Fresco Bosco in Padula

I am back to the urban Milan from a 3-day trip to Padula in the south of Italy. I was participating in the show "Fresco Bosco" curated by Achille Bonito Oliva. The monastery of San Lorenzo were the show was taking place, is one of the most impressive buildings of all the Southern Italy. It was founded in 1306 and for many centuries was the most important economic and cultural centre of the area. The luxurious and spacious cells of the monastery have become apparently a host to the Fresco Bosco artworks over the last few years creating a big contemporary art collection. The collection includes works of Anish Kapoor, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Ghada Amer, Sol LeWitt and Piero Golia. The Neenstar Flags is my participation.

Naples feelings

Few more photos from Naples. Thanks to my napoletanian friends I had a Vespa tour throughout the city yesterday. All I can say that Naples is the most unpredictable Italian city.

Everything you see is in the past

I am in enjoying a Naples sightseeing today even with 35 C. More photos later today.

Off to Naples

Animator vs Animation by Alan Becker

I was browsing the Tagbanger weblog and I found this animation made by Alan Becker. If you are familiar with Macromedia's Flash interface you will understand why this is a fucking awesome piece! Click here to check this out.

Dada show opens at MoMa in NYC tonight

Marionettes made by the artist Sophie Taeuber in 1918
(source New York Times)

Veramone for Mykonos headaches

Because the city of Mykonos is totally a headache, this object above is what I needed during one of my attempts looking for something nice while wandering the streets. This lovely sculpture was on the shelves in a friendly antique store- maybe one of the few remaining cool places. Veramone used to be a pain-killer for headaches in the 20's and 30's.

The pc of my friend Marina

Delos delights

Today I am in Mykonos

Dedicated to George Bush

Ain't nobody straight in LA. mp3 is a song from the 60's by the Miracles.

Cream Hong Kong

Cream is a seasonal Hong-Kong based concept book, focused on art and design. Each edition has a different packaging and design based on the theme. The summer edition arrived in a super-lux packaging. The theme of this issue is "Star Wars". I have asked to create something based on a childhood memory I have of one of my favourite films ever. I have contributed 2 drawings, see one above.

It is not the wind!

Don't mess with the Pirates

The Pirate Party logo

It smells a little bit of China in Sweden these days. ThePirateBay.Org is widely considered one of the biggest file-sharing websites (bit-torrent trackers). Last week the Swedish police raided 10 locations across central Sweden, shutting down the popular file-sharing site. In response to this, the Swedish police's main Web site, Polisen.se, was shut down Thursday night, apparently in a revenge hacker attack. The police site came back online Friday night, but late Saturday, the main Web site of the Swedish government also buckled for several hours under a crash. By Saturday, The Pirate Bay site was mostly online again and it remained operational yesterday. The supportes of Pirate Bay have formed a political party called of course the" Pirate's Party". Since this act, the party has already doubled it's members. One of their mottos :"A hundred years ago we were Christians, today we are file sharers."
Related links:
Pirate party
ThePirateBay.Org
Herald Tribune article

Architecture show in Patras

Today In Patras

I am the city of Patras attending the architecture exhibition "New Trends of Architecture". A show of young architects from Europe and Asia. Andreas Angelidakis is participating in this. The opening is tomorrow at 6:30 at the University of Patras.http://www.architecture-trend-press.net/

Mai Ueda Domain Perfomance

Mai Ueda reads a domain poem at Mediamatic, Amsterdam, April 2006

The destruction of architecture

Xenia Hotel year 2006

While I was in Trikala this weekend, I took my car and I visited the abandoned hotel of Xenia in the town of Kalambaka. I was curious to see it because it is famous and designed by architect Aris Konstantinides. It took me a lot of time to find the deserted and seriously "wounded" building on the edge of the town. The uncontroled greenery that surrounds the building makes almost impossible to trace it from the outside. Hotel Xenia was built in the early 60's in one of the most beautiful locations of Greece, facing the Meteora rocks. It has been published in numerous publications around the world as a good example of modernist architecture in Greece. I took a short stroll inside the hotel and the courtyard, took these photos and I left with a sad feeling. Leaving Kalambaka and driving back to Trikala, I watched around the other hotels in the area and I unfortunately faced what's the current taste of architecture. Is Xenia Hotel gonna have a similar future as any other modernist building in this country? Will it be demolished or badly renovated?

Art in Trikala

a view from my piece the Neenstar Portraits

I just got back from my trip in Trikala for the opening of the exhibition "An Outing" The Beltsios Collection. The exhibition takes place at Milos and it will be on until the end of July.

Our opening at Rebecca Camhi

Priscilla and Miltos

Rebecca, myself, Andreas

Milena with Rebecca 

Martiniano with Sophia

Andreas and Nadia
Athina in the Philosophy bench

Ioanna with Eleanna 

Rallou Panagiotou

Bizzare sculptures

I couldn't help not taking photos of these super-bizzare sculptures somewhere between Helioupolis and Kareas in Athens these days.

Camh-ere this Thursday

The new Neen emblem

A quick reminder for our show at Rebecca Camhi gallery (temporary space) on Konstantinoupoleos 44, this Thursday at 8pm (25th of May) For more info +30 694 732511

My new shoes

I found this pair of vintage shoes. Source undisclosed.

Trikala is Wi-Fi-ed everywhere!

The facade of the Milos space where the Beltsios collection will be exhibited

Yesterday on Attiki Odos:

This could have been the scariest moment of my life [....] but check here few meters further.

Maria Papadimitriou: Larger than Life

a photo from the TAMA catalogue

Dummies 1996 (courtesy: Beltsios Collection)

Maria Papadimitriou is a greek artist and a friend. One of her known projects is TAMA, an ongoing collective project on the nature of nomadism which involves a settlement of gypsies in an abandoned area of Athens. Due to her fantastic speech in a discussion forum last Saturday I think I owe her a post in this blog big time! The topic of the discussion was how an art-fair should be and how it can function in a city like Athens. Maria described her personal experience with the Greek reality in the most enlightening and engaging way.

Future betrayed us

Back in the 70's some studies were made for the creation of space colonies housing 10,000 people.
( source: Make Blog and Nasa website)

Blogebrity: Perez Hilton

Perez Hilton(right) with Amnesia Sparkles

Which website is Hollywood's most hated?PerezHilton.Com!...mmm not really anymore, it is simply the new source for A-list Hollywood gossip. Perez Hilton aka Mario Lavandeira has his "headquarters" at the Coffee Bean (on the corner of Fairfax and Sunset), the "office" as he often refers to it. Since his blog became a hit all over America, celebrities are rushing to the west Hollywood "office" just to claim their own spot on celebrity.

Motto of the Day

Happiness will be our revenge
(photo taken by Andreas Angelidakis in Metaxourgeio)

Corona Issue No1

Corona Magazine is a new magazine made by artists Naotaka Hiro and Sid M. Duenas.

Marissa Nadler

Marissa Nadler perfoming at the Small Music Theatre in Athens

Last night I went to the Small Music Theatre to see the perfomance of Marissa Nadler. The cute little space was unexpectedly packed. Nadler came out around 11 after 2 other performances. I liked her perfomance a lot but I missed the finale 'cos I was gasping for fresh air- the place was fully packed by heavy smockers. As Wikipedia describes her "Nadler is an American folk musician and fine artist She is often categorised as a member of the "New Weird America" movement, a notion she rejects: "I really dislike that whole brand of the New Weird America because I think a lot of these artists don't have anything to do with each other, except that they're from America and are playing interesting music that's not part of the mainstream. More accurate would be to describe Nadler as a balladeer with American Gothic leanings." Visit her home page here