ART NEWS:November No.3

Christiane Löhr’s sculptures, seem rather unusual in light of the simplicity of their materials, because these run counter to our visual expectations. Her first solo exhibition at the Bernier/Eliades Gallery, features a selection of small sculptures, as well as works on paper of different size – big formats of oil pastel and small pencil drawings.
 The works show themselves as examples of imaginary architecture, surprisingly light and fragile, yet powerful and stable. Bernier/Eliades Gallery, 7 Eptachalkou Str., Thisio, Athens: 20/11/14-8/1/15, Days & Hours: Tue- Fri 10:30-18:30, Sat: 12:00-16:00, http://bernier-eliades.gr/

Marianna Gioka starting with the Architecture and the modern city, focuses on cityscapes and reflects the constantly changing interconnected and complex nature of the 21st century, with works by successive layers of oil coated with detailed ink marks. The Breeder Gallery, 45 Iassonos Str., Athens, Duration: 20/11-20/12/14, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat:12:00-18:00, http://thebreedersystem.com

Vangelis Gokas continues his research between the painting and the attempt to capture and interpret the world around painting, as well as the surrounding world from which he derives his subjects. His Work entitled “To extend the field of the struggle” is the continuation of the dialogue that has already developed in his previous works. Everyday Life objects, landscapes, bodies and faces; examine and explore the human being in modern society. Elika Gallery, 7 Omirou Str., Duration: 18/11/14 -10/1/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri, 12:00-20:00, Sat: 12:00-16:00, www.elikagallery.com

“10” International and Greek artists, meet in a group exhibition with different expressive media, supplemented, in collaboration with the Art Professionals-In-Athens Residency and participation of the Irish sculptor Tim Shaw on November 20th. The artist of the exhibition are: Marina Abramović, Alice Papas, Lynda Benglis, Michalis Katzourakis, Peggy Kliafa, Vasilis Salpistis, Yiorgos Papafigos, Yiorgos Sampsonidis, Marie Voignier. Kappatos Gallery, 12 Athinas st. Monastiraki, Athens, Duration: 6/11/14-3/1/15, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri: 12:00-20:00, Sat: 12:00-16:00, www.kappatosgallery.com

The solo exhibition of the Irish artist Tim Shaw entitled “When Time Was Stolen” starts from his troubled childhood in Belfast during the operations of I.R.A. His personal experience becomes the means of exploring the liquidity of conditions of the everyday life and the subversion of order and normality. Kappatos Gallery, 12 Athinas st. Monastiraki, Athens, Duration: 20/11-20/12/14, Days & Hours: Tue-Fri: 12:00-20:00, Sat: 12:00-16:00, www.kappatosgallery.com

«Horror Vacui» double exhibition on Athens and Geneva at the Gagosian Gallery, is a term often used to describe outsider art, where every square inch of surface is filled with details and data in a compulsive excess of activity. Obsessive repetition and unconscious doodling can reveal potent optical fields that bend the flatness of the canvas with personal codes and pattern-based rhythms. Participating artists in Athens: William Anastasi, Urs Fischer, John Houk, Bruce Nauman, Roman Opalka, Richard Phillips, Nancy Rubins, Despoina Stokou, Piotr Uklanski, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Wright. Gagosian Gallery, 3 Merlin Str., Athens, Duration: 30/11-20/12/14, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri: 11:00-18:00, www.gagosian.com

In the group exhibition, «small size» 12 artists are participating with small size works of different media: painting, photograph and mixed media. The Artists are: Lefteris Yiakoymakis, Erene Dapulaki, Dimitris Theodosis, Michalis Eliou, Leonidas Kabouroglou, Mirsini Maneta, Viki Manola, Fiona Mouzakiti, Stella Ramopoulou, Alexandros Skaramagas, Anastasia Harokopou. Manifactura Gallery, 17 Aristophanous Str., Chalandri, Duration: 28/11/14-10/1/1, Days & Hours: Mon, Wed: 10:30-15:30, Tue, The, Fri: 10:30-20:20, Sat: 10:30-16:00, www.arteshop.gr

At the solo exhibition “Reductive Forms of the Cross”, Nikos Triantafillou, focusing on the shape of the cross utilize the lines intersecting horizontally and vertically, creates mainly a dialogue with the poetry of George Sarandaris, but also a conversation with both the seen and the unseen. Ersi Gallery, 4 Kleomenous Str., Athens, Duration: 6-29/11/14, Days & Hours: Mon-Fri: 11:00-14:30 & 17:00-20:00, Sat: 11:00-14:30, http://ersi.gr/gr