His top-floor apartment beside the National Archaeological Museum is an Aladdin’s cave of tests. ‘This exhibition has a mystical geek vibe,’ he says when we meet in Athens in August, wearing leopard-print shorts and sitting on a sofa block digitally printed with an antique photo of a Greek column. Courtesy of the artist)Ĭonversationally, Angelidakis is patient and precise. Inside is a womb of grass-green carpet and diffused white light that will house the artist’s multimedia fantasy titled Center for the Critical Appreciation of Antiquity. An exemplar of how the Brazilians worked organic forms into modernism, the auditorium roof protrudes up through the premises’ front lawn as a dome inspired by a pregnant woman’s belly.
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He decided to expand his series Soft Ruins, the modular exhibition furniture he conceived in the same year he’d first seen the building, to form ‘a disco monastery worksite’. So this year when Denis Pernet, curator of the itinerant art programme Audemars Piguet Contemporary, invited him to create an installation in its auditorium, Angelidakis seized the opportunity. A trained architect himself, Angelidakis found it nothing less than ‘sensational and transcendent’. On Zahm’s suggestion, he visited the French Communist Party HQ building, designed by Brazilian modernist Oscar Niemeyer as a gift to the party. In 2003, Athenian artist Andreas Angelidakis found himself in Paris with Olivier Zahm, founder of Purple magazine. By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions (opens in new tab) and Privacy Policy (opens in new tab) and are aged 16 or over.
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