CLOSING SOON

DUETS (BLACK POSTERS)

Off-site project

Artists: Santiago Sierra, Fani Zguro
Installation date: 21.03.2025
Locations: Kato Petralona, Athens
Photos: Jason Faulter

“Duets” is a project by Fani Zguro. In each exhibition he invites another artist to exhibit together with him. In this collaboration with Closing Soon in Athens, Santiago Serra and Fani Zguro present a site-specific series of “Black Posters” installed in different areas of the city. Referring to the response of Leonardo Sciascia in his Black on Black to the banal accusation of pessimism, offering us “black writing on the black page of reality,” the game of double blackness in this project is played with the “Black Posters” of Santiago Sierra (a work the artist has presented in a number of cities since 2008). Sierra establishes a powerful counterpoint to the advertising messages omnipresent in public space, namely by installing black posters on a massive scale, over the series of “From What is Before” by Fani Zguro (black drawings in ink on various pages of books. The new DUETS (Black Posters) delves into the version of total anarchy in an ideal bond with the constant expansion of cronaca nera (crime news).

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SYSTEMA

CLOSING SOON→SYSTEMA 2024
Artists: Eva Anerrapsi, Elena Demetria Chantzis, Stavros Kassis, Orestis Mavroudis
Exhibition period: 30.08.2024-01.09.2024
Opening hours: 30.08, 14:00-21:00 / 31.08, 14:00-23:00 / 01.09, 14:00-19:00
Location: Palais Carli, 1 Pl. Auguste et François Carli, 13006 Marseille, France
Photos: Raphaël Massart

SYSTEMA is a gathering of affinities, offering a social space that provides a venue and visibility for independent spaces, artist- or curator-run initiatives, and non-profit collaborative projects. Contributors are invited to propose works for exhibition and public programs, which, after a careful selection process, are allocated throughout the various spaces of Palais Carli. As a flat, non-hierarchical structure, the entire process embodies the principles of collaboration and cooperation—from the proposal of works and ideas to their arrangement and cohabitation within the spaces.

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CLOSING SOON → SYSTEMA 2024

SYSTEMA
Artists: Eva Anerrapsi, Elena Demetria Chantzis, Stavros Kassis, Orestis Mavroudis

Exhibition period: 30.08.2024-01.09.2024

Opening hours:
30.08, 14:00-21:00
31.08, 14:00-23:00
01.09, 14:00-19:00

Location: Palais Carli, 1 Pl. Auguste et François Carli, 13006 Marseille, France

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CLOSING SOON→SYSTEMA 2024

SYSTEMA
Artists: Eva Anerrapsi, Elena Demetria Chantzis, Stavros Kassis, Orestis Mavroudis

Exhibition period: 30.08.2024-01.09.2024

Opening hours:
30.08, 14:00-21:00
31.08, 14:00-23:00
01.09, 14:00-19:00

Location: Palais Carli, 1 Pl. Auguste et François Carli, 13006 Marseille, France

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BUT SO IT GOES
Exhibition period: 29.02.2024-03.03.2024, 19:00-22:00
Artists: Hanna Abrahamsson, Luca Bolognesi, Rebecca Jansson, Runo Lagomarsino, Maddie Leach, Kevin Malcolm, Orestis Mavroudis, Maria Michailidou, Patricia Morosan, Marco Noris, John Smith, Sasha Streshna
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ON VACATION… / ALDONA
Artists: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Emilija Škarnulytė
Exhibition period: 04.11.2023-10.11.2023, 19:00-21:00

ON VACATION… / ALDONA
Artists: Luchezar Boyadjiev, Emilija Škarnulytė
Exhibition period: 04.11.2023-10.11.2023, 19:00-21:00

WELCOME AND ENJOY THE RUINS - RESTORATION

Off-site project

Artist: Nektarios Pappas
Restoration: 2023
Mural: 2017
Opening: 29.06.2023, 18:00
Opening hours: Opening hours of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (EMST)
Location: Terrace of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (EMST), Kallirrois Avenue and Amvrosiou Frantzi Street, 117 43 Athens

The mural Welcome and enjoy the Ruins was originally created by Nektarios Pappas in June 2017 on the rooftop of the then-abandoned hotel at 94 Andrea Syngrou Avenue. It was visible from the terrace of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), which at that time served as the main exhibition space for the international art exhibition documenta 14—the typography of the mural was based on one of the fonts used by documenta 14. Over the years, the hotel underwent renovation, the mural was covered with a layer of new paint (except for the word “Ruins” that was written on the adjacent building), and EMST opened to the public in full operation after 20 years of a nomadic existence. In June 2023, CLOSING SOON undertook the restoration of the artwork, employing a process akin to the restoration of classical period monuments, which involves utilizing fragments and documents to attain the most accurate result possible. The restoration of the mural aims to contribute to the dialogue on the boundaries between private and public, the significance of preserving and restoring contemporary artistic heritage, as well as the impact of ancient and modern ruins on shaping the cultural identity of the country.

Bio:
Nektarios Pappas (b.1972, Athens) is a visual artist and a PhD candidate at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Light design:

Photos 1-4:
Photos 5-9: .papaioannou
Photo 10: .it

WELCOME AND ENJOY THE RUINS - RESTORATION

Off-site project

Artist: Nektarios Pappas
Restoration: 2023
Mural: 2017
Opening: 29.06.2023, 18:00
Opening hours: Opening hours of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (EMST)
Location: Terrace of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Αthens (EMST), Kallirrois Avenue and Amvrosiou Frantzi Street, 117 43 Athens

The mural Welcome and enjoy the Ruins was originally created by Nektarios Pappas in June 2017 on the rooftop of the then-abandoned hotel at 94 Andrea Syngrou Avenue. It was visible from the terrace of the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST), which at that time served as the main exhibition space for the international art exhibition documenta 14—the typography of the mural was based on one of the fonts used by documenta 14. Over the years, the hotel underwent renovation, the mural was covered with a layer of new paint (except for the word “Ruins” that was written on the adjacent building), and EMST opened to the public in full operation after 20 years of a nomadic existence. In June 2023, CLOSING SOON undertook the restoration of the artwork, employing a process akin to the restoration of classical period monuments, which involves utilizing fragments and documents to attain the most accurate result possible. The restoration of the mural aims to contribute to the dialogue on the boundaries between private and public, the significance of preserving and restoring contemporary artistic heritage, as well as the impact of ancient and modern ruins on shaping the cultural identity of the country.

Bio:
Nektarios Pappas (b.1972, Athens) is a visual artist and a PhD candidate at the Athens School of Fine Arts.

Light design:

Photos 1-4:
Photos 5-9: .papaioannou
Photo 10: .it








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