced by Ledigma
detail
Iris Touliatou
Emothinal infinity (the sound of him coming back amplified and looped) 2016
Electric fan, copies of keys, metal wires, ribbons, Element- system shelf, glass
100x40x30 cm
Kostis Velonis
Crackling love 2018
Ceramic, concrete, wood, steel, marble, plaster, plastic
30x22 cm
Iris Touliatou
Crash! 2018
Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Iris Touliatou
Crash! 2018
Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Left: Yorgos Prinos, Man with hood New York 2014
Pigment Print
Right: Yorgos Prinos, 5.13.2013 - 3.01 P.M, New York 2014
Pigment Print
Kostis Velonis
Displacement of the self 2018
Wood, concrete, acrylic
72x28x240 cm
Iris Touliatou
Song 2007-2009 Attempts to forge Ana Mendieta’s signature
various media
70x100 cm
Christos Tzivelos
Le rayon x 1985
Bright File (June)
4 October – 27 October 2018
Works by: Elena Narbutaite, Rallou Panagiotou, Yorgos Prinos, Iris Touliatou, Christos Tzivelos, Kostis Velonis
Curated by Maya Tounta
The show has a lifetime of several hundred hours.
When heated, it glows with visible light.
‘Le Rayon X’ and ‘Six Heures avant l'été’ (1980) by legendary Greek artist Christos Tzivelos (1949-1995) were the starting point for this show that centres on light but isn't about light. Felt as an effigy for June – not the proverbial month but those 30 days in 2018 – the show brings together works by Elena Narbutaitė, Rallou Panagiotou, Yorgos Prinos, Iris Touliatou, Christos Tzivelos and Kostis Velonis to make pronouncements on a raw, fertile state, which hasn't been assigned a name. In a sense, the show is about looking for wild love (Amour Fou), the alchemical Rebus (the androgynous being that fuelled Jung's individuation fantasies) or some other feeling of wholeness. It is also about processes that suspend this longing – stretch it out, preserve it, cast it, antagonise it, take its place even, until it is exhausted. Works are plugged in, hung, projected. Slowly they accumulate heat from the sun or from within the wall. Alchemically, we could say they begin as stars (those made of herbs) and planets (iron, copper, silver, gold) which young are black, orbiting in the dark. As they slowly grow and grow warmer, they turn yellow, then white, then finally become fully transmuted into a red, at which point they fluoresce.
Big thanks to Bia Papadopoulou and Christophoros Marinos for sharing their extensive research on the work of Christos Tzivelos and to Giannis Tzivelos for generously lending us the works of his uncle.
Photos : Athanasios Gatos
Photographer: Stathis Mamalakis
Christos Tzivelos
Untitled 1994
Iron, resin, light
Christos Tzivelos
Untitled 1990
Iron, resin, light
Iris Touliatou
Untitled (Still not over you)
2018 Ceiling light fixtures with dying fluorescents, from abandoned offices in Athens
200 x 56 x 8
Chrysanne Stathacos
Black Widow Wand 2018
Silk, pendulum, sage, Courtesy of Breeder gallery
Left: Yorgos Prinos
Hanging Rock, New Heaven 2010
Pigment Print
Right: Iris Touliatou
Crash! 2018
Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Rallou Panagiotou
They were told they get burning hot (With leather trousers) 2017
Aluminium, iron, Volkswagen and Alfa Romeo car paint and leather trousers
180 x 91 x 17 cm
Courtesy of the artist and Bernier/Eliades gallery, Athens
Elena Narbutaitė
Billy 2018
Lume 20R luminaire produced by Ledigma
Elena Narbutaitė
Billy 2018
Lume 20R luminaire produced by Ledigma
detail
Iris Touliatou
Emothinal infinity (the sound of him coming back amplified and looped) 2016
Electric fan, copies of keys, metal wires, ribbons, Element- system shelf, glass
100x40x30 cm
Kostis Velonis
Crackling love 2018
Ceramic, concrete, wood, steel, marble, plaster, plastic
30x22 cm
Iris Touliatou
Crash! 2018
Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Iris Touliatou
Crash! 2018
Flora, vibrators, batteries, electrical cables, wooden pedestal
Left: Yorgos Prinos, Man with hood New York 2014
Pigment Print
Right: Yorgos Prinos, 5.13.2013 - 3.01 P.M, New York 2014
Pigment Print
Kostis Velonis
Displacement of the self 2018
Wood, concrete, acrylic
72x28x240 cm
Iris Touliatou
Song 2007-2009 Attempts to forge Ana Mendieta’s signature
various media
70x100 cm
Christos Tzivelos
Le rayon x 1985
Bright File (June)
4 October – 27 October 2018
Works by: Elena Narbutaite, Rallou Panagiotou, Yorgos Prinos, Iris Touliatou, Christos Tzivelos, Kostis Velonis
Curated by Maya Tounta
The show has a lifetime of several hundred hours.
When heated, it glows with visible light.
‘Le Rayon X’ and ‘Six Heures avant l'été’ (1980) by legendary Greek artist Christos Tzivelos (1949-1995) were the starting point for this show that centres on light but isn't about light. Felt as an effigy for June – not the proverbial month but those 30 days in 2018 – the show brings together works by Elena Narbutaitė, Rallou Panagiotou, Yorgos Prinos, Iris Touliatou, Christos Tzivelos and Kostis Velonis to make pronouncements on a raw, fertile state, which hasn't been assigned a name. In a sense, the show is about looking for wild love (Amour Fou), the alchemical Rebus (the androgynous being that fuelled Jung's individuation fantasies) or some other feeling of wholeness. It is also about processes that suspend this longing – stretch it out, preserve it, cast it, antagonise it, take its place even, until it is exhausted. Works are plugged in, hung, projected. Slowly they accumulate heat from the sun or from within the wall. Alchemically, we could say they begin as stars (those made of herbs) and planets (iron, copper, silver, gold) which young are black, orbiting in the dark. As they slowly grow and grow warmer, they turn yellow, then white, then finally become fully transmuted into a red, at which point they fluoresce.
Big thanks to Bia Papadopoulou and Christophoros Marinos for sharing their extensive research on the work of Christos Tzivelos and to Giannis Tzivelos for generously lending us the works of his uncle.
Photos : Athanasios Gatos
Photographer: Stathis Mamalakis