Stefanos Kamaris, Babis Karalis
Babis Karalis & Stefanos Kamaris, Booth F4 CHEAPART
In context of Art Athina 2013, CHEAPART hosts artists Babis Karalis and Stefanos Kamaris. Babis Karalis is presenting a large mechanical installation while the Trojan Horse by Stefanos Kamaris, made of wooden frames, comments on the penetration of the frame of an art work within the context of a contemporary art fair.
CHEAPART has been participating in Art Athina since 2001, showcasing projects from artists from Greece and abroad. Each body of work is presented as an individual entity that marks the contemporary and experimental art scene.
During the first year of participation, CHEAPART presented "The Machine" (2001), was an installation - performance demonstrating the first chain of industrial production of artwork. The installation was comprised of a moving strap, eight workers, three artists / supervising engineers (George Georgakopoulos, Dimitris Georgakopoulos and Christos Kechagioglou), a musician (Nicholas Stavropoulos) and a theoretical text presenting two contradictory aspects relative to the mass production of art. (Charintina Karaindrou).
In 2003, Fotini Kapiris presented the installation "Who has any idea what' an Idea is", an observation mechanism recording the public opinion through a voting process of 12 videos and ballots.
Tone home V2Rmx by Coti K, Dimitris Haritos, Voltnoi, Thanos Eugene (2004) presented a series of audio-visual facilities incorporated within a domestic environment. The installation consisted of modified appliances, a stove, refrigerator, television, depicted within a living space as a metaphorical presentation of the inner world of man who resides within.
James Dean Diamond in 2005 uses the booth as a panoramical location to explore the world of imagination through photography and an visual system based on self-restraint.
In 2007 Christian Rupp in Reflecting Media presented a series of works that reveal before the viewer's eyes a different picture than that projected through a media installation. Through the audio installation "eyes" by Costas Ioannides, the viewer observes simultaneously, two stories in progress with subtitles.
In 2008 Roman Pfeffer attempted a game inversion in placing the description of the work of Monk who turned the canvas in description and again in painting. Andreas Vousouras presented a memory room and modified memorabilia, from the past and present.
In 2009 Nadia Kalara presents a panorama of photographs of neglected locations, /pits/ creating a new, lunar landscape, and Magdalene Wong’s audio-visual installation presented music composed from the text found on canned food in both Greek and Chinese.
In 2010 Constantine Dregos presented a part of his installation “ruinvention” based on the concept of Time, while Maria Paschalidou the video installation “Narratives on a Gynecological table”, personal and collective stories raising issues of intimacy and control.
Athens 2450 years later by Nikos Giavropoulos (2011) outlines Greek reality, suggesting that 2,450 years after the Parthenon, society’s dillemas may be different yet the tendency for violent resolution of disputes and brute feelings, remain the same. Wendelin Pressl presents the ill face of the universe to be seen through a hole in a cardboard box.