Polyphonous 2020: #streetview by Popeye loves Olive

Exhibition / OnlineOnly / 12 Mar 2020 - 15 Mar 2020

Published: 01.05.2020

Atelier Cepissakova

: Ligsalzstraße 29
80339 - Munich
GERMANY

: Website Popeye loves Olive Art Space; Facebook Popeye loves Olive Art Space

Mail:: infopopeyelovesolive.com

Phone:: +30 6944871569

Management:: Kouloubi Erato

Polyphonous 2020: #streetview by Popeye loves Olive.

Brooch: Collage City 01 by Vasia Pachi.Stainless steel, copper, silver, formica, PVC. 2020Athenas street owns a unique identity, recounting the city's life in an original way through the years. Located in the core of the city resembles an eternal structure that is never completed while retaining the layers of time, it is an area that recalls the collective memory. It can be described as a living organism in a constant transformation or an open shape tending to all directions..

Pendant: Synthesis III by Constantinos Papadoukas.Olive wood, silver 925. 2020Athenas street, named after Ancient Greek goddess Athena who was the protector of Athens once she prevailed over Poseidon by gifting the Olive tree to Kekropas, King of the city. A street that has ever since divided and united various states, cultures, and topographies. Amidst Neoclassical buildings arose scaffoldings, among antiquaries, fast food restaurants - cultures and civilizations mingle in an effort for unity. Employing Olivewood, silver, and composites the series builds on the notion of fusion, permanent or temporary, successful or not. Athenas street a mixing pot of diversity..

Necklace: The cruelty of Trade by Marina Zachou.Greek and cypriots coins published before euros, butchers crook, bronze, nylon, printed photographs. 2020Throughout Athena's str trade is present in all forms and shapes. From everyday products-groceries, meat, fish,etc-to fencing, drugs, and prostitution. Livelihood,survival,exploitation,enrichment...Trade. Objects,food,humans,values,death or life-all up for sale in Athena's str. Beautiful or ugly, the cruel glory of trade..

Brooch: Inner Turbulence by Angelos Konstantakatos.Mushroom, fruit-carpus, resin, color, silver, steel pin. 2020Athenas street is not a typical inspiration to me. It's an experience, a story, a very important part of my life. I feel at home there, as I grow up taking a walk to the bazaar every Saturday since I was 15 years old. The images of Athenas street are familiar to me, circulating in my mind without realizing it, without giving them much attention. It is only after creating a jewel that I discover with amazement what element of this road has finally inspired me. Usually, this inspiration hides in the details, in something barely noticeable like a ruin....

Necklace: Unworry #1 by Anna Vlahos.Worry Beads, cotton. 2020On Athinas Street, you can see the Acropolis standing over Athens. In some ways it gives me hope, the Parthenon is this ever-present example of the extraordinary things humans can create. In other ways, it reminds me that civilizations end.
. On the day I bought these beads, my own country, Australia, is burning like never before and I feel a burden that comes from the inactivity of our leaders. I find the worry beads in a junk shop. They remind me to focus on the choices I can make. Such a masculine object. I want to turn them into something feminine. To bring back the beauty and uniqueness of what was once a beautiful, natural material..

Necklace: Drowning Sorrows Shadow Dancing - Ritualistic Object #1 by Niki Stylianou.Greek coffee stirrers, bronze, polymer clay, silver dust, cord. 2020Athenas Street. A pivotal axis in the city center that balances raw sensory experience, multi[cultural/social/gender] expressions and clashing energetic fields. Although it has a Goddess’s name, it has been and still is, run by men. I choose to examine through female lenses, emotional and/or ritualistic states that until lately belonged to the realm of the male..

Pendant: Ruins #1 by Elly Xippa.PVC Sheet, PVC Fabric, PVC Pipes, leather.. 2020Athenas Street! I just want to wander on it, recall memories of it, smell its perfume - that of her old days, when I was young; a newcomer in this beautiful place. When the photos were black and white, and the phones were hanging on the wall, when Athinas Street wore its amazing, beautiful old buildings! Unfortunately, nowadays they are derelict, dirty, worn-out... I have seen Athinas Street at night too when the market used to open its doors to the people long before dawn when it was full of life, colors smell and sounds; traders, gamesters, prostitutes!.

Brooch: Geometry of despair by Xenia Deimezi.Woolen Carpet, Silver 925, Cotton Thread, Steel.. 2020Unique piece“Calm down. With a little bit of control, we'll make it through. The class that would bring the change fell asleep. We can play leadership too. Sleep ... now it's quiet. Our times. Sleep, food, and fuck. The bullies pray on our pillow And the killers are working for us’’ / Katerina Gogou 1978.

Bracelet: Raw by Aliki Stroumpouli.Steel, paper, glue, ink, pencil.. 2020Raw is the emerging feeling inspired at Athenas street. Lots of people, all sorts of faces, loud voices, vulgar noises, packed products, stacked food, strong smells, dirty pavements, a plethora of information, a chaotic order. Quite appalling yet intriguing is the area selling meat situated in the heart of the main food market of Athens. Raw is the meat pilled, raw are the carcasses hanging, raw is the way that it is transported into big trucks, raw is how it is displayed. Raw is the process through which animals become food for humans. Raw is unfiltered and at times cruel yet it feels so attractively real..

Brooch: Memory views I by Lily Kanellopoulou.Resin, Wood, Bronze, Stainless Steel, Pigments.. 2020My father who was always making things with his hands inspired me as a child and influenced my life as an adult. He had taken me for my first walk at Athina’s street, to show me the buildings he was constructing at the area, the shops he was buying tools, the fish market and the handmade production of copper and bronze pieces at my grandfather’s shop nearby. Omonia-Athena’s-Monastiraki is a walk full of childish memories. Today the changes, the disasters, the alteration of surroundings and people, the taste of the things that are lost, leave a void in my soul.......

Pendant: Sound pot I by George Giannoutsos.Pink rock salt terrazzo, sterling silver, electronic parts, fabric.. 2020According to Greek mythology, the goddess Athena gave to the Athenians the first olive tree. It brought wood, oil, and food, and became a symbol of Athenian economic prosperity. Nowadays Athena's str. is the main gastronomic source of the city where the meat and fish markets and small spice shops are based among tools, apparel and flea market shops. In the core of the city, below Parthenon, the temple dedicated to Athena, this street attracts a variety of people: Greeks, tourists, immigrants, old, young, mentally ill, homeless, working, shopping or ambling. This mix of people, goods, and transports creates a special atmosphere, stimulating the senses of smell, sight, and hearing..

Set: Purple Gold by Erato Kouloubi.Porcelain, lavender seeds, lavender essential oil, cork, thread, embroidery.. 2020This body of work investigates and comments on the contradictions of one of the most significant streets of Athens. Wealth vs Poverty:
. The ancient Greeks discovered that if the lavender flowers are crushed and burned, then the smoke released is particularly relaxing. The wealthy people living on Athenas Street used lavender to perfume their baths and to beautify their skin. It was a daily ritual..Pendant/Object (set of 5)..

Piece: Ariadne's Thread by Erato Kouloubi.Cord, Bronze (Casted Pasta).. 2020This body of work investigates and comments on the contradictions of one of the most significant streets of Athens. Wealth vs Poverty: After ten years of austerity, Athens tackles the phenomenon of homelessness and hunger. On Athenas Street the stories of the homeless people talk about extreme poverty, unemployment, addiction and sometimes mental illness. Each one of them needs a thread to escape from their own Labyrinth..Pendant/Bondage Equipment..

Pendant: Ghetto by Yakinthi Oikonomou.Burnt wood, rusty chain, rusty nails, used plastic belt, leather, acrylic colour, resin, epoxy.. 2020As a young student in the 80's, I was fascinated by the place immediately. It was the street of wonders … colours, smells, voices. Thirty-five years later, the colours, the smells, the voices are still here, but there are also drug addicts and dealers, prostitutes and immigrants. Now, all the unwanted people of the city have found refuge here..

Necklace: The new life of some antique silverware. An alloy of classy and lumpen architectural elements... by Maria Tsimpiskaki.Antique silverware, silver, copper, pigments.. 2020This body of this work is inspired by the history, the secrets, the past and the present of one of the most interesting streets of Athens: "Athena’s Street". It is the Merchants' street" or the "street of miracles" as Athenians love to call it. It is the street where you can meet every kind of people, merchants, workers, petty traders, urban residents, countrymen, criminals, and angels, and buy every kind of stool, food, spices, antique...... My material is antique silverware. I decided to give a new life to the old antiques I bought from Athena Street and to capture them some moments of the past and the present..

Brooch: Athenas street III by Yiota Vogli.Alpaca, wood, porcelain pulp, pencil drawings, patina, steel. 2020.7.5 x 10 cm.From series: Traces of TimeI have assembled an urban area suspended between reality and fantasy by mapping from above-selected buildings, old and new, squares and sidewalks of Athenas Street - the oldest commercial and noisy street in the center of Athens - trying to compose documentary images made out of observation not only of the past but of the contemporary reality by presenting a collage of the area challenged by new visions, inquiring the relationship between space and identity..

Vasia Pachi
Brooch: Collage City 01, 2020
Stainless steel, copper, silver, formica, PVC

Athenas street owns a unique identity, recounting the city's life in an original way through the years. Located in the core of the city resembles an eternal structure that is never completed while retaining the layers of time, it is an area that recalls the collective memory. It can be described as a living organism in a constant transformation or an open shape tending to all directions.

Constantinos Papadoukas
Pendant: Synthesis III, 2020
Olive wood, silver 925

Athenas street, named after Ancient Greek goddess Athena who was the protector of Athens once she prevailed over Poseidon by gifting the Olive tree to Kekropas, King of the city. A street that has ever since divided and united various states, cultures, and topographies. Amidst Neoclassical buildings arose scaffoldings, among antiquaries, fast food restaurants - cultures and civilizations mingle in an effort for unity. Employing Olivewood, silver, and composites the series builds on the notion of fusion, permanent or temporary, successful or not. Athenas street a mixing pot of diversity.

Marina Zachou
Necklace: The cruelty of Trade, 2020
Greek and cypriots coins published before euros, butchers crook, bronze, nylon, printed photographs

Throughout Athena's str trade is present in all forms and shapes. From everyday products-groceries, meat, fish,etc-to fencing, drugs, and prostitution. Livelihood,survival,exploitation,enrichment...Trade. Objects,food,humans,values,death or life-all up for sale in Athena's str. Beautiful or ugly, the cruel glory of trade.

Angelos Konstantakatos
Brooch: Inner Turbulence, 2020
Mushroom, fruit-carpus, resin, color, silver, steel pin

Athenas street is not a typical inspiration to me. It's an experience, a story, a very important part of my life. I feel at home there, as I grow up taking a walk to the bazaar every Saturday since I was 15 years old. The images of Athenas street are familiar to me, circulating in my mind without realizing it, without giving them much attention. It is only after creating a jewel that I discover with amazement what element of this road has finally inspired me. Usually, this inspiration hides in the details, in something barely noticeable like a ruin...

Anna Vlahos
Necklace: Unworry #1, 2020
Worry Beads, cotton

On Athinas Street, you can see the Acropolis standing over Athens. In some ways it gives me hope, the Parthenon is this ever-present example of the extraordinary things humans can create. In other ways, it reminds me that civilizations end.
On the day I bought these beads, my own country, Australia, is burning like never before and I feel a burden that comes from the inactivity of our leaders. I find the worry beads in a junk shop. They remind me to focus on the choices I can make. Such a masculine object. I want to turn them into something feminine. To bring back the beauty and uniqueness of what was once a beautiful, natural material.

Niki Stylianou
Necklace: Drowning Sorrows Shadow Dancing - Ritualistic Object #1, 2020
Greek coffee stirrers, bronze, polymer clay, silver dust, cord

Athenas Street. A pivotal axis in the city center that balances raw sensory experience, multi[cultural/social/gender] expressions and clashing energetic fields. Although it has a Goddess’s name, it has been and still is, run by men. I choose to examine through female lenses, emotional and/or ritualistic states that until lately belonged to the realm of the male.

Maria Cepissakova
Necklace: Untitled #1, 2020
Porcelain, pigments, waxed cord

The contra-poles of life so far apart, accumulated on a street ...this is how I bring recycling, multi-colored, shaped and dried leftovers in combination with pure, white untouched porcelain, into a work. Poverty next to the capital, hope next to greed... Layered and tailored, it creates a profile that inspires me in my work.

Elly Xippa
Pendant: Ruins #1, 2020
PVC Sheet, PVC Fabric, PVC Pipes, leather.

Athenas Street! I just want to wander on it, recall memories of it, smell its perfume - that of her old days, when I was young; a newcomer in this beautiful place. When the photos were black and white, and the phones were hanging on the wall, when Athinas Street wore its amazing, beautiful old buildings! Unfortunately, nowadays they are derelict, dirty, worn-out... I have seen Athinas Street at night too when the market used to open its doors to the people long before dawn when it was full of life, colors smell and sounds; traders, gamesters, prostitutes!

Xenia Deimezi
Brooch: Geometry of despair, 2020
Woolen Carpet, Silver 925, Cotton Thread, Steel.

“Calm down. With a little bit of control, we'll make it through. The class that would bring the change fell asleep. We can play leadership too. Sleep ... now it's quiet. Our times. Sleep, food, and fuck. The bullies pray on our pillow And the killers are working for us’’ / Katerina Gogou 1978

Aliki Stroumpouli
Bracelet: Raw, 2020
Steel, paper, glue, ink, pencil.

Raw is the emerging feeling inspired at Athenas street. Lots of people, all sorts of faces, loud voices, vulgar noises, packed products, stacked food, strong smells, dirty pavements, a plethora of information, a chaotic order. Quite appalling yet intriguing is the area selling meat situated in the heart of the main food market of Athens. Raw is the meat pilled, raw are the carcasses hanging, raw is the way that it is transported into big trucks, raw is how it is displayed. Raw is the process through which animals become food for humans. Raw is unfiltered and at times cruel yet it feels so attractively real.

Lily Kanellopoulou
Brooch: Memory views I, 2020
Resin, Wood, Bronze, Stainless Steel, Pigments.

My father who was always making things with his hands inspired me as a child and influenced my life as an adult. He had taken me for my first walk at Athina’s street, to show me the buildings he was constructing at the area, the shops he was buying tools, the fish market and the handmade production of copper and bronze pieces at my grandfather’s shop nearby. Omonia-Athena’s-Monastiraki is a walk full of childish memories. Today the changes, the disasters, the alteration of surroundings and people, the taste of the things that are lost, leave a void in my soul......

George Giannoutsos
Pendant: Sound pot I, 2020
Pink rock salt terrazzo, sterling silver, electronic parts, fabric.

According to Greek mythology, the goddess Athena gave to the Athenians the first olive tree. It brought wood, oil, and food, and became a symbol of Athenian economic prosperity. Nowadays Athena's str. is the main gastronomic source of the city where the meat and fish markets and small spice shops are based among tools, apparel and flea market shops. In the core of the city, below Parthenon, the temple dedicated to Athena, this street attracts a variety of people: Greeks, tourists, immigrants, old, young, mentally ill, homeless, working, shopping or ambling. This mix of people, goods, and transports creates a special atmosphere, stimulating the senses of smell, sight, and hearing.

Erato Kouloubi
Set: Purple Gold, 2020
Porcelain, lavender seeds, lavender essential oil, cork, thread, embroidery.

This body of work investigates and comments on the contradictions of one of the most significant streets of Athens. Wealth vs Poverty:
The ancient Greeks discovered that if the lavender flowers are crushed and burned, then the smoke released is particularly relaxing. The wealthy people living on Athenas Street used lavender to perfume their baths and to beautify their skin. It was a daily ritual.

Pendant/Object (set of 5).

Erato Kouloubi
Piece: Ariadne's Thread, 2020
Cord, Bronze (Casted Pasta).

This body of work investigates and comments on the contradictions of one of the most significant streets of Athens. Wealth vs Poverty: After ten years of austerity, Athens tackles the phenomenon of homelessness and hunger. On Athenas Street the stories of the homeless people talk about extreme poverty, unemployment, addiction and sometimes mental illness. Each one of them needs a thread to escape from their own Labyrinth.

Pendant/Bondage Equipment.

Yakinthi Oikonomou
Pendant: Ghetto , 2020
Burnt wood, rusty chain, rusty nails, used plastic belt, leather, acrylic colour, resin, epoxy.

As a young student in the 80's, I was fascinated by the place immediately. It was the street of wonders … colours, smells, voices. Thirty-five years later, the colours, the smells, the voices are still here, but there are also drug addicts and dealers, prostitutes and immigrants. Now, all the unwanted people of the city have found refuge here.

Maria Tsimpiskaki
Necklace: The new life of some antique silverware. An alloy of classy and lumpen architectural elements..., 2020
Antique silverware, silver, copper, pigments.

This body of this work is inspired by the history, the secrets, the past and the present of one of the most interesting streets of Athens: "Athena’s Street". It is the Merchants' street" or the "street of miracles" as Athenians love to call it. It is the street where you can meet every kind of people, merchants, workers, petty traders, urban residents, countrymen, criminals, and angels, and buy every kind of stool, food, spices, antique...... My material is antique silverware. I decided to give a new life to the old antiques I bought from Athena Street and to capture them some moments of the past and the present.

Yiota Vogli
Brooch: Athenas street III, 2020
Alpaca, wood, porcelain pulp, pencil drawings, patina, steel
7.5 x 10 cm
From series: Traces of Time

I have assembled an urban area suspended between reality and fantasy by mapping from above-selected buildings, old and new, squares and sidewalks of Athenas Street - the oldest commercial and noisy street in the center of Athens - trying to compose documentary images made out of observation not only of the past but of the contemporary reality by presenting a collage of the area challenged by new visions, inquiring the relationship between space and identity.

Throughout the years Athenas Street has been the market where the western world met the world of the East. It mutated from glorious with its merchants’ residencies, to a ghetto of workers, petty traders, prostitutes, and criminals as a constant battlefield. In contradiction to that, it was named after the goddess Athena, a beloved deity of the ancient Greeks, the personification of wisdom, knowledge, and art. It connects the Monastiraki area (the way to ascend the sacred hill of Acropolis) with Omonia Square (the heart of the city) and is one of the main streets of Athens.

Artist list

Maria Cepissakova, Xenia Deimezi, George Giannoutsos, Lily Kanellopoulou, Angelos Konstantakatos, Erato Kouloubi, Yakinthi Oikonomou, Vasia Pachi, Constantinos Papadoukas, Antria Prasinou, Aliki Stroumpouli, Niki Stylianou, Maria Tsimpiskaki, Anna Vlahos, Yiota Vogli, Elli Xippa, Marina Zachou

Popeye loves Olive has invited 16 Greek and one international artist, to comment on how history prevails and how daily life has changed over the centuries, by selecting their materials from this particular street and by creating a community through social media to exchange their inspirational seeds, photos, and stories.

The piece travels from the creator to the public to find a receiver. Lily Kanellopoulou interviewed by Klimt02

Klimt02

Interview

/ 02Mar2020

It concentrates and communicates out to the world the aesthetic values and messages of the artist. Yiota Vogli interview...

Popeye loves Olive Art Space

Interview

/ 08Oct2018

The most intriguing of them all is the ability to design a piece and have it worn in different locations. Constantinos P...

Popeye loves Olive Art Space

Interview

/ 08Oct2018

It was for me a means to relax from work while keeping my hands and mind busy. Niki Stylianou interviewed by Popeye love...

Popeye loves Olive Art Space

Interview

/ 28Sep2018

The freedom of expression and the maximum connection of my inner self to the outer world. Erato Kouloubi interviewed by ...

Popeye loves Olive Art Space

Interview

/ 28Sep2018

Interview with Anna Vlahos

Klimt02

Interview

/ 16Jul2014

: Ligsalzstraße 29
80339 - Munich
GERMANY

: Website Popeye loves Olive Art Space; Facebook Popeye loves Olive Art Space

Mail:: infopopeyelovesolive.com

Phone:: +30 6944871569

Management:: Kouloubi Erato

Polyphonous 2020: #streetview by Popeye loves Olive

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