From Ioanna Gomouza
Iconic artists and familiar Athenian signatures, live action on the streets and on the big screen: a new festival explores the diversity of art found in public space.
If you want to "unlock" the thinking of a city, she looked at her walls. If nothing else, Athens provides a lot of material. With visual murals and complex tags, artistic interventions in the public space have been claiming our attention for years, but lately they have also... institutionally their due. remember this year's related publication of the "Times" of New York or the exhibition "No respect" at Stegi. "The Athenian street art scene is very dynamic and has produced important creators. But there is a lot of room for development and we hope to contribute to it", we were told by founder of the Andreas Fakis Public Art Festival. "With this event, we wish to upgrade the urban landscape, the highlighting of the different forms of art that we find in the public space, but also for Athens to have an annual appointment that will showcase public art through various actions".
The curtain goes up this Saturday 27/9 in the Benaki Museum of Piraeus with the conference "Diversity: Art in public space", in which well-known visual artists will participate, architects and theorists, while the exhibitions "Like new!” and “More or less” with works by famous artists (John Fechner, The Atlas, Franco Fasoli, Anthony Lister ) but also familiar signatures of our everyday life (Greg Papagrigoriou, SNRS, Alexandros Vasmoulakis, Cacao Rocks etc. ). October also brings new murals in the public space as well as a photo exhibition in "Romance", which will also host the Top to Bottom Public Art Film Festival, as well as the Film Archive of Greece.
3 special actions at the festival
Open Gallery With equipment… creation, the ATH1281, Raiden and D! undertake to "bring life" to the walls of two schools (in Exarchia and Ilioupoli ) but also to maintain two graffiti of Barns in Psirri.
Talking about street art The aim is to answer questions about the definition and identification of space as well as what we perceive as art. The visual artists Fr. Fasoli and M. Spiliopoulos, the M. Bieszynski of the Urban Forms Foundation et al.
The views Seven documentaries in the Film Library and over a hundred films and web films in "Romance" put us in the world of public art. Don't miss 'The Gate', «Who is Bozo Texino?” and the hidden film from France.
