B i o f o r m s 2

Bioforms are life, they represent life, parts, unities, structures of living entities. Their depiction is far than easy; however, when it happens, these forms act as robust reminder of every element that nature and human beings, as part of it, bring, keep and develop ‘inside’.
Internal structures of organic systems, cell maps, DNA spirals, fertility units develop a direct dialogue with cosmic motifs, the macrocosm of the planets and universal laws alike. Visual artists experience transactions with bioforms regularly, directly or obliquely, during their aesthetic and conceptual journeys. Genuine, clear, charming, probably unexpected connections between the small and the large, the micro and the macro, have being developed, which often are neglected or forgotten in our days. We, the viewers, are invited to this reminder, in order to reconsider and re-view the elements we keep inside us, the forms of (our) life, our unit in the entirety.
The artists’ starting points in the Bioforms2 exhibition vary. Spirals, caducea, maps-rhizomes, reflections of quotidian moments, symbols of life periods, architectural discourses, spherical entities, writing(s)-stitches among others develop ‘bioformically’ through delicate works in paper or fabric, prints, projections, constructions, installations, performance.
The Bioforms2 exhibition constitutes the continuation of the exhibition Works-Drawings, Works-Bioforms (May 2006, Athens). In the Bioforms2 exhibition artists from Greece converse with artists from Austria within a moment in the life of this universal subject.

Artists: Aggelioglou Ianthi, Volanakis Adonis, Diakomi Katerina, Koutroulis Giannis, Maltabe Demetra, Michalou(di)s Ioannis, Pfaff Alexandros, Fouriki Efi, Böhm Gustav, Gansterer Nikolaus, Hofer Markus, Mongini Claudia, Ranharter Herb, Rupp Christian.

Curator: Maria Aggeli
Coordination of the austrian artists: Christian Rupp

Duration: 1st – 30th of June 2007
Opening: 1st of June, 21:00
On the opening night: performance by Christian Rupp and inauguration of Gustav Böhm’ s work in-progress

Students from the Fine Arts School of Athens and institutes of vocational education, as well as high school and primary school groups visited the exhibition and participated in educational programmes, conceived and animated by the curator.
In special evenings, announced by the press, artists talked in the exhibition space on their ‘bioformic’ participation and the main strands of their work in general. Furthermore, scientists and university researchers passed to the audience particular visual arts glances on scientific data, creating therefore strong and special biomorphic itineraries within an art-science dialogue.
At the finissage night, on the 27th of June 2007, Ianthi Aggelioglou lead a visual arts performance, involving directly the people/visitors in her ‘thread-identity connections’, at the terrace of the Cheapart space. In the same evening, Efi Fouriki offered us experimentations and ‘reflections’ with materials at first hand.