For the 2015 Platform Projects @ Art Athina, LUBOMIROV-EASTON invited a large number of international artists to send a letter to Greece. The only restriction on artwork was that it must fit inside an A5 envelope – a size which represents a single fold in the standard A4 letter size. Rooted in a tradition of postcard shows, such as the annual ‘Secrets’ at the Royal College, as well as referencing mail art and the New York Correspondence School, this format has the advantage not only of simplifying freight, but crucially of allowing a larger number of artists to be shown together. Thus the show was conceived as a kind of communal artwork, a joint letter from one community of artists to another, to be assembled on site from hundreds of individual pieces. It is the nature of Platform Projects, as a gathering of international artist-led organisations, which are each other’s audience as much as the visitors to the fair, that made this form of address to other artist communities possible.
Duration | 04 June 2015 - 07 June 2015 |
Times | Friday 5, 15:00 – 21:00 // Opening 21:00 – 23:00(by invitation only) Saturday 6, 12:00 – 21:00 Sunday 7, 12:00 – 21:00 |
Cost | Full price: €7 Concessions: €5 (students, people over the age of 65, unemployment card holders) |
Venue | A5, Stand 24, Art Athena 2015 |
Address | Faliro Pavilion (TaeKwonDo) Hellenic Olympic Prope Athens -, , |
Contact | T: +30 210 92 21 254 / info@art-athina.gr / www.art-athina.gr |