http://www.kondimopoulos.com Artist Extrordinaire Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:21:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sign-up to my newsletter Email: Like Wild Horses Running Away Over The Hills   Ripples and Journeys 2010 City of Monash Civic Center, Melbourne, AustraliaWorks to be installed 2010 in: Abu Dhabi, Melbourne, Canberra, Denver, Boston, Vancouver, Gisborne- New Zealand, Palm Springs For me art has in some way or another always been an ... http://www.kondimopoulos.com/archives/164 Sign-up to my newsletter Email: Free at last, free at last, thank God Almighty we are free at last In a recent article in The Guardian newspaper the question was asked - can art save the world? As idealistic as I am it would be hard for me ... http://www.kondimopoulos.com/archives/163 Black Parthenon Black Parthenon 2009 Federation Square, Melbourne, Australia Commissioned by Robyn Archer, Director, Festival of Light 6m x 4m x 5m Lights, scaffolding, black cloth Black Parthenon is a repatriation art action, a public light installation highlighting the issue of the appropriation of cultural and sacred objects. The work not only addresses the increasing ... http://www.kondimopoulos.com/archives/145 Sign-up to my newsletter Email: A Handful of Dust – the intrinsic flaws in art As an artist I have always searched for the imperfection in an artwork. Perhaps imperfection isn’t quite the right term to use – let’s call it the ‘flaw’ or ‘fault’ in a work of ... http://www.kondimopoulos.com/archives/143 Everybody Knows – Antony Gormley –The 007 of Public Art – Stirred but not shaken Antony Gormley is an exceptional sculptor who I greatly admire. When reading the responses to comments made by him on public art a few weeks ago the lyrics and music of Leonard Cohen’s Everybody knows ... http://www.kondimopoulos.com/archives/138 Alien Nations, Sumo Wrestlers and Public Sculpture What people forget about sculpture, especially public sculpture, is that by its very nature we are dealing with a physical entity. It occupies and alters space. In order to secure visibility in the urban landscape, sculptures tend to be large and (in most cases) immovable. ... http://www.kondimopoulos.com/archives/1