Andreas Lolis is based in Athens, where he was born in 1970. 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
2016 YOKO ONO Lumière de L’aube, Musée d’art contemporain, Lyon (FR). 2015 La
vie moderne, 13th Biennale de Lyon. 2013 Hell As Pavilion,
Palais de Tokyo, Paris. Frieze New York, Sculpture Park, New York, NY (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
Ralph Rugoff, “Andreas Lolis”, in: Andreas
Lolis (The Breeder ed.), Athens 2016.
13th Biennale de Lyon, exh. cat., Les presses du réel, Dijon 2015.
Nadja Argyropoulou, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis (eds.), Hell As Pavilion, 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.