Back to Back | Horror vacui
As a part of the 5th Back to Athens Festival, Horror Vacui art group invites artists from various backgrounds to engage in a creative dialogue. Each group member teams up with a creative partner, engaging in an ongoing reflective practice, rethinking, enriching and evolving one another’ s work. Some develop collaborative projects, and others share the same creative space, opening the possibility to new narratives.
In this context, Annita Argyroilopoulou meets director Katerina Evangelakou, Andreas Vousouras meets artist Dimitris Gizinos, Charalampos Dermatis - sugar artist Joanna Frilingou, Antigoni Kavvatha - the works of Thanasis Papayannakos, Andreas Lyperatos - the plans of Chrysanthos Sotiropoulos, Evsevia Michaelides - artist Eleni Lyra, Varvara Spyroulis - architects Demosthenes Anastasiades and Doulis Tsora, Martha Tsiaras - performer, story teller Sally Clayton.
Curated by: Horror Vacui
Text by Andreas Lymberatos
Duration: June 8 – June 18, 2017
Hours: 18:00 – 21:00 daily
40 Eressou Str., Exarchia, 106 81
1st floor
"Back to Back" exhibition by Horror vacui is part of the Back to Athens 5 International Arts Festival. The 5th edition of Back to Athens International Arts Festival opens for the second time in the historical Exarchia district, hosted in buildings, local shops and businesses. From June 8 - 18, 2017, Greek and international and artists revive public and private spaces with exhibitions, installations, performances, music performances and screenings. Back to Athens 5 is curated by: Georg Georgakopoulos, Dimitris Georgakopoulos and Fotini Kapiris, the performance series is curated by Thanos Vovolis. Back to Athens 5 is organised by CHEAPART with the participation of the Artwall Project Space and Offspring Young Artists Program, the support of the Faculty Scholarship Grant from the Office for the Advancement of Research, John Jay College and communication sponsors Ta Nea tis Technis (The Greek Art Newspaper), AAF All About Festivals, inexarchia.gr.
Back to Athens was initiated 2012, its concept roots on the idea that cultural activity can bring on an entirely new outlook on the Athens City Center. Greek and international artists, art groups and curators are invited to perceive the city as an open field of action, but also as a setting in constant and rapid transformation. Back to Athens is an idea platform, a public showcase of contemporary art and expression, a meeting point for the art community in the heart of the city where creative potential is unleashed and ideas are realised.
