Can a typical museum acquire a more hybrid character? How can the in-between spaces of a museum be utilised? Is there room for dialogue between modern and contemporary art? How can we enhance the visibility and impact of contemporary creators?
These are some of the central questions explored by ‘Raw’ at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation, the contemporary art exhibition program that, for more than four years now, has revealed another side of the Foundation while becoming an integral part of it, giving space to the ‘contemporary voices of Athens, so that the conversation may begin,’ as Marina Miliou Theoharakis shares with elc, the person behind Raw, who, after her career in museums in Chicago and in documenta, has been at the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation for the past eight years, opening up this path: presenting different exhibitions than those the Foundation has accustomed us to.
At this moment, in the ‘Raw’ program of the B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation, we are experiencing ‘Vertigo’ with the homonymous exhibition by Natalia Manta and Dimitris Tampakis, curated by Faidra Vassiliadou.
In recent years, Dimitris Tampakis has been working with metals, mainly aluminium, which he processes in sheets or through various traditional and improvised casting techniques. In his photographic works, which he also considers sculptures due to the reflective properties of the materials, he uses tin and aluminium and applies engraving and silkscreen techniques. During these processes, as he shares with elc, unexpected results often arise, mainly because he has learned most of these techniques on his own, with great help from friends and collaborators. He now regards these ‘accidents’ as necessary, having incorporated them into his artistic practice.
