Petros Touloudis works (interactive)

P E T RO S TO U LO U D I S

TABLE OF CONTENTS

5. Altar 6. Secular Properties (molel) 7. Secular Properties (sculpture) 8. Tinos Quarry Platform 9. Drained Batteries Exposed (scylpture) 10. Gardens of Subversion (drawing) 11. Gardens of Subversion (installation) 12. Monument for the New Mainstream (3D digital model) 13. The Thief on the Balcony (sculpture) 14. Staring at the tide. It’s never too much (sound installation) 15. Starry Night (sculpture) 16. The Artist Avoids the Future (installation view #1) 17. The Artist Avoids the Future (installation view #2)

18. Convenient Connection (sculpture) 19. Erechtheion (installation) 20. Via Recta (video) 21. Pilgrim’s Backpack (sculpture) 22. The Lost Pediment (video) 23. The Lost Pediment (scupture) 24. My Left Shoe (sculpture) 25. Wandering Property (sculpture) 26. A Study on Mediterranean Desert (performance) 27. A Study on Mediterranean Desert (video) 28. Untitled (sculpture) 29. The Murderess opera (set design, costumes) 30. Resume

Altar / 2013 / sculpture / concrete / 210x130x90 cm Part of the installation The Artist Avoids the Future, was presented at the 4th Athens Biennial AGORA, Athens, 2013

Secular Properties is a project that initially started in 2015. The project is about a proposal of the artist to the municipality of Tinos island, regarding the construction of an amphitheater at the court yard of the former primary school of Isternia village. This project grasps the idea of a theater as a public sculpture at the location and it is organically connected to the Tinos Quarry Platform, as an open invitation to a “collaborative� sculpture. http://tinosquarryplatform.com/exhibitions/

Secular Properties / 2016 / sculpture / marble Curiosity, Tinos Quarry Platform, Culture Foundation of Tinos, Tinos, Greece

Tinos Quarry Platform was founded in 2015. The project is an initiative designed and run by the artist, with a residency program that is taking place annually at the village of Isternia, on Tinos island, in Cyclades in Greece, with the aim to function as a platform for encounters between artists, curators, theorists, locals, and visitors. More than just a residency centre, the platform promotes opportunities for research and experimentation. The Cycladic landscape contributes a lot to that.Tinos Quarry Platform invites artists to work in this serene environment, facilitates the interaction with the local community and culture of Tinos promoting contemporary art in all its diverse forms within an international context and stimulates creativity through direct contact with nature by establishing workshops, exhibitions, and open-air art events in the regional area of the island.

That gives a nomadic character to the whole process.

http://tinosquarryplatform.com/

Drained Batteries Exposed / 2016 / sculpture / mixed media Mudular Mudules Mode at Eleftheria Tseliou gallery, Athens 2016

Gardens of Subversion / 2016 / installation view / mixed media / variable dimensions Hirschgang corridor, Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany http://schloss-post.com/gardens-of-subversions/

ode to future gravitational systems I drove the car in the outskirts I found big rocks around and I wanted to take them with me.

I am building something. Architecture is a trans person, as the Future is.

The image is a digital 3D model, of a study for a Monument for the New Mainstream.

The object’ s form, is the complete opposite form, of a metallic pot on fire.

The gravity in the construction though, is feminin, as in everything else and she decides whether she would keep it upright, or not.

The Thief on the Balcony / 2014 / sculpture / wood, steel / 218 x 92 x 18 cm TRICKSTER / The variable practice at a.antonopoulou.art gallery in Athens in 2014

Staring at the tide. It’s never too much / 2014 / sound sculpture / mixed media / variable dimensions Petros Touloudis approaches the cuboid shape of the tunnel measuring it from one side to the other with the sculptural qualities of sound. Two megaphones covered in mussel’s shells and situated at both ends of the space emit sounds reminiscent of primitive vocal signals. The extreme simplicity of the call narrows down the meaning and the relations between the ends of the tunnel to the minimum the sound is connected to the objects that produce it by a preverbal ‘signal degree zero’. Since staring is not enough to understand a physical change, the sculptures interpret the space and the sound as instruments of locaon of the self and of the others as well as a basis for mediating a shared language. - Michelangelo Corsaro BRDG#23, Antwerp 2014 https://vimeo.com/96692542

Starry Night / 2014 / sculpture / steel, fabric, casted lead broccoli forms / 350x 230 x 155cm Exodic, Taf, Athens, Greece

The Artist Avoids the Future / 2013 / installation view metal, papier-mâché, concrete, rubber bands variable dimensions / 4th Athens Biennale AGORA Moving with ease between visual art, architecture and stage design, Petros Touloudis manages to combine the applied skill of an experienced craftsman with the visionary approach of a filmmaker. In AGORA, he presents the sculptural installation, The Arist Avoids the Future (2013), which consists of a concrete altar and some hovering abstract forms.

Suggesting palm fronds or birds’ wings, these forms are like a three-dimensional drawing in space.

In answer to the question ‘And now what?’ of this year’s Biennale, this work grasps -in Touloudis’ words‘the notion of the Future, not in the Futurists’ sense as a fascinating utopia basking in the messianic light of technological development but, by now, as a dire agony or as a measure of revisiting and comparing the Past, and even more as a realization of the Present. Ultimately, as the artist notes, his installation is something like a ‘supplication’ addressed to mankind with the aim of stopping Time.

-Christopher Marinos (Excerpt from the 4th Athens Biennale catalog)

Convenient Connection / 2013 / sculpture cartons for packaging, wooden sticks, strings, wooden coils / 125x220 cm “Pros Tino” in Cultural Foundation of Tinos, Tinos, 2013

Erechtheion / 2013/ installation view / mixed media / variable dimensions “This Must Be the Place� Kunsthalle Athena 2013

Via Recta / 2012 / digital video / duration 2’: 25’’ / (commissioned by Onassis Cultural Center) Visual Dialogues 2012 / Onassis Cultural Centre, 2012 https://vimeo.com/67806469

Pilgrim’s Backpack / 2013 / sculpture / wood (chair parts), leather bands, concrete 98x59x62 cm “This Must Be the Place” kunsthalle Athena, 2013

The Lost Pediment / 2011 / digital video / duration 9’: 18” https://vimeo.com/58188781

The Lost Pediment / 2011 / sculpture / mixed media / 150x50x18cm State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki 2011

My Left Shoe / 2013 / sculpture / cardboard, wood, shoe / 180x45x35 cm “This Mst Be the Place” Kunsthalle Athena, 2013

Wandering Property / 2012 / sculpture / 120x120x50 cm / concrete, wood, paper, trowel / Parnassos at Parnassos Literary Society in Athens, 2012

A Stusy on Mediterranean Desert / 2014 / performance, video installation / Nautilus: Navigating Greece , Bozar, Brussels, 2014 https://vimeo.com/137657324

A Study on Mediterranean Desert / 2014 / digital video / Nautilus: Navigating Greece , Bozar, Brussels, 2014 https://vimeo.com/100492124

Untitled / installation view / carton boxes, tape, basketball pole / musical theater / Mount Pelion, 2011

The Murderess, opera by G. Koumendakis / 2014 / set design-costumes / Megaron Athens Hall / produced by the Greek National Opera , Athens, 2014

RESUME Petros Touloudis lives and works in Athens. He is a graduate of Athens School of Fine Arts.

He has also been working in the field of Architecture, Opera and Theater.

Solo shows: Gardens of Subversion, Academie Schloss Solitude, 2016 This Must Be the Place, at Kunsthalle Athena in 2013.

In the past he has taken part in group exhibitions in Greece and worldwide.

Amongst others, he has participated in: Nautilus: Navigating Greece at Bozar Expo in Brussels in 2014, 4th Athens Biennale AGORA in 2013, The Mediterranean Experience at the 4th Thessaloniki Biennale in 2013, The New Normal, The Hangar- Umam & Dawawine, Beirut, 2017 Curiosity, Tinos Quarry Platform 2016 at the Cultural Foundation of Tinos in Tinos 2016, Mudular Mudules Mode at Eleftheria Tseliou gallery, Athens 2016 Römer XVIII, Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 2015 BRDG Bridge Project in Antwerp, in 2014, TRICKSTER : The variable practice at a.antonopoulou.art gallery in Athens in 2014, Exodic at Taf art space in Athens in 2014, Visual Dialogues 2012 by Onassis Cultural Centre, at the Plato’s Academy Leisure Park in Athens, in 2012 (commissioned work), Mediterranean Desert at Hall des Chars in Strasburg, in 2012, Parnassos at Parnassos Literary Society in Athens in 2012, Manihesto at State Museum of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, in 2011, Pianoscapes at ABOUT: ART in Athens in 2011, Mountain / Hope at Kunsthalle Athena in 2010, Dosto Project at Hellersdorf Berlin in 2003.

He co-founded Tinos Quarry Platform, including a residency program for artists, in 2015 on Tinos island in Cyclades, Greece where he works as artistic director.

He has also been involved in productions for the Opera and the Theater, such as: The Murderess (set design - costumes) opera by G.Koumendakis, produced by the Greek National Opera, at Megaron Athens Hall, in 2014, The Silent Step of the Bear (musical theater, video-installation), at the Onassis Cultural Centre in 2012, Unknown Dialects - 8 Musical Lectures (musical theater - installation), for Athens and Epidaurus Festival 2010, Breath by S. Beckett in Samuel Beckett Festival (directing - installation) at Sfendoni theater (2003 - 2004).

From 2004 to 2010 he worked on architectural projects of the Aegean sea folk Architecture, on the island of Tinos, in Greece.

From January 2017 he teaches art classes in the Architecture University of Patras Residencies: Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart Three month fellowship in the course of the exchange program of Akademie Schloss Solitude and Kunsthalle Athena, 2015.

Presentations: Architecture University of Patras, 01/2017 Acts of Involvment, round table, Athens Bienial 5to6 05 / 2016 Academie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart 11/2015 4th Athens Biennial, AGORA 10/2013 Universität Stuttgart: Institut Wohnen und Entwerfen 10/2012 Publications:

//Domus/ KunsthalleAthena //Mousse/ 4thAthensBienialAgora //ArtViewer/ TinosQuarryPlatform //Conceptualfinearts / TinosQuarryPlatform

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