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28 AUGUST 2012
BikeArt Is In The Air: An art initiative at AIA (1/9/2012-31/12/2012)

August 28th, 2012

An art panorama of designs, images, and various bicycle types, will be welcoming the passengers and visitors of the Athens International Airport, from September 1st until December 31st, in the framework of the new exhibition titled «BikeArt Is In The Air», hosted by AIA in cooperation with the artist group Carpe Diem.

This new exhibition at the airport is part of the “Art - Environment - Ecology” pillar, on which AIA places special emphasis.

Thirty-two art bicycles in the airport’s arrivals and departures areas, an illustrations-drawings exhibition including 12 works created by Greek and international artists and a mural painting that will be created “live” for bicycle lovers in the terminal, are the 3 elements of «BikeArt Is In The Air», aiming at offering a different view of bicycles, while inviting everyone to envisage and adopt an alternative, ecological way of living!

«BikeArt Is in the Air» will be on display daily, on a 24-hour basis, in the “Art & Environment” area (Arrivals, Entrance 3), while the 32 specially designed bicycles will be exhibited in various areas of the airport’s Main Terminal.

 

The initiative and the artists

  • 12 original artworks will be presented in the “Art & Environment” area, especially created for the exhibition, by 6 Greek and 6 foreign artists: KEZ, NADE, NASTWO, POSTER, PUPET, SAME84 & DOUG ROSS, ELIOT BROWN, KO MASUDA, PETER LOCKE & RUBENS CANTUNI.
  • On the occasion of the international “Car-free Day” (September 22nd) a “Mural painting” will be created live before the airport public by 4 Greek artists, KEZ, POSTER, PUPET & SAME84.
  • 32 art bicycles (among them, 10 children’s bikes) will be on display across the Arrivals and Departures, painted by 13 Greek arts from the local Urbanart scene: APSET, A. VASMOULAKIS, KEZ, KROKO, LIVE2, NADE, NASTWO, NERS, POSTER, PUPET, SAME84, STUPID GREG & TAXIS.


Carpe Diem / Bikeart.gr
Kiriakos Iosifidis
Tel: 6973701961
e-mail: [email protected]
Webiste: bikeart.gr | carpe-diemact.gr
Facebook: facebook.com/bikeart.gr


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