Kostis Velonis
invited by Xenia Kalpaktsoglou, Poka-Yio
and Augustine Zenakos

photo: Blaise Adilon (détail) [1]		photo: Blaise Adilon (détail) [2]

«Singing sovietness: what they did to our soul», 2007 [2]
(«chanter la soviétitude: ce qu’ils ont fait à notre âme)
Bois, contreplaqué, linge de table, acrylique, placage, 45 x 13 x 28 cm

«Gagarin Hold On!», 2007 [1]
(«Gagarine attends!»)
Bois, acrylique, 50 x 13 x 20 cm

«AOURGH’ (Tribune For A Dreadful Orator)», 2007
(«AOURGH’ (Tribune pour un horrible orateur)»)
Bois, acrylique, métal, linge de table, 263 x 88 x 20 cm

«Kosmonaut House», 2007
(«Maison du Cosmonaute»)
Bois, acrylique, 71 x 80 x 27 cm
Coproduction Biennale de Lyon

KOSTIS VELONIS
born 1968 in Athens, where he lives and works
Trained as an architect, Kostis Velonis uses his wood sculptures to underscore the tension between the attempt by modernist architects to improve daily life and the buildings that actually result.

XENIA KALPAKTSOGLOU, POKA-YIO, AUGUSTINE ZENAKOS
Director of the Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art in Athens, Xenia Kalpaktsoglou organises frequent exhibitions of emerging Greek artists and has published numerous catalogues. With Christopher Marinos she co-edits the monthly “Velvet”. Artist and curator Poka-Yio has been director of the A-Station contemporary art centre in Athens since 1999 and a contributor to Futura since 1997. Art critic Augustine Zenakos writes for a number of publications in Greece – “To Vima and To Vima Tis Kyriakis” – and around the world.