Judith Allen-Efsthathiou
In my recent work I present the artist as quasi scientist or science fiction writer or soothsayer. Based on image from my archive of botanical drawings, Mapping the Walk, (done over a period of four years on the Greek Island of Kea) I suggest a natural history museum display of the not so distant future that memorializes loss in the natural world by presenting trace images of extinct plants.
I avoid control in these works, allowing, instead, acid, UV light, and time to influence outcomes, I also intentionally use processes for their historical associations: cyanotypes with blueprints and incised copper with the etching process.
Inger Carlson
I believe that to be an artist is to discover the invisible. To give it a face, a suitable costume and its right to exist. That’s what I try to do.
Inger is a Swede who lives and works in Athens.
Eva Cheiladaki
Windy City
… is a play with my photos on two levels, in the foreground dolls of the female residents of Thebe and in the background the area of the airport in Athens, as it looked in the past; an endless field, sparsely populated with shepherds, riders and herb women, but also drug addicts, illegal immigrants and neo-Nazis. Half dilapidated shacks, graffiti of any kind. An idyll – full of threats.
Theadora Chorafas
“Improvising new inner bodies”
Having to bring my work to Krebsen in a suitcase, has been a wonderful opportunity to work on a small scale. It is very liberating for it allows me to improvise and let clay show me new paths. Dare the unknown: These new forms are to me bodies that are not fully incarnated but almost ready to come. And I welcome them
Corinna Coutouzi
My work for Galleri Krebsen could be summed up as ‘Antiquity revisited’. For this show, I played with ancient, very simple forms like the disc and the spiral, ovals and boat-shapes which lend themselves to neverending re-interpretation. Their perennial survival in many different cultures stimulated my attachment to the antique aesthetic which pervades the work presented here.
Simplicity, usefulness and beauty have to work together to produce pieces that can be looked at from all around while following the light traveling smoothly upon the hammered surfaces. This modern aspect of Antiquity together with my occupation with Sculpture and Dance have determined everything I make.
Judith Allen-Efsthathiou
’Imaginary landscapes/journeys”
I have chosen a simple object with a familiar use. A hollow shape, open, born to receive. I made it out of paper. Paper pulp made of cotton and used it as a canvas to hold, to fill, to record memories, imaginary landscapes , to sink into the blue to be stained and leave marks, to tell stories with the thread that embraces, hides, reappears, breaks, unites, slides away, gets knotted. Considered and instinctive traces of journeys that I enjoy anyway.
As in life, beauty lies in the ephemeral detail.
Despoina Pantazopoulou
Travelling North for AFI’s exhibition I thought I might have the chance to visit the Copenhagen Museum and have a look at a grave stele (inv 14879) the only whole ancient Greek song with musical notation.
Having this in mind while I was searching for inspiration for my exhibition in Galleri Krebsen, I came to the conclusion that I should allow my curiosity pass on to my current work where I’m much more interested in absence than in presence, where the void is also significant.
While I was creating on my workbench I toyed with the idea of world cultural heritage. I create works of art which eternalize Apollo’s visit to the North and northern visitors’ pilgrimage bearing their gifts to the island of Dilos.
Yiannis Papadopoulos
I always liked street markets, for its liveliness, its people, the colours, the smells, the voices. There is one happening every Saturday, almost next to my studio. I had already started working on the green grocers I meet and shop from, when going through a pile of various things in the studio, I fell on one of my son’s chemistry note books. In it, there were molecule representations of plants, vegetables and fruits. I was fascinated. I did a few sketches and then got really carried away for days and days till I realized I had a new series of work….
Lone Simone Simonsen
“Heartbreak Hotel” Small individual pincushions with an immediate practical function, each and together they tell a story about traveling in time and space on both the outer and the inner level. The cushions are hand sewn with silk thread on linen and filled with silk – the suitcase was found on the streets of Athens and have traveled many times Athens – Copenhagen – return. “Postcard” I-VI. A loving greeting with mementos from the strangers. Small hand-made textile collages with silk thread on canvas. My recent works are characterized by a time of great change and upheaval; hence the fragmented form, the small size and the thin silk thread…