In the summer of 2007, on commission from Casa Vogue, I began researching the life of legendary gallerist Alexander Iolas, and his amazing Villa in the suburb of Agia Paraskevi.
the house was a surreal mix of contemporary art with moder with surrealism with minimalism with antiquities, baroque, fashion, furs, paraphernalia and eccentricities
as a conclusion to the Iolas research, I decided to sneak into the villa
, only to find a golden ruin
ripped gold wallpaper everywhere
gold stair leading nowhere
gold bathrooms
After the forensic photos of the ruined villa, one of the first things I made was a golden ghost of a chair, a frame wrapped in the gold wallpaper Iolas used throughout the villa, 2008
with some leftover fur and marble.
As if the ghost of Alexander, famous also for his enormous fur coat collection, 2008
suddenly got up and left, 2008
gold became one of the basic vocabularies for a lot of work, 2008
randomly discarded furniture could be brought back to life
when wrapped in gold, 2008
as our house became more and more gold 2009
"All the rooms in Villa Iolas arranged as pile of garbage or gold" 2009
parallel, we continued work on the Iolas project,
imagining the destiny of the house as inhabited by Iolas' ghost.
A ghost that kept piling up rooms to afford space for the ever growing accumulation of imaginary works
plant
more gold wrapped objects kept appearing 2008
trash
big trash 2008
stool
booth
friends were getting married so we made burkinis, 2012
scarfs (bibs?)
for toasting with the locals
table
top
witness mask profile pic
chapel and golden kiss
after the golden wedding, we continued with the Iolas project
flipping through the repertory of solutions
preparing to enter the villa through the screen
(short film trailer coming soon)
2013
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