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Your history, it’s not my story by Bia Papadopoulou | Your history, it’s not my story της Μπία Παπαδοπούλου

Your history, it’s not my story by Bia Papadopoulou Beautiful… as the accidental encounter, on a dissecting table,  of a sewing machine and an umbrella  Les Chants de Maldaror,  Isidore Ducasse[1] Artemis Potamianou composes an environmental narrative on the female condition which unfolds in space and time. The defiance of social and artistic structures that characterizes her …

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The Cages by Emmanuel Mavrommatis | Τα κλουβιά του Εμμανουήλ Μαυρομμάτη

The cages by Emmanuel Mavrommatis Since the early years of her postgraduate life, the work of Artemis Potamianou has been shaped around the idea of a systematic quest for the reason behind her artistic expression. The motive itself of expression is to Potamianou the object of expression, and that is a constituent element of her …

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Artemis Potamianou’s On The Origins of Art by Thalia Vrachopoulos | Η Εξέλιξη της Τέχνης – Άρτεμις Ποταμιάνου της Θάλειας Βραχοπούλου

Artemis Potamianou’s On The Origins of Art by Thalia Vrachopoulos Upon first examination of Potamianou’s present series of 21 pieces, On the Origins of Art one may come away with the impression that they’ve encountered a Descartian linear dialog on the history of art. However, despite the show’s title that is based on Darwin’s The …

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Imaginary museums and private fantasies by Sotiris Bahtsetzis | Φανταστικά Μουσεία και Ιδιωτικές Φαντασιώσεις του Σωτήρη Μπαχτσετζή

Imaginary museums and private fantasies by Sotiris Bahtsetzis André Malraux in his well-known book Le Musée imaginaire de la sculpture mondiale (1952–54) introduced into the discourse around art the term ‘imaginary museum’, which has been often used by artists, art critics and theoreticians since then. Malraux argues that the advent of photographic reproductions of artworks enabled everyone …

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PRETEXTS / DECEPTIONS / AFFIRMATIONS: JOURNEYS OF CONTRADICTIONS by Thaleia Stefanidou | ΠΡΟ-ΦΑΣΕΙΣ / ΕΠΙ-ΦΑΣΕΙΣ / ΚΑΤΑ-ΦΑΣΕΙΣ: ΔΙΑΔΡΟΜΕΣ ΑΝΤΙ-ΦΑΣΕΩΝ της Θάλειας Στεφανίδου

PRETEXTS / DECEPTIONS / AFFIRMATIONS: JOURNEYS OF CONTRADICTIONS by Thaleia Stefanidou Trying out the tenacity of Art and its multiple contexts, Artemis Potamianou organizes her latest artistic testimony focusing on the triptych “Space-Artist-Creation” and interposing in its folds ongoing questions. Selecting Tate Gallery as an emblematic exhibition space and freeing Turbine Hall of Tate Modern …

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Artemis Potamianou’s Museum Series by Peter Suchin | Τα μουσεία της Αρτέμιδος Ποταμιάνου του Peter Suchin

Artemis Potamianou’s Museum Series by Peter Suchin The German cultural critic Theodor Adorno, makes, in his book Prisms, first published in the 1960s, some astute observations on those paradoxical institutions we call museums. In considering the meaning of the word “museal” (museumlike) he makes a connection between this and another term, “mausoleum”, going on to …

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White Cube / Light Cube by David Campbell | Λευκός κύβος/Φωτεινός Κύβος του David Campbell

White Cube/Light White Cube by David Campbell “…What is happening here? Canvas, paper, or wall constitute a stage on which something happens (and if, in certain forms of art the artist intends that nothing happen, that too is an occurrence, an adventure). Hence, we must take the picture… as a kind of theater a l’Italienne: the curtain …

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Η Αφοπλιστική Απλότητα της Περιπλοκότητας του Γιώργου Αρμάου

Γιώργος Αρμαός – Η Αφοπλιστική Απλότητα της Περιπλοκότητας Ένα μικρό σχόλιο για τη σειρά White Cube της Άρτεμις Ποταμιάνου. Η τελευταία δουλειά της Άρτεμις Ποταμιάνου αποτελείται από ένα σύνολο δεκαέξι υβριδικών έργων. Αυτά τα έργα παρουσιάζονται υπό τη μορφή σχετικά μικρών παραλληλόγραμμων κουτιών κατασκευασμένων από διαφανές πλεξιγκλάς. Το κάθε κουτί έχει σχεδιαστεί από την Ποταμιάνου. …

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