Owls Avenue No 2
Thursday, January 15, 2015
When our art takes us abroad, we seek out art and artists who work outside the gallery system. We discover and document Outsider Art installations, transient land art, folk art objects and artifacts. Through these activities, we are often rewarded with surprising insights into the culture of the countries we visit. The rich artistic and cultural heritage of the island of Paros, Greece, is world renowned and well documented. It is a delight to discover that not all of the island’s artistic endeavours are historic, static, set in stone, or marble. We see artists at work today outside of the formal gallery and museum setting, we describe one - Owls Avenue No 2, here. "
Clare O Hagan
Owls Avenue No 2
A stuffed bear slumps in a wheelchair, whiles another bear gives birth to a plastic doll on a rusting ironing board forming part of an outside art installation assemblage of found objects near Parikia, on the Greek Island of Paros.
One gets a fleeting glance of the installation driving along the main road from Paroikia to Lefkes near to Kostos on Paros Island in Greece. We understand the local address to be “Owls Avenue No 2” and we give this name to the outsider art installation.
We imagine that the garden started off as a modest project that grew organically. Photographing Owls Avenue No 2 Outsider Art Installation in June 2013, we were unsure if the site was currently active, and if its creator, Kostas Loukis, was in residence.
The installation reflects Loukis’s unique vision and viewing the garden we witness a compulsive flow of creative energy. Toy bears, doll parts and a robot attached to a pillar are just some of the diverse objects arranged in their own gloriously individual way in the garden. The bears look down on the road below, behind them sits a squat square building framed with gigantic hoops and a collection of hub caps.
If you are intrigued by the unbridled inventiveness of this unique Outsider Art Installation seek out Owls Avenue No 2.
About Wyllie O Hagan
London based visual artists and filmmakers, Clare O Hagan and Denise Wyllie, form the artist partnership of Wyllie O Hagan. Together, the two artists tackle and deliver huge art projects and exhibitions. These are ambitious in scale and concept conveying complex aspects of the human condition. With their wide professional experience they utilize a range of media within their moving image film work, using paintings, prints, textiles and land art.
"We feel kinship and enjoy a sense of lineage with outsider artists, who work in the landscape, unheralded and unafraid to make art. As artists ourselves we are compelled to do thus, and will continue to do so." Clare O Hagan
About Outsider Art
The Tate Gallery’s guide to modern art terms describes Outsider Art as art that has a naive quality often produced by people who have not trained as artists, who operate outside the world of museums and galleries and to an extent society itself.
Wyllie O Hagan:
http://www.wyllieohagan.com
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https://www.youtube.com/wyllieohagan
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Clare O Hagan
Owls Avenue No 2
A stuffed bear slumps in a wheelchair, whiles another bear gives birth to a plastic doll on a rusting ironing board forming part of an outside art installation assemblage of found objects near Parikia, on the Greek Island of Paros.
One gets a fleeting glance of the installation driving along the main road from Paroikia to Lefkes near to Kostos on Paros Island in Greece. We understand the local address to be “Owls Avenue No 2” and we give this name to the outsider art installation.
We imagine that the garden started off as a modest project that grew organically. Photographing Owls Avenue No 2 Outsider Art Installation in June 2013, we were unsure if the site was currently active, and if its creator, Kostas Loukis, was in residence.
The installation reflects Loukis’s unique vision and viewing the garden we witness a compulsive flow of creative energy. Toy bears, doll parts and a robot attached to a pillar are just some of the diverse objects arranged in their own gloriously individual way in the garden. The bears look down on the road below, behind them sits a squat square building framed with gigantic hoops and a collection of hub caps.
If you are intrigued by the unbridled inventiveness of this unique Outsider Art Installation seek out Owls Avenue No 2.
About Wyllie O Hagan
London based visual artists and filmmakers, Clare O Hagan and Denise Wyllie, form the artist partnership of Wyllie O Hagan. Together, the two artists tackle and deliver huge art projects and exhibitions. These are ambitious in scale and concept conveying complex aspects of the human condition. With their wide professional experience they utilize a range of media within their moving image film work, using paintings, prints, textiles and land art.
"We feel kinship and enjoy a sense of lineage with outsider artists, who work in the landscape, unheralded and unafraid to make art. As artists ourselves we are compelled to do thus, and will continue to do so." Clare O Hagan
About Outsider Art
The Tate Gallery’s guide to modern art terms describes Outsider Art as art that has a naive quality often produced by people who have not trained as artists, who operate outside the world of museums and galleries and to an extent society itself.
Wyllie O Hagan:
http://www.wyllieohagan.com
https://www.facebook.com/wyllieohagan
https://www.youtube.com/wyllieohagan
https://www.twitter.com/wyllieohagan
Labels: Art Brut, artists, clare o hagan, denise wyllie, Greece, monumental land art, Moving image artwork, Outsider Art, Paros, printmakers, Wyllie OHagan
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