Item Idem is presenting solo exhibition Method of Loci at Athen’s The Breeder, opening October 27 and running to November 28.
The Parisian-born, New York-based artist and co-founder of art collective Shanzhai Biennial is showing a video and sculptural installation that comes as part of The Breeder Residency program curated by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos. The curator’s accompanying essay describes the exhibition as “about everything that is happening right now”, and named after the Ancient Greek and Roman mnemonic device using spatial memory, or ‘memory palace’ as a method for efficient recall.
Referencing Bavarian King Ludwig II’s Neuschwanstein Castle, that in turn influenced Walt Disney’s iconic ‘Cinderella Castle’ and which the artist connects to Disney’s 2013 animation film Frozen, Duval arranges a collection of sourced mass-marketed products and packagings in what becomes an urgent catalogue or depiction of rampant consumerism. The videos on show include 2013 video collaboration ‘JOSS’ with Chinese artist and filmmaker Cheng Ran, and a new medium-length film called ‘NUII’.
Angelo Plessas is opening an “in situ neon installation”, ‘EXTROPIC OPTIMISMS’ at Athens’ The Breeder gallery, opening December 17 and running to November 1, 2016.
The Athens-based artist is the mind behind the nomadic residency/ dispersed art project The Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood for which he won the 2015 Deste Prize, and recently presented another solo exhibition, Mirage Machines, at the Greek gallery.
This latest installation will present at the building’s façade on Iasonos Street as part of THE BREEDER SKIN project and is inspired by the iconography Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, as well as the familiar symbols of the internet. Aiming to bring the past and present together in a “spontaneous narration of human history”, ‘EXTROPIC OPTIMISMS’ promises a talisman that will bring “new friends on instagram and facebook, it will discourage hackers multiple our likes and retweets and will exorcize bad connections”.
Angelo Plessas with Danai Anesiadou’s work, The Eternal Internet Brotherhood/Sisterhood (2015) @ Castello di Fosdinovo, July 6 to 15. Courtesy the artist.
Noam’s exhibition, Field of Ares, is the result of the artist’s four-week inaugural residency of the programme in the Greek capital, curated by Stamatia Dimitrakopoulos and marking the beginning of the residency’s collaboration with Romantso Cultural Center.
The exhibition showcases Noam’s latest paintings and installations reflecting a decade of research into the processes that “reinterpret digital image-making techniques within analog media, translating the tools of Photoshop—gradient fills, stamps, and alpha layers—into forms of painting.” Noam’s collaboration with Mykki Blanco kicks of the exhibition, which will run for one month until August 23.
Exhibitions and events of interest are more globally dispersed the week starting February 16. Highlights include a remotely assembled exhibition by Kareem Lotfy and political satirist Andeel at Cairo’s Nile Sunset Annex and A Form is a Social Gatherer group exhibition, featuring the likes of Adam Cruces, Tiril Hasselknippe, Philipp Timischl in Zürich.
Around London, Future Brown is playing the ICA, Slade students – including Sarah Boulton, Cristine Brache and Olga Koroleva – are presenting at Fictional Symposium at The Showroom and Patrick Staff is presenting at Chisenhale Gallery. In other UK cities Benedict Drew “& Friends” are performing Salon Dyslexic in Nottingham and Mat Jenner has an exhibition in Birmingham.
As for Berlin, Mirak Jamal and Santiago Taccetti are hosting a second Stoneroses exhibition, including the likes of Martin Kohout and Katharina Fengler, while elsewhere Angelo Plessas has a new solo exhibition in Athens and Leslie Kulesh is showing online with CosmoCarl.
