Maro Michalakakos
03 Dec 2009 - 23 Jan 2010
MARO MICHALAKAKOS
"Parallel Universe"
03.12.2009 – 23.01.2010
Parallel Universe, Maro Michalakakos’ fourth solo show, opens on Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 19:30, at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center.
The show will run until 23 January 2010.
Maro Michalakakos presents new work at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center. Focusing on the unlikely sexual encounters of animals that are typically hostile to each other, these miniature watercolours are, for all their ostensible calm, deliberately poised on the verge between fantasy and reality.
They are, in fact, only a working hypothesis, where parallel universes seem to overlap on the level of fantasy, merging to produce hybrid results. Implicit in this are both the claustrophobic sense of coercion and the notion of tolerance.
As French academic and writer Paul Ardenne* notes, family memories and cultural references are weaved into the fabric of Maro Michalakakos’ work, which has a rare quality of sophisticated, delicate roughness. Her subjects are always ridden by tension: safeguarding the life of the family, the strains of intimacy, love and submission, bonds and bondage
The following parallel event will be organized on the occasion of Maro Michalakakos’ exhibition:
16 December 2009, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center (event starts at 19:30): The art historian Paul Ardenne will present Maro Michalakakos’ retrospective catalogue «Violent Beauty/Violente Beauté» (éditions Monografik), as well as his new book, «Art, Le Présent». This seminal work on contemporary art follows up on Ardenne’s «Art, L’âge contemporain» that was published almost a decade ago by Editions Du Regard. The event will be organized with the contribution of Editions Monografik and the support of the French Institute of Athens.
* Paul Ardenne is the director of the photography series of Editions Monografik in France and the author of several treatises on contemporary aesthetics [Art, L’âge Contemporain (1997), L’Art dans Son Moment Politique (2000), L’Image Corps (2001), Un Art Contextuel (2002), Portraiturés (2003), Terre habitée (2005)], as well as of several monographs on visual artists and architects
"Parallel Universe"
03.12.2009 – 23.01.2010
Parallel Universe, Maro Michalakakos’ fourth solo show, opens on Thursday, 3 December 2009, at 19:30, at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center.
The show will run until 23 January 2010.
Maro Michalakakos presents new work at the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center. Focusing on the unlikely sexual encounters of animals that are typically hostile to each other, these miniature watercolours are, for all their ostensible calm, deliberately poised on the verge between fantasy and reality.
They are, in fact, only a working hypothesis, where parallel universes seem to overlap on the level of fantasy, merging to produce hybrid results. Implicit in this are both the claustrophobic sense of coercion and the notion of tolerance.
As French academic and writer Paul Ardenne* notes, family memories and cultural references are weaved into the fabric of Maro Michalakakos’ work, which has a rare quality of sophisticated, delicate roughness. Her subjects are always ridden by tension: safeguarding the life of the family, the strains of intimacy, love and submission, bonds and bondage
The following parallel event will be organized on the occasion of Maro Michalakakos’ exhibition:
16 December 2009, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center (event starts at 19:30): The art historian Paul Ardenne will present Maro Michalakakos’ retrospective catalogue «Violent Beauty/Violente Beauté» (éditions Monografik), as well as his new book, «Art, Le Présent». This seminal work on contemporary art follows up on Ardenne’s «Art, L’âge contemporain» that was published almost a decade ago by Editions Du Regard. The event will be organized with the contribution of Editions Monografik and the support of the French Institute of Athens.
* Paul Ardenne is the director of the photography series of Editions Monografik in France and the author of several treatises on contemporary aesthetics [Art, L’âge Contemporain (1997), L’Art dans Son Moment Politique (2000), L’Image Corps (2001), Un Art Contextuel (2002), Portraiturés (2003), Terre habitée (2005)], as well as of several monographs on visual artists and architects