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Palindrome II Goethe Institut, Athens 1982 Delos 2002 Delos 2002 Delos 2002 Thalassa 1991
Still of Installation - Performance rehearsal Digital color photographs Sculpture Sculpture Bookcase with cabinets
Nikos Zouboulis with Kostas Daskalakis 45x160 cm Fiberglass Fiberglass MDF frame in grey and purple lacquer
projected with slides projected with slides 380x40 h240 cm
of ancient sculptures from the sea of Delos Limited edition
from Delos 200x100 cm
200x100 cm

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Chicago 1987 Ecology Fair Action - Reminiscence - Transpositions III Action - Reminiscence - Transpositions III Action - Reminiscence - Transpositions III
Bookcase with cabinet OLP, Piraeus 1993 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston 1981 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston 1981 Boston University Art Gallery, Boston 1981
MDF frame Stand of University Exhibition invitation Untitled 1980 Spectators at Installation - Performance
in grey lacquer of the Aegean - Views of Installation - Performance Sculpture diptych
180x40 h230 cm Department Wood structure, stretched and pleated white latex, Plaster, white lacquer, pleated white latex,
Limited edition of Environment sculptures and drawing-constructions, fiberglass
Wood structure electric light 110x200 cm
in white lacquer Music Theodor Antoniou Untitled 1980
With Thales 1984 Desk Sculpture diptych
and Circle 1989 End table
Fiberglass, plaster, white lacquer
110x200 cm
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Applause Environment - Action
Their first joint creation, Applause (1977, Expo-arte, Bari)
...The work which is most impressive
refers to the ambiguous relationship between the artist
and gives, I believe, a contemporary
and his public - a relationship of attraction and distance. An acutely
answer to the potential of personal
ironic piece in which the artist's action ends with the noisy applause
participation and action
from a mechanism of wooden hands operated by the artist himself.
at the borderline between performance
The action's emphasis on creativity culminates in this imperative
and visual determinism
expression of approval which 'asserts' the artist's existence.
is that of Grekou and Zouboulis.
The duo believe that the artist is thus violently jolted out
Last year we had the opportunity
of his narcissistic absorption with his own figure. Yet they see
to watch at "Desmos"
the acting forces as antagonistic to our need to lose ourselves
their first presentation, which I would
in something that is not recognised as part of everyday reality.
say was more accomplished
The Applause speaks sarcastically of the end of the Dream,
and impressive in its rapport
the end of the action. Today, even our escape into the world of art
with the public and in terms
has a limit… It is called upon to meet social needs, and the audience
of the music. Yet now at the Zappion
does exist but it is made out of foreign wills. It is ready to applaud
we are presented with a creative
in exchange for dialectic means which will be accessible to them.
sequence capable of providing
The mystery that is generated in an artistic statement, when
viewers with the scope for rare
the viewer is mentally transported to another time and place,
intellectual and imaginary
must be interrupted by applauding the falsity of the representation;
associations...
for if it were to be applauded as true, as a ritual for reclaiming
Efi Andreadi
certain values, the danger would be too great...
Athens, 29 May 1981
Efi Strousa
Athens, June 1980
Applause I Applause Applause I Expo Arte, Bari 1977 Applause I Expo Arte, Bari 1977 Applause II Zappeion, Athens 1981
Expo Arte, Bari 1977 Essay View of Installation - Performance Still from Installation - Performance Environment - Action
Applause 1977 by Efi Strousa With Titsa Grekou Nikos Zouboulis applauding Titsa Grekou's Review
Sculpture Athens, June 1980 Iron and wood structure, stretched yellow latex, performance by Efi Andreadi
Detail electric light, audio collage Applause 1977 TO VIMA newspaper, Athens, 29 May 1981
Colored marker drawings on cardboard Sculpture Still of Installation - Performance rehearsal
Tubular iron structure painted black, Nikos Zouboulis with Titsa Grekou performing
four pairs of colored wood hands Wood structure, stretched white latex,
135x270x70 cm
electric light, audio collage
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Applause
Before 1976 and the beginning creatures bumping against the elastic sheet
of their partnership, Zouboulis had already - these images spring to mind as phases
presented three happenings in Athens
of a mini-drama which has you holding
and had invented since 1972 his material, your breath throughout the 20-minute action.
a soft sheet of rubber which was to become Words alone cannot capture and describe
a decisive element in the duo's subsequent the element of the unique, the improvisations
activities.
within a loosely defined framework
Together they have mounted so far three which permits different, spontaneous
actions in which they have equal roles, two gestures and movements each time, based
in Italy and one in Athens. The latter -a very
on a laconic choreography which is the spine
impressive event called "Action - Memory - of all actions by Zouboulis and Grekou.
Transpositions"- was accompanied Some of the phases of the work as they are
by Th. Antoniou's specifically written music. 'imprinted' on the rubber screen have been
The work brings to life man's struggle
transferred in plaster, but even that fails
as he writhes in a magma, trying to come to convey the tension of movement
out for air, touching the surface and then as it unfolds before our eyes.
sinking back in, with his body leaving only
Only by watching the actual performance -
minimal bumps like a restless archipelago action can one experience its impact.
with the tips of a continent which has sank
into the ocean. An embryo wrapped Alexandros G. Xydis
in the mucous membranes of the womb, Athens, May 1981
trying to come out to the light; a man twisting
and sinking in the viscous wrapping
of one of the most consumable materials
in our civilisation; bats or other scary
Applause II Applause Galaxy 2000 Luna 1984 Sofa Luna 1984 Sofa
Zappeion, Athens1981 Catalogue essay Computer stand Computer generated drawing MDF frame covered in plastic laminate,
by Alexandros G. Xydis Steel frame in varnished aluminum lacquered wood legs in 5 colors, fabric upholstery
Still
from Installation - for group exhibition 50x50 h122 cm MDF frame in black lacquer, black Vytina marble
Performance ENVIRONMENT - legs, fabric upholstery
With Titsa Grekou ACTION / Today’s
Trends in Greek Art, MDF frame veneered in pommele,
Athens, May 1981 brown Mycenaean marble legs, leather upholstery
210x90 h100 cm
Triadic Ballet '84 1984 Coffee table
Plate glass top, marble legs
with bronze and rubber fittings 100x80 h36 cm