Rooms 2010 exhibition from Kappatos Art Gallery at St George Lycabettus Hotel

Kappatos Gallery hosts from today (1st December 2010) till the 19th December 2010, for eleventh time since 1999 the annual contemporary art exhibition “ROOMS 2010” at St. George Lycabettus Hotel, in Kolonaki area.

Each one of the 25 curators, historians & art theorists, architects, theatrologists, select a newly appeared artist or art team who will be presented in the rooms of one of the hotels' floors. 30 Greek and foreign artists participate with paintings, sculptures, sound, photographic and scenographic installations, architectural projects, design, performance, projections, films and other artworks.

Each one of the rooms is transformed in the artist's personal environment. Is thus given the opportunity of presenting and recording the modern tendencies and proposals in the Arts in order to create an essential and fertile dialogue.

The choice of a different space, that of a hotel, for the organisation of this exhibition, was made so as each artist to work autonomously in the same space as well as the modern artwork to claim and to occupy its own personnel, private and simultaneously public space, in complete equivalence and harmony with the character and the meaning for today.

The hotel space is a characteristic mass space with concrete structure, operation and social role. A space of visit, rest, meeting, acquaintance, communication. In its familiar way of operation, where “foreigners” are living for some time and city citizens pass certain hours of their free time, we also add an other dimension, that of artwork hospitality. Thus the social role of the hotel is extended and it acquires a cultural and communicational character and becomes a step of artistic expression and interaction with the wide public that will visit and "co-live" with the artworks.

For many of the artists, the marvellous and hospitable space of St George Lycabettus Hotel that can be found in the city center of Athens, constitutes an occasion in order to create works special for this exhibition, works that are connected with the operations and the role of “hospitable space”. The St George Lycabettus Hotel, is interested in hosting cultural activities and participates for umpteenth time in this organisation.

Exhibition opening Wednesday 1st December 2010, 20.00 – 00.00

Exhibition duration 1st December 2010 till 19th December 2010.

Opening hours 16.00 – 22.00 all week.

Curators:

Christina Androulidaki, Christiana Galanopoulou, Irene Gerogianni, Gelly Grintaki, George Davos, Athena Exarhou, Dio Kagkelari, Margarita Kataga, Maria Kenanidou, Tassos Koutsouris, Yota Konstantatou, Areti Leopoulou, Maria Maragou, Sophia Mavroudi, Alexios Papazaharias, Helen Papaheliou, Constantine Patestos, Irene Savani, Harris Savvopoulos, Kostis Stafilakis, Fay Tzanetoulakou, Yannis Toumazis, Lina Tsikouta, Phil Watson.

Artists:

Athena Agorgianiti, Tessa Androutsopoulou, Antonis Volanakis, Extrude Architects (Dimitris Yuzepas, Panagiotis Yuliaris, Yannis Tsaras, Penny Chorafa), Cecilia Hultman, Elina Ioannou, Stelios Karamanolis, Lefteris Kiourtsoglou, Ersie Krouska, Yannis Malegiannakis, Vaggelis Matziris, Dimitris Mihalaros, Sophia Bebeza, Thanassis Paschalidis, Thodoris Prodromidis, Demetra Skiadopoulou, Nana Sachini, Marilia Stagouraki, Erato Tagaridi, Panayotis Tomaras, Ioanna Tsinividi, Martha Foka, Io Myrto Chaviara, Manolis Charkoutsis, Maria-Andromahi Chatzinikolaou, Antonis Choudalakis.

Source: Kappatos Gallery press release