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Athens / NYC Visualising Athens Unseen
20th April – 31st July 2015
Hosted by the Onassis Cultural Centre & Curated by Double Decker
[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]Kit Miles was one of a number of rising new designers invited to create an aesthetic response to the brief:
“Imagine you’ve never seen Athens. With only a limited non-visual spectrum of references for a guide, how would you picture it? “
Each artist opened an inspiration box full of non-visual clues: jasmine-scented poetry by Seferis, Petros Markaris’ reflections on Athens through its old electric train line, a vintage popular song, contemporary music, and a field-recorded soundtrack of the city. Even a recipe for stuffed tomatoes so beloved by Athenians. No visual research was allowed. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1455″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row type=”boxed”][vc_column width=”1/6″ css=”.vc_custom_1431812090571{padding-top: 75px !important;padding-right: 5% !important;padding-bottom: 75px !important;padding-left: 5% !important;}”][vc_empty_space height=”1px”][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]
[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text]The resulting exhibition: Strange Cities: Athens, hosted by the Onassis Cultural Centre and curated by Double Decker, shows how 20 carefully selected prize-winning international artists and designers, with backgrounds in painting, photography and textile design rose to this challenge.
As one observer commented:
“‘Strange Cities: Athens’ is the child of an idiosyncratic process and of a specific set of artistic sensibilities: the mouthwatering fruit of an experiment in synaestetics performed by some of the most exciting new artists working today.”
After a period in Athens, from 20th April to 31st July 2015, the exhibition will be travelling to New York.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/6″][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1456″ img_size=”full”][/vc_column][/vc_row]