Dancing Goddesses: Dio Horia Contemporary Art Platform, Mykonos, Greece
Dancing Goddesses is a group exhibition comprised of 16 international artists. Conceived and curated by Marina Vranopoulou the show will open on May 27 on the island of Mykonos at Dio Horia.
The exhibition takes as its starting point a catalyzing episode that took place in the island of Delos that transformed the island’s nature and defined its heritage. In Ancient Greek mythology, Delos, a once unregistered floating personified island, gained its name and position by accepting to become birthplace to ancient twin deities Apollo and Artemis. During the Peloponnesian War, the city-state of Athens purified the island by removing all dead bodies and exiling its inhabitants. Thus, Delos was rendered both as a deathless and birthless place.
Participating artists:
Carlos Betancourt | Katherine Bradford | Sam Friedman | Hulda Guzman | David Harrison | Nir Hod | Robert Lazzarini | Olga Migliaressi-Phoca | Nina Paley | Rallou Panagiotou | Natasha Papadopoulou | Erik Parker | Alex Ruthner | Kenny Scharf | Kristen Schiele | Emily Mae Smith & Adam Henry
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Working in a bold and fantastical style, painter, photographer, and mixed-media artist Carlos Betancourt creates dynamic and fragmented pictures that merge photographic elements with imagined painted and drawn forms, as in San Sebastian, Graffiti and the Puerto Rican Countryside (Cayey) (2011). Originally from Puerto Rico, Betancourt has spent most of his artistic career in Miami, and his pictures feature a personal aesthetic and iconography he describes as “contemporized graffiti;” the works incorporate elements from his Cuban and African heritage, elevating common visual language to the realm of fine art. Betancourt’s vivid imagery and use of eye-catching materials (including glitter) to produce bold patterned compositions has been compared to that of contemporary pop artists Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, both of whom he acknowledges as influences.
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Working in a bold and fantastical style, painter, photographer, and mixed-media artist Carlos Betancourt creates dynamic and fragmented pictures that merge photographic elements with imagined painted and drawn forms, as in San Sebastian, Graffiti and the Puerto Rican Countryside (Cayey) (2011). Originally from Puerto Rico, Betancourt has spent most of his artistic career in Miami, and his pictures feature a personal aesthetic and iconography he describes as “contemporized graffiti;” the works incorporate elements from his Cuban and African heritage, elevating common visual language to the realm of fine art. Betancourt’s vivid imagery and use of eye-catching materials (including glitter) to produce bold patterned compositions has been compared to that of contemporary pop artists Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst, both of whom he acknowledges as influences.
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Dancing Goddesses
Dio Horia Contemporary Art platform, Mykonos, Greece May 27, 2018Dancing Goddesses is a group exhibition comprised of 16 international artists. Conceived and curated by Marina Vranopoulou the show will open on May 27 on...Read more
Dancing goddesses curated by Marina Vranopoulou (May 27 - July 20)
Participating artists: Carlos Betancourt | Katherine Bradford | Sam Friedman | Hulda Guzman | David Harrison | Nir Hod | Robert Lazzarini | Olga Migliaressi-Phoca | Nina Paley | Rallou Panagiotou | Natasha Papadopoulou | Erik Parker | Alex Ruthner | Kenny Scharf | Kristen Schiele | Emily Mae Smith & Adam Henry.
Dancing Goddesses is a group exhibition comprised of 16 international artists. Conceived and curated by Marina Vranopoulou the show will open on May 27 on the island of Mykonos at Dio Horia.
The exhibition takes as its starting point a catalyzing episode that took place in the island of Delos that transformed the island’s nature and defined its heritage. In Ancient Greek mythology, Delos, a once unregistered floating personified island, gained its name and position by accepting to become birthplace to ancient twin deities Apollo and Artemis. During the Peloponnesian War, the city-state of Athens purified the island by removing all dead bodies and exiling its inhabitants. Thus, Delos was rendered both as a deathless and birthless place. While embarking on a fragmented, almost surrealistic narrative, this exhibition focuses on the corrupting relation between civilization and nature.
It is estimated that, circa 90 B.C., about 30,000 people lived on this small island, which is no more than a dot on the map of the Mediterranean. At this time, all these people, in spite of their varied nationalities and different historical and cultural backgrounds, managed to forge a peaceable society.
Through a multi discipline body of work, the exhibition uses light and rich colors to enhance its narrative of questioning political authority in western societies through the years, to this day.
Specifically, in the works exhibited there is no human presence. Traditional landscapes, and ‘Apollonian’ sunsets, fill in the space and give form to an imaginative universe. A surrealistic world populated by a cast of animals, mythological figures and spirits spend the exhibition days and nights in Mykonos, only 2 km wide straight from Delos’ current ruins.
