ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture

E x h i b i t i o n

ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture (ATOPOS CVC) presents its new exhibition FULL OF LOVE, with artworks by Boris Hoppek and is curated by Vassilis Zidianakis and Angelos Tsourapas. FULL OF LOVE is part of ATOPOS’ new theme of research on the human body and sexual practices in the digital era.

FULL OF LOVE is based on ‘Bimbo’, a Character that expresses human sexuality in a society where each and every individual has its own unique and distinctive sexuality. This is an absolute sexually liberated world.

Autoerotism, Heterosexuality, Homosexuality, Sadomasochism, Fetishism, Crossdressing, Asexuality, form part of accepted love expressions in the FULL OF LOVE universe. Beyond all ethical labels, kinks or taboos there is a unique aphrodisiac blend for each and everyone. FULL OF LOVE is a pleasure manifesto where only one truth reigns; the pursuit of Love through a range of sexual practices.

German graffiti and street artist Boris Hoppek has continuously de-contextualised iconographic figures, taking them to a level of abstraction that allows him to address explicit political themes, such as immigration, racism, violence and sexual abuse. The variety of his work is unlimited; challenging every surface: taking his strong characters not only onto walls, but also on any material of everyday life. Hoppek draws quickly with a reduced line, using basic colors, thus creating his own character universe while using a very specific, often drastic visual language.

Hoppek has exhibited in galleries from Barcelona to Berlin. He participated in the exhibition ARRRGH! Monsters in Fashion organized by ATOPOS CVC, spring 2011, (Benaki Museum, Athens), while part of his work was featured in ATOPOS’ recent publication titled NOT A TOY. Fashioning Radical Characters (Pictoplasma Publishing, 2011).

In conjunction to FULL OF LOVE, ATOPOS CVC and LUST DECADE, a designer’s collective, are organising the theme contest ‘Boris Hoppek-Full of Love’. Through the interactive platform www.lustdecade.com the public will have the opportunity to vote for its’ two favorite Boris Hoppek drawings that will be printed in a limited edition T-shirts.

Exhibition’s opening days and hours: Friday, Saturday, Sunday: 12:00-20:00

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P u b l i c a t i o n

ATOPOS CVC presents the fully illustrated publication NOT A TOY. Fashioning Radical Characters, edited by Vassilis Zidianakis, ATOPOS CVC, published by Pictoplasma Publishing, Berlin, 2011.

This extensive, colourful compilation about the growing influence of Character design in fashion and art highlights an international scene of established and upcoming designers and artists, some of them represented in the exhibition. It features original essays by leading scholars in the field: Ginger Greg Duggan & Judith Hoos Fox founders of the international curatorial partnership C2, Jose Teunissen, professor at the ArtEZ Institute of the Arts, Arnhem, Francesca Granata curator and editor of Fashion Projects: A Journal on Art, Fashion and Visual Culture, Valerie Steele, chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York and Ted Polhemus anthropologist, curator and writer of the renowned book Streetstyle: From Sidewalk to Catwalk.

Pages: 354, Illus: fully coloured, Format: 23 x 33,6 cm
Binding: hardcover, price: 49,50 EUR / 39.50 GBP / 60 US$
ISBN: 978-3-942245-02-9, Available June 2011

Orders: Pictoplasma Publishing

Exhibition

RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion

curated by Vassilis Zidianakis and Stamos Fafalios

International Tour

Available from August 2010

30.04 - 01.08 2010

Zurich

MUSEUM
BELLERIVE

05.03 - 16.08 2009

Antwerpen

MODE
MUSEUM

11.10.08 - 02.02.09

Luxembourg

MUDAM
LUXEMBOURG

01.03 - 29.04 2007

Athens

BENAKI
MUSEUM

RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion is a spectacular and unique exhibition of paper garments from the ATOPOS collection, curated by Vassilis Zidianakis and Stamos Fafalios. The exhibition grew out of the trend for disposable paper clothing made fashionable in the United States and later in Europe during the Swinging Sixties. The essence of the collection consists of a large number of authentic and rare disposable paper dresses of the 1960s - possibly one of the largest paper dress collection in the world. The collection includes the Souper Dress (1968) after Andy Warhol; the Yellow Pages paper dress; paper dresses from the 1968 US election campaigns; and the Poster Dresses by American graphic designer Harry Gordon. This paper dress collection also acts as inspiration for commissioning new works of art and fashion from artists such as Howard Hodgkin, Robert Wilson, Angelo Plessas and Marcus Tomlinson (amongst others).
The ATOPOS collection also includes rare examples of paper Kamiko coats and paper underclothing of the Edo and Meiji periods from Japan, and also China. These pieces are examples of particularly beautiful craftsmanship and connect the history of paper clothing with the ‘paper’ fashion of the sixties.
The exhibition is constantly being enriched with rare additions of fashion items from designers such as Issey Miyake, Walter Van Beirendonck, A.F. Vandevorst and Helmut Lang. The exhibition examines the use of paper in modern fashion practices, through design, art, advertising, sound, video, catwalk shows and the actual creations of some of the most innovative designers of our times. Simultaneously, it places particular emphasis on the ephemeral, fragile, humble and poetic nature of paper garments, juxtaposing modern creations with paper garments from different cultures and civilizations. The exhibition does not conform to specific models; it seeks alternative ways of presentation. It is an exhibition that can change with each presentation; the staging can be adapted for each new space and new objects and updated research can be included at any time.
ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture, Athens and Barbican Centre are partners on the international tour of the collection, which is available from August 2010.
A fully illustrated catalogue featuring essays by Akiko Fukai, Kaat Debo, Lydia Kamitsis and Christoph Grunenberg among others, accompanies the touring exhibition.

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