ANDREAS LOLIS

Greek artist Andreas Lolis will direct the four-week stone sculpture course in the Kiefer quarry in Fürstenbrunn at the Untersberg next summer. 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.

Lolis participated in the 3rd Athens Biennale in 2011 and most recently in the 2015 Biennale de Lyon, still running until the end of this year. See below a reportage on the Biennale including a short interview with Andreas Lolis.
If you happen to be in Athens, don’t miss the opening of his solo presentation „Undercurrents“ at The Breeder on Thursday, November 19, at 8 p.m, where he shows a new body of work.