EXPO ‘‎Hidden curriculum’ – during the MJW 2018 – Atelier Cepissakova, Munich (DE) – 8-11 Mars 2018

 

« ‎Hidden curriculum »

Contemporary jewelry exhibition inside   Munich Jewellery Week  (7–10 March 2018)

Popeye loves Olive  Art Space hosts an exhibition platform during Munich Jewellery Week by inviting a group of 14 Greek artists to meet the Mexican artist Jorge Manilla and to develop a joint project on Hidden Curriculum, Identity and Proxemics. 

Opening: Thursday 08/03/18 @19.00 – 22.00

Participating Artists:    Jorge Manilla – Aggelika Diplari – Aggelos Konstantakatos – Anna Vlahos – Antria Prasinou – Artemis Valsamaki – Erato Kouloubi – Ioli Livada –  Joanna Grigoriou – Liana Pattihis – Marina Zachou – Niki Stylianou – Xenia Deimezi – Yakinthi Oikonomou – Yiota Vogli

 

 » Hidden Curriculum*
The Hidden curriculum consists of teaching items which are not officially intended and developed by school and educational system. The educational authorities use the concepts of “hidden curriculum” and “invisible curriculum” to explain teachings and attitudes influenced by these implicit factors (Alavi, Abdollahi and Ahmadi, 2008).
With the intention to explore behaviors, perspectives and attitudes, that the participants adopt during their learning process, in an independent way outside of an institution.
For this exhibition we have decided to take the idea of a Hidden Curriculum and explore in a free but very careful way, issues like gender roles, morals, social class, stereotypes, cultural expectations and personal language.
According to the Austrian artist and architect Hundertwasser, we have five layers of skin. From the innermost to the furthest from the centre: Epidermis, Clothes, Houses, Identity and Earth. Each layer (skin) defines and interacts with the whole human entity.
According to Proxemics, we arrange objects and ourselves in relation to space as it makes us feel more or less comfortable. Individuals naturally maintain a separation that relates to environmental and cultural factors but also to social and interpersonal situations. One could say that proxemics is separated in Intimate, Personal, Social and Public Space/Skins. Moreover, all layers of Space/Skins interact, affect and define each other.
Most importantly, it should be underlined; the above studies claim that Identity is created by social interplay.
According to history, Jewelry serves as a primary means of conveying cultural values. Traditionally, jewels were seen as sacred and precious; however, from the beginning of the 20th century, jewelry has started to be objectified. Jewelry as a result of all human social interactions becomes a product of non-verbal communication.
The process, through which a piece of jewelry is created, is totally connected with the cultural and social background of each jewelry artist. From the selection of materials to the final product, it is needed that all different possibilities and perspectives of this act to be explored.
On the other hand, the viewer interacts both with the maker and the wearer of a piece of jewelry; as jewelry narrates stories and communicates feelings and Identities. 
By comparing fourteen Greek jewelry artists’ work in opposition to that of a Mexican artist and educator; this exhibition seeks to collect information on how hidden curriculum, proxemics and identity are expressed through jewelry.
What kind of space occupies the work of each artist? What kind of skin it represents? « 

 

Yiota Vogli Dialogue I Νecklace / Ruthenium plated bronze, alpaca, paper pulp, grains, oxidations

Yiota Vogli. Brooch: Dialogue, 2017. silver, alpaca, hand painted silver, paper pulp, acrylics, cotton.

Yakinthi Oikonomou. Brooch: Veresé, 2017. Argentium silver, bronze, stainless steel.. Photo by: Orestis Rovakis.

Yakinthi Oikonomou Home sweet home Brooch / Argentium silver, stainless steel

Xenia Deimezi. Feed-me  Necklace / Latex, cotton & polyester thread, brilliant cut diamond  - Photo by: Aimilia Balaska. From series: into existence

Niki Stylianou.   Landscape #3  - Necklace / Hand cut and hand stitched leather, thread, copper, pigments, patina  

Niki Stylianou - Necklace: Mapping: traces made solid, 2017 - Copper, bronze, pigments, patina, cord. - Photo by: Niki Stylianou

Antria Prasinou. - Ephemeral Body - Neckpiece / Copper, rice paper, ink, silver, pigments, silk thread  

Antria Prasinou - Brooch: Liberate the Senses, 2017 - Copper, rice paper, ink, silver, pigments, silk thread. - Photo by: Konstantinos Kostopoulos

Liana Pattihis - Necklace: Shades of Black, 2017 - Copper wire, silver chain, enamel. 89 cm  Photo by: Liana Pattihis

Erato Kouloubi Food Victim 1 Brooch / Pasta, acrylics, pigments, silver

Erato Kouloubi - Brooch: Food Victim, 2018 - Pasta, acrylics, pigments, silver. Photo by: Erato Kouloubi

 Aggelika Diplari. - Garden  Brooches - Wood, argentium silver, pigments, patina 

Ioli Livada  -  Brooch: Untitled, 2017-2018 - Bronze, corn leaves, pigments, threads, sterling silver. Photo by: Fanis Logothetis

Ioli Livada - Brooch: Imaginary Flowers 5, 2018 - Bronze, corn leaves, pigments, threads, sterling silver.

Joanna Grigoriou Fragments 3 Brooch / Wood, resin, pigments, stainless steel  

Anna Vlahos Meander 1 Brooch / Sterling silver, stainless steel

Artemis Valsamaki - Brooch: Keep the Faith, 2017 - Copper, silver, acrylic paint. - Photo by: Alexis Kamitsos

 

Jorge Manilla - Insides  Brooch / Wood, cochayuyo, copper steel

Jorge Manilla  Object: Untitled, 2018 - Cochayuyo, rubber. - Photo by: Christian Tviberg

 

 

 

Atelier Cepissakova 
Ligsalzstrasse 29
80339 Munich / München, Deutschland
- Thursday 08.03.18 [10.00 – 17.00]
OPENING: 19.00 – 22.00
- Friday 09.03.18: [10.00 – 18.00]
- Saturday 10.03.18 [10.00 – 13.00]
- Sunday 11.03.18 [11.00 – 16.00]Contact:
Erato Kouloubi
[e-mail]
[phone]http://www.munichjewelleryweek.com/event/hidden-curriculum/

ATHENS JEWELRY WEEK (AJW) 2017 –Central EXPO ‘Art + Jewelry : Intersecting Spaces’ – Benaki Museum, Athens (GR) – 18-21 May 2017

ATHENS JEWELRY WEEK 2017

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Central Exhibition  « Art + Jewelry : Intersecting Spaces«   at Benaki Museum

οpening THURSDAY 18/5 at 19h

The central exhibition titled « Art + Jewel: Intersecting Spaces » is hosted by the Benaki Museum of Piraeus Str. and has exclusivity
in participation of 48 selected artists of contemporary jewelry from Greece and abroad. Also this year, the important German artist Peter Bauhuis honors the event as a guest and exhibits his work in the central exhibition area.

  the Selected Individual Artists 2017  are :

Aggelika Diplari – Greece // Angelos Konstantakatos – Greece // Akis Goumas – Greece //  Angela Malhues – Chile //  Anna Vlahos – Greece/Australia // Antria Prasinou – Greece //  Christine Jalio – Finland //  Daniella Saraya -Israel // Demitra Thomloudis – USA // Georgia Gremouti – Greece // Hao-Han-Jhang – Taiwan // Ioli Livada – Greece // Irina Siman/Wundervenus – Belarus //  Iryna Voitenko – Ukraine // Isabelle Busnel -France-UK //  Kätrin Beljaev – Estonia //  Kristine Nuke Pantelejeva – Latvia // Liana Pattihis – UK/Cyprus // Magali Thibault Gobeil – Canada //  Maria Tsimpiskaki - Greece // Martina Dempf – Germany // Melina Lindroos – Finland //  Mika Kaskantami – Greece // Sara Chyan – Hong Kong  // Snem Yildirim – Turkey // Sol Flores – Argentina // Stefania Sioufa – Greece //  Yakinthi Oikonomou – Greece //  Yiota Vogli – Greece

Invited talented child: Rafail Kasteroudis – Greece / Ραφαήλ Καστερούδης

Guest Artist:  Peter Bauhuis – Germany

Selected Students:
Carla Movia – Alchimia // Joanna Grigoriou – Anamma Studio // Laura Salguero – EASD Valencia // Siri Sandell – Oslo National Academy of Arts // Xan – EASD Valencia // Yuxi Sun – Idar Oberstein

 GUEST ARTIST - Peter Bauhuis  « NEOPHYSALIA » Brooch Bronze

Invited talented child: Rafail Kasteroudis – Greece – « Armour Jewelry »  Hand piece – Aluminium, imitation gold leaf, beads, plastic

*Akis Goumas - « Θραύσμα Μοναχό » Brooch Silver, turtle shell, steel, colouring agentsAntria Prasinou - « Only a word matters » Brooch Paper, ink, silver, threads, cane

Maria Tsimpiskaki – « Armatures and Shadows: the Traces of Being » #1 Bracelet Sterling silver, bronze, pigment, pvc, sea anemone finding

 Yiota Vogli -  SHADOWS collection – the birds

Aggelika Diplari - « Surfaces of Time » Brooch Wood, argentium silver, pigments, stainless steel, varnishes

 Ioli Livada  – « Imaginary Flowers » #3 – Brooch Dried aubergine peel, corn leaf, bronze, silver, sponge, threads, acrylic paint

 Christine Jalio  « Past, Loss, Future » #5  Pendant Silk clay, silver, wireDaniella Saraya. – « Re-Cover » Necklace Silver, quartz crystals, epoxy, marble powder, wood, paintHao-Han Jhang - « Burgeon » #1- Brooch Copper, brass, mineral powderIryna Voitenko - “Subtle Truth” Necklace Silk, leather, threads, porcelain

Irina Siman/WUNDERVENUS  « Temple »  Ring Silver casted Isabelle Busnel - Brooch Silicone, rhinestones, pearls, magnet 2017

Anna Vlahos  « Bkack Saw » Brooch Oxidised silver, stainless steel

Angelos Konstantakatos.- « Hidden perspectives: Olindi » Brooch Fruit – Carpus, resin, color, oxidized silver

 Angela Malhües – « Death Come Get My » Brooch_Necklace Copper, leather, silver, vitreous enamels, textile, threads

 Magali Thibault Gobeil Joaillière - « Candy Dots » Brooch Polyurethane, vinyl, cord, magnet

 Melina Lindroos - « Hiding Places » #2 Brooch Satin, avocado skin, stainless steel Liana Pattihis - « Offerings-Τάματα » #2 from 18 Ring Vintage ring, beeswax church candle, acrylic paint

 Kristine Nuke-Pantelejeva  « Looking for Atlantida » #2 Pendant Porcelain, hemp cord, silver details

 Stefania Sioufa - « Scene of the Mind » Brooch Silver, pigments, cement, brass sheets, resin, sand, plaster

Yakinthi Oikonomou - « Home Sweet Home » Brooch Αrgentium silve, bronze, stainless steel

Georgia Gremouti - « Corpus Colonies II » Brooch Silk, silver, steel

Sol Flores  « Impractical Fleet » #3  Ring Wood, plastic, silver

Mika Kaskantami.- « The maquettes » #5 Necklace Polymeric clay, alpaca

Demitra Thomloudis – « Over the Fence » excerpt from CrossPass project 35 brooches + video projection + audio Cement, resin, brass, steel, pigment, graphite pencil

 

Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe / 138 Pireos & Andronikou St., tel. [phone], www.benaki.gr
opening hours: Fri-Sat-Sun: 11.00 – 21.00, Thurs: 11.00 – 23.00

 

 

ATHENS JEWELRY WEEK (AJW) 2017 – general schedule – Athens (GR) – 18-21 May 2017

ATHENS JEWELRY WEEK 2017

AJW 2017 on Facebook

Contemporary jewelry meets the Athenian audience in a 4-day art event with international participations.

For a second year in a row, Athens Jewelry Week opens its doors to welcome its guests. The objective of this new and dynamic institution is to present to the Greek audience the trends and the rich diversity of contemporary art jewelry, as they have been evolving in Greece and abroad.

In the framework of the international jewelry scene, the organization constitutes the Greek presence on the world map of equivalent art events with an ever increasing interest. AJW 2017 covers four days of exhibitions, lectures and workshops, highlighting contemporary jewelry creators, their art and their authentic work.

The central exhibition titled “Art + Jewelry: Intersecting Spaces” is hosted this year by the Benaki Museum (Pireos Annexe) and it aims to present the exceptional work of 48 selected artists. The influential German jewelry maker Peter Bauhuis, invited as a guest artist, will honor the event with his presence, by exhibiting his work in the main exhibition hall and by opening the lectures program.

AJW 2017 also includes 5 group exhibitions that will take places in various venues around Athens, lectures and seminars. The closing of the event will be marked by the awards ceremony. Awards will be given by international institutions/entities that are active in the contemporary jewelry field.

Athens Jewelry Week – organized by Anticlastics, a group of contemporary jewelry creators – aims, among other things, at introducing the art of contemporary jewelry to the broader public. It is addressed to artists and art aficionados of all ages and backgrounds, but mostly to all those who love contemporary art jewelry and want to learn more about it. Because -as the poet W.B. Yeats would say- « The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper ».

 

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For the Central Exhibition « Art + Jewelry : Intersecting Spaces«  at Benaki Museum the Selected Individual Artists 2017  are :

Aggelika Diplari – Greece // Angelos Konstantakatos – Greece // Akis Goumas – Greece //  Angela Malhues – Chile //  Anna Vlahos – Greece/Australia // Antria Prasinou - Greece //  Christine Jalio – Finland //  Daniella Saraya -Israel // Hao-Han-Jhang – Taiwan // Ioli Livada – Greece // Irina Siman/Wundervenus – Belarus //  Iryna Voitenko – Ukraine // Isabelle Busnel -France-UK //  Kätrin Beljaev – Estonia //  Kristine Nuke Pantelejeva – Latvia // Liana Pattihis – UK/Cyprus // Magali Thibault Gobeil - Canada //  Maria Tsimpiskaki - Greece //  Martina Dempf – Germany // Melina Lindroos – Finland //  Mika Kaskantami – Greece // Sara Chyan – Hong Kong  // Snem Yildirim – Turkey // Sol Flores – Argentina // Stefania Sioufa – Greece //  Yakinthi Oikonomou – Greece //  Yiota Vogli - Greece

 « ART + JEWELRY: INTERSECTING SPACES » EXHIBITION
18 – 21 MAY 2017 @ BENAKI MUSEUM – 138 PIREOS STR.

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SCHEDULE

 

THURSDAY , 18/5

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19.00 : οpening : Art + Jewelry : Intersecting Spaces (group exhibition)
@Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe / 138 Pireos & Andronikou St., tel. [phone], www.benaki.gr
Dates: 18/5 – 21/5, opening hours: Friday, Saturday & Sunday 11:00-21:00

 

 

FRIDAY, 19/5

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11.00-15.00 : workshop : Anamma studio / contemporary jewelry seminars
@Benaki Museum (Pireos St. Annexe) / 138 Pireos & Andronikou St. /  tel. [phone], www.benaki.gr
for reservations ([phone], www.anamma.gr

18.00 : opening : +Apantima
@Krama School of Contemporary Jewelry / Evrou 9 Str., 11528, Athens / tel. [phone]
www.kramainstitute.com
Dates: 19/5 – 21/5, opening hours: Fri-Sat-Sunday: 11.00 – 21.00

 

19.30 : opening : “Worthless” by Arkivet Collective (group exhibition)
@IOS22 Creative Gallery (art + architecture) / Tzaferi 10, 11854, Gazi / tel. [phone]
www.ios22.com
Dates: 19/5 – 21/5, opening hours: Friday: 12.00 – 21.00, Saturday: 11.00 – 19.00, Sunday: 11.00 – 17.00

21.00 : opening : JOYA Barcelona (fair)
@The Sowl / Herakleidon 10, Thiseio / tel. [phone]
www.thesowl.com
Dates: 18/5 – 21/5, opening hours: Thurs-Fri: 16.00-02.00, Sat: 11.00-03.00, Sun: 11.00-00.00

A COCKTAIL PARTY WILL FOLLOW

 

 

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SATURDAY, 20/5

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11.00 – 15.00: lectures
@Benaki Museum, Main Building / 1 Koumbari St. & Vas. Sofias Ave. / tel. [phone] / www.benaki.gr

Peter Bauhuis – Jewelry Artist: “Armillaria, Arithmeticians and other Amazements”
Georgia Gremouti – Visual Artist: “Poly-folds – expanding the dimensions”
Juan Riusech – Founder of Alliages Organization & Gallery : “Back to the future, a jewel history”
Marianne Gassier – Blogger / Collector: “Jewelry, a NEED for life”

 

19.00 : opening : “The after Joya effect IV” (group exhibition)
@Popeye Loves Olive Art-Space / 5 Limbona str., 10560, Ag. Irinis Square / tel. [phone]
www.popeyelovesolive.com
Dates: 18/5- 6/6, opening hours: Tues-Sat: 12.00-20.00, Sun: 12.00 – 17.00

 

21.00 : opening : “Difference” by Jonathan Hens & Dimitar Stankov (group exhibition)
@Six D.o.g.s / 6-8 Avramiotou str., Monastiraki 10551, Athens / tel. [phone] / www.sixdogs.gr
Dates: 19/5- 21/5, opening hours: Friday, Saturday : 12.00 – 19.00, Sunday: 12.00 – 17.00

 

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SUNDAY, 21/5

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17.00 – 19.00 : awards : 
The Anticlastics Award
The Benaki Award
The Alchimia Award
@Benaki Museum, Pireos St. Annexe / 138 Pireos & Andronikou St. / tel. [phone] / www.benaki.gr

 

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EXPO ‘Pump Up The Volume’ (during AJW) – Underflow, Athens (GR) – 30 Juin-3 Juill. 2016

ATHENS JEWELRY WEEK 2016

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Pump Up The Volume // Contemporary jewelry exhibition

Organizer: Anamma Contemporary Jewelry Studio
Curating: Anastasia Kandaraki
Opening: 30/6 at 21:00

 

Pump Up The Volume
CONTEMPORARY JEWELRY EXHIBITION

Music sets the rhythm and vinyl becomes the material; or the other way round. Music becomes the material and vinyl sets the rhythm for 17 improvisations on contemporary jewelry; tango-like brooches, rock-inspired necklaces, electro-bracelets. Tap your foot to the beat, prick up your ears and take a look on what’s happening when sound becomes the reason and starting point of inspiration. Seventeen creators and 17 music tracks “playing loud” in an exhibition that won’t leave anyone at peace: Pump Up The Volume.

Participants:  Jenny Antonopoulou — Maro Vasileiadou — Ariadni Gaitani — Ioanna Grigoriou — Ioanna Dimitrakopoulou — Roula Kallinikou — Maria Koutmani — Angelos Konstantakatos — Angeliki Madi — Sevi Mavrelou — Mary-Zoe Moustakoudi — Elli Xippa — Yakinthi Oikonomou — Elena Pappa — Anna Pervolaraki — Penny Stroumbou — Chrysa Chatzikonstantinidou

 

Elli Xippa EL CHOCLO Brooch. Vinyl PVC, vinyl fabric, silver, alpaca. (photo Orestis Rovakis)

Elli Xippa necklace Vinyl PVC

Elli Xippa necklace Vinyl PVC

 

 

 

Underflow Record Store & Art Gallery
Kallirois 39,
117 43 Athènes – Greece
[phone]
[e-mail]

Opening hours: 11:00 – 21:00
Venue: Underflow record store & art gallery (39, Kallirois Street, Sygrou-Fix)

www.anamma.gr / [e-mail]

 

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EXPO ‘Hidden Wor-l-ds’ (during AJW) – Ismos gallery, Athens (GR) – 1er-4 Juill. 2016

ATHENS JEWELRY WEEK 2016

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Hidden Wor-l-ds Contemporary Jewellery Exhibition

Opening: 1 July 2016_18:00

in Athens during the ATHENS JEWELRY WEEK 2016 (AJW)…..
Dates:1-4 July 2016_18:00-22:00
http://athensjewelryweek.com/

 

“Hidden wor(l)ds”
Three women artists of contemporary jewellery form the group “Cluster” and tell three different stories. Anastasia’s imaginary, hidden world of the gutters that woke up one night while the city was sleeping; Hara’s Mediterranean Polis that is washed not by a single, but my many seas; Yakinthi’s invisible world of contrasts with its brightest and darkest fragments.
The narration of three hidden worlds.
The group “Cluster” consists of Anastasia Agglopoulou, Hara Kourtali and Yakinthi Oikonomou

Hara Kourtali -  « Mare Nostrum », 2015 brooches wood  photo Orestis Rovakis

Hara Kourtali -  “Eastern Star” Ring Silver 

Anastasia Agglopoulou – « Just woke up » Rings Aluminium, melted, oxidised

Yakinthi Oikonomou “Diamond” Brooch Charcoal, silver, resin, alpaca, mixed technique

Anastasia Agglopoulou « I am here » brooch paper, colour, silver

 

Ismos
Efpatridon 17 & Triptopolemou,
Gazi
11854 Athènes
http://ismos.gr/

 

 

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EXPO ‘Confabulate’ – Popeye loves olive, Athens (GR) – 5-18 Dec. 2015

CONFABULATE

at Popeye loves olive, 15 Greek jewelry designers confabulate with the Mexican artist Jorge Manilla by taking, as an inspiration, a piece of his work and making their own interpretation.

Opening: Saturday, December 5 at 20.00

 

Participating Artists:
Kalliopi Andrikopoulou — Kelly Arnaoutaki — Katerina Glyka — Xenia Deimezi –

Aggelika Diplari — Victoria Ioannidou – Erato Kouloubi — Vally Kontidis — Maria Koutmani —Ioanna Natsikou — Yakinthi Oikonomou — Antria Prasinou — Niki Stylianou — Yannis Tsalapatis — Iryna Voitenko

Niki Stylianou jewel – Jorge Manilla drawings – Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

   Victoria Ioannidou -  Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

Aggelika Diplari - Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

Iryna Voitenko -  Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

Erato Kouloubi  -  Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

Yakinthi Oikonomou  Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

Xenia Deimezi - Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos  

Kalliopi Andrikopoulou – Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

Katerina Glyka - Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

Yannis Tsalapatis  Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos 

 Maria Koutmani – Photo Credits: Alexis Kamitsos

During Jorge Manilla‘s visit to Athens we will have the pleasure to attend his presentation analyzing important aspects of his work.
Lecture: Thursday, December 3 at 8 @ Popeye Loves Olive
Duration: 1 hour Jorge Manilla // Brooch – What do you want

 

Popeye loves olive
Libona 5, Plateia Agias Eirinis
10560 Athènes
tel [phone]
mail: [e-mail]
eratojewellery.com
popeyelovesolive.com

 

EXPO ‘Confabulate’ – Popeye loves olive, Athens (GR) – 5-18 Dec. 2015

Confabulate * Exhibition & Lecture

Jorge Manilla  

at Popeye loves olive, 15 Greek jewelry designers confabulate with the Mexican artist Jorge Manilla by taking, as an inspiration, a piece of his work and making their own interpretation.

Opening: Saturday, December 5 at 20.00

 

Participating Artists:
Kalliopi Andrikopoulou — Kelly Arnaoutaki — Katerina Glyka — Xenia Deimezi – Angelika Diplari — Victoria Ioannidou – Erato Kouloubi — Vally Kontidis — Maria Koutmani — Ioanna Natsikou — Yakinthi Oikonomou — Antria Prasinou — Niki Stylianou — Yannis Tsalapatis — Iryna Voitenko

During Jorge Manilla‘s visit to Athens we will have the pleasure to attend his presentation analyzing important aspects of his work.
Lecture: Thursday, December 3 at 8 @ Popeye Loves Olive
Duration: 1 hour

 Jorge Manilla // Neckpiece – My love for you was true

Jorge Manilla // Neckpiece – You were always looking for someone else

 Jorge Manilla // Brooch – What do you want

 

Jorge Manilla // Brooch – It was not just coincidence..

Jorge Manilla / Brooch – Nobody is important for you / Me seguraste que tu no eras asi

Jorge Manilla / Ring – I just gave to you the best of me…

 

Popeye loves olive
Libona 5, Plateia Agias Eirinis
10560 Athènes
tel [phone]
mail: [e-mail]
eratojewellery.com
popeyelovesolive.com

During SCHMUCK 2015 – EXPO ‘Mythen/Myths 2015′ – Galerie Weltraum, Munich (DE) – 11-17 Mars 2015

«Mythen/Myths 2015» A contemporary insight in precious Greece

Galerie Weltraum

Opening: 11 March, 7 – 10 p.m.

Sofia Zarari  -  « Chronos », 2013, Photo credit: Myrto Koutoul

Thirteen visual artists, architects and designers and four guest stars turn their daily experience in Greece into jewellery: family violence, mother’s Alzheimer, unconditional love, negation of death, bankruptcy, androgynous sexuality, Charlie hebdo’s impact on freedom of speech etc.
Exhibits make part of a sculptural, walk-in installation reminding of a broken ancient Greek temple or a human-sized trap, a double symbol for the Greek crisis. Daily art performances inspired by contemporary Greek culture reflect on archaic uses of jewellery.

« The Greek drama is taking place right now, almost a third of the young do not have a job, many people live hard lives. Their hardships can be connected to the suffering that heroes from the great Greek stories underwent. Our contemporary dramas both in world politics as in our personal lives resemble those tragedies described in the great Greek theater.
We lose a loved one, we encounter unfaithfulness, we are in warlike situations due to real war or we seem to be in a battle to keep our health or sanity and all of us cope with these things in different ways. All these themes are expressed in the great Greek myths. Every Greek is steeped in her or his heritage as I know from having travelled many times in Greece.
For the artists of this show their Greek background is a focal point that one can always go back to. In the jewelry and other art, made by the exhibiting artists the Greek myth has been an enormous rich well to draw from as you will see.  »
Marietta de Bruïne, Art historian, Amsterdam.

Artists: Katerina Glyka — Christina Karababa — Anna Kitsou –  Maro Kornilaki — Yakinthi Oikonomou — Sofia Paschou — Loukia Richards — Heleni Siousti — Margarita Skokou — Eleftheria Spantidaki — Systemalab (Sofia Daniilidou) — Konstantina Tzavidopoulou — Marianna Tzouti — Sofia Zarari

Guest artists: Eugenia Feroussi — Elina Kakourou — Katerina Kolonellou — Sofia Paschou.

Yakinthi Oikonomou, Bonds, 2014, Photo by Orestis Rovakis

Yakinthi Oikonomou  - »Tough love », Mixed technique, Canelloni, paper, silver, 2014 Photo credit: Orestis Rovakis

SYSTEMALAB Ring: Peristerionas 3D printed Rings, 2013 Photo by: SYSTEMALAB

Loukia Richards, « Pornogirls/Sirens », 2013 Photo credit: Christoph Ziegler

Anna Kitsou, “Kyklikos Chronos” (“Κυκλικός χρόνος”), 2012, Ρhoto credit: Giannis Seferos – Anna Kitsou’s reference to aesthetics can be traced back to the Neolithic settlements, the Acropolis of Tiryns with the Cyclopean Walls, the Cycladic idols or the harmonious aerial photographs of excavations.  Her jewellery reflects magic rituals and the hope of humankind that with fire, gemstones and knots can gain control over destiny. Long before the construction of houses, roads, airplanes or refrigerators, mortals created jewellery to give them strength to confront not only enemies of the terrestrial world, but also the demons from beyond.  Jewellery was a companion for eternity, emphasizing faith in immortality.
“Each piece is a journey through land, water and fire… My inspiration is the Earth, Greece and cultures,” says the young designer and ceramist.

Mix & match of shapes and materials by Maro Kornilakh

Heleni Siousti « Synapsis/Alzheimer ». Work in progress  2015 -

Helices or spirals are characteristic patterns of ancient Greek jewellery. They symbolize the moon, mazes, snails, snakes, ebb and flow, cyclical time, regeneration, perpetual motion, echo, appearance and disappearance, consciousness and unconsciousness, memory and oblivion, even the human brain itself.
The jewellery of Helen Siousti, often unfinished or imperfect, signifies memory fading away due to Alzheimer disease.
It illustrates the pain of those who, unable to act, watch their loved ones crossing the river of Lethe while being alive. Her pieces are relics of beautiful, powerful moments – the offspring of the unknown future and love.
Heleni Siousti uses her art to unite robust remembrances with glimpses of memory in an attempt to explain how fragile and vulnerable we become through the memory of what has been and will not be — no more.
She hauls childhood fears to the surface, fears which become alive as our parents walk slowly, but steadily, towards the dark forest of fairy tales while we – like helpless Hop-o’-My-Thumbs – have only crumbs in our pockets to help them trace the path leading back to us…
Heleni Siousti studied Economics in Athens and worked in the private sector. She is an acrtive member of the ecological movement in her home town Kozani in Macedonia.

Peace man!  -  Christina Karababa, « Bang-Bang 1″, 2014 Photo credit: Christina Karababa

and should god Hephaestus, the famous blacksmith of Olympus, continue making weapons and jewellery in his workshop, he would possibly use a 3D printer.
Renowned for its decoration and apotropaic/defensive perfection is the shield Hephaistos made for Achilles.
Bang bang!
The sound of the gun in comic strips suits the myth of revolutionary subversion of aesthetics standards.
Such myths are endlessly created by fashion and technology in modern urban centers.
Everything goes, but in a different way…
« In my work I mould odd objects with contradictions as far as their operation, meaning and interpretation are concerned. These items should be conceived mostly as comments, as toys or as dangerous and naive fantasies, » writes Christina Karababa.
The artist teaches in Applied Science University Düsseldorf. She has held numerous individual and group exhibitions and co-curated the international art jewellery meeting « Zimmerhof Symposium » in 2014.

Katerina Glyka  – « Lethal Jewellery » -  « war-like jewellery » of Katerina Glyka which has as starting point scenographic imitations of archaic weapons made with the technique of paper mache and ends up being potentially lethal tools made from cement.

 

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