9:05 - artAZ

An elite showcase of the best Greek Urban Artists

9:05 group exhibition showcased 5 exciting, Greek artists originating from the contemporary urban and street art scenes. The show introduced new works by Mariana Cute, Constantine Vraziotis, Nar, Ser and Yiakou.

The show brought together a dynamic group of artists whose identity has been shaped by their daily contact with the urban landscape. Representing different schools from the world of Urban & Street Art, the artists were been selected for their distinctive style and unique approach to art and life.

The exhibition, curated by Alexandra Kollaros, introduced the audience to the most interesting talent currently operating in Greece.

Curated by: Alexandra Kollaros

Location: 9 ENNEA Art Space

Date: October 2015

Argiris Ser

SER’s unique style is a hybrid blend of old school graffiti, comic culture and pop surrealism. His satiric work is characterised by a dark undertone. Criticising and at the same time celebrating the contemporary urban experience, he employs meticulous detailing and an army of monstrous but somewhat benign characters to relay his urban commentaries, cauterising the absurdity of human nature.

Constantine Vraziotis

Borrowing from the aesthetics of the fashion world and celebrity culture, Vraziotis’s idiosyncratic style can only be described as macabre pop surrealism. His iconic heroines, decadent and bizarre, invite the viewer to a universe dictated by twisted elegance, where the lines between imagination and reality are blurred. His work explores the kingdom of forgotten promises and contemporary urban vices.

Mariana Cute

Mariana Cute’s post-pop visual language draws from a fantasy world located inside her head but is also largely inspired by popular culture and advertising. She has a reductive approach in her painting, using geometric abstraction and vivid colouring to create her accessible, trademark characters (mascots as the artist calls them) and release them to the universe with a mission to spread the love.

Nar

Explosive and irreverent, NAR creates striking visual imagery, employing an array of diverse, often unorthodox, techniques. Armed with an arsenal of unexpected materials typically collected from the streets, he approaches his findings with lyricism and a keen sense of experimentation, eventually reincarnating the trite into precious. NAR mission is to create beauty from abandonment.

Yiakou

Stemming directly from the soul Yiakou’s universe is deeply sentimental, presenting a romantic documentation of everyday history. Creating on street surfaces with his brush and pen, the artist is guided by emotion, managing a poetically nostalgic yet surrealist modern aura in his works. His tender but intense visual narratives employ codes that hint to childhood innocence to communicate adult notions.