8 december 2021
Zie ook: Platforms Project 2016
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Platforms Project- Beton Radio – day 3
May 19, 2018
Today I visited some of the stands at Platforms Project 2018 to check out what they were doïng, here are some things I liked:
But first I put up my third drawing from the Athens Diaries at the EX-MÊKH booth
Pantelis Vitaliotis at Space 52 from Greece
Happy Water by Daniela Domingues at Alisn from London: a video of an old aquaduct in Rome where they put a tenniscourt right next to it. In front are sculptures with a tennisball-imprint
I like those as a sculpture
The representative of Alisn was happy to participate at the EX-MÊKH booth
From our Home-town Den Haag: Elders! A flatiron and a wide open handbag are sweeping through space
Democracy in visual arts: the public can change the images
Our neighbours from Sweden are nice guys, this is made by Peter Westman of Daily Temporary. The material is sunken wood that has been taken from the water
Ed’s video from Canada had nice pieces like this Mountainview by Xiaojing Yan
made from anise stars
it is being echoed by this piece by Juliane Foronda
IDI Gallery had some nice pieces like these
I thought I heard the sound of a didgeridoo, but it was the vynil recording of a human voice. Very interesting sound and letter experiments at Random from Italy
Sandra Gea made a beautiful autobiografical collage and shows it at Binary Art Group from Malta
As is this beautifull weaving
IS-projects is a very interesting platform from Leiden (NL). International abstract art in wonderful presentations, an oasis in this fair, curated by Richard van der Aa!
Das Esszimmer from Bonn (G) is an interesting platform too, here with the work of Geneviève Morin
Which I really like for the painterly quality
Meanwhile an avantgarde jam-session is taking place at Daily Temporary. Exhibiting artist Lars Asling bought an old guitar and invites people to come play with him
The Wonderful MUU from Helsinki has a number of video’s to show amongst which Jukka Sillokunas stood out with this video about vanishing toy-pets. MUU also showed a really interesting educational project with kid-curators showing their choice of art.
Come alone, don’t call cops (what a name, by the way!) where the performance “Concrete execution” by Adrien Chevrier took place: a concrete mixer was mistreated
and misused while it was turning
Everything was out of context, out of sequence, out of measurements
And eventually the beast was killed, it stopped turning
Meanwhile Ellen was still trying to get a passport and she was send from the cupboard to the wall as we say in Holland
People kept coming in to cut and paste the collages of EX-MÊKH
Which turned out like this today
And this is the Athens Diary up to now!
There were a lot of side shows, open studios in art school but also “Giving”, this benefit for the blind. 210 artists participated in this.
After having dinner in the hip area near the Keramikos subwaystation we went to Beton 7 which hosts an international show by IS-projects from Leiden (NL) under the name “RNOP – HELLENIKON” and “Doldrums”, a video installation by Jenn E. Norton.
The first space was occupied by a very effective installation-piece by Daniel Gottin which gave the place a structure to be used by the artist of the show
This is the work of Richard van der Aa who curated the IS presentation at Platforms Project.
Next to his are the works of Kyle Jenkins (AU) and Peter Holm (DK)
This is the work of IS-initiator Iemke van Dijk (NL)
And this is the work of the second IS-initiator Guido Winkler (NL)
This is the work of Billy Gruner (AUS), the curator of this show.
In the other space we could see the work of Jenn E. Norton. Doldrums is a video-installation in which light-reflection on refelective surfaces transmitting information through light.
It’s supposed to be seen with 3D glasses which causes a rather trancy atmosphere, which is enhanced by the slowly undulating waves and the music being played
Platform Project & Art Athina 2016
May 27, 2016
In spite of the crisis atmosphere in Athens and the refugee-problems that haunt the country the Athens artfair took place again this year. The Taekwondo Stadium had been occupied with refugees in winter during heavy rains which resulted in a lot of problems. Nevertheless, the fair continued but the big galleries in Greece didn’t show up and the galleries that did show up were very conservative in their choice of artists. The Platform Project on the other hand was very interesting this year. It is always worth to visit but now the side show for non-commercial art platforms showed great art and awareness of the human and the political situation which in some cases led to moving art works.
Look at the fair from the platforms
Derek Liddington at 8Eleven, a very interesting sculptor. these are studies after an Elsworth Kelly drawing
This video was shot by Liddington, having four actors making a pillar of clay and creating a tension between disciplines
This was an ongoing performance in 8eleven in which a dancer would reenact the choreography “Ode” which was executed by les Ballets Russes in 1913. The floor on which the dancer moved was a square meter of clay
I found this work very moving: in an inter-active work, Navine Khan Dossos tries to paint the 2000 people that have sought refuge in the Taekwondo Stadium last winter. Visitors and colleagues are invited to contribute as the artist will continue to paint until the end of the fair.
This beautiful Painting has been made by an icon-painter for Kallio Kunsthalle (FI), following the text that Petri Saariko had prepared.
Andreas Martí installed this drawing installation at Dienstgebäude
It is continuing to draw during the fair
This wall sculpture of Bettina Diel could also be seen at Diensgebäude
From Nantes (FR) came Extra Muros in which these wall sculptures by Romain Rimbaud were shown
Interesting painting at Foss (GR)
A short visit to the real fair: here a photograph by Sarah Lucas
Nice political drawings by Tasos Pavlopoulos
Collage by Maria Ikonomoupoulou
who also made beautiful embroideries on newspaper, shown at Mulier Mulier
Where also work of the painter Guy van Bossche was shown
I rather liked these collages because of the use of material. made by Nikos Varitymiadis
Taubert Contemporary showed an artist with over-all design: Lars Arrhenius
Curator of Platform Projects, the wonderful Artemis Potamianou, an artist also, showed at the floor of the fair
Kallio Kunsthalle showed performance “about the self-determination of women”
At MUU (F) the performance artist Helinä Hukkataival showed a very sensitive performance
resulting in a beautiful series of personae
From the Netherlands came Bcademie, a post-graduate training for artists (after A you have to say B). Here initiators Alex Jacobs and Daan den Houter talk with their students, of which six were doïng performances durig the fair. One for a Euro!
The students found props in Athens and used those to arrange their space
They proved quite popular, here Elsemarijn Bruijs working on chewing gum
The shift was together with Philippa Driest
Who showed pictures of urban places accompanied by sounds of airplanes
AKA artist run from Saskatchewanm, Canada with sculpture of Svea Ferguson
Super 8 video by Leslie Supnet
and Lori Blondeau who researches diverse persona’s
The Lo and Behold (GR) wants to fertilise the soil in “Bureau of Soil making” by Yiannis Hiridoglou
From Boston (USA) the Museum of Contemporary Cuts with heavy conceptual work with a direct approach
Which works rather good I think
Then an installation of Amiraly from Parking Gallery/New media Society from Iran, a presentation which is well worked out
Cut the Fence, a project of Copa & Sordes: the 657 meter long fence of a Swiss refugee camp is transformed in to the same length of African damask fabric with fence pattern: everybody who cuts a piece of it contributes to the destruction of the fence
Groupshow at SCI (UK) with very nice works, some fresh from the boats coming to Greece
Ed video: always interesting video-stuff, here by Iris Fraser and David Hanes
Foreign Affairs, A beautiful collaboration by Bella Easton, Tiny Dominguez and Julia Riddlough of resp. Beaston projects, Rosa Lux and A Brooks Art
The beauty of statistics, by Tiny Dominguez
In the mean while the Capacity-project of Navine Khan Dossos is a large succes
The refugee-camp is turning in a large field of flowers!
At A-Trans beautiful work on paper by Marian Wijnvoord
Who also burns down the Netherlands in her Photo-collages
The line in Andreas Martí’s installation is lengthening
Bcademy’s students don’t stop performing, here Maud van den Beuken moves sand
from stage to visitor
and Casper Braat plans a make-over for your humble reporter
Various Artists from Belgium, a research in shit which Belgians find interesting in general
Trying to find the pearls which are being digested by test-persons
And also the deterioration of Bonsai-trees under water is a process that results in esthetic pleasures under the name Agua con Gaz
The very big collective EN-FLO (GR) installed suit-cases with fillings
And then there is the very interesting Milena Principle, showing projects that relate to our own activities. Action in public space about silence and slowness.
In Venice
And Athens, we will hear more from them!
Last but certainly not least Kunstenaarsinitiatief Elders from Den Haag (NL), here an expanding painting by Lucius Pax
Painting by Liesbeth Bosch
And surprising ceramics by Corine Barendregt
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