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sculptures. Takis' musical sculptures are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds: the latter are to be heard every time a needle strikes a string, when attracted by a magnet. He won the Grand Prize at the Paris New Biennale in 1985. An illustrative example would be the installation of a real forest of numerous Signs in the Place de la Defence in Paris (1984–87), the original and imaginative illumination of the Arc de Triomphe at the same period, the transformation of the aqueduct at Beauvais into a musical tower with a network of vertical metallic strings, in 1992, and his design for the layout of a subway station in Toulouse in 1993. Takis' non-morphological inquiries have continued through successive rejections of representationalism; his method and the acoustic sensations which it calls forth retain their austerity. These are the features which place his artistic inventions among the most important achievements of contemporary, post-World War II art.
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of self in relation to systems of power, censorship, and surveillance. Starting from historical events, investigating archives, biographies, and literary narratives, she alters the past and its many interpretations, by transferring, re-signifying, and representing them in contemporary frames of reference, relocating them in contemporary reality.
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was born in 1925 in Athens, and is an internationally acclaimed self-taught sculptor. He travelled, worked exhibited in Athens, Paris, London, New York and in many other cities. He is particularly known for his telemagnetic sculpture that formed the basis of his aesthetic expression and his musical
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as a real place, a site where he designed and built online communities such as the Chelsea Project and Neen World. He also designed and built spaces, intended to appear as computer renderings, sparking a discussion as to whether they were ever built (Pause pavilion, Stockholm 2002) and spaces that
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addresses issues related to individual identity and social crisis in the contemporary world. In her work she invents and impersonates fictional characters in reality, false identities presented in public actions and video-performances with symbolic and paradoxical results. She focuses on the notion
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then at the Kent Institute of Art and Design. Her first performance films, shot in Super 8 in 1969, show a remarkable aptitude at combining bodily language and the language of experimental cinema and materials (Oh Godard – Celebrating Godard, Self Portrait, 1969). In her films, she and other artist
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movement. Georgia Sagri's social activism (alongside her artistic activities) dates back to 1997, when she was a member of the Void Network in Athens. Sagri has organized the perambulatory curatorial project Saloon and the audio-only magazine Forté since 2009. In 2013 she initiated the semi-public
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included a garden of mummified plants used as a virtual horizon for a laser beauty clinic (Forever Laser, Geneva 1998 and 2003). Angelidakis has realized projects in Sweden, Switzerland, United States and Italy for publications, museums and cultural foundations.
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in his paintings, such as live animals but also fire, earth, burlap sacks, gold. He replaced the canvas with bed frames, doorways, windows or simply the gallery itself.
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and semi-personal space HYLE in Athens, with the mission to develop a new model for the contemporary work-life structure. She has exhibited and participated in
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is an architect and artist working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. He is one of the first artists who treated the
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are a Greek performance-art duo who curate regular art events as well as producing their own artefacts. They participated in the 4th and 6th
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is an artist who makes paintings, videoworks, prints and performances about video games, players and computer hardware.
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although known as painter and mixed media sculptor started doing internet art in 1994 with her showing of Fin
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to oppose to the provinciality of the mainstream contemporary Greek art and in particular
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at the FIAC95. This was followed by Her Story, Apology (addressed to the artist
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Stuckism is an international artistic movement that was created as a reaction to
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in September 2004,founded the first Greek group of Stuckism International named
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and are described as "far from a fringe group in the Greek art world".
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is known on the Greek art scene as a pioneer in the fields of
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Nadja Argyropoulou; Anastasia Aukeman; Lydia Venieri (2011).
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State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki official site
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is defined as the art produced by Greek artists after
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