Press coverage highlights for MOSTYN the extended exhibition season March – October 2020: Athena Papadopoulos and Kiki Kogelnik
Zabludowicz Collection: Invites Focus: Athena Papadopoulos.
Online – available at https://www.zabludowiczcollection.com/digital/view/invites-focus-athena- papadopoulos
E-flux: Athena Papadopoulos: Cain and Abel Can’t and Able, 12 March 2020Online – available at https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/322584/kiki-kogelnikriot-of- objectsathena-papadopouloscain-and-abel-can-t-and-able/

Juliet Art Magazine, 27 May 2020, by Elsa Barbieri

The Guardian: The great reopening – how Britain’s galleries Covid-proofed themselves, 8 July 2020, by Charlotte Higgins
Online – available at https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/08/great-reopening- britains-galleries-covid-proofed-london-dundee-llandudno

The Guardian: From Llandudno to Stromness: 10 of the best hidden gem art galleries, 2 October 2020, by Jonathan Jones
Online – available at https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/oct/02/10-of-the-best-hidden-gem-art-galleries

Fluxo: Cain and Abel Can’t and Able.
Online – available at https://www.ofluxo.net/cain-and-abel-cant-and-able-by-athena-papadopoulos- at-mostyn-gallery/

Tank Magazine: Cain and Abel Can’t and Able.
Online – available at https://tankmagazine.com/tank/2020/04/athena-papadopoulos/

Studio Visit: Athena Papadopoulos.
Online – available at https://studiovisit.io/visit/athena-papadopoulos/

Art Daily: MOSTYN reopens with exhibition of works by Athena Papadopoulos.
Online – available at https://artdaily.cc/news/127408/MOSTYN-reopens-with-exhibition-of-works- by-Athena-Papadopoulos#.X7Ud_y-l2jS

The Double Negative : Culture Diary – On our Radar, 04 September 2020, by Mike Pinnington
Online – available at http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2020/09/culture-diary-on-our-radar/
Kiki Kogelnik: Riot of Objects / Athena Papadopoulos: Cain and Abel Can’t and Able @ MOSTYN Gallery, Llandudno
In 1961, Austrian Kiki Kogelnik left behind the Viennese avant-garde scene, trading it for Santa Monica. In the US, she was influenced by Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann, Robert Rauschenberg and Claes Oldenburg. Responding to this male-dominated world, she introduced feminism and criticality to the already fertile ground of mass media and consumer culture, becoming an interesting (and underexposed) outlier of pop art in the process. This MOSTYN Gallery show is the first in the UK to focus solely on her ceramics output. Dovetailing nicely is a new body of work from Canadian artist Athena Papadopoulos, which questions traditional binary perceptions of gender and sexuality.
The World of Interiors: Exhibitions to see, Print, September 2020
Coast: 10 Inspiring Galleries by the Sea. Print, October 2020

Shire Magazine: Contemporary Art at MOSTYN. Print (May/June 2020).
Shire Magazine: Exhibitions at MOSTYN Gallery. Print (September/October 2020).
Welsh Coastal Life: Diary: What is happening on and around the Welsh Coast. Print (April 2020).
North Wales Magazine: The Great days Out. Print (August 2020).
North Wales Pioneer: Athena Papadopoulos’ Cain and Abel Can’t and Able at MOSTYN gallery in Llandudno, 31 July 2020, by Duncan Rieder
Online – available at https://www.northwalespioneer.co.uk/news/18620000.athena-papadopoulos- cain-abel-cant-ableat-mostyn-gallery-llandudno/

Rhyl, Prestatyn & Abergele Magazine: Athena Papadopoulos’ Cain and Abel Can’t and Able at MOSTYN gallery in Llandudno.
Online – available at https://www.rhyljournal.co.uk/news/18620001.athena-papadopoulos-cain- abel-cant-ableat-mostyn-gallery-llandudno/

York Press: Athena Papadopoulos’ Cain and Abel Can’t and Able at MOSTYN gallery in Llandudno. Online – available at https://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/showbiz/18620000.athena- papadopoulos-cain-abel-cant-ableat-mostyn-gallery-llandudno/?ref=rss

Cura magazine: Athena Papadopoulos
Drawing from the biblical story of Cain and Able, Papadopoulos reflects on her own personal experiences of sibling rivalry and competition within romantic relationships but also, crucially, the struggle between good and evil.

Apollo magazine: Kiki Kogelnik
Kiki Kogelnik: Riot of Objects
MOSTYN, Llandudno
Untitled (Sea Monster) (detail; c. 1974), Kiki Kogelnik. Courtesy Kiki Kogelnik Foundation
After moving to New York in the early 1960s, the Austrian-born artist emerged as one of the few women associated with the Pop art movement. She is perhaps best known for her series of Hangings: life-size tracings, cut-outs and paintings of human figures. But from 1974 ceramics became a key part of her practice. This is the first UK exhibition to focus on her work in this medium, by turns fantastical and darkly comic.
Widewalls: Riot of Objects – Kiki Kogelnik’s Ceramics On Show at MOSTYN, 17 August 2020, by Elena Martinique
Online – available at https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/kiki-kogelnik-ceramics-exhibition-mostyn

BBC Radio Wales Art Show, Friday 14 August 2020, interview with Alfredo Cramerotti
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ln31 (from 1:10mins)
The Telegraph newspaper, 21 August 2020, by David Atkinson

Press coverage for MOSTYN June-August 2020 – general interest, MycoTV and Montez Press Radio digital programmes
Listing of Montez Press Radio on Art Monthly, published 1 June 2020:
https://www.artmonthly.co.uk/magazine/site/calendar/
Listing of MycoTV on Artforum.com, published 15 June 2020:
https://www.artforum.com/artguide/mostyn-13492/mycotv-185691
and Artrabbit.com, published 15 June 2020:
A series of online talks, workshops, readings and film, using the concept of ‘SlowTV’ as a starting point and featuring critical reflections on the current socio-political climate:
https://www.artrabbit.com/events/mycological-twist-mycotv
Feature on The Guardian, published 8 July 2020:
(passage of interview with Alfredo Cramerotti here below:)
Feature in the North Wales Pioneer on MOSTYN re-opening after lockdown, published 27 July 2020:
Feature on The Art Fund Newsletter, published 5 August 2020.
Your guide to museums and galleries by the sea:
https://www.artfund.org/whats-on/museums-and-galleries/mostyn-gallery
Short interview with Alfredo Cramerotti on BBC Radio Wales Art Show, that aired Friday 15 August 2020.
Available at: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ln31 (from 1:10mins)
Feature on The Telegraph, with quote from an interview with Alfredo Cramerotti, published 21 August 2020:






Derek Boshier & S Mark Gubb | Recent Press for MOSTYN Exhibitions
Derek Boshier: It’s Only When the Tide Goes Out…
Selected works and ephemera 1976-2018
S Mark Gubb: The Last Judgement
March 16–June 30, 2019





Press Coverage for Shezad Dawood’s Leviathan
Shezad Dawood – Leviathan – Fabbrica Fortuny
Link: http://www.rivistasegno.eu/events/shezad-dawood/
Un’ antiguida tra illusioni e leviatani
Il trailer di Leviathan, il nuovo film d’artista di Shezad Dawood
Link: http://www.artribune.com/television/2017/05/video-leviathan-nuovo-film-shezad-dawood/#
“Leviathan”, e resilienza. Ecco il progetto di Shezad Dawood, a cura di Alfredo Cramerotti, al Villino Canonica
di Irene Guida
Link: http://www.exibart.com/notizia.aspIDNotizia=53708&IDCategoria=59
Little Atoms (UK)
Passing but very positive mention, describing the show as “not to be missed”!
Link: http://littleatoms.com/art-design/private-politics-2017-venice-biennale
Un Ospite di Venezia (IT)
Nice local coverage of the film programme in collaboration with MUBI
Link: https://www.a-n.co.uk/news/venice-2017-26-recommended-pavilions-shows-individual-works
Agenda Venezia (IT)
Leviathan featured in their agenda
Link: http://www.agendavenezia.org/it/evento-38029.htm
Exibart (IT), Matteo Bergamini, 11.12.2016
IL FUTURO DELLA VIDEOARTE? TRA HBO E NETFLIX. E INTANTO L’ARTISTA INGLESE SHEZAD DAWOOD ANNUNCIA IL SUO FILM IN DIECI PARTI, APPUNTO
Link: http://www.exibart.com/notizia.asp?IDNotizia=51713&IDCategoria=204
ARTINFO (US), Nicholas Forrest, 12.12.2016
Shezad Dawood to Launch ‘Leviathan’ Film Cycle in Venice
ArtTribune (IT), Santa Nastro, 24.01.2017
Leviathan, parte da Venezia con una serie tv il progetto dell’artista Shezad Dawood
Aesthetica (UK), no byline/15.02.2017
Dystopian Communities
Link: http://www.asff.co.uk/dystopian-communities/
Flash Art (IT), Sara De Chiara, 25.04.2017
Flash Art 50
Link: http://www.flashartonline.it/2017/04/gli-eventi-collaterali/
The Guardian (UK), Hettie Judah, 7 May 2017.
I’ve created a monster! Shezad Dawood on his oceanic epic Leviathan
Il Manifesto (IT), Arianna di Genova, 9.05.2017.
Leviathan featured amongst top picks of the “alternative” guide to the Biennale. Includes Leviathan film still as central image.
Mr Porter/The Knowledge, Hettie Judah, 11.05.2017.
Shezad Dawood featured amongst Mr. Porter’s selection of industry heavyweights to look out for at the Venice Biennale
WHO TO SPOT AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Link: https://www.mrporter.com/journal/the-knowledge/who-to-spot-at-the-venice-biennale/2132
ATP Diary (IT), Marco Arrigoni, 13.05.2017:
In-depth interview with Shezad and Alfredo on the origins of Leviathan and the issues it tackles.
Shezad Dawood | Palazzina Canonica e Fabbrica Fortuny, Venezia
Link: http://atpdiary.com/shezad-dawood-venice/
Artribune (IT), Ludovico Pratesi, 14.05.2017:
Biennale di Venezia. L’editoriale di Ludovico Pratesi
Al Jazeera (ME), Charlie Angela, 15.05.2017:
Interview with Shezad and filming in the library of the Canonica as part of broadcast feature on the Venice Biennale.
Venice Biennale: Refugee crisis takes centre stage
ArtAsiaPacific (MENASA), HG Masters, 15.05.2017
57TH VENICE BIENNALE, PART 4: COLLATERAL EXHIBITIONS
Link: http://artasiapacific.com/Blog/57thVeniceBiennaleDay4
South China Morning Post (CN), Enid Tsui, 15.05.2017
Venice Biennale 2017 round-up: political undertones everywhere, but it’s not all despair and anger
artnet news, Hettie Judah (US), 14.05.2017
The Turned-On Biennale: An Orgy of Liberal Sex and Liberal Guilt Greets Visitors in Venice
Link: https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/the-x-rated-biennale-venice-2017-960158
L’Uomo Vogue (IT), Elena Bordignon, May Issue.
DOMUS (IT), no byline, 16.05.2017
Shezad Dawood’s exhibition in Venice is a reflection on where we could be if a deeper understanding of trauma and climate erosion is not found. #BiennaleArte2017
Link: http://www.domusweb.it/content/domusweb/en/news/2017/05/16/leviathan_shezad_dawood.html
BBC Wales (UK), Evening News, 16.05.2017
Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08ql51q
Sky Arte (IT), Giovanni Zaninotto, 22.05.2017
Vogue India (IN), Shahnaz Siganporia
Socialter (FR), Manon Grad Manoukianand
Crash (FR), Annabelle Leturq
DAWN (PK), Virginia Whiles
Mutual Art: APT Collection
Shezad Dawood | Leviathan, 7 May-24 September 2017 Palazzina Canonica, Venice, Italy
The Artnewspaper
Collaterals and extras: the Biennale’s other shows
Downloadable PDF: TANMay2017
Shezad Dawood: Leviathan; 2017, courtesy of the artist and UBIK Productions
ATP diary – Interview
【娱乐】LEAP Forum Venice
Link: http://www.iqiyi.com/w_19ru524kct.html
Elephant Issue 33 |Shezad Dawood: Leviathan
The Absence of Path
Leviathan Episode 2 – Yasmine
Link: http://www.theabsenceofpaths.com/commission/leviathan-episode-2-yasmine
Socialter
Plongée dans le Monde Catacysmique de Shezad Dawood
Face à la mer
Read full article here
Vogue India | July 2017 Issue
Great lengths
Read full article here
Art Radar | June 2017
Shezad Dawood launches his ten-part film cycle during the 57th Venice Biennale
La Stampa | Venezia l’arte sull’ambiente invade Campi e Calli
Artarius Media | My Art Guide
Shezad Dawood — Venice
Alfredo Cramerotti: Alternative Mapping @ CRITICAL WAYS OF SEEING 2014, Goldsmiths College, University of London
CRITICAL WAYS OF SEEING 2014
Visualizing Knowledge and the Digital: Tool, Politics, or Art?
21-22 May 2014
Goldsmiths (University of London)
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Hosted by the Global Media & Transnational Communications Program and Radical Media Forum, Department of Media & Communications
Hashtag: #criticaleyes
With Philippe Rekacewicz (Le Monde diplomatique/Visions cartographiques), Giulio Frigieri (The Guardian), Alfredo Cramerotti (MOSTYN, Wales’ Contemporary Art Centre), Mushon Zer-Aviv and Galia Offri (Media Activists, Tel Aviv/New York), Stefano Cagol (Contemporary Artist, Italy), Davina Jackson (D-City Network, Australia), Sean Cubitt, Lorenzo Pizzani (Goldsmiths, UK), and Alex Gekker (Utrecht University, NL)
Organizers: Marianne Franklin, Elinor Carmi, and Paola Crespi
Venue: Richard Hoggart Building (RHB) and the New Academic Building (NAB), Goldsmiths
Thursday, 22 May
2-3.15pm: Alfredo Cramerotti
Alternative Mapping (RHB 137)
The session will explore our drive to ‘make sense’ of things we know and those we don’t. Starting from the very notion of curating as: organising / scouting / selecting / taking care of / making space for / creating links between, I have developed over the last couple of years a pinterest stream that attempts to ‘map the mapping’: http://www.pinterest.com/alcramer/alternative-mapping/. There are about 330 ‘alternative maps’ on this stream – from the downright bizarre obsession to the most thorough and scientific charting approach one can think of; from kitchen utensils to animal tracks. The session will open up a discussion about our drive to map, need to map, desire to map and, ultimately, what is mapping all about: has the map exceed (finally!) the territory? Has the mapping outgrown the mappable?
Dear Portrait exhibition reviews on The Guardian & We Heart
The Guardian’s Adrian Searle gives his verdict on the best of the Venice Biennale
The Guardian
3 June 2013
by Adrian Searle
-3.826510
leave a comment