MIRAGES XXVIII

Mariko Mori, Rik Reinking Collection, Courtesy Rik Reinking
Mariko Mori, Rik Reinking Collection, Courtesy Rik Reinking

 

 

Having spent a strange summer, one of those that cannot easily characterized, perhaps because it was transitional, we are facing the new Art Season, having reached record highs in the traffic of our magazine in August, from the beginning of our online presence. We want to thank our readers, while at the same time, we know that this is a great responsibility, but we are not afraid, because what we do, we do it with deep faith and vision.

I amalgamate Yayoi Kusama’s polka dots at Philip Johnson’s Glass House that opened on the 1st September  like a game. I construct September’s puzzle, not with the diligence of a diligent student who returns to school, but with the mood of the traveller who boards at a “visual ship”, as the historical SS Mataroa*, which it’s has heavy cargo, with the artists that will follow in the column Traces: Christian Boltanski, Dennis Oppenheim, Sol LeWitt, Mark Rothko and Ilya Kabakov and the Architects of the month especially Japanese like: Kenzo Tange, Fumihiko Maki and Tadao Ando also the Italian Renzo Piano.

This month’s exhibitions are many, which we will present you throughout the duration of September, but we stand out the solo exhibitions by: Anish Kapoor at Lisson Gallery and Scai The Bathhouse, Jannis Kounellis at White Cube Gallery and Carmen Herrera at the Whitney Museum.

At the end of the month, we will disembark in the port of Kalamata and particular at the Mataroa Contemporary Art Center, where will be on exhibition very important works from the Reinking Collection by internationally acclaimed artists, the exhibition “Could you say Goodbye to a myth?” is cosigned by the important Greek Art Historian and Theorist with a remarkable career in Berlin, Christos M. Joachimides. Among the participating artist are: Mariko Mori, Vanessa Beecroft, Nan Goldin, Candy Noland, Tony Oursler, Dimitris Tzamouranis** e.c.t.  

 

Good Month (!)

Efi Michalarou

1/9/16

 

* In late December 1945, SS Mataroa took a number of young radical thinkers, artists and other professionals from Piraeus to France via Italy, and thus effectively saved them from the perils of the rampaging Greek Civil War. This trip was organized by the then Director of the French Institute of Athens Octave Merlier. Among the passengers were: Kostas Axelos Dickos Byzantios, Cornelius Castoriadis, Costas Coulentianos, Memos Makris, Nikos Svoronos etc. Mataroa’s name and history is part of the modern political mythology of Greece.

 ** Mr Tzamouranis is also the Artistic Director of Mataroa Contemporary Art Center in Kalamata,Greece.