HOPE (Konstantinos Ntagkas)
Baraka Art Space is pleased to launch the second show of the exhibition program of 2023, entitled “Baraka Ab ovo”, commissioned to curator Faidra Vasileiadou to design three different exhibitions for this summer on the island of Spetses.
The hosted curator, invites the artist HOPE (Konstantinos Ntagkas) to present his solo show entitled “Chapter Two: Nascent”.
HOPE displays a main body of his artistic experience by producing new artworks with different mediums, but related to his signature style: an excavation of contemporary archaeology.
Carrying the past into the present, the artist transforms vessels and large-scale prints into deeply fascinating entities within a universe of new age sacred symbols.
Like reminiscent of alien forms, HOPE narrates a timeless story of a hybrid cosmos, otherworldly and yet so familiar, within the framework of Baraka’s summer program in Spetses.
HOPE (b. 1976) lives and works in Athens, Greece. His practice ranges from collage and ceramics to performance art and fanzines. Selected exhibitions include: My Sons Too Young Then, solo exhibition at Andros Archaeological Museum, Andros, Greece (2018); solo show at The Breeder Playroom, Athens (2018), Si Sedes Non Is, curated by Milovan Farronato, The Breeder, Athens *2017); The Earth Eaters with Panayotis Terzis, Endless Editions, New York (2015); NOTEMPLE, The Breeder, Athens (2013); Τime doesn’t give me time, solo show at ReMap 3, under the auspices of The Breeder (2011); Mountain/HOPE, solo show at Kunsthalle Athena (2010); Monsters in Fashion, ARRRGH!, Art Rock Festival, Saint-Brieuc, France (2015); La Gaîté lyrique, Paris (2014) and Benaki Museum, Athens (2011); Looking Forward, The Breeder, Athens (2011); PS1/Printed Matter, New York Art Book Fair, PS1, Long Island City, NY (2012 & 2010); Thessaloniki Performance Festival, parallel program of the 3rd Thessaloniki Biennial
(2011); 3 velvet days in Heaven - Athens Biennale 2009, Athens (2009).
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