{"id":83356,"date":"2022-12-06T10:19:19","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T10:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=83356"},"modified":"2023-03-29T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-29T10:59:47","slug":"207-andreas-angelidakis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/modern-love-love-in-the-age-of-cold-intimacies\/207-andreas-angelidakis","title":{"rendered":"Andreas Angelidakis"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Andreas Angelidakis
\nCenter for the critical appreciation of antiquity<\/em>,\u00a02022
\nSystem for a Home Stylite, foam and canvas blocks, dimensions variable<\/p>\n

Center for the critical appreciation of antiquity, Infinity Teleport<\/em>, 2022
\nVideo with sound, 5\u0384 40\u0384\u0384<\/p>\n

Courtesy the artist
\nCommissioned by Audemars Piguet Contemporary<\/p>\n

Andreas Angelidakis\u2019 Center for the Critical Appreciation of Antiquity <\/em>combines the literal meaning of archaeology, that is, the science that studies the material culture of the past, with one of its basic metaphorical interpretations, acquired post-psychoanalysis, namely our quest for the elements that have constructed our personality. This body of the work is inspired by the position held in the historical, architectural, cultural and erotic life of Athens by the Temple of Olympian Zeus, a prominent monument at the heart of the city and a site for male homoerotic hook-ups. In addition, according to one account, stylites were living on the pillars\u00a0of the Temple of Olympian Zeus until the 19th century. Angelidakis retraces his personal history, from his childhood and the construction of makeshift architectural structures out of cushions, to asserting his desire and his maturation as an artist and architect, and combines it with the layers of the city, to build a system of soft ruins, an observation point for a digital reconstruction of the self, the city and sexuality. Visitors can move the soft ruins as they wish.<\/p>\n

Angelidakis maintains a multi-disciplinary practice as architect, artist, curator and writer centred on research and exhibition, often examined through the lens of the internet. He has consistently challenged the end-product of architectural practice by reversing the representation-to-realisation sequence of the production of buildings. He often starts with an existing building, producing models, films, ruins, installations or alternative histories, blurring fact and fiction and smoothing out the borders between the real and the virtual.<\/p>\n

Biography<\/p>\n

Andreas Angelidakis lives and works in Athens. He is trained as an architect with a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture and a Master\u2019s degree in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University. He has contributed as an artist or curator in a range of global exhibitions including: \u201cThe State of the Art of Architecture\u201d at the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial, the 12th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius and \u201cSuper Superstudio\u201d at PAC Milano, all in 2015, as well as \u201cdocumenta14\u201d in Athens and Kassel in 2017. In 2019, he participated in the Bergen Assembly, contributing a multifunctional social seating system to Paul B. Preciado\u2019s \u201cParliament of Bodies\u201d for documenta14, as well as the Biennial of Moving Image at OGR in Torino. Among the exhibitions he has curated are \u201cThe System of Objects\u201d at Deste Foundation in Athens, \u201cSuper Superstudio\u201d at PAC in Milano, \u201cFin de Si\u00e8cle\u201d at Swiss Institute in New York, Period Rooms at Het Nieuwe Instituut Rotterdam, and \u201cOOO Object Oriented Ontology\u201d at Kunsthalle Basel.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.angelidakis.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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