Andreas Angelidakis
dal 24/1/2014 al 2/8/2014
Segnalato da
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
24/1/2014
Andreas Angelidakis
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Study for Crash Pad. A multi-purpose room with a library in the front building of KW Institute, drawing upon the idea of the 19th century salon as a setting for cultural and political conversations. A preliminary statement of the 8th Berlin Biennale.
Crash Pad by Andreas Angelidakis is the first commissioned work of the
8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art. The room installation opens
on January 25, 2014, as a preliminary statement of the 8th Berlin
Biennale.
With Crash Pad Angelidakis creates a multi-purpose room with a library
in the front building of KW Institute for Contemporary Art, drawing
upon the idea of the 19th century salon as a setting for cultural and
political conversations. The room is formed by an arrangement of
ancient and folkloric rugs handmade in the Greek countryside,
displaying a transitional iconography from an Ottoman to a European
tradition, together with a set of columns. The carpets and the columns
represent the two conflicting systems that modernized Greece in the
19th century: The Europeanized Greek diaspora (educated in Germany,
France, and England and influenced by the invention of antiquity
there), and the peasant guerrilla fighters under general Theodoros
Kolokotronis.
Crash Pad also refers to the first bankruptcy of modern Greece in 1893,
which followed soon after liberation, essentially because the
Europeanized Greek diaspora tried to keep the folk fighters out. These
conflicting systems led to a series of failed governments and economic
crises which brought about a predecessor of the International Monetary
Fund, which was put in place by France, England, and Germany in order
to supervise the debt of Greece.
Crash Pad offers a space for events, discussion and exchange within the
8th Berlin Biennale, as well as a place for contemplation and exchange
for the traveling artists arriving at KW: A domesticated ruin and a
thank-you note from a Norwegian-Greek architect to the German idea of
antiquity.
On occasion of the installation opening on January 25, 2014, there will
be a public conversation with Andreas Angelidakis and Juan A.
Gaitàn, curator of the 8th Berlin Biennale, at 3 pm.
The 8th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art takes place from May 29
until August 3, 2014, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Haus am
Waldsee, and Museen Dahlem - Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Dahlem
Museums - National Museums in Berlin).
Andreas Angelidakis: Crash Pad is supported by the Office for
Contemporary Art Norway (OCA).
The Berlin Biennale is organized by KW Institute for Contemporary Art and
funded by the Kulturstiftung des Bundes (German Federal Cultural
Foundation).
Image: copyright free engraving, modified by studio Angelidakis- Andreas Angelidakis, Sotiris Vasiliou, Alexandra Syriou
Courtesy The Breeder, Athens
Press contact:
KW Institute for Contemporary Art Tel +49 (0)30 24345942 Fax +49 (0)30 24345999 press@berlinbiennale.de
Opening: Saturday, 25.1.2014, 2 pm 25.1.2014, 3 pm: Andreas Angelidakis in conversation with Juan A. Gaitán
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