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Personal Exhibition by Costas Evangelatos at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

Costas Evangelatos - Conceptual Variations

The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is proud to present the Personal Exhibition by artist Costas Evangelatos, titled “Conceptual Variations”. Opening on Wednesday, May 16th 2012, 20:30.

About the Artist

COSTAS EVANGELATOS
Artist and art theorist

Costas Evangelatos was born in Argostoli Cefalonia-Greece ( Nov.1957).

He studied law at National University of Athens, painting and aesthetic theory of modern art in  Manhattan N.Y (University The New School). From 1986 until 1993 he was the artistic director of the DADA Gallery in Athens, and in 1990 founded the modern art group ART STUDIO “EST”.

Along with painting, has worked internationally in the fields of Performance, Body Art, Happening and Mail art. He has presented sections of his works in solo exhibitions in Athens, Rochester, New York City, Thessaloniki, Arezzo, Avignon, Chantilly, Paris, Glasgow, Amsterdam, Nicosia, etc.

He has participated in many group exhibitions and international artistic meetings in Paris, Barcelona, Warsaw, Gothenburg, Amiens, Rome, Moscow, Santiago, Buenos – Aires, New York, Los Angeles, etc. They have been published also books of him, aesthetic essays, poems in seven editions (“Apopeira” editions, Athens), lithographic works : bodygraphics (dada art gallery, Athens and  BOA Editions N.Y), Conceptualizations, (galerie “F”), art books, calendars, poetry collections, etc.

He has lectured on art issues in Greece and abroad. He is  member of scientific and artistic organizations and a senior member of the Greece’s Chamber of Fine Arts(1991).

His works are in collections of art, as in the Art Institute of the Central Bank of Greece, the “Museum of the City of Athens”, the  Gallery of the Art History Museum in the National University of Athens, the –Macedonian Fine Art Union, the Gallery  of the Macedonian Studies Society, the Municipal Gallery of Athens, the American College of Greece (ACG ART COLLECTION), the Photographic Archive of the Benaki Museum, the headquarters of the Greek Army Navy , the Art  Foundation of Archbishop Makarios in Nicosia, the collection of Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Corfu Reading Society, the Ionian University in Corfu, the Municipal Gallery of Corfu, the Greek Embassy in Paris-France, the Greek and the Cypriot Consulate in Paris, the University FORDHAM at Lincoln  Center, New York , as well as in foundations and many private collections in Greece, France and U.S.A.

Artist’s Website

Costas Evangelatos

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Τechnoetic Telos – An International Research Conference in the Planetary Collegium’s Consciousness Reframed Series

Τechnoetic Telos
An International Research Conference in the Planetary Collegium’s Consciousness Reframed Series
convened by the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture, Kefalonia, Greece.

ICAC (Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture) in cooperation with the Planetary Collegium at the University of Plymouth, England, is hosting a conference in the series of Consciousness Reframed International Research Conferences, with the title of “TECHNOETIC TELOS: Art, Myth and Media”.

The conference will take place at Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture (ICAC) on the Island of Kefalonia, Greece, from April 30 to May 2, 2012.

For more information please visit the Conference’s dedicated pages at www.ionionartscenter.gr/conference/

Or click here to visit the dedicated website we have created with all information relating to the conference.

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Autumn Patricia Ahn Exhibition: Obliged Nostro

"Carousel" φωτογραφίες από γλυπτό εξωτερικού χώρου της Autumn Ahn.
"Carousel" photos of outdoors sculpture by Autumn Ahn.

Autumn Patricia Ahn Exhibition: Obliged Nostro

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

19th-28th October, 2011

 

The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is pleased to announce the Autumn Patricia Ahn Exhibition, titled “Obliged Nostro”.  Opening at the Center on October 19th, 20:00. A reception will follow the Opening. The Exhibition will remain open until October 28th – visiting hours 10:oo-13:oo, Monday-Friday.

In Autumn’s words:

“Obliged, Nostro.

Where does myth end and history begin? Our dreams become memories and only a retelling of our stories provide guidance in these modern times. The insular atmosphere of the island lifestyle avoids the global influx of rapid machine-oriented communication. The island’s lineage has always been known to wander to see what the world can offer and I have found that, true to their Homeric past, many Kefalonians come back home.

The works reference the existence and evolution of traditions and images that have survived passing generations. These clues are in the language, in signage, exchanges in conversation, in attire, in demographic, new roads, new land concerns, political exchange, etc. I question how those symbols of culture exist today and whether the context has altered its meaning.

Kefalonia is a place where nostalgia is alive. I came here to experience a different culture and through temporary immersion I can relate to the way of life here only through symbolism. The compressed experience is reflected in my work. My work is a culmination of documentation transforming events in the present into decorative vehicles for reflecting upon the past.”

Artist’s Website

Autumn Ahm

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Flemish Artists Project, Jan Verbruggen, Walt Van Beek and Korneel Devillé

 

Aerial view of a future procedure
Aerial view of a future procedure

 

Flemish Artists Project, Jan Verbruggen, Walt Van Beek and Korneel Devillé

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

14-20 September, 2011

Jan Verbruggen, Walt Van Beek and Korneel Deville are three young artists living and working in Brussels. At the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture they will give a lecture on their own work and contemporary art in general.

During their stay, from 14 to 20 September, at the Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture they will explore the island using kite aerial photography and prepare a larger scale project focusing on Flemish contemporary art during the 2012 festival.

Artist Websites

Korneel Devillé

Walt Van Beek

Jan Verbruggen

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Mohammed Musallam, Lectures on Palestinian Art and Personal Exhibition

 

Abstract Painting by Mohammed Musallam
Abstract Painting by Mohammed Musallam

The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture is pleased to welcome Palestinian artist Mohammed Musallam who will present a series of Lectures on Palestinian Art at the Center between the 18th and 24th of July, 2011. Mr Musallam will also present a Personal Exhibition of his paintings, as well as a video-art display.

About the artist

Mohammed Musallam was born in Gaza in 1974 after his family had been dislocated from the historic Palestine as a consequent of the 1948 war. He holds a Bachelor degree in Painting from Al Najah University and a Masters degree in Painting from Helwan University, Cairo. He currently resides in Gaza and works there as a lecturer of “Painting and the History of Palestinian Arts” at the College of Arts, Al Aqsa University.

From his first steps as a university student he became greatly influenced by the abstract art processes and approaches.

In his Art, he focuses on portraying a range of humanistic issues, which go beyond the limitations imposed by any prevailing time-related matters, which may be oppressive and persistent simultaneously. At the same time, he concentrates on conveying the notion of the preservation of our humaneness amid the harshness of our environment as one of the most important reasons for our existence.

Artist’s Website

Mohammed Musallam

Abstract Painting by Mohammed Musallam
Abstract Painting by Mohammed Musallam
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Matt Van Brink, presenting Kiss The Stars Goodnight, with Fotini Samara

The Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture proudly presents composer and musician Matt Van Brink in concert, with internationally acclaimed soprano Fotini Samara. This will be the first performance of “Kiss The Stars Goodnight” in Greece.

Matt Van Brink with Fotini Samara

“Kiss The Stars Goodnight”

Ionion Center for the Arts and Culture

August 2nd, 2011

 

About Matt Van Brink

Matt Van Brink
Matt Van Brink

MATT VAN BRINK is a composer, lyricist, pianist and accordionist. He is on the piano and composition faculty at Concordia Conservatory (Bronxville, New York), which has commissioned and given the premieres of many new works of chamber music and musical theater for its student performers. He has also been commissioned by San Francisco Choral Artists, Collage New Music, New York Youth Symphony, Celebrity Series of Boston, and Lara St. John, and his compositions and arrangements are published by Schott Music, Tenuto Publications, and earthsongs. Van Brink studied at Indiana University and Boston University, where he earned a doctorate. He lives in Brooklyn.

Artist Website

Matt Van Brink

 

Video from Kiss The Stars Goodnight

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZATFHsiRGAY

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