hope 2014 portfolio

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HOPE, "Time will not give me time", installation view, 2011, Remap3, Athens

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, laser print collage, 349x122cm

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, laser print collage, 300x340cm

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, plaster, 86x80x29cm

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, plaster, 40x27x27cm

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, laser print collage on canvas, 210x126cm

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HOPE Untitled

2013 digital collage

112x81 cm

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HOPE Untitled

2013 digital collage

112x81 cm

HOPE, installation view at the exhibition “Contemporary Woman in Greece” (!"#$%&'( )**('+,-), curated by Marina Fokidis, organized by Vima Donna, The Hub, Athens, 2011

HOPE, installation view at The Breeder at Frieze Art Fair, 2011, London

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, wall based laser print collage, 360 x 130 cm, installation view at The Breeder at Frieze Art Fair, 2011, London

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, wall based laser print collage, 350 x 250 cm, installation view at The Breeder at Frieze Art Fair, 2011, London

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, laser print collage, 3.48 x 12 m

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, laser print collage, 344 x 100 cm

HOPE, Untitled, 2011, laser print collage, 348 x 220 cm

Hope, Installation Views, “Mountain”, Kunsthalle Athena, 2010-11

Hope, Installation Views,“Mountain”, Kunsthalle Athena, 2010-11

HOPE, RIP, 2011, performance still, costumes by Digitaria, photo Yiorgos Mavropoulos

HOPE, still from Performance Festival, parallel programme of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Eirini Papakonstantinou, Photos by Eleftheria Kalpenidou, Thessaloniki 2011

HOPE, A vocabulary for the consolation of flesh, 2010, performance still, photo by Panos Mixail

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HOPE

TIME WILL NOT GIVE ME TIME

Opening Monday September 12th 2011, 5-10 pm Exhibition dates: 13 September 2011 - 30 October 2011 Wednesday-Friday 5-8.30pm & Saturday – Sunday 12-8.30pm Address: Giatrakou 10 (1st floor), Metaxourgeio, Athens Performance: Monday 12 September 2011, 8.30pm As part of Remap 3, The Breeder presents a solo exhibition by HOPE entitled “Time will not give me time”. HOPE is a street artist and has stood out with his interventions at the streets of Athens. His practice is a diverse collage directly on the walls of various buildings, compiled from different elements and imagery from ancient civilizations and subcultures into large-scale totemic assemblages. While most of HOPE’s works are two dimensional, they usually give out the illusion of having three dimensions. His multi faceted practice ranges from posters and collages to performance, works on canvas and fanzines. For his project at Remap 3 he will create new site-specific works that will be in direct dialogue with the building and the area of Metaxourgio and Keramikos.

Marina Fokidis, curator, art critic, Director of Kunsthalle Athena, states the following regarding HOPE’s practice: “Although his works first appeared in the streets, they organically made their way inside the buildings of the art world, without changing in style or adapting to any kind of rules. For HOPE the notions of inside and outside are qualities open to intervention, making it thus hard to distinguish between public and private space. This seems to be his march for resistance towards dominant and authoritative structures. At the exhibition “Time will not give me time” the series of collages inside the space constitute a sequence, which traces our path around the exhibition and invites us from the interior to another potential route outside the building. This way the exhibition space is rendered “unimportant” or at least not more important or exclusive in any sense, of the everyday reality out in the streets.” Solo exhibitions include: Kunsthalle Athena (2010) curated by Marina Fokidis, K44 (2008) and gallery KNOT in Athens (2010) and Starter gallery in Dresden (2010). He recently participated in NY Art Book Fair that took place in MOMA, New York with his publication “thesewarsareoutburstofhypnosisonlythemasksareforreal” (2009), as part of the curated exhibition “Journal of Aesthetics and Protest”. HOPE is participating in the Thessaloniki Performance Festival, which takes place in parallel to the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art. He will also be presenting a large scale (12x3.6m) site-specific work at Frieze Art Fair in London under the auspices of The Breeder.

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HOPE

Artist statement

HOPE was born in Athens, where he currently lives and works.

His practice is multi faceted. It includes posters, performance pieces, works

on canvas, fanzines, and collages. His posters are a diverse compilation of

elements and imagery from different ancient civilizations and subcultures that

are collaged together in large-scale totemic assemblages, while his

performance pieces deal with the reinvention, on the order of idealization.

HOPE’s performance pieces have been presented at XYZ OUTLET, “I

WANT TO HEAR NEW WAR” (2011) Athens , at Kunsthalle Athena,”CARGO”

(2010), at gallery KNOT,Athens, performance with Michele Valley

”BUILDING THE HOUSE OF PHOENIX” (2010), at OSTRALE '10,

International exhibition of contemporary art, Ostragehege Dresden, Germany”

WORKING JAWS IN SILENCE” (2010), at : e’ clepsydre HBC , Berlin,

Germany, “A GUIDANCE ON HOW TO BECOME A DARK SHADOW” (2010),

at Athens Photo Festival 2009 “A VOCABULARY FOR THE CONSOLATION

OF THE FLESH” (2009). He recently participated in NY Art Book Fair that

took place in MOMA, New York with his publication that included photos from

his performances, “thesewarsareoutburstofhypnosisonlythemasksareforreal”

(2009), as part of the curated exhibition “Journal of Aesthetics and Protest”.

This fall HOPE will present a solo exhibition with The Breeder at ReMap 3.

HOPE is represented by The Breeder, Athens.

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Hope, “There Is Only One HOPE In Greece” YATZER: Interviews, Art By Kiri Spirou,

30 October 2013

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Mountain, 2010 installation view at Kunsthalle Athena.

Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco. From the walls of dilapidated houses in Athens to the walls of the Frieze Art Fair in London, Greek artist HOPE picks up the ruins of his homeland’s glorious past and bestows a new meaning upon them through his work. When he first appeared on the Athenian street-art scene, his work was received as a somewhat ironic, hopeful message by his homeland’s crisis-struck society. His current output however, has gone on to spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines, from visual art and exhibitions to music composition, performance art and video.Known for his signature wall murals (grotesques made of unsettling collages of ancient art and contemporary images, creating a sense of historical short-circuit), he achieves the same aesthetic result in his public performances which combine aggressive media art with self-conscious, slow ritualistic actions. This religious fastidiousness, combined with a sacrilegious mix of past and present, the secular and the sacred, can be read as a sarcastic comment on the ways in which we create systems of ideals, rules, symmetry and order. How flexible these systems really are, and to what extent they can be shaken before collapsing into beautiful ruins, were just some of the issues that we had the unique opportunity to discuss with HOPE, whilst finding out a whole lot more about his artistic practice, his philosophy and his future plans.

HOPE

Mountain, 2010 installation view at Kunsthalle Athena.

Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco. You first became known through your street art; in fact, you were one of the first artists to use large stickers on the streets of Athens. What actually made you get involved with street art in the first place? HOPE: What interests me about street art and public art, in general, is that it can exist as a forum/platform for dialogue. We live and think within the public space. When you place an artwork in the public domain, you’re interacting with the public. This makes you think about the public order. You’re given the opportunity to express your opinion politically and sociologically through a work, the longevity of which is determined according to the public opinion… But the main reason I got involved in street art was the feeling that I was creating an anti-monument, a new kind of creative model which escapes private places. Sometimes, when public art is effective, it can even change the world. What kind of techniques and media do you use? HOPE: I don’t follow any specific technique. I am inspired by something different each time.

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Untitled, 2013. laser print collage, dimensions variable.

Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco.

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Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco. Your artistic ''vocabulary'' mainly includes imagery from archaeological findings, such as statues, statuettes, masks etc. What is the relationship between these images and present-day reality for you? HOPE: My works are marked by mythology. They are sculptural images inspired from the past with a new aesthetic rule. Now that your work is now being shown in galleries and exhibitions around the world, how do you feel about the fact that you are now a part of the more institutionalised world of galleries and the art market as a whole? Has this affected your work in any way? HOPE: I just explore the exhibition spaces and perceive them as a reflection of who I am in a public space. It’s a symbiotic relationship between public art and the exhibited objects inside a room.

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Untitled, 2013. Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco.

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Lately a large part of your work has become performance-based, and is particularly ritualistic and static in nature. What creative process do you follow when you put these performances together, and what part do you play in them? HOPE: It’s a transformation of experience into artwork. The body is just another object, and I always treat it like that. In a performance you no longer breathe – you leave your body back at home. You become the performance. Although sometimes I don’t even participate in my performance-works, I’m still present in their expressive language, as I set them up, as well as witness them. For some people, the artist is something like a shaman, with a duty to heal and guide the people around him. To what degree is this belief part of your own philosophy? HOPE: For me, the artist does not project the image of a ‘soul doctor’ so to speak. Art is more of a language game. My involvement in art is to project my experiences in this world and my collection of curiosities.

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Participating artist at the NOTEMPLE group exhibition.

Kandis Williams ,Untitled, 2013. collage with photocopied paper.

Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco. You’re currently preparing a new exhibition at The Breeder Gallery in Athens, in which you are participating not only as a curator, but also as an artist. What is the concept behind the exhibition? What will it contain or explore? HOPE: The group exhibition titled NOTEMPLE is a collection of artworks by a big group of artists including Miltos Manetas, Kon Trubkovich, Palle Torson, Tobias Bernstrup, Kristin Eketoft, Spyros Staveris, Marc Charpentier MCPM, Vassilis H, Nikos Paleologos, Anthimos Ntagkas and Kandis Williams. The exhibition is an experiment in creating an alternative, dialectic logic, drawing on elements that are found on our own cultural terrain. In the exhibition, we focus mainly on the aesthetics of a temple, as we aspire towards a new poetic reconciliation between many different elements. The aim is to create an exhibition - like a pseudo-temple which is meant to be destroyed; after all, most temples look good only when they’re in ruins. What else do you have in store for the future? What can we expect from HOPE in the coming months? HOPE: I’m preparing a new art publication with my publishing house, Mountain Editions. > > > [YatzerTip]: The exhibition NOTEMPLE, curated by HOPE, will be open to the public from 7 November 2013 to 12 January 2014, at The Breeder Gallery in Athens, Greece.

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Untitled, 2011 ''Time will not give me time'', installation view at Remap3, Athens.


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Untitled , 2013. Courtesy The Breeder, Athens / Monaco.

sources:

The Breeder, HOPE

From the walls of dilapidated houses in Athens to the walls of the Frieze Art Fair in London, Greek artist HOPE picks up the ruins of his homeland’s glorious past and bestows a new meaning upon them through his work. When he first appeared on the Athenian street-art scene, his work was received as a somewhat ironic, hopeful message by his homeland’s crisis-struck society. His current output however, has gone on to spread across a wide spectrum of disciplines, from visual art and exhibitions to music composition, performance art and video. Known for his signature wall murals (grotesques made of unsettling collages of ancient art and contemporary images, creating a sense of historical short-circuit), he achieves the same aesthetic result in his public performances which combine aggressive media art with self-conscious, slow ritualistic actions. This religious fastidiousness, combined with a sacrilegious mix of past and present, the secular and the sacred, can be read as a sarcastic comment on the ways in which we create systems of ideals, rules, symmetry and order. How flexible these systems really are, and to what extent they can be shaken before collapsing into beautiful ruins, were just some of the issues that we had the unique opportunity to discuss with HOPE, whilst finding out a whole lot more about his artistic practice, his philosophy and his future plans. You first became known through your street art; in fact, you were one of the first artists to

use large stickers on the streets of Athens. What actually made you get involved with street

art in the first place?

HOPE: What interests me about street art and public art, in general, is that it can exist as a

forum/platform for dialogue. We live and think within the public space. When you place an

artwork in the public domain, you’re interacting with the public. This makes you think about

the public order. You’re given the opportunity to express your opinion politically and

sociologically through a work, the longevity of which is determined according to the public

opinion… But the main reason I got involved in street art was the feeling that I was creating

an anti-monument, a new kind of creative model which escapes private places. Sometimes,

when public art is effective, it can even change the world.

What kind of techniques and media do you use?

HOPE: I don’t follow any specific technique. I am inspired by something different each time. Your artistic ''vocabulary'' mainly includes imagery from archaeological findings, such as

statues, statuettes, masks etc. What is the relationship between these images and present-

day reality for you?

HOPE: My works are marked by mythology. They are sculptural images inspired from the

past with a new aesthetic rule.

Now that your work is now being shown in galleries and exhibitions around the world,

how do you feel about the fact that you are now a part of the more institutionalised world

of galleries and the art market as a whole? Has this affected your work in any way?

HOPE: I just explore the exhibition spaces and perceive them as a reflection of who I am in

a public space. It’s a symbiotic relationship between public art and the exhibited objects

inside a room. Lately a large part of your work has become performance-based, and is particularly

ritualistic and static in nature. What creative process do you follow when you put these

performances together, and what part do you play in them?

HOPE: It’s a transformation of experience into artwork. The body is just another object, and

I always treat it like that. In a performance you no longer breathe – you leave your body back

at home. You become the performance. Although sometimes I don’t even participate in my

performance-works, I’m still present in their expressive language, as I set them up, as well as

witness them.

For some people, the artist is something like a shaman, with a duty to heal and guide the

people around him. To what degree is this belief part of your own philosophy?

HOPE: For me, the artist does not project the image of a ‘soul doctor’ so to speak. Art is

more of a language game. My involvement in art is to project my experiences in this world

and my collection of curiosities. You’re currently preparing a new exhibition at The Breeder Gallery in Athens, in which you

are participating not only as a curator, but also as an artist. What is the concept behind the

exhibition? What will it contain or explore?

HOPE: The group exhibition titled NOTEMPLE is a collection of artworks by a big group

of artists including Miltos Manetas, Kon Trubkovich, Palle Torson, Tobias

Bernstrup, Kristin Eketoft, Spyros Staveris, Marc Charpentier MCPM, Vassilis

H, Nikos Paleologos, Anthimos Ntagkas and Kandis Williams. The exhibition is an

experiment in creating an alternative, dialectic logic, drawing on elements that are found on

our own cultural terrain. In the exhibition, we focus mainly on the aesthetics of a temple, as

we aspire towards a new poetic reconciliation between many different elements. The aim is

to create an exhibition - like a pseudo-temple which is meant to be destroyed; after all, most

temples look good only when they’re in ruins.

What else do you have in store for the future? What can we expect from HOPE in the

coming months?

HOPE: I’m preparing a new art publication with my publishing house, Mountain

Editions.

> > >

[YatzerTip]: The exhibition NOTEMPLE, curated by HOPE, will be open to the public

from 7 November 2013 to 12 January 2014, at The Breeder Gallery in Athens,

Greece.

HOPE, The New York Times, ‘Greece’s Big Debt Drama Is a Muse for Its Artists’ by Rachel Donadio, 14.10.2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/15/arts/in-athens-art-blossoms-amid-debt-crisis.html?pagewanted=all

PRESS RELEASE

MOUNTAIN / HOPE An event in Kunsthalle Athena Saturday 4 December 2010, 8 p.m. Kerameikou 28 str., Kerameikos – Metaxourgeio, Athens, www.kunsthalleathena.org Launch of “Mountain” fanzine Exhibition with original sources from the fanzine Exhibition with street posters by HOPE Performance “CARGO”, 9 p.m. Acoustic music performance by Lolek and Mary, 10 p.m. Participating Artists: Alvaro Sebastian, Christopher Snow, ΔεΡΙΖαματζορ Προμπλεμ Ιναουστραλια, Farah Abed, Fumihiro Hayashi a.k.a. Charlie Brown, Giorgos Kakanakis, Haris Laspas, Hercules Renieris, Iris Touliatou, Isa Lange, jar moFF, Kareem Lotfy, Kathy Grayson, Kevin Lemoine, Kristine Hymøller, Lizzi Bougatsos / Spencer Sweeney, Maurits de Bruijn, MCPM (Marc Charpentier Peintre Moderne), Miltos Manetas, Óscar Benassini, Petros Touloudis, Poka-Yio, Socrates Mitsios / Actually Huizenga, Socratis Socratous, Spyros Staveris, Terence Koh, Thanasis Totsikas, The Race Behind The Hill & Photoharrie, Vicky Ntagka Kunsthalle Athena has the honour to host the artist HOPE with his project MOUNTAIN / ΗΟΡΕ for the first time in its space. Embarking on the intentions of KUNSTHALLE ATHENA to encourage international artistic synergies that do not intend to promote states or national –hypothetical– attitudes but rather advocate specific localities, like neighbourhoods, and the contact between them, we are in the pleasant position to host the project MOUNTAIN / ΗΟΡΕ. The project involves on one hand the presentation of HOPE’s visual work, who in the latter years operates in the streets of Metaxourgeio and adapts this specific topography as his thematic axis and on the other hand the zine MOUNTAIN, in which the artist invites kindred artists from Athens and other localities of the world. HOPE invites visual artists, writers and musicians to create an artwork, to write a text or even lyrics reflecting the idea of a mountain. These works are all collected in a publication that bears the title “MOUNTAIN”. At the same time with the publication’s presentation an exhibition will be held at KUNSTHALLE ATHENA with the original works from this edition. The circulation of the zine will start from the building of KUNSTHALLE ATHENA as a gesture of reinforcement of the relationship between exterior spaces of circulation and indoor spaces. Moreover, there will be an exhibition of posters by HOPE, originally featured on walls of buildings around the district of Metaxourgeio. The exhibition location proved to be an essential criterion

when it came to select the exhibits. There is an essential link between the place where the exhibition is mounted and the very form of the exhibition, since HOPE’s work was already presented and encountered at several spots around the Metaxourgeio area in a spirit of giving away things to strangers. Thus, the series of posters inside the exhibition space constitutes a sequence which traces the visitor’s path around the exhibition and invites her/him from the interior to another potential route outside the building of Kunsthalle Athena, into the outdoors. Therefore, the specific exhibition space is rendered “unimportant”. The images in HOPE’s work are playing on a system of oppositions and dualities: public / private space, black-and-white / colour, inside / outside. As a result, the inside and outside of buildings as qualities are open to intervention, making it thus hard to distinguish between public and private space. “The urban ugliness”, as the artist states, “becomes a positive quality. And this accordingly evokes a MOUNTAIN.” In duration of the evening, a performance titled “CARGO” will also take place. In this performance, “the body of the artist becomes the load for a sarcophagus”. The sculpture of the performance is designed and constructed by HOPE and Petros Touloudis, while the video work and music is by HOPE. The event will be accompanied by music from Lolek and Mary, while ABSOLUT VODKA will kindly offer cocktails and drinks. For press enquiries and visuals please contact: Eleanna Papathanasiadi 0030 6974 387364 Curator - Kunsthalle Athena [email protected] Apostolos Vasilopoulos 0030 6978 806178 Curator - Kunsthalle Athena [email protected] OR visit our website www.kunsthalleathena.org (Press category) Kerameikou 28, Kerameikos – Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece, www.kunsthalleathena.org CREATIVE SPONSOR

MORE INFORMATION HOPE was born in Athens, where he currently lives and works. His work is mainly focused on our relationship to the urban. With an emphasis on photography, a medium that is primarily a tool of inquiry and description for the artist, HOPE places his work within the context of everyday life and narrates the difficulties in attempting to invest urban life with some kind of meaning. While permitting himself to be provoked by current events as an autonomous reality, HOPE, through his large-format evoking posters, proceeds from an accumulation of heterogeneous elements to a coherent statement on the walls of buildings in the city’s centre, printing posters and then pasting them onto walls and buildings near the place where he lives. This somewhat precarious duality between public and private space somehow reflects the daily reality of life in Athens and especially downtown. HOPE studied in the Law School of Athens. He has presented his work in solo exhibitions at K44 in Athens (The sun may not shine tomorrow, so suck my dick, 2008), at the Starter Gallery in Dresden (Next Exhibition, 2008) and at the KNOT Gallery in Athens (Τhe house of Phoenix, installation & performance with Michele Valley, 2010). Moreover, he has participated in several group exhibitions, among others in Free for Wall Pt 3 (2008) at the Brick Lane Gallery in London, in the 2nd Athens Biennale (2009) as part of the 3 Velvet Days in Heaven project, in Athens Photo Festival (2009) with his work Photography as a Performance, in Illustration – LIFO exhibition (2010) at the Benaki Museum, Athens, in the international exhibition of contemporary art OSTRALE '10 – 4 in Dresden, etc. Recently, he took part in the fifth annual NY Art Book Fair at the MoMA, New York, with his publication “thesewarsareoutburstofhypnosisonlythemasksareforreal” (2009), as part of the “Journal of Aesthetics and Protest” curated selection. In 2010 he was the recipient of the EGBE award for best cover illustration. ΚUNSTHALLE ATHENA www.kunsthalleathena.org

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Greek Reporter Thursday 7th November, 2013 The Breeder gallery presents NOTEMPLE, a group exhibition curated by gallery artist HOPE. HOPE treats the exhibition as an opportunity to explore alternatives to ritual practices; as an anti-temple. Taking a scene from Alejandro Jodorowsky's avant-garde thriller, Santa Sangre (1989) as a starting point, HOPE has brought together artists whose works share an anti-comformist current, but also indicate new spiritual alternatives. Miltos Manetas' video depicts his "invisible paintings", in which he hypothetically paints a landscape with a brush devoid of paint, transforming reality into his canva...

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