“Unspent white black color” exhibition

15:16:00 art , Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani , School of Fine Arts , University of Western Macedonia 0 Comments

It is the final days of a group exhibition with the title "Unspent white black color" that takes place at the main showroom of the Kozani Art Gallery. It is the result of a collaboration between the Municipal and Regional Theatre of Kozani and the School of Fine Arts of the University of Western Macedonia (Florina, Greece). The main goal of this collaboration was to signify the importance of culture in our society as there is always a relation of interaction and interdependence, between them. According to the organizers, it is this kind of relation that cultivates social bonds. The participant artists were called to use white and black colors for their artworks giving the sense of lack in means and expression. This minimalistic monochrome "gave birth" to a chromatic pluralism.

The young artists are: Evangelia Athanassiadou, Dimitris Andreosopoulos, Penelope Gaiti, Afrodite Grizi, Mara Dimopoulou, Glyka Dionyssopoulou, Marie Theofilou, Avetik Ioannidis, Katerina Karoulia, Kyriaki Kassi, Theodosia Kekeli, Maria Lagou, Nikos Marantidis, Harris Margaritis, Demetra Bairaktari, Thanassis Blioumis, Kyriakos Bournias, Demetra Xenaki, Chrysoula Xyneli, Georgios Pantazis, Sevasti Paschou, Irene Pouliassi, Argyris Rimos, Ioannis Robolas, Anna Maria Samara, Katerina Simitara, Christina Tzani, Maria Totou, Anastassia Trygouti, Maria Anastassia Tsiblaki, Foteini Flotsiou, Magda Christopoulou.

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Kontaki design at May Design Series 2015

15:20:00 conical tea set , design , furniture , Kontaki Design , London , May Design Series 0 Comments

Running from 17th to 19th May 2015 at ExCeL London, May Design Series is organized for a third year. May Design Series is the most commercially focused interiors trade event in the UK with British and international brands from over 20 countries participating in it. Among the exhibitors and in STAND A126 you will find Kontaki Design a newly established Greek company that exclusively designs and produces handcrafted objects and furniture.

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Spyros Kontakis with the Bottlefly, Mary photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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Chairman In Crisis, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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Baby Popeye, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

According to our notebooks, we know about Kontaki Design since 2011 when the mastermind behind the studio, Spyros Kontakis presented his creations at ERSI Gallery in an exhibition under the title 'MAN'. Unfortunately, back then we did not manage to dedicate a post about the talented man Spyros is and four years later we have certainly something to say - better late than never! - about the boost he made in his domestic and international career.

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Baby Popeye, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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J-Pop, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

Spyros Kontakis worked for 20 years as a musician and more specifically as a guitarist, counting several collaborations with Greek artists. In one of the innumerable interviews we read that he felt a discomfort by the lack of producing his own music and expressing himself so the best he could do was to cap off his career as a musician. A new chapter opens and he does not regret it at all. Kontaki Design is the mean to channel his creative energy and promote his philosophy. Kontaki Design conceives the object as a piece of art without losing its functional purpose. The team of the studio does not produce in mass, on the contrary each piece is unique and only a limited number of copies are produced with the finest material.

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Charmchair, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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Man, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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Soft Dough, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

The originality of the items he produces and his spontaneous personality draws the attention of some famous French gallerists. He is asked to present his objects in France and one of them buys the conical tea set. The set is presented to the chairperson of the FIGHT AIDS MONACO, HSH Princess Stephanie, who sets the item to the 2012 auction sale, an event organized annually with all benefits used to raise AIDS public awareness.

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Conical tea set, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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URL (you are lying), photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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My 7th grade teacher, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

Over the following years, Spyros Kontakis exhibits at the renowned ATHENS DESIGN PLAZA, at the gallery of the boutique hotel FRESH and at the Helene Nougaro Galerie in Paris (October 2014 to January 2015). The truth is that the items created by Kontakis tend to escape from the rigid design rules and forms.

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Natalie, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

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KonTalos, photo credit: Petros Avtzis courtesy: kontaki design

The designer confesses that "the art in furniture manufacturing is lost". His attempt is to create objects with character, quality and aesthetics. Objects that exude the designer's personality and suit in a magic way with that of the owner's.

Preadexhibition

15:39:00 arts , exhibition , Technohoros Art Gallery 0 Comments

TECHNOHOROS art gallery in collaboration with the owners of the Fotolio & Typicon present the "Preadexhibition" exhibition from April 24th to May 17th at the company's new building head office. The title of the exhibition derives from the words PRINT and READ with the main idea being on how typography, writing and reading are used from an artist within an artwork. 39 artists participate with more than 50 artworks including paintings, art-books, sculptures, installations and engravings.

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Artwork by Sarantis Gagas, courtesy Technohoros art gallery and the artist

Participants: Demosthenis Agrafiotis, Yannis Adamakis, Manolis Anastasakos, Nikolas Antoniou, Nikoletta Antonopoulou, Apostolos Yayiannos, Maria Giannakaki, Christos Giannakos, Giorgos Yotsas, Sarantis Gagas, Yannis Gourzis, Christie Grigoriou, Elisavet Dionyssopoulou, Franck Duval – FKDL, Dimitris Efeoglou, Apostolos Zolotakis, Eloizos Themistocleous, Michalis Katzourakis, Georgios Katsaggelos, Demos Kipouros, Harris Kondosphyris, Girgos Korbakis, Aggelika Korovessi, Eleni Krikki, Alexis Kyritsopoulos, Kostis (Triantafyllou), Thodoris Lalos, Alekos Levidis, Elena Marinou, Konstantinos Massos, Konstantinos Xenakis, Antonis Panagopoulos, Elena Papadimitriou, Akis Peirounidis, Eleni Ploumistou, Manolis Romantzis, Christos Santamouris, Dimitra Siaterli, Panagiotis Ferentinos.

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Artwork by Nikolas Antoniou, courtesy Technohoros art gallery and the artist

Fotolio & Typicon was co-founded in 2004 by Fotolio S.A and Typicon S.A, two companies which were already established in the Graphic Arts field. With this merger, the new company grew with regards to quality and productivity, and one integrated printing services production unit was created. The company handles pre-press, offset and digital offset printing and bookbinding, while for the past few years it also engages in packaging and custom packaging.

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Artwork by Harris Kondosphyris, courtesy Technohoros art gallery and the artist

Opening hours: Mo - Sa 10.00 - 15.00. Fotolio & Typicon (157-159 Kifissos Avenue, Agjos Ioannis Rentis, 18233 Athens, Greece). During May, there will be special viewings and talks on Saturdays. For more info you can contact Technohoros art gallery (tel. 2111823818, email. info@technohoros.org) or Fotolio & Typicon (tel. 216 6000500, email. info@fotolio.gr).

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Artwork by Georgics Katsaggelos, courtesy Technohoros art gallery and the artist

CAPSULA pendant by Lucie Koldová for BROKIS

16:49:00 Brokis , CAPSULA , design , Lucie Koldova , pendant light 0 Comments

Lucie Koldová is a prominent Czech designer CAPSULA and since 2010 she has collaborated with renowned BROKIS a lighting company that combines Bohemian glassblowing tradition and outstanding design. One of the products that draw our attention and we came up with Lucie's work is the CAPSULA pendant light. The lamp consists of two oval cylindric glass capsules one overlapping the other and merged into one single translucent form.

The combination of the outer shell made of crystal clear glass and the internal capsule of colored glass create an exciting game of shapes and an attractive optical 3D effect. The light source is tubular and small wooden side bases are used to connect it with the glass capsules. The side textile cords allow the CAPSULA lamp to be adjusted in various lengths and into different positions.

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Lucie Koldová (born 1983) upon completing her studies at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague in 2009, she moved to Paris and quickly established an international clientele. Her work, ever pure and charismatic, focuses on furniture, glass sculptures, timeless lighting collections, and objects of desire; her portfolio ranges from daily-use products, poetic gallery objects, and limited series pieces to conceptual and urban space designs. Lucie is known for her traditional craftsmanship, attention to detail, and appreciation of the different influences and cultures that meld together in the French and Czech capitals. She combines glass with other noble materials and likes pushing proportions to their very limits to achieve remarkable simplicity and elegance. In 2010, she was named Czech Grand Design Discovery of the Year and two years later she won the Designer of the Year Award and the Elle Decoration Award for best lighting. Currently, Lucie is Art Director at BROKIS.

3 different ways at Lola Nikolaou Gallery

16:54:00 Aphrodite Litti , arts , Christos Kalfas , exhibition , group exhibition , Lola Nikolaou Art Gallery , Thalia Gatzoulis 0 Comments

LOLA NIKOLAOU Art Gallery hosts from April 23rd till May 20th 2015 the exhibition "3 different ways". It is a group exhibition with the artworks of Christos Kalfas, Aphrodite Litti and Thalia Gatzoulis. As the artists say "it's an exhibition of 3 different co-existing monologues". Kalfa's fictional worlds, the metal structures of Aphrodite Litti, and the abstract paintings of Thalia Gatzoulis with the amorphous graphs and unforeseen imprints with chemical dyes and blood, they all constitute a collective installation with various narratives in dialogue.

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