Alexandros Tzannis - Scattered Memories from the Next Millennium - the show

Alexandros Tzannis - Scattered Memories from the Next Millennium - Opening Night

Alexandros Tzannis - Scattered Memories from the Next Millennium

Opening: Friday 14 May 2010, 8-11pm

Duration: 14 May – 19 June 2010

Opening Hours: Tuesday to Friday 12-8pm & Saturday 12-5pm

The Breeder is pleased to present the second solo show of Alexandros Tzannis entitled “Scattered Memories from the next Millennium”. Tzannis new labour intensive works on paper employ a number of different materials such as ballpoint ink, spray paint, pencil, charcoal, oil paint & collage. With his intense futuristic noir aesthetics, Tzannis succeeds in creating a timeless world, where the past and the future entangle in a spatial reality.

As in his presentation in the 2nd Athens Biennial, in this show, Tzannis brings to the foreground the settings where his heroes act, but in this instance they are absent. The result resembles the kaleidoscopic works of Nicolas Schöffer, with optical illusions and cubist references. Ceramic spheres or planets surround the works on paper and strain the futurist disposition of the artist. The title of the show is playing on the idea of memory, oblivion and time and is a paraphrase of Italo Calvino’s last book «Six Memos for the Next Millennium».

As art historian Nadia Argyropoulou notes «Alexandros Tzannis work positions itself in a field of neo-goth or post-heroic reference and sensitivity. His paintings are formed in a space deliverately ambiguous between smooth drawings and the process of painting and are also giving the impression of a reversed collage (parts are eliminated rather than added). In this way, the quality of Tzannis work seems to have the fluidity of a voyage; a voyage that ranges from the stormy symbolism of Arnold Böcklin to the landscape-painting romantisim of Caspar Friedrich, the sharpness of Dürer to the dready neopsychedelia of the US West Coast art scene.»

Alexandros Tzannis (Athens, 1979) is a a graduate of the School of Fine Arts in Athens and currently lives between Vienna & Athens. In 2009 he participated in the 2nd Athens Biennial “Heaven” curated by Nadia Argyropoulou, while in 2007 he presented his first solo show at The Breeder entitled ‘Doomed by Fantasy’. His work has been included in 2009 in ‘Paint-ID’ at the Macedonian Museum of Art curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis, in ‘The First Image’ at Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedic Roussilion in Sete (France) curated by Denys Zacharopoulos, ‘The Beautiful is the first degree of Horrible” in The State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki curated by Apostolos Kalfopoulos. Works by Alexandros Tzannis are also currently on show in Mole Vanvitelliana in Ancona, Italy ‘Arrivals & Departures- Europe’ curated by Andrea Bruciati & Walter Gasperoni.

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Mandalina Psoma, The Birthday, 2002, oil on canvas, 40x50cm, Courtesy Rebecca Camhi Gallery

Poka-Yio, Parfait, 2009, oil on canvas, 50x50cm, Courtesy Loraini Alimantiri Gazonrouge, Athens

Nicos Charalambidis, Good Walls Make Good Neighbors, 1997, video: concept, design, camera Nicos Charalambidis; Kurt Schwitters played by Angelos Papadimitriou. Unique work, Courtesy the Artist

Scott Treleaven, A Shade, 2009, black & white c-print, 50x75cm, ed. 1/3, Courtesy The Breeder, Athens

Konstantin Kakanias, Young Μan Wanted (Πινακίδα Ζητείται Νεαρός), 2003, tempera on paper, 87x66cm, Courtesy Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens

Jeremy Kost, Coney Island Story (Sean), 2009, framed Polaroid collage, 44x44cm, Courtesy the Artist, www.jeremykost.com

Petros Chrisostomou, Ejaculation, 2008, color photograph, 40x30cm, unique print, Courtesy Xippas Gallery, Athens

Christina Dimitriadi, Firewall, 1-10, 2008-2009, photograph, 23x23cm, unique print, Courtesy Eleni Koroneou gallery, Athens

Yorgos Sapountzis, When the Passion Left Us, 2009, newspaper, ink, pins, coins, 54x73cm , Courtesy Loraini Alimantiri -Gazon Rouge, Athens

Steve Yannakos, Planter 2, 1978, 49x48.5, Courtesy Alpa Delta Gallery, Athens

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Κοκτέιλ – Δημοπρασία στην γκαλερί The Breeder

Η γκαλερί The Breeder σάς προσκαλεί στην δημοπρασία που θα γίνει το Σάββατο, 6 Φεβρουαρίου, 8-10 μμ, τα έσοδα της οποίας θα διατεθούν εξ ολοκλήρου στο Athens Pride.

Από τις 6 και μετά θα σερβιριστούν κοκτέιλ.

Η τιμή εκκίνησης για όλα τα έργα θα είναι 300 ευρώ.

Θα δημοπρατηθούν τα έργα των καλλιτεχνών:

Στιβ Γιαννάκος, Zoë Charlton, Χρήστος Δεληδήμος, Χριστίνα Δημητριάδη, Κωνσταντίνος Κακανιάς, Κατερίνα Κανά, Em Kei, Jeremy Kost, Kalup Linzy,

Τέο Μιχαήλ, Ντόρα Οικονόμου, Χριστόδουλος Παναγιώτου, Άγγελος Παπαδημητρίου, Μαρία & Ντόρα Παπαδημητρίου, Λήδα Παπακωνσταντίνου, Poka-Yio,

Γιώργος Σαπουντζής, Scott Treleaven, Sharon Thomas, Νίκος Χαραλαμπίδης, Πέτρος Χρυσοστόμου, Μανταλίνα Ψωμά

Επιμέλεια έκθεσης: Andrea Gilbert

Είσοδος τη βραδιά της δημοπρασίας από την οδό Περδίκα 6 (πίσω πλευρά της γκαλερί)

Η είσοδος θα είναι €10 δωρεά στο Φεστιβάλ Υπερηφάνειας Αθήνας «Athens Pride»

Kalup Linzy from elculture.gr on Vimeo.

Kalup Linzy: performance at Cantina Social