42 miles road - by EIRINI PAGONI - LOUTI

The solo exhibition of the awards – winning visual artist EIRINI PAGONI – LOUTI, titled “42 miles road”, will be presented from Monday, September 25 till Tuesday, September 31 at the Center of Collective Artistic Activity SYN (Tositsa str. 17, Exarchia, Athens). The originality of this exhibition is due to the fact that the artworks were born and created inside the gallery SYN, where they are presented. The opening date of the exhibition is on Monday, October 2 at 19:00 and the entrance is FREE.

Completing 42 years, as an idea and space, the Center of Collective Art Activities SYN is the inspiration for the creation of an exhibition within the aesthetics characterized by the aesthetic perception of the materials and forms of the artist Eirini Pagoni-Louti, as she explains below:

“SYN is a concept that began in 1975, right after the change of the political regime, by the painter and teacher Theodoros Pantos, and some dreaming visual artists, not only as an art space but also as a focal point for the education and movement of ideas and ideals, freedom, ethos and creation.

I became part of this Idea in the early 80's, when we assumed that through revolution and certainty that we were able to change the world. Art, like any form of Knowledge and Expression of our Life, is, and owes to be, a Political Act. Those years, were really very creative, everything was new, everything was a surprise, everything was beautiful. Let's not forget that Aesthetic is the Highest Ethic.

However, the "groups", having self-restraints and self-protections, conflicts and contradictions, are in the process of time, impossible to remain unchanged, static. They stumble upon either the selfishness or the different evolution of their constituents. For me, it was time to "travel" elsewhere.

It has been now 30 years since that time. I have worked and traveled to other destinations. The ideology and perception of my Art Creation and my life of those years were alive and present in every single step of mine. My return to this place since last winter has nothing to do with nostalgia or romance. Besides, by nature, I am not at all like that. It probably has to do with my need, with my debt to finish this destination that I started in my very youthful years. I am not a person I dream of, I am a person who believes "in the debt". From that time on, my suffering began. "What kind of exhibition should I do?? What concept?. I wanted something that would be capable to express the content of 42 years of this space, of this “road” in the course of SYN, albeit with my own aesthetic perception, with my own materials and with my own forms.

At the beginning of July 2017, this light beam came a big "flash"!. I got  two A4 sheets of paper, I stuck along, I quickly designed my idea,  quickly with my pencil, and with two clothespins I hung it on my fireplace. It was ... a 42 miles road. ..... 1975 to 2017 ... 42 years.

I go to SYN, Tositsa 17 in Exarchia, on September 25, 2017, Monday,  without any ready work from my studio. Only with my materials.  Early in the morning.  My exhibition, my show, starts from that moment on, and it is open to everyone. Everything that will be exposed, it will be constructed within the space itself. I will not leave the place until I finish the work, not even to go home to sleep. I hope and I wish that the weather will be my ally, for the colors to be quickly dried. On Wednesday, September 27, at 7 o'clock in the evening, everything will be ready for what we would call an official inauguration. The whole process of implementing the exhibition will be videotaped, mounted for the audience to come and will be posted on You Tube. I hope my form will most accurately express the content of 42 years.”

EIRINI PAGONI – LOUTI biography:

Studied in the atelier of Theodore Pantos and Spyros Koukoulomatis, drawing, color, and History of Art. Studies in the School of Visual Arts, New York University,and  the New York  Fashion Institute of Technology ,for Theatrical Costumes. Later continues studies for costumes at Esmode, Paris.

After the return in Greece 1984, becomes a member of the  Artistic Center  SYN,  where in Gallery SYN,  makes the  first exhibition .

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1984  SYN

1986  Manteion

1988  Opsis  with ManolisPetalas.

1990  The Art of Independence.

1992  Ersis  Gallery  

1993  Titanium

1993  MariaGoumaΑΓ

1994  SYN

1996  Titanium,“THEOGONY” Multi  Art  Work,

         (Painting, Installation, Music, Video, Dramatized  Dancing)

1997  Aigeira Cultural Center,

1999  Selini,  “Visual  Creations  of  Childhood”  

( Elaborated  Metal Materials)

2000  TechnopolisPeireos, Installation, “Tin Preservation of  Cereals”   

2001  The  American University in Aix En  Provence, France,

         “From the myths of  Fontaine” (Elaborated Metal Materials)

2003-2004    Petroupolis Festival, with  ‘Echodrasis’ , Nikos  Touliatos,

                   “Sound  Genesis”, ( Metal  Installation – Music Instrument ).

2005  ARTISTIC ENCOUNTER  GREECE – CHINA, Beijing ,“Seeds of the Future” 

(ElaboratedMetals).

2007  LIQUID BLUE , cultural actions of Trichonis Lake, with Jenny Tsoumbri,

         Art Productions.

2009  CONTEMPORARY POLITICAL SΕMΕIOLOGΥ ON  PABLOS’ PICASSO 

         QUERNICA, Dimokritos Physics Science Center.

2010  LOVING, DANCING , USED THE RECYCLE BAR

2010  NOT THE OLD, NOT THE NEW, BUT THE  NECESSARY CHILLI.

         ART GALLERY

2013  THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF LIGHT,

2017  42  MILES ROAD , SYN CULTURAL CENTER

INTERNATIONAL PRIZES

In  1996, presents the 3D  video “THEOGONY”, and in 1996 & 1997, receives two prizes, participating in two Universal Festivals, in Ars Electronica  in Lintz, Austria, and in Ars  Digitalis  in  Berlin.

OTHER  ACTIVITIES.

Artistic direction, Décor  & costumes, for the dramatized  documentaries, for the Greek  National Television  Network

1989-1991  “Ela  stofos”

               1991-1992    “Mother  of  a God”

               1992      “Iscandar el Akbar”

               1993      “Bazaars of  the East”

               1994-1995    “Nine Mousses”.

Artistic direction,  scenography, costumes  for the   films,  participating  in the International Film  Festival of Drama,  and  for the following Theatrical  Shows.

1996  “O Grigoris”

1997    “Diadromi”

1998    “Terra Incognita” Thessaloniki International Film Festival Theater.

1998   “The  can  opener” TheatrikiSkini, Antonis  Antoniou

1999   “The  Big Game” TheatrikiSkini, Antonis Antoniou.

2000   “The  Line” TheatrikiSkini, Antonis  Antoniou.

2001-2002  “Anonymous  Ode”  Fuga, International  Theater Prize

2003   “The  children  of the  wolf” Fuga.

2006-2007  “The children of the  wolf”   &  “Women in the Time” Fuga.

2007    “The  can  opener”  Art Café

2008    “The song  of the water” with the SAOLIN  from China,

2008    “CAVEMAN”  Mogul – Coronet

2008    “HELECTRA” for Municipality of Athens

2009    “MEDEA” for Municipality of Athens

2009    “WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE”  Fuga

2011    ‘THYLI ANIMA DEVI’ Artefact

2012    ‘TA TRIA K’ Theatro tis Imeras

2013    ‘I ZAKYNTHOS OMOLEI’ Fuga

2013    ‘KING LEAR’ LaikoTheatroLakisKaralis

2013    ‘ANARXIKOS TRAPEZITIS’ Artefact

2014    ‘TROMOS KAI ATHLIOTITA TOY 3ou REICH’ Brecht, LaikoTheatro tis Zakynthos

PERFORMANCE.

1999 – 2000   For  JONNIE  WALKER  “MILLENNIUM”

2001   For  Q TELECOM

2004   For SAMSUNG, during the OLYMPIC GAMES OF ATHENS 2004,

in the OLYMPIC STADIUM.

2005-2006  For  MARLBORO

2000-2010  Many times for dance shows  & promotion performances for Dance

                 Academies & Firms like VICHY,  SILK CUT, BACARDI , e.t.c.

Member of ACADEMY OF INSTITUTIONS & CULTURE, since 2005 until today.

GENERAL INFORMATION for the exhibition:

EIRINI PAGONI – LOUTI

«42 miles road»

Duration: SEPTEMBER 25 untill  OCTOBER 31, 2017

Opening date: Monday, October 2, at 19:00hrs

Center of Collective Art Activities

SYN

Tositsa str. 17, Exarchia,

106 83 Athens, Greece

Exhibition hours:

Monday till Sunday: 19:00 – 22:00hrs

Wednesdays: Closed

FREE ENTRANCE