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MEMEPLEX II



MEMEPLEX II (September 11 till October 9 - vernisage: September 25, 17.00 hrs) - Noorderstation Groningen - Satellite exhibition of Noorderlicht 2011 - In the space at the North-West side: an interactive audiovisual installation of Frans-Jan Wind and Apostolis Zolotakis.  In the space on the other side (South-East) of the station Zolotakis presents another installation: http://bit.ly/ovJrDX. 

 

Protest & Prominence

Satellite exhibition of Noorderlicht 2011 - SMAHK (City Museum for Contemporary Art) in Assen - September 11 till October 9
An exhibition with work of the artists: Jitske Hagens, Khiang H. Hei and Apostolis Zolotakis: http://bit.ly/qX91PF.


 

Eclectic affinities with the art of Phaedon Anastasiadis


Cultural Centre Melina - Curator: Eugenia Alexaki 

04.10.11 - 30.10.11

66 Iraklidon St. and Thessaloniki St. - Thissio - Athens - Greece

The exhibion will also take place at the Teloglion Foundation of Art in Thessaloniki in 2012.

 

Contemporary View - Ancient Cultures

Herakleidon Museum - Athens
25.06.2011 - 25.09.2011

In cooperation with Allard Pierson Museum and Stichting Beeldende Kunst Amsterdam


Inside the Black Box (installation)

Archaeology is related with time. As humanity travels through time, traces of existence are left behind and covered by earth, layer after layer. Apostolis Zolotakis, looks at today, through the eyes of an archaeologist of the future. Whereas nature, rituals and mysticism were components of ancient societies, contemporary society - though maybe still loosely attached to its roots - has turned to technology, artificial intelligence and manipulated products. Zolotakis questions these possible future witnesses of today's existence, and more specifically the ones concerning Greek contemporary culture. The artist refers to nature, to our memory of ancient Greek heritage and Christian faith, in relation to phenomena occurring in our times. In the 21st century, the meaning of knowledge and time is being reevaluated, as the power of technology increases. Fast information provides huge profits or causes incredible loss. Can we still keep up with what goes on inside the black box?

Curator: Alexandra Van der Staaij

Sound environment: Theo Abazis


Zolotakis' "Black Box" contains the testimonies of a bygone or upcoming future catastrophe and at the same time comprises a hubris, an insult toward God, not the old one who created humans "in his own image", but the new one, the monstrous fantasy of the greed of the international stock markets and the uncontrolled systems of profit production. In the exhibition's music the latter is symbolically called "Johnny" (a nickname of Dow Jones in the stock brokers' world) and like a new Dionysus lures his faithful followers to a seductive and frantic dance that only death can stop. [Theo Abazis]


Under the auspices of The Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Greece.






 

Paths of Memory

Hotel PortoParos art space, Paros, Greece
09.07.2011 - 10.09.2011

In cooperation with the Environmental and Cultural Park of Paros and the Festival of Paros


Paintings, sculpures, and light boxes.

www.parkoparos.gr
www.portoparos.gr






 

Pandemonium

22.07.2011 - 26.08.2011

Holland Tunnel Gallery, Paroikia, Paros island, Greece

Participating artists: Angiola Churchill, Susan Daboll, Fran Kornfeld, Claudia Lazzarini, Paulien Lethen, Richard Lethen, Alexandra Limpert, Bix Lye, Alice Meyer Wallace, Jan Mulder, Jacques Roch, Heleen Schuttevaer, Lliam Storm, Alexander Wuchterl, Apostlis Zolotakis.

(www.hollandtunnelgallery.com)






 

Construction - Deconstruction

14.1-23.3.2011   Herakleidon Museum, Athens

 

The artworks in this exhibition form a mysterious journey with, as starting point, the Digital Image, which in our time is rapidly and continuously evolving. Its use in communicating information is so dynamic that it often cancels out the information itself. Technology now surpasses nature although its original purpose was to serve as a means of representing nature. The use of computers in processing and altering a film or a photograph creates such fine results that a new reality is formed, which is even more “true” than the one the human eye captures when observing the world. The artist aims to demonstrate the real substance of this “new truth”.

Apostolis Zolotakis leads the observer into processes of transformation, allowing his creations to alternate between order and chaos. He researches the digital image, focusing on its structural elements, the dots. His compositions invite us to plunge in and research their structure, asking ourselves if we are witnessing a moment of construction or deconstruction.

Curator: Alexandra van der Staaij




Celluloid and Cigarettes

16.4-21.5.2010     CheapArt, Athens

We perceive the notion of Time mainly through the endless diversification of everyday images. The world is marked out primarily through the image and its constant changes are recognized especially through the image. The installation “Celluloid and Cigarettes” poses questions pertaining to the human journey in the river of time. The depiction of this course in art and technology, but also the reality itself sail together. In this journey, that possesses only horizon and not a return to its starting point, the human changes and along with him changes the whole of his environment. His ways, practices and his perception of them, their “storage” in the reservoir of world experience are being altered or they vanish. Parts of contemporary human take their place in the material and immaterial museum show-cases, are transported on the ship of time to the island of the past, sealing the end of an era, opening up new windows and hoisting the sails in the open horizon.