Newsletter No 11 |
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Opening |
| ZZZzzzZZZZ IN ATOPOS SHOBOSHOBO ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture 02.11 - 18.12.2010 Athens |
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The Cultural Organization ATOPOS Contemporary Visual Culture (ATOPOS cvc) launches its new space in the Metaxourgio district of Athens and invites you to discover it through the pioneering work of SHOBOSHOBO. The visitor is invited to explore the entire building through the interventions and installations created by the French artist.
The inhabitants of SHOBOSHOBO’s artistic universe and the principal characters of ZZZzzzZZZZ in ATOPOS are monsters. Humanoid figures, dismembered and disfigured, monstrous, naïve and sexy, delightful and violent, all belonging to a broader pop phenomenon, that of Contemporary Characters. SHOBOSHOBO has installed six "sleepy giants" in our new space which occupy most of the building. He also presents a series of prints and drawings in ink and felt tip pen and a specially commissioned mural in our meeting room that it was paint few days before the opening. The soundtrack of the exhibition has been composed by SHOBOSHOBO, especially for ZZZzzzZZZZ in ATOPOS and is a significant feature of the exhibition. Also the ATOPOS CVC presented the project Atopic Bodies [TWO]: Sianoise Twins, a sound performance created by SHOBOSHOBO in collaboration with the artist FREEKA.
© Photos Panos Kokkinias
ATOPOS’ new building which house SHOBOSHOBO’s work is located at 72 Salaminos Street, in the heart of the Metaxourgio District in Athens. It was an old abandoned house which was transformed into a contemporary professional space by the architectural company CF Company. In its original state it was a typical Athenian residence of 1912 with a yard, a loggia on the upper floor and neoclassical influences but also modern form quests of the time. With great respect for the original form of the building, the residence on Salaminos Street was renovated in a manner which managed to preserve the original form of the building reproducing the slightest detail with respect, while at the same time making it exude a modern esthetic. The building on Salaminos Street has been converted into a living organism: this is where ATOPOS’s offices and library are housed, and where the largest collection in the world of paper clothes that was presented in the exhibition “RRRIPP!!!! Paper Fashion” is kept, but it is also an exhibition space, a workshop and a meeting place for people and ideas.
The exhibition will be on display until 29 December 2010.
It will be open for the public on: Wednesdays 16:00 - 19:00 and Saturdays 12:00 - 16:00.
© Photos Panos Kokkinias