Andreas Lolis

Andreas Lolis, born in the Greek community of Argyrocastro (AL) in 1970, lives in Athens. He graduated from the Athens School of Fine Arts and the Carrara Academy of Fine Arts.
Fascinated by the relics of the 21st century, by all the things that as a society we discard on a daily basis, Lolis has been working since 2011 on a series of marble sculptures that are replicas of thrown-out boxes and styrofoam material. They are meticulously carved to give a trompe l’oeil effect; what seems real and warm turns out to be in fact cold and false, sculpted ironically from the rock-hard past of antiquity. The cardboard is magisterially shaped out of Moroccan marble, resembling the worn-out colours of decay. The styrofoam is made of classical Dionysian marble, pallid and pure like a post-industrialist trip on neo-classicism.

Solo exhibitions
2015 Undercurrents, The Breeder, Athens. 2013 The Breeder, Monte Carlo (MC). 2011 Künstlerhaus, Munich (DE).

Group exhibitions
2015 La vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon (FR). 2013 Hell As Pavilion, Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Frieze New York, Sculpture Park, New York (US). The things I want to express are so beautiful and pure, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich. 2012 Frieze London, Sculpture Park, London. 2011 Monodrome, 3rd Athens Biennale.

Publications
13th Biennale de Lyon, exh. cat., Les presses du réel, 2015.
Nadja Argyropoulou, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis (eds.), Hell As Pavillion, exh. cat. Palais de Tokyo, Kastaniotis Editions, Athens 2013.
Frieze New York, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson, London 2013.
Frieze London, exh. cat., Thames & Hudson, London 2012.
Andreas Lolis. 21st Century Relics, exh. cat., iset – contemporary greek art institute, Athens 2012.

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