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HYDRA SCHOOL PROJECTS
present:
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Stelios Alexakis
Dimitrios Antonitsis
Christian Aschman
Tarjei Bodin Larsen
Ole Martin Lund BØ
Radu ComŞa
Konstantin Kakanias
Ryusuke Kido
Christina Koutsospyrou & Aran Hughes
Konstantinos Ladianos
Timos Leivaditis
Nate Lowman
Eva Mitala
Daniel Subkoff
Alex Tzannis
FRANZ WEST
june 22 – september 23, 2012
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Stelios Alexakis
Born in 1975 in Kournas, Crete. Lives and works in Athens and in Crete.
Studied History and Archeology at the University of Athens from 1991 to 1995, and post-graduated in
History of Art. From 2000 to 2005 he studied Painting and Mosaic at the School of Fine Arts in Athens.
Alexakis has shown his work in four solo exhibitions in Athens(2010), at the Hellenic Centre, London
(2008) and Geisai 14, Tokyo(March 2010).
He has taken part in 37 group exhibitions in Greece, United Kingdom and Japan.
Still Life, 2012
mosaic, marble, enamel, glass, semiprecious stones
Ø60cm
courtesy the Artist
April’s Roses I, 2010
mosaic, marble, enamel, glass, semiprecious stones
21 x 17 cm
courtesy the Artist
April’s Roses II, 2010
mosaic, marble, enamel, glass, semiprecious stones
21 x 17 cm
courtesy the Artist
Dimitrios Antonitsis
Born in 1966 in Athens, Greece.
Master of Science, ETH Zurich / Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York, specialized in high speed
microscopic photography. Awarded for his short film, Past Glories, Present Despondencies, in collaboration with the Robert de Niro film studio. His artworks were widely exhibited in 15 solo and 35 group
show both in Greece and abroad.
His work has been published in a monography, Showhungry(Koan Publications), and in a camp photonovella, Agathon or Panic in Weimar(futura).
His artwork is included in various collections: National Museum for Contemporary Art, Athens - Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki - DESTE Foundation, Athens - Fondazione per la
Fotografia – Turin - Benedikt Taschen Collection - Cologne.
Infinity Column, 2011-12, aluminum, 300 x 45 x 45 cm
courtesy the Artist & Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center
Christian Aschman
Born in Luxembourg in 1966. Works and lives in Luxembourg and Brussels.
Having completed his studies in Visual Communication at the Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels,
Christian Aschman decided to divide his time between Luxembourg and Brussels. Working as a freelance
photographer since 1992, his work has been published in such magazines as Desirs, Elle Belgique, Elle
Wonen, Kaiserin, Madame Figaro, Man, Nico, Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin, M#00 Brazil, Beople,
Line by Wallpaper, Têtu, Weekend-Le Vif, and Weekend–Knack.
Aschman’s clients include Air France, Cargolux, KBC Bank, KBL Bank, Laurent Decreton, Luxair, MudamLuxembourg, OPL Luxembourg, The Boeing Company and SES Astra.
Christian has recently shown his work at the International Biennale of Photography in Liège, Belgium and
at the Gallery Nosbaum & Reding in Luxembourg.
Mug, Lycabettus #1, Athens 2011, 2012
inkjet transfer on ceramic, edition of 5
10 x 11 cm Ø 8,5 cm
courtesy the Artist
Lycabettus #1, Athens, 2011
pigment inkjet print, edition of 5
40 x 50 cm (opposite top)
courtesy the Artist
Athens, August 15th #1, Athens, 2011
pigment inkjet print, edition of 5
42 x 59,5 cm (opposite below)
courtesy the Artist
Tarjei Bodin Larsen
Tarjei Bodin Larsen(b. 1974 in Arendal, Norway) was educated at the Oslo Academy of Fine Art(19962001) and Chelsea College of Art and Design(2003-04).
Bodin Larsen uses an abstract visual idiom to explore the limits of painting. Processes and techniques are
the starting point for his projects, and with them he experiments and challenges our conventional conceptions about painting as an art form.
His work is collected by The National Museum of Art and Design in Oslo, Sørlandets Kunstmuseum in Kristiansand and by The Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Compulsive Surface Eruption, 2011
Acrylic on wooden board
220 x 180 cm
courtesy the Artist
Ole Martin Lund BØ
Ole Martin Lund Bø(b. 1973 in Stavanger, Norway) lives and works in Oslo.
He accomplished his education at the Art Academy in Bergen in 2002. His work has been widely shown
in Norway and abroad and is held in several public and private collections such as the Art Museum in
Stavanger, the Art Museum in Bergen, the Statoil collection and the Von Oppenheim collection, Frankfurt.
In 2006-2007 he was awarded the International Studio and Curatorial Programme(ISCP) in New York.
His work has been selected for the exhibitions Lights on at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art Oslo,
2008, If You Destroy the Image, You’’ll Destroy the Thing Itself, Bergen Kunsthall, 2008. Recently his
work has been shown at Parotta Contemporary, Stuttgart 2012, Armory show, New York 2012 and
Galerie Opdahl, Berlin 2011/12.
In the fall of 2012 Lund Bø will be having solo shows at Gallery Christian Torp, Oslo and Denny Gallery,
New York.
Untitled, 2011 (detail)
oil on canvas
70 x 60 cm
courtesy the Artist
Untitled, 2011
oil on canvas
70 x 60 cm
courtesy the Artist
Radu Com Ş a
Born in 1975 in Sibiu, Romania. Lives and works in Cluj-Napoca.“Eating trash” is a perfect metaphor for
Comşa’s practice. His works deal with the dissolution of form, and with abstraction seen as an amalgamation of parts and leftovers, playing on the idea of the art object concretely existing as a ‘shape of
painting’. The abstractions originate in Comşa’s metaphysical desire to digest his surroundings, while
his complex ‘scenographies for painting’ subtly relate-transfer the obscure to the objective, the irregular
to the symmetrical, the empirical to the theoretical. Exhibited in The Műcsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest,
Gaudel de Stampa in Paris, Peles Empire in London and Lucie Fontaine in Milan and in Prague Biennale
3 and 4.
Scenography for Painting (IKEA), 2012
installation
approx. 340 x 205 cm
courtesy the Artist & Sabot
Konstantin Kakanias
Konstantin Kakanias was born in Athens in 1961. He lives and works in Los Angeles and Greece. He
studied fashion and art at Studio Bercot in Paris and in Luxor, Egypt, where he studied ancient Egyptian
art. His paintings, sculptures, ceramics and installations have been shown extensively around the world,
in galleries and museums. His drawings have been published in the New York Times, The New Yorker
and Vogue among other numerous publications. He has collaborated extensively in the past with Yves
Saint Laurent, Christian Lacroix, Christian Louboutin and others. He has published many books as an
author or an illustrator, most notably for the 2004 Athens Olympics he published Mrs Tependris ...just
before the Olympic Games in Athens, with the collaboration of the Ministry of Culture. His latest book
On Perfume Making - a collaboration with perfumer Frederic Malle, was published by Angelika Taschen.
His work belongs to many international private and public collections, The Benaki Museum, The Hammer
Museum in Los Angeles, The Berkley Museum in San Francisco.
Slip, 2011
watercolour
113 x 150 cm
courtesy the Artist
Nikos Kourkoulos, Christos Nomikos, 2011
ceramic
Ø 33 cm (top)
courtesy the Artist
Kostas Kakkavas, Spyros Fokas, 2011
ceramic
Ø 33 cm (below)
courtesy the Artist
Ryusuke Kido
Born in 1984 in Tokyo, Japan. Lives and works in Tokyo. Received his Master of Arts from Tokyo University of the Arts, specializing in sculpture. His work was exhibited in 2 solo shows and 15 group shows.
Kido was selected for the Tokyo Wonder Site artist in residency program.
The key motives of his work is powered by the after-effects of both water and fire.
In 2012 he started creating works out of everyday materials in an attempt to capture the essential and
the ephemeral.
Bubble, 2012
video
loop
courtesy the Artist
Thinking in Front of the Desk, 2012
wood
70 x 100 x 60 cm (opposite)
courtesy the Artist
Christina Koutsospyrou & Aran Hughes
Christina Koutsospyrou(Athens, 1980) and Aran Hughes(London, 1983) are artists and film makers.
After studying at the University of Arts London and having exhibited artwork and films as individuals,
they embarked in 2010 on the REMOTE project, a series of films exploring the life of an isolated village
in Greece.
Christina Koutsospyrou and Aran Hughes, currently live and work in Athens and London.
Waiting for the Past, 2012
10 minutes
High Definition Video
courtesy the Artists
Waiting for the Past, 2012
10 minutes
High Definition Video
courtesy the Artists
Konstantinos Ladianos
Born in 1967 in Athens, Greece. Lives and works in Berlin. He studied at the Aristoteleion University of
Fine Arts in Salonica, Greece.
Painting is Ladianos’ principal medium although his ontological concept is sometimes materialized in embroidery. His imagery is mostly anthropological addressing a broader theory of culture and aesthetics.
Ladianos has appeared in solo and group shows: Paint-id(Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art,
2009), Feed-Me(Gazonrouge, Athens, 2007), What Remains is Future(Patras/Cultural Capital of Europe,
2006).
Breast, 2012 (detail)
embroidery on cotton
dimension variable
courtesy the Artist
Levitated, 2012
egg tempera on wood
85 x 85 cm
courtesy the Artist
Timos Leivaditis
Born in 1968 in Athens, Greece. Lives and works in Athens. Legendary former entrepreuner in the club/
restaurant business of Athenian night-life, Leivaditis creates aesthetically austere collages as a critique to
contemporary Greek sociopathy. His artwork addresses the dissolution of historical and political boundaries in reformatting images from his immediate surroundings.
Simple People, 2012
collage on paper
76 x 56 cm
courtesy the Artist
We Had Enough, 2012
collage on paper
76 x 56 cm (opposite)
courtesy the Artist
Nate Lowman
Nate Lowman was born in Las Vegas in 1979. Having lived and worked in New York since obtaining a
BS from NYU in 2001, he works primarily in painting, sculpture and multimedia installation, using objects
and images taken from global media and American cultural sources and reconfiguring postmodern
techniques of collage, appropriation, and assemblage. In addition to having exhibited widely throughout
the US and internationally, he has also curated several exhibitions, including Beneath The Underdog,
a group exhibition at Gagosian Gallery, New York(2007) and Al-Quaeda is the CIA, a Sue Williams
survey at 303 Gallery, New York(2010). His first solo museum exhibition, The Natriot Act, was held in
2009 at Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, Norway. Recent solo exhibitions have included
Trash Landing at Maccarone and Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York(2011), Three Amigos: Gift Ghost
GAP at The American Academy, Rome(2011), and Swiss Cheese and The Doors: A One Night Stand at
Massimo de Carlo, Milan(2012).
Untitled (Curtains), 2012
Alkyd on cotton
140 x 249 cm
courtesy the Artist
Untitled (Curtain) #2, 2012
Alkyd on cotton
140 x 249 cm
courtesy the Artist
Three Little Piggies, 2012
Alkyd and dirt on canvas
28 x 71 cm (top)
courtesy the Artist
Three Blind Mice, 2012
Alkyd, oil, and dirt on canvas
30,5 x 56 cm (middle)
courtesy the Artist
Three Amigos, 2012
Alkyd, oil, and dirt on canvas
28 x 43 cm (below)
courtesy the Artist
Eva Mitala
Born in 1978 in Athens, Greece. Lives and works in Athens and in Berlin. Studied at the Athens School
of Fine Arts. Her works were exhibited in 2 solo show in Tokyo, in the Japanese Geisai(the annual artfair
organized by Takashi Murakami in Tokyo), in Emergency Room - by Thierry Geoffroy - Athens(Ileana
Tounta Contemporary Art Center) & Paris(Taiss gallery) and in group exhibitions in Athens, Berlin, ClujNapoca, Copenhagen, Tokyo.
Flower, 2012
silkscreen on paper
220 x 150 cm
courtesy the Artist
A House Is Not a Home, 2012
painting on lacquered wood, grey mirror
242 x 90 x 69 cm
courtesy the Artist
Daniel Subkoff
Born in 1974 in New York City, where he continues to live and work. Received his BA in studio art from
Hampshire College, an experimental liberal arts college in Massachusetts. He pursued further education
as an itinerant scholar in varied places such as the art and permaculture based community Dreamtime
Village in Wisconsin, Bern Porter’s Institute of Advanced Thinking in Maine, the Central Institute of Higher
Tibetan Studies in India, as well as with hermit yogis in Nepal.
He was a co-creator of and senior designer for the fashion label Imitation of Christ, specializing in silkscreen design, art direction, and performance production, including a collaboration with Creative Time.
His artwork has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world including the Whitechapel
Gallery in London and the New Museum in New York.
Now And There, Here And Then, 2011
gesso on canvas
dimensions variable
courtesy the Artist
Painting Compost Lamp, 2012
canvas, metal, glass
dimensions variable
courtesy the Artist
Alex Tzannis
Born in 1979 in Athens, Greece. He studied in the Fine Arts School of Athens, the Academy of Fine Arts
in Vienna and Goldsmiths College in London(M.F.A.).
He has presented his work in solo exhibitions in Athens(The Breeder, 2007, 2010) and Brussels(Catherine
Bastide, 2011) and has participated in numerous group shows among which at the Kunstlerhaus
Bethanien(Berlin, Germany), the Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain in Languedoc(Sète, France), the
Hamburger Bahnhof(Berlin, Germany) and the 2nd Athens Biennale(Greece, 2009).
He applies several media and techniques and currently presents a new series of ceramic works for the
Hydra School Projects 2012.
Untitled, 2011-12
glazed ceramics
dimensions variable (detail)
courtesy the Artist & The Breeder Athens
Untitled, 2011-12
glazed ceramics
dimensions variable (detail)
courtesy the Artist & The Breeder Athens
Franz West
Franz West lives and works in Vienna, where he was born in 1947. West began his career in mid -1960s
Vienna when a local movement called Actionism was in full swing. West’s earliest sculptures, performances, and collages were a reaction to this movement, in which artists engaged in displays of radical public
behavior and physical endurance meant to shake up art-world passivity. In the early 1970s, West began
making a series of small, portable sculptures called “Adaptives”(“Paßtücke”), awkward-looking plaster
objects that were only completed as artworks when the viewer picked them up and carried them around,
or performed some other inherently slapstick action with them. In many ways, his large-scale aluminum
sculptures are simply overgrown versions of the “Adaptives.” But they also relate directly to his installations, where West makes furniture. West has the ability to make comfortable and colorfully upholstered
couches and chairs which transform galleries, museums, and public spaces into lounge-like, sociable
environments for viewing art.
West has exhibited internationally for more than three decades in galleries and museums, and at major
festivals including Documenta IX(1992) and Documenta X(1997), Kassel, Germany; Sculpture Projects in
Münster(1997); and the Venice Biennale(1988, 1993, 1997, 2003). In 1997 The Museum of Modern
Art presented West with a solo show. West’s work has been exhibited at the Museo Nacional de Arte
Reina Sofía(2001), Whitechapel Gallery, London(2003); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna(2003); Gagosian
Gallery, New York(2003, 2008), Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich(2006), Gagosian Gallery, London(2006), The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore(2009), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles(2009), Museo Tamayo, Mexico(2009), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels(2010), Museum Ludwig,
Ludwig(2010) and MADRE, Naples(2010). The exhibition Autotheater began its 2010 tour at Museum
Ludwig and had its final destination, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria. Gagosian Gallery Rome(2010).
Sinnlos, 2008
steel, synthetic resin varnish, open edition
199 x 39 x 115 cm
courtesy the Artist & Gagosian Gallery
Untitled, 2007
Gouache on foam cardboard,
101.5 x 73cm
courtesy the Artist & Gagosian Gallery
Special Thanks to: The Mayor of Hydra Mr Angelos Kotronis
The Vice Mayor of Hydra Ms Loukia Loulou
Ms Sadie Coles, London
Mr Robin Vousden, London
Ms Ileana Tounta, Athens
Ms Lina Vassilopoulou, Athens
Mr Dimitris Daskalopoulos, Athens
Mr Johnny Serpieris, Athens
Ms Tassoula Petroleka, Hydra
H.E. the Ambassador of Austria Ms Melitta Schubert
Η.Ε. the Ambassador of Norway Mr Sjur Larsen
H.E. the Ambassador of Luxemburg Mr Ronald Dofing
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