Kalos&Klio,
Pandora’s Box, 2012
Kalos&Klio
Artistic duet Kalos&Klio is a distinct artistic case. Above
all they are an artistic duo, a particularly rare
phenomenon in our intensively individualistic era. The artist pair is born
in Greece, where they live and work. Kalos&Klio have joined forces
since 2005 and operate in a complementary fashion; as they say: “we choose
to work as a unit that operates with two hard disks”. The pair considers
the process of working as one, a path more intriguing since they come from
different artistic trajectories. Kalos studied
photography in GR and Klio studied
painting and printmaking in the NL and
USA and also holds an MFA from the University of Chicago,
USA.
Kalos&Klio are interdisciplinary artists working in a
variety of media, incorporating installation,
digital graphics and design. They are
crossing the boundaries of the high and low arts as they choose to think
across them. Through their post pop and post
psychedelic explorations they seek to open up new avenues in the
world of digital art. They are breaking through the boundaries of the arts
as they create ensembles which are deliberately emptied of ideology and
which, for precisely this reason, articulate a political
discourse. They are intentionally artists of the ‘post’ and the
‘intermediate’, their work is based in post pop and post psychedelic art
with steampunk
characteristics.
The artistic pair is not indifferent to
the fragmented world from which their works are inspired
and influenced. They scan the virtual cyberspace as well as the
(unquestionably material) world of global flea markets, as they look for
raw materials for their creations. The final work is then presented as a
single artwork print or as an installation that is realized on a
variety of printed surfaces: wallpaper, fabric, garments,
crockery and tiles, creating environments that are intricate and
complicated. Artistically Kalos&Klio operate like ‘cultural
nomads’, like Flâneurs wandering casually in the imaginary of the
internet screen among diverse cultures, including their own home
culture.
Kalos&Klio artworks, in a deeper
level, are concerned with what is – in appearances only – a research in
vain: the exploration of our lost connection with the memory of
the past through reusing existing objects; the memory as
historical past or aura, but also the importance of memory as
illusion in the internet by means of a mélange of personal
narratives, among which one can surf time and space; notions that have in
present nothing to do with what we’ve
known.
more. www.kalosklio.com
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