Outdoor pop-up in Athens

14 of the works in the outdoor gallery curated by Emma Papadopoulos

   Below: Works by Carolyn Lord (UK) and Maria Kalaoglou (Greece)

Urban Facelift, works of 22 artists from 15 countries curated by Emma Papadopoulos, hung along the Athens School of Fine Arts Pireos Street railing is on show till September 6th 2019.

This is a parallel project to Medea 2019 Broken Symmetry, the 7th International Interdisciplinary Symposium on Art, Science and Technology.

Emma curated this to bring art onto the street in the form of weatherproof banners exhibiting diverse approaches as an extension of her presentation “Outdoor Galleries” at the symposium. This public pop-up artspace extends the white box concept of a conference gallery and the aesthetics of banner advertising.

Left to Right: Manuel Hernández Ruiz (Colombia), Alex Argyros Amerikanos (Greece), Gianna Alexopoulou (Greece), Diana Baltag (Romania), Jelena Grubor (Bosnia-Herzegovina), Emma Papadopoulos (UK), Radoslava Hrabovska (Slovakia), Agata Stepien (Poland/Spain), …

Below: works by Cindy Magee (USA), D. Vallee (France), and Svetlana Penrose (Russia).

THE 22 ARTISTS
Gianna Alexopoulou, Alex Argyros Amerikanos, Diana Baltag, Elizabeth Briel, Cecile Dargonaki, Santanu Dey, Sofia Galanaki, Jelena Grubor, Manuel Hernández Ruiz, Radoslava Hrabovska, Maria Kalaoglou, Carolyn Lord, Cindy Magee, Thomas Mc, Emma Papadopoulos, Svetlana Penrose, Annie Riga, Peter Seibt, Sal Sidner, Agata Stepien, Sonja van Kerkhoff, Lars Vilhelmsen

Venue:
Athens School
of Fine Arts
256 Pireos Street railing,
Athens, Greece.

29 August – 6 September 2019

Work by Elizabeth Briel (USA / Hong Kong)

A few of the other presentations are: Science and Art (George J. Papadopoulos), 15th Anniversary of the Athens Digital Arts Festival (I. Chatzichristodoulou), International Court of Justice and Its Jurisprudence as a Feature of Asymmetry in Public International Law (Izabela Gawłowicz), Narrative Nature of Space in Video Games (Rafał Szrajber), Agregatorium As an Interactive Laboratory for Creating Cultural Codes and Exchange of Ideas (M. Osmycki), and Fractals. Unvisible Landscapes (Andreas Guskos), Symmetry as the Aesthetics of the Wise. Symmetry as the Beauty of the Enlightened. A Few Words about the Use of Symmetry in the Design Practice and Teaching of Arts … (Janusz Stankowski), Berlin 1945–1990. Broken Symmetry of Urban Structure (Piotr Fiuk), Intelligent Architecture (Ewelina Adam-Wadas) Global Strategies – the Role of Technology and Management (Zygmunt Drążek).

Works by Santanu Dey (India) + Sonja van Kerkhoff (Aotearoa | NZ)

And there are three other exhibitions: EX MACHINA by Arkadiusz Marcinkowski, SYNTOPIA by Ewelina Adam and Jakub Palka, and PRINTS by Mirosław Pawłowski

MEDEA (medea2019.pl) is coordinated by the Association for Support of Science, Art and Technology Development MEDEA, and the Visual Arts Department, Academy of Art in Szczecin, in coordination with:
Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens Digital Arts Festival, Faculty of Applied Physics and Mathematics, Gdańsk University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Silesian Univesity of Technology, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Szczecin Faculty of Humanities, Koszalin University of Technology, Faculty of Interior Design and Stage Design, University of Arts, Poznań, Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Zielona Góra, Faculty of Physics, University of Athens, Greece, Institute of Molecular Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poznań, International Legal Communication Research Center, University of Warsaw, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanotronic, West Pomeranian University of Technology, Mediations Biennale, Poznań, The Strzemiński Academy of Art, Łódź.

Sen’s Modernist Post Structures

Walk right in by Sen McGlinn in the Whangarei Quarry Gardens, New Zealand. Oct-Nov 2015.

 

One of my sculptural interests is large outdoor works that can be entered and seen from the inside out. These works are sculptures on the scale of buildings, or buildings that use the visual vocabulary of sculpture, rather than the language of architecture. As a sculpture, ‘Walk right in’ responds to the Russian modernist work known as ‘Tatlin’s tower,’ and Hossein Amanat’s Azadi monument. As a building, it demonstrates a technique for creating dynamic spaces in wood, with an effect completely different to the static effect of standard timber framing. The material is high quality Pinus radiata, with MCA treatment (an environmentally preferred product replacing tanalising). So the work is also a reminder of the important role of P. radiata in the New Zealand Northland economy, and a thank-you to those who have developed better cultivars, management plans and treatments.

Spin-off by Sen McGlinn, in the Wharepuke Sculpture Gardens, Kerikeri, New Zealand.
On show until September 2016.

My sculpture practice lies somewhere between micro-architecture and
autonomous sculpture, as I am interested in creating internal spaces
as well as surfaces and shadows. A sculpture can be as well designed
as a building / a building can be as sculptural as a work of art.

I’ve been working on a series of built sculptures that I call modernist post structures, using reciprocal frame structures as a sculptural form, and common fencing and farming supplies as a material. The repeated sloping pattern of the elements and the constant measurements make for a dynamic space, both inside and around the work. 

 

 

Works in
the Modernist Post Series:
Every Angle, 2014
Lemon Squeezer + Domino theory, 2014
Walk Right In, 2015
Spin-off, 2015

Monastery gardens Sculpture + Land art Show

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Detail of of our work, Memorials, ceramic tiles + a text

Sen cleans the tiles on our work Memorials with a sculpture by Theo van Keulen beyond

Opening: 14 June 2015, at 12.15 in the outdoor chapel in the gardens, Wittem klooster (Wittem Monastery), Wittemer Allee 32, 6286 AB, Wittem, The Netherlands

Wittem (google maps) is 15 km east of Maastricht, 15 km west of Aachen and 10 south-west of Heerlen.

“Verhalen + Herinneringen” (stories + memories) Sculpture in the gardens
curated by Ben van Kollenburg

14 June – 23 august, open daily.

De zomerexpositie 2015 wordt geopend op zondag 14 juni om 12.15 uur bij de openluchtkapel in de kloostertuin.

Van 14 juni t/m 23 augustus vindt er in de tuin van klooster Wittem de Zomerexpositie 2015 plaats. Het thema van deze jaarlijks terugkerende expositie is gebaseerd op ‘Verhalen en herinneringen’ .

Overal worden verhalen vertelt, ook in kloosters. Maar verhalen werden daar ook geboren. Verhalen die voort vloeiden uit voorwerpen, tradities en herinneringen. Religieuze maar ook algemene verhalen. Over het ontstaan en de geschiedenis van het kloosterleven. Over de (ge)bouwen en de bewoners. Over de ambachtelijke activiteiten zoals het brouwen van bier of het maken van kaas. Over Patroonheiligen en andere heiligen. Over bedevaarten en over de diensten die kloosters aan zieken en arme mensen verleenden. Zo heeft ieder klooster z’n eigen verhalen.

Zo ook Klooster Wittem. Over het ontstaan van de bedevaartbezoeken, de zorg en de functie van de kloostertuin, over de schitterende kapellen en over de prachtige bibliotheek, die herinnert aan de tijd dat Klooster Wittem seminarie was en opleidingsinstituut voor de redemptoristen. Alles heeft z’n verhaal, z’n herinnering en wordt op eigen wijze herdacht.

Door verhalen en herinneringen zijn de exposanten van Zomerexpositie 2015 geïnspireerd. Omdat iedere kunstenaar op eigen wijze beeld geeft aan zijn of haar inspiraties zal tijdens de Zomerexpositie 2015 naast installaties ook beelden, sculpturen en objecten te zien zijn, bestaande uit diverse materialen als metaal, hout, keramiek en vergankelijke materialen. Dit jaar wordt ook het TBC-huisje actief betrokken bij de expositie.

Kunstenaars | Artists
Theo van Keulen | Godelief Geurts | Marleen Rijvers | Marijke Strijbosch | Zjuul Devens | Els Borgers | Sonja van Kerkhoff | Sen McGlinn | Tatjana Brock | Lène Bueters | Carola Mokveld | Pollie Gregoor | Roosje Chini | Thea van Herpt | Marjolein Markink

“A guided meditation” – video installation + 4 new videos on show in Leiden

This new work as well as two new videos (showing work made in New Zealand earlier this year)
are on show during the Leiden “open studios” weekend – 27 + 28 September, open 12-6, in the Openmakers Studios, Aalmarkt 15B, Leiden.

The Aalmarkt is in the centre of the city and the nearest parking is close to the Webster university. Our site specific installations are in 2 enclosed spaces inside the “Openmakers” studios at Aalmarkt 15B, Leiden

open 12-6 this Saturday and Sunday, 27 + 28 September.
Sonja is there 1-6 and Sen is there 12-1pm.
There are lots of other open studios within walking distance.

A multi-vision mediation – new installations

Multi-vision Mediation by Carmen + Sonja. Three screens showing the video “In the Lands of Knowledge” with branches from Chateau Bethlehem in Maastricht.

“A multi-vision meditation” is the working title for a new video installation by Carmen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff for the LIS-VHS-FE event.

Niek Hilkmann and Sandra Gnajtovic have made two new films using VHS and the evening will be a Leiden International Short -VHS- Festival Experience with a premiere of their new VHS films, plus a showing of Sonja’s VHS films made in the 1990’s and Carmen’s performance “Through the Window” which incorporates Hitchcock’s film “Rear Window” on VHS.

Still from “Transit in a green landscape” by Sen + Sonja with a detail of Sonja’s work “Inland Soul at Sea”. Watch the 7 minute video on Youtube.

Elsewhere in the Aalmarkt Studio will be two site specific installations by Carmen and Sonja. One incorporating some of the Leiden International Short Festival Experience films and another which combines Sonja’s 2006 video “In The Lands of Knowledge” with branches recycled from the Land Art Maastricht event Sen and Sonja participated in May.

PROGRAMME

7 June, 2013
Aalmarkt 15B, Leiden

20-22:30

Carmen’s performance starts at 9 p.m.

Sonja’s videos and the site specific installations will run continuously from 8 p.m. onwards.

A balancing act + butoh @ Land Art Maastricht

17 May 2013. Land Art Maastricht, Day 8.

Land Art Maastricht Rundgang – Sculpture by Clemens Maassen

Clemens + Rob van Acker also made an intervention at Land Art Maastricht with a car, a lamp post and some vines. One of the performances for the opening:

Butoh performance by Mieke Verhooren and a student. Detail of sculptural interventions by second year art teacher students at the Maastricht School of Visual Arts.

Back to Day 1 of Land Art Maastricht

A “community” of interventions at Land Art Maastricht

Nine seat circle with two arched forms beyond the tree, by Sen + Sonja.

Day 7
of
Land Art Maastricht
at Chateau Bethlehem

Detail of “Chapel for the Soul” by Sen + Sonja

To Day 8 of Land Art Maastricht

“Under the tree” Land Art Maastricht

Land art Maastricht installation by Belgium artist, Isabelle van Wylick.

Day 6
of
Land Art Maastricht
at Chateau Bethlehem

Detail of “Chapel of the soul” by Sen McGlinn + Sonja van Kerkhoff at Land art Maastricht

To Day 7

The Life of Why + the “Janssen” family flower

Old Man in boat irons past Chateau Bethlehem

The “Janssen” family flower by Sonja van Kerkhoff
in the Chateau Bethlehem moat.

14 May: Day 5 of Land Art Maastricht

We had to move everything out of the rain as quickly as possible. The fastest way to do this was to put everything into the boat and to tow it.

It became a performance:
Old man: Sen McGlinn
Driver: Guido Ancion
Camera: Sonja van Kerkhoff

Each ‘flower’ is a creation out of the plastic rubbish given to me. So the “Janssen” flower hails from the Janssen family trash. So far I have bred “Tama,” “Carmen,” “Carla,” “Denise,” and “Janssen” flowers from litter.

To Day 6 of Land Art Maastricht

More Land Art Maastricht + a some plastic

Reinier van der Meer‘s sculpture at Land Art Maastricht

13 May 2013, Day 4

Reinier van der Meer starts to build his sculpture at Land Art Maastricht while in front of the Chateau Hans Vernooij + Johannes Gérard worked on a site specific intervention in the middle of the lawn.

 

Reinier van der Meer’s sculpture in progress viewed from the east of the Chateau grounds.

Sonja irons trash at Land Art Maastricht.

First they arranged for a circular area to be left ‘blank’ by the groundsmen.
And then they wheeled wheelbarrows of twigs and branches.

Meanwhile Sen continued to add branches to our arabesque dome while I got out the ironing board and finished ironing Carmen’s trash.

Then I laid the “Carmen” flower out in the moat.

Sonja litters with art in the chateau moat.

To Day 5.