CONTEMPORARY GREEK ART

This article is part of the series on:'History of Greek art'

'Prehistoric Greece'

Cycladic art - Minoan art -Mycenean art - Protogeometric Art -Geometric art

'Art in Ancient Greece'

Archaic Greek art - Classical Greek Art - Hellenistic Art - Greco-Buddhist art -Greek Art in Roman times

'Medieval Greece'

Byzantine art - Macedonian art

'Post-Byzantine Greece'

Art in Ottoman Greece - Cretan School -Heptanese School

'Modern Greece'

Art in modern Greece - Munich SchoolContemporary Greek Art

'Contemporary Greek Art' is defined as the art produced by Greek artists after World War II.

Contents

Painting-Sculpture

Photography

See also

External links

Sources

Bibliography

Painting-Sculpture

=== Abstract Expressionism ===
Theodoros Stamos (1922-1997) was a great abstract expressionism art from Lefkas that lived and worked in New York in the 40s and 50s. His work has been exhibited throughout the world, and can be found in major museum collections such as the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, Smithsonian and the National Gallery of Art in Washington^[1].
=== Kinetic Art ===
Takiswas born in 1925 in Athens, and he is an internationally acclaimed selftaught sculptor. He travelled, worked exhibited in Athens, Paris, London, New York and in many other cities. He is paricularly known for his telemagnetic sculpture that formed the basis of his aesthetic expression and his musical sculptures. Takis' musical sculptures are based on the simple concept of using magnetic waves caused by electricity as a means to activate repeated musical sounds: the latter are to be heard every time a needle strikes a string, when attracted by a magnet. He won the Grand Prize at the Paris New Biennale in 1985. An illustrative example would be the installation of a real forest of numerious Signs in the Place de la Defence in Paris (1984-87), the original and imaginative illumination of the Arc de Triophe at the same period, the transformation of the aquaduct at Beauvais into a musical tower with a network of vertical metallic strings, in 1992, and his design for the layout of a subway station in Toulouse in 1993. Takis' non-morphological inquiries have continued through succesive rejections of represantationalism; his method and the acoustic sensations which it calls forth retain their austerity. These are the features which place his artistic inventions among the most important achievements of contemporary, post-World War II art^[2]. Another famous Greek kinetic art artist is Chrysa.
=== Arte povera ===
In Arte povera, artists use any medium they could get for free or very, very cheap. The main Greek representative of arte povera is Jannis Kounellis, who introduced ''found objects'' in his paintings, such as live animals but also fire, earth, burlap sacks, gold. He replaced the canvas with bed frames, doorways, windows or simply the gallery itself^[3].
=== Metaphysical art ===
=== Stuckism ===
Stuckism is an international artistic movement that was created as a reaction to conceptual art. Stuckist painter Odysseus Yakoumakis on September of 2004,founded the first Greek group of Stuckism International named The Romantic Anonymous Fellowship to oppose to the provinciality of the mainstream contemporary Greek art and in particular post-modernism ^[4].

Photography

== Video Art

Digital Art ==
Miltos Manetas is a internationally acclaimed artist who makes paintings, videoworks, prints and performances about video games, players and computer hardware^{[5] [6]}.
Andreas Angelidakis is an architect and artist working at the intersection of digital culture and architectural production. He is one of the first artists that treated internet as a real place, a site where he designed and built online communities such as the Chelsea Project, Neen World. He also designed and built spaces, intended to appear as computer renderings, sparking a discussion as to whether they were ever built (Pause pavilion, Stockholm 2002) and spaces that included a garden of mummified plants used as a virtual horizon for a laser beauty clinic (Forever Laser, Geneva 1998 and 2003)^[7]. Angelidakis has realized projects in Sweden, Switzerland, USA and Italy for publications, museums and cultural foundations^[8].
Angelo Plessas is a digital artist that makes animations. He worked for the British musician Gnac'site and Breeder magazine^[9].

See also

★ Contemporary art

★ Art in modern Greece

★ Greek art

★ National Gallery of Greece

External links

★ Deste foundation official site

★ National Museum of Contemporary Art official site

★ State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki official site

★ Contemporary Greek artists Art Topos

Sources

1. http://www.toomey-tourell.com/?/artists/united-states/theodoros-stamos/
2. http://www.medusaartgallery.com/takis/pages/takis-main.htm
3. http://d-sites.net/english/kounellis.htm
4. http://www.odysseus-art.net/RAF/PostModernismCritique_EN.html
5. http://www.the-artists.org/ArtistView.cfm?id=A0A4CE17-6D05-472E-B6A986BA45DA369D
6. http://www.manetas.com/art/onemanshows/dogsandcables/
7. http://www.angelidakis.com/exhibitions/INMO/
8. http://www.dld-conference.com/2006/11/andreas_angelidakis.html
9. http://www.fluctuat.net/1253-Miltos-Manetas-Andreas-Angelidakis-Angelo-Plessas-Eng-

Bibliography

★ Greek Horizons: Contemporary Art from Greece' (1998) Efi Strousa, Roger Wollen, Tullie House Museum, Art Gallery Carlise, England

★ Modern and Contemporary Art in Greece' (1984) Hans-Jörg Heusser AICARC Center, Zürich