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Iconic artists and acquaintances
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 composite tags, the artistic interventions
in the public space they have been claiming our gaze for years, but lately
they also have... institutionally their due. remember this year's related
publication of the "Times" of New York or the report "No respect" in
Roof. "The Athenian street art scene is very dynamic and
has produced important creators. But there is a lot of room
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 public
space but also for Athens to have an annual appointment that it will promote
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 it will
well-known visual artists participate, architects and theorists, while the
on the same night, 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. ). THE
October brings even more murals to the public space as well
photo exhibition at "Romance", which will also host the
Top to Bottom Public Art Film Festival, as well as
Film library of Greece.
3 special actions at the festival
Open Gallery With equipment…
creation, the ATH1281, Raiden and D! undertake to "come alive"
the walls of two schools (in Exarchia and Ilioupoli ) but also to
preserve two Barns graffiti in Psirri.
Talking about street art Target
to answer questions about its definition and determination
space as well as what we perceive as art. They are participating
artists Fr. Fasoli and M. Spiliopoulos, the M. Urban's Bieszynski
Forms Foundation etc.
The views Seven documentaries in
Film library and over a hundred movies and web films in our "Romance".
put into the world of public art. Don't miss 'The Gate', «Who is
Bozo Texino?” and the hidden film from France.