The Unfair Fair opens tonight in Rome

The Unfair Fair, curated by Cecilia Canziani and Vincent Honoré, opens tonight in Rome. I participate with the work Wonder Land (see photo - 80 color slides).

THE UNFAIR FAIR

Dates: 29 February – 3 March 2008
Preview: Friday 29 February , 18:00 to 24:00
Venue: Loto Arte, Via Civinini, 41 - 00197 Rome
Opening hours:
Friday 29 February 18:00 to 24:00
Saturday 1 February 9:30-14:00 and 15:00 to 24:00
Saturday 2 March 9:30–14:00 and 15:00 to 19:30
Monday 3 March 9:30–14:00 and 15:00 to 19:30

THE UNFAIR FAIR adopts an economy of form and means, where disintegration, experimentation and the poetics of play are emphasised over commodified products and the market economy.

THE UNFAIR FAIR is a space for distanciation, for experiments, for collaborations. The aim of the event is to show the process of artistic productions and transitional art works that index broader practices by each of the invited artists. THE UNFAIR FAIR will find its final shape during the course of its development, allowing flexibility and contradictions, adapting itself to the projects proposed by the artists and the participants.

THE UNFAIR FAIR brings together over 50 international artists. A special exhibition set and display will be created by German artist Wolfgang Berkowski.

Further info: http://unfairfair.blogspot.com

Current list of artists (subject to change)
Caroline Achaintre
Nina Jan Beier & Marie Jan Lund
Walead Beshty
It's our pleasure to serve you (Kerstin Brätsch, Allison Katz, Georgia Sagri, Adele Röder)
Susanne Burner
Teresa Buskova
Etienne Chambaud
Nicolas Chardon
Jason Dodge
Claire Fontaine
Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard
Mauricio Guillen
Alban Hajdinaj
Bethan Huws
Bettina Buck
Benoît Maire
Charlotte Moth
Guillaume Pinard
Falke Pisano
Navin Rawanchaikul
Lili Reynaud-Dewar
Manuela Ribadaneira
Jacopo Miliani
Italo Zuffi
Eléna Nemkova
Ra di Martino
Massimo Grimaldi
Carla Zaccagnini
Georgia Kostretsos
Christodoulos Panayotou
Stanislao di Giugno
Alessandro Piangiamore
Sandrine Nicoletta
Stefania Galegati
Magnus Thierfelder
Artemis Potamianou
Francesco Arena
Goldiechiari
Maria Birgita Karantzi
Allsop + Weir
Alessandro Sarra
Federico Pietrella
Rossella Biscotti
Giuseppe Pietroniro
Kostis Velonis
Isola e Norzi
Dane Mitchell
Nico Dockx
Christian Proano
Gregor Passaens
Richard Crow
A Constructed World
Andrea Salvino
Bik van der Pol
Carl Trahan
Cesare Pietriusti
Cindy Smith
Valentino Diego
Domenico Mangano
Gea Casolaro
Pernille Kapper Williams
Rene Gabri
Richard Aldrich
Ursula Mayer
The Metropolitan Complex
Jacob Dahl Jürgensen
Johan Tirén

Produced by 1:1 projects
in collaboration with Ines Musumeci Greco, Loto Arte
Curators: Cecilia Canziani and Vincent Honoré
Communication and Production: Athena Panni
Catalogue and Blog Editor: Louise Garrett
Catalogue Designer: Wolfgang Berkowski

Corrections (Coca-Cola declinations)

Country Vs Pop - I Will Always Love You

"Dolly Parton wrote the song in 1973 and it was released a year later, having been produced by Bob Ferguson. She has told numerous interviewers over the years that she wrote it for her one-time partner and mentor Porter Wagoner, with whom she was having a business splitting at the time."[...] "Parton re-recorded the song in 1982 to include it on the soundtrack to the film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. Her 1982 version also reached number one on the US Country Chart, marking the first time the same song reached number one on the country charts twice by the same artist." [...]
"In 1992 (see 1992 in music), singer Whitney Houston covered the song for the soundtrack to The Bodyguard, her film debut" [...] "Houston's single was a massive worldwide success, selling over 10 million copies and proving a much bigger success than the original version almost 20 years earlier. " [...] "In a joke frequently used by Mad Magazine, whenever Whitney Houston is mentioned, they casually mention the fact that people use this song for weddings, when the song is about people breaking up for good. In 2002 the Iraqi government held a referendum asking whether Saddam Hussein should remain as president. Saddam Hussein's campaign advertising before the election featured the song 'I Will Always Love You." (wiki)

24.2.2008 - Ais Nicolas Roundabout - AKEL wins the elections

Elections in Cyprus - Second round

The attempt to enter the Guinness Book of Records for the largest sirtaki dance in Ayia Napa, with "ambiguous" stylistic details and the imposed movements spoke out loud by the "choreographer".

Birthday

Hasta la vista baby!

El Prado

Yesterday I went to the Prado with my friend Maria. We saw some amazing paintings. The people in them are all dead now. It was not possible to take pictures and for this I made a long list. I also found this room from which they moved some masterpieces to another room and I took photos of the marks of time. When they saw me they told me to stop.

Joakim Beuckelaer - Christ in the House of Marthe and Mary
Michelangelo Merici da Caravaggio - Boy with a basket of fruits
Gregorio Fernandez - Dead Christ
Diego Velázquez - St. Anthony Abbot and St. Paul the Hermit
Guido Reni - Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
Diego Velázquez - Mars
Diego Velázquez - The Forge of Vulcan
Diego Velázquez - The Fable of Arachne (Las Hilanderas)
Diego Velázquez - The Dwarf Francisco Lezcano
Diego Velázquez - El bufon don Sebastian de Morra
Diego Velázquez - Las Meninas
Diego Velázquez - Filipe IV
Diego Velázquez - La reina Margarita de Austria, a caballo
Jusepe de Ribera - Ticio
Domenico Tintoretto - La dama que descubre el seno y El bautismo de Cristo
Juan Carreno de Miranda - Eugenia Martinez Vallejo (The Freak)
Juan Bautista Martínez del Mazo - Doña Mariana of Austria
Peter Paul Rubens - Portrait of Duc of Lerma
Jusepe de Ribera - El Tacto
Jusepe de Ribera - La mujer barbuda (The bearded woman)
Jusepe de Ribera - Isaac Blessing Jacob
Francisco Goya - La reina Maria Luisa
Francisco Goya - La Condesa de Chinchón
Francisco Goya - Cómicos ambulantes
Francisco Goya - la duquesa del Alba y la beata
Francisco Goya - The Sermon of Saint Bernadino of Siena
Francisco Goya - The Burial of the Count of Orgaz
Francisco Goya - A Trinitarian Friar
Francisco Goya - Fable
Francisco Goya - El Coloso
Francisco Goya - Saturno
Francisco Goya - La maja desnuda
Francisco Goya - La maja vestida
Albrecht Durer - Adam and Eve
Hans Baldung - The Three Ages and Death
Roger Van der Weyden - The Descent from the cross
Hieronymus Bosch - The Garden of Earthly Delights
Pieter Bruegel - The Triumph of Death

Elections in Cyprus

Far on the election day, I am looking for some records of "cypriocity" in youtube... Examples, definition and metaphors.

Natura Naturata

Yesterday Vasif and I went for a long walk


we first saw these naked trees

one dying tree




these strangely shaped trees



and the planted wall on the new building of Herzog & de Meuron

Arco - Solo Projects

In Madrid

I arrived in Madrid on the 10th and I went for a walk with Sylvia. We met near the park Winnie the Pooh!
I ask him for a photo he said "OK", we posed together, then he asked for money, I gave him some and we left.
I think he was not very happy. Me neither, but we look happy together on the picture.

Judy Garland: A Biography, Rio cinema, Junuary 25th

I also forgot to announce the installation of my sound work "Judy Garland: A biography" in Rio Cinema, London (part of the exhibition Your Ramp My Slide in Form and Content). Here are some photos sent by Caterina Riva.

Slow Dance Marathon 5-7.4.2006...

... in RawArt, Tel Aviv (the documentation of the performance held in 2006) is over.

Flora Europaea

I think I took this photo when I was 11, someone sent this flower arrangement for my father's anniversary...

"I never forget a face, but in your case I make an exception"

These pictures are from the period I was studying in Lyon, can't remember anything else ...

Karolina and Julien

About ten years ago I have visited my friend Karolina and her boyfriend Julien. She was studying ballet at the conservatoire of Montpellier and I was getting lonely in Lyon. Now Karolina is dancing all around Europe and I guess Julien too...

Cousin Andrea

A few years later I started photographing cousin Andrea. He was a champion of something (can't remember anymore) and proud to pose with his medals!

Andry

I have bought a scanner and thought of sharing some photos from the past. Today is my sister's birthday and here is a good point to start... I got a camera when I was about 10 and Andry was the willing model, I followed her at the ballet class (not so succesfull), and directed her to pose like an innocent odalisque in the boat, on the sofa, and on the kitchen bar (in a spectacular composition with ballet shoes flying on the top of her head)... Happy birthday sister.