The Athens House of Photography is proud to host the exhibit of Greek photographer and theoretician Costis Antoniadis, titled “References”.
The photos included in the exhibit “References” are a selection from a body of work that was completed between 1985 and 2014. Fragments of images of the city, fake busts of heroes, fake maps and secret collections, all explore the relationship of photography with memory, reality and the fantastic.
Costis Antoniadis was born in Athens in 1949. He teaches photography and critical theory in the Photography and Audiovisual Arts Technical School of Athens. He is a founding member of the Photographic Center of Athens and since 1979 has curated and presented numerous exhibits of Greek and foreign photographers in Greece and in international festivals abroad. His work has been presented in individual and group exhibits. He was the director of the Museum of Photography in Thessaloniki (2003-2005) and since 2006 has been working as an independent curator. Theoretical and critical texts of his have been published since 1979 in various photography and art magazines. Since 2012 has is the director and curator of the online photography gallery Ariadne.
The exhibit will open on Wednesday, April 29th at 20:30 and will last until May 16th. All works will be sold in both a numbered series of 10 as well as in an uneditioned series. Mr. Antoniadis’ books will be available.
All of the exhibition works will be for sale in both a signed, numbered series of 10 (800 Euros) as well as in a signed, uneditioned series (90 Euros).
The exhibition is taking place with the support of the Benaki Museum.
