Selected Works and Projects
Same day, same time, different moon
Diary / Wall calendar 2010
A limited edition diary and wall calendar, recycled from a fine pocket diary of 1954. It follows the same information, same dates, but different moon phases. Each page on the diary contains the corresponding one of the old diary. At the end, there is a special catalogue of International Days. The diary has a hard cover and a bookmark ribbon.
The wall callendar follows the same concept and it consists of four, 66 x 94 cm, quarterly, sheets of blotting-paper, inside a tube.
Published by Cube Art Editions in an edition of 350 and 60 copies respectively.
Design and editing by Christos Lialios and Eleni Saroglou
ISBN: 978-960-98318-8-8.
Available via elsar@otenet.gr or email@christoslialios.nl
Prized as a best calendar design. Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards 2010.
Maria Konti
Ennea
This book is the body of an eye witness: a vertical female body with clean lines running across it and a black cover. Her testimony comprises the following three elements: the title, “nine”, which corresponds to the number of artworks created between 2005 and 2008; a selection of images from the visual archive compiled as a result of the research that accompanies each of the artworks, and, finally, the essays, arranged in chronological order. The source of this testimony is ambivalent, and perhaps so are its intentions. For it lies somewhere between literary experimentation, art theory and autobiographical narrative. As all forms of narrative testimony, it is unable to describe the experience of the “real” event, while vehemently aspiring to compel a reading; that is, a re-interpretation.
Published by Cube Art Editions.
Prized as a best book design. Greek Graphic Design and Illustration Awards 2010.
I choose to grant a prize for the book Ennea-Maria Konti, because of the very special interaction I had with it when i was participating in the jury's work. I can't speak Greek, I can only read the words, but I still felt a lot of strength in this proposition. It serves the author and reader in a powerful, warm and humble way. Everything speaks. I perceived a sense of intimacy, and was suprised how much impact you can have with such simplicity. The execution is excellent, very inspiring, and I was pleased with the subtle use of typography and colours.I hope the book will be translated in French or English, and that the publisher will respect this design work as much as the designer respected the content. Grégoire Serikoff
Leda Papaconstantinou
Forever
A bilingual edition, published on the occasion of the exhibition of Leda Papaconstantinou "Forever", which was held in September 2009 within the framework of Aischyleia in the Municipality of Elefsina.
The book develops in three parts within a case, which follow the process in which the project was formed.
The first part is a 'staged' book, containing large black-and-white photos of the sites, smaller colour photos with the materials that the artist would use in the installation and short descriptions of the works. It is a book that illustrates, on the one hand, the artist's proposition, and, on the other hand, the process in which the work was formed.
The second part contains texts which were written for this particular project by art theorists and art historians.
The third part contains large colour photos documenting the final installation in the factory; this part does not contain any texts.
A Bit Map Or A Pix Map?
Bitmap font
© Christos Lialios, 2009.
Upside Down
AFI at the Benaki Museum
Maria Grigoriou, Judith-Allen Efstathiou, Inger Karlsson, Korina Koutouzi, Despina Pantazopoulou, Yiannis Papadopoulos, Eva Heiladaki and Theodora Horafa.
Upside Down by the group AFI at the Benaki Museum will present integrated proposals / creations, inspired by the objects of the Museum's permanent collections. Their works can stand on their own as exemplary artistic entities, and project publicly and provocatively their aesthetic integrity. It will be carried out both at the Piraios Street Annexe and the main Museum Building, in the form of interventions taking place in the exhibition spaces of the permanent collection.
A catalogue designed by Christos Lialios is available Benaki Museum.
Kostas Bassanos
19:44
This book of Kostas Bassanos titled 19:44 contains 30 photographic reproductions from drawings
of artist equal in number from the titled work, that was presented in his exhibition Nowhere. The subject of the drawings is the sunset. The appointment of sunset through a process of imprinting
of moment (extract) as duration (monument) reveals also the utopian character of work, same process, effort of that is to say planning from memory one and only sunset, after the drawing seated impossible the registration of snapshot of sunset.
The book resulted from the idea to reproduce the drawings in a limited publication of 300 copies. Numbered copies from 1-20 include also an authentic lithogrape signed from the artist.
Published by Cube Art Editions.
ISBN: 978-960-98318-4-0.
Vangelis Vlahos
Between Facts and Politics
Book-catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Betwwen Facts and Politics by Vangelis Vlahos held at the prometeogallery di Ida Pisani, Milan. With essays by Marco Scotini and Aristide Antonas.
Published by prometeogallery di Ida Pisani.
December 2008.
Ioanna Ralli
Archetypes of the Feminine
A catalogue with the new photographic work of the artist Ioanna Ralli. Published on the occasion of her exhibition held at the Nees Morfes gallery, Athens, in the frame of Athens Photo Festival 2008. Bilingual edition with text-introduction from the artist about her new work.
Published by Cube Art Editions.
ISBN: 978-960-98318-2-6.
November 2008.
Lizzie Calligas
Sea Pastels
Book-catalogue of seventeen images consist the corpus of Lizzie Calligas' new work which is being presented at the Hydra Museum of History and Archives from June 7 to July 12, 2008.
Published by Cube Art Editions.
ISBN: 978-960-98318-0-2.
ITYS, Institute for Contemporary Art and Thought
Selective Knowledge
Billboard, poster and book-catalogue desing on the occasion of the exhibition Selective Knowledge held at the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation from 2 April to 20 July 2008. Curated by Els Hanappe. Organized by ITYS.
When faced with a library, an archive or simply any large databank, the artist must be clear about his/her purpose before starting the quest for the ultimate documentation or representation. Any enquiry into the nature, focus, and inspiration of research results in as many individual responses as there are respondents. Some artists follow self-imposed methods, others lean on far more emotional and intuitive processes. Artists sift through historical information with a social, economic, or political content to construct identities and gain understanding while relying on a subjective approach which does not necessarily provide answers; it reveals. It is not concerned with the exact nature of reality or truth but rather with our perception of it. Artists constantly challenge received knowledge with alternative histories based on personal memory and experience. Artists make choices not according to a certain methodology or by intuition, but following a path with its own inner logic. The next picture has to add to the context of the whole. It is not a random process, it is a guided one that ultimately tries and creates a level of recognition.
If partial knowledge accepts that we need to solve a problem on the basis of facts that are not entirely complete, then selective knowledge talks about the conscious choice to reject, select, and accept on the basis of need, desire, and expectation, until a story unfolds.
Rather than starting from large systems and accepted truths from which political, economic, and social developments are analyzed, the artists in the exhibition adapt the synthesizing character of the curiosity cabinet. Many bits and pieces allow for associations and interpretations.
The extent to which the academic world, more and more intent on drawing in the arts institutions, can respond to this changing and often conflicting approach to knowledge is part of the broader debate around the present state of education.
Participating Artists:
Mark Dion / Apostolos Karastergiou / George Hadjimichalis / Mark O’Kelly / Christian Boltanski / Pietro Roccasalva / Albert Oehlen / Candida Höfer / Nina Fischer & Maroan El Sani / Armin Linke
& Peter Hanappe / Henrik Olesen / Allen Ruppersberg / Eirene Efstathiou / Ivan Grubanov / Sam Durant / Vangelis Vlahos.
Published by MIET.
ISBN: 978-960-250-394-2.
Korina Vougiouka
Laceworks
Vocal music by Schubert, Bellini and Rossini on guitar
64 millimetres present guitarist Korina Vougiouka in Laceworks. Vocal music by Schubert, Rossini and Bellini is re-shaped for solo guitar and interpreted by Korina Vougiouka in versions which provide the originals with a new dimension.
The lieder and opera excerpts contained herein, stripped of lyrics, elements of dramaturgy and scoring techniques particular to their period, are not simple transcriptions by any means. They are, rather, transmutations which, taking advantage of the inherent nature of the guitar, illuminate harmonic, melodic and stylistic details of the original, weaving a delicate, aery composition — a “lacework”.
The CD was mastered by Christos Hadzistamou and is accompanied by texts by Kyriakos Loukakos, rendered in English by Nico Graptós.
Design and photography by Christos Lialios.
Published by www.64millimetres.com.
Sharon Kivland
A Disturbance of Memory
Volume II from the series Freud on Holiday
Sharon Kivland is an artist and writer. For several years she followed “Dora”, Freud’s young hysteric, also passsing through the arcades and department stores of Paris (where she encountered Marx, Lacan, and Benjamin, while pursuit of a certain look, a certain object). She continues to return to the sites of her former encounters, while adding new haunts to her repertoire. Her work has mutable forms, and has been exhibited and published widely.
Like Sigmund Freud and his brother, Sharon Kivland and her sister go on holiday together each year. In Trieste in 1904 SF and his brother determine to go to Corfu but are told by their host it will be too hot and they should go to Athens instead. Any change of plan seems impractical, but they succeed in booking tickets for Athens. When Freud arrives in Athens and stands on the Acropolis he is surprised to find himself thinking: ‘So all this really does exist, just as we learnt at school!’ His surprise is twofold; first, that something unbelievable exists, and secondly, that its existence should have been in doubt. In A Disturbance of Memory, Sharon Kivland and her sister, accompanied also by Kivland’s son, follow the Freud brothers to Trieste and Athens, but are frequently diverted by other traces, including those of James Joyce, Jacques Derrida, Italo Svevo, and Ulysses.
There are photographs and drawings of uncertain origin, and descriptions of food, trains, and family romances. The English text is followed by a Greek translation.
ISBNs: 978-960-87354-9-1 (Greece) / 978-0-9553092-3-6 (UK)
186 pages, softback, sewn, with screen printed dust jacket
Published by Cube Art Editions.
Makis Theofylaktopoulos
Paintings 2005-2007
Exhibition catalogue published on the occasion of Makis Theofylaktopoulos exhibition at Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center in November 2007. It includes photographs of artist's paintings and an introduction text by Julia Tsiakiris.
Design by Christos Lialios and Eleni Saroglou in an edition of 600 copies.
This billingual edition (english/greek) can be ordered via Cube Art Editions.
Hedah Maastricht, Centre of Contemporary Art
Art direction and design for the Hedah Maastricht, Centre of Contemporary Art in colaboration with Boy Bastiaens, Linda Maissan, Norbert Grunsch, Ben Leenen, Vladimir Pihler, Paul Drissen, Eunice Pekelharing.
The idea of the invitation cards is based on the location of Hedah, Brusselsestraat. I asked from several local artists and designers to take a picture of this road, in order to communicate the place and the time.
Hedah Maastricht, Centre of Contemporary Art started in Octobre 1995. It's been a platform for contemporary, international developments in the fields of visual and related arts ever since in Maastricht. It offers recent devolopments in art to the public, but also creates opportunities in Maastricht by ways of providing inspiring work- and exhibitionspaces to artists.
For the current program please, visit their website www.hedah.nl.
Spot #2
Local Identities
A magazine based on the idea of binding together contemporary art projects coming from around Europe and the South Eastern Mediterranean in the format of a periodical publication. For each issue, the publication invites a range of cultural producers and art professionals from these areas to write about their projects and activities as well as about their visions, their source of inspirations, models, successes and difficulties. Through the choice of this specific lens, Spot wants to understand what is produced, thought, and done in contemporary art and cultural production in different areas of Europe, avoiding the conventional writing in terms of centers and peripheries, in and out, global identity and multiculturalism.
This issue includes texts and images from'Istanbul Pedestrian Exhibitions 2: Tünel-Karaköy', 'Momas', 'Lost Highway Expedition', 'Routes... report from the land of dreams' and 'Artschool palestine: As if by magic.'
Edited by Stefanos Tsivopoulos.
Designed by Christos Lialios.
Contributors: Fulya Erdemci and Emre Baykal, Martin Kippenberger, Samar Martha, Maria Papadimitriou and Michel Wurtler, Kyong Park, Sara Rajaei.
Contact: spot_project@yahoo.com
Amsterdam, May 2007.
Made After Story
Project for the exhibition Dialogoi VI-Dokimes IV curated by Ghislaine Dantan held at Amore Theatre from 04.05.2007 - 30.05.2007.
Made after story is a process and a moment, an ensemble and a fragment, a short and endless narrative.
It's a silkscreen poster which becomes an environment through its repetitive use; the ensemble serves as a patterned background for a found photograph of a disguised little girl. With layers
of lines and graphic motifs, Christos Lialios combines an austere approach with handmade details and childlike spontaneity; the reduced range of colors echoes the poetic quality of the print.
It is on display as a take-away stack, at the disposal of the audience. Ephemeral, it still exists beyond the exhibition context and each visitor can then activate his own transitory space,
his on- going narrative. While the reduced range of colors echoes its dream-like character.
Ghislaine Dantan
DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art
Anathena
Book-catalogue design by Christos Lialios and edited by Marina Fokidis and Christos Lialios for the group exhibition 'Anathena' curated by Marina Fokidis and Marina Gioti, held at the Deste Foundation, Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece from 20.10.2006 - 20.01.2007.
Anathena is a group exhibition presenting works by artists based in Athens, largely unknown to the city’s ‘mainstream’ art world as - for years now - they use their self-devised production and distribution mechanisms. This parallel creative universe does not represent a movement or a self-manifested “scene”, but rather local undercurrents of small groups and individuals, who do not necessarily work together and, in their vast majority, do not insist on calling what they do as “art”.
Although they share an embedded coding in taste and style (for example, the impact music has on most of them, on a very basic level), these artists cannot fit neatly to charts and typologies. Naming or characterizing their activity will make it lose its vital quality. “Cursed” to an eternal adolescence, which allows imperfections, they dare to transform ideas into actions through a rather immediate manner; and what seems to make them special may be the understanding of their art practice as a reciprocal maintenance.
The Anathena exhibition is an incomplete collection of works of such artists and artist groups. It has the character of a snapshot, documenting the work in progress of a diverse local “scene”, which bears no predetermined aesthetic and philosophical affinities and which has existed for a long time before this exhibition and will continue to exist outside its limited time and space trajectory.
Participated artists: b., Black & Decker, Vasilis Botoulas, Alexandros Dimitriadis, Dimitris Emmanouil, Erasers, Stelios Faitakis, Stylianos Georgiou, Marina Gioti, Andreas Kasapis, Filippos Kavakas, Panos Koutrouboussis, Fotis Kouzinos, Christos Lialios, Lo-Fi, Dimitris Merantzas, Andreas Mouzakitis, Stavroula Papadaki, Dimitris Papadatos, Fivos Papadopoulos, Pantelis Pantelopoulos, Marios Perrakis, Angelo Plessas, Natasha Poulantza, Dimitris Protopapas, Hercules Renieris, Ioakim Sidiropoulos, Giorgos Tourlas, Andreas Vais, VM Radio, Lefteris Yakoumakis.
May 2007, Athens.
My Notebook
A soft bound notebook made by scanning different formats of other selected notebooks.
Size 11x16,2 cm, (pocket-size) 100 pages with silk screened cover.
Published by Hartovasilion in an edition of 600 copies.
Available via info@hartovasilion.gr or email@christoslialios.nl
April 2007
I Love Noodles
T-shirt design. 100% semi-combed cotton jersey. Edition of 30. Available sizes: S-M-L.
Also a lady's t-shirt, strictly limited edition. Available sizes S-M.
Order via email@christoslialios.nl (sorry out of order).
Flim
Ohne Titel 1916
A new release from Flim aka Enrico Wuttke! The title of the album, ‘Ohne Titel 1916’, has been borrowed from a work by Paul Klee, from a series of about 50 hand puppets the artist created for his little son Felix between 1916 and 1925. Only one puppet was made during 1916, the one representing ‘Mr. Death’ to which the title refers. The design on the cover of the album shows the hand inside the puppet.
The project was produced by Plinkity Plonk, September 2006.
Visit Flim at www.flimmusic.com or order a copy via flim@flimmusic.com or info@kormplastics.nl 'Ohne Titel, 1916' is a emotional collection of fragile melodic patterns, played out on basic piano and keyboard with some very slight electronic treatment, there’s a real feeling of honest depth and great sorrow. Written after the death of his day old daughter Fanny, it puts across the feeling of emotional numbness and learning to coping with the passing of a loved one. It’s certainly not all morbid or sorrowful, the tracks often capture fondness and wonder of life it’s self and of the need and effort to move on. I can’t quite put my finger on how he’s done it, but flim really seems to have weaved so much depth and power of emotion into each of these delicate sounds works. Leaving the listener captured like a rabbit in headlights, for most of the albums running time. It also feels like if you listen to hard, the tracks may full apart and turn to dust, or loose all it’s petals like a once achingly beautiful flower. I guess you’d call it ambient/ modern classical, But genre labelling seems simply pointless and Irrelevant here.Don’t think too much or analyse, what’s going on here -just let it drift into you. A Truly impressive and captivating album, which I find myself wanting to return to again and again. It both seems to take you out of your self, but often looks deep inside ones soul as well. Sadly this is only ltd to 500 copies, which seems a crime for such a work, that should be heard by as many people as possible.
Roger Batty from Musique Machine.
Vangelis Vlahos
Buildings Like Politics
Catalogue-book design for the artist Vangelis Vlahos, on the occasion of the 27th Biennial of Sao Paulo in Brazil.
Published by The Hellenic Ministry of Culture. English/Greek.
In Vlahos' work, all those layers of meaning are evoked, but not successively as in a text, but simultaneously, in paralysed anticipation of the flash of the blast. It is a sudden shock, which freezes time, and thus also elucidates the other materials compiled within the work, such as archival materials and pictures. The work expresses this unique historical moment in a peculiar way not, as Walter Benjamin once wrote – focussed on the way things really were, but presented through the lens of a specific moment of danger. For Benjamin, grasping a memory which flashes up in a moment of danger means to actualise this memory in the present instead of using the usual taxidermic and historicist approach towards things past. It means to expose its contemporary importance instead of the dead weight of a hegemonic construction of history.
The publication contains photographs of instalations and essays about the work by Magali Arriola, Hito Steyerl and Despina Zefkili.
Font: bau-kreis.
ISBN: 960-214-568-4.
Athens, September 2006.
Konstantis Frangopoulos
Merging Lanes
Poster for a short film directed by konstantis Frangopoulos.
The poster presents the senario of the film.
They couldn't be more different. The bus driver is an extrovert who loves food, dance, friends.
The school teacher is an introvert who has trouble expressing an opinion on any subject.
Yet somehow the spirit of Christmas works its gentle magic.
Fiction, 35mm, colour, 12'
Athens, July 2006.
Mary Bremer
Aristophanes' Frogs
Poster about the play of the Frogs by Aristophanes, a comedy, produced 405 BC, following directly the deaths of Euripides and Sophocles in 406 BC.
The play of "The Frogs" turns upon the decline of tragic art. Euripides was dead; so were Sophocles and Agathon; there remained none but second-rate tragedians. Dionysus misses Euripides, and wishes to bring him back from Hades, the infernal world. In this he imitates Hercules, but though equipped with the lion-hide and club of the hero, he is very unlike him in character, and as a dastardly voluptuary, gives rise to much laughter. Here we may see the boldness of the comedian in the right point of view; he does not scruple to attack the guardian god of his own art, in honor of whom the play was exhibited, for it was the common belief that the gods understood fun as well, if not better, than men. Dionysus rows himself over the Acherusian lake, where the frogs pleasantly greet him with their croaking. The proper chorus, however, consists of the shades of the initiated in the Eleusinian mysteries, and odes of wonderful beauty are assigned to them. Aeschylus had at first assumed the tragic throne in the lower world, but now Euripides is for thrusting him off.
Pluto proposes that Dionysus should decide this great contest; the two poets, the sublimely wrathful Aeschylus, the subtle, vain Euripides stand opposite each other and submit specimens of their art; they sing, they declaim against each other, and all their failings are characterized in masterly style.
At last a balance is brought, on which each lays a verse; but let Euripides take what pains he will to produce his most ponderous lines, a verse of Aeschylus instantly jerks up the scale of his antagonist. Finally he grows weary of the contest, and tells Euripides he may mount into the balance himself with all his works, his wife, children and servant, Cephisophon, and he will lay against them only two verses. Dionysus, in the meantime, has come over to the cause of Aeschylus, and though he had sworn to Euripides that he would take him back with him from the lower world, he dispatches him with an allusion to his own verse from the Hippolytus. Aeschylus, therefore, returns to the living world and resigns the tragic throne to Sophocles during his absence.
This is a very limited edition poster.
Directed by Mary Bremer in collaboration with the Classic Theatre Company of the University of Detroit Mery.
Athens, May 2006.
Spot #1
Local Identities
Spot is based on the concept of binding together art projects coming from around Europe and the South Eastern Mediterranean. The aim is to provide a platform for cultural dialogue, expression of visions, and research concerned with issues around the folklore and the multicultural, the central and the peripheral, the political and the poetical. It's a non-commercial publication distributed in Museums, Art Centres and Cultural Organisations around Europe.
Edit by Stefanos Tsivopoulos. Design by Christos Lialios.
The publication includes four projects based in the concept of local identities. These are 'MUMOK House', 'Downtown Gallery', 'Going Public' and 'Leaps of Faith'. Each project comes as an individual book of 16 pages.
Contributors: Clare Davies, Plamen Dejanof, Antonia Majaca, Roula Palanta, William Wells and Rana Zincir.
Amsterdam, January 2006.
One More Bloom
Bloom series of t-shirt
Edition of 30.
Make an order via email@christoslialios.nl Available sizes are S-M-L (out of order).
Athens, January 2006.
Flim
Pola Music
"Pola Music" is a beautiful work produced by the artist and composer Enrico Wuttke aka Flim. It is made up of field recordings, improvisations, and short musical pieces that the artist collected around Germany. The project has been printed out, using one color for two folded sheets that are constructed as an envelop, implying a variety of techniques including rough printing, test printing, and wrong-bad printing. As a result, each portfolio shows a different back side.
Design by Christos Lialios. Produced by 'Two Sheets'.
Take notice of the "flim font" that has been designed especially for the 'Pola Music' project.
Visit the site of Flim at http://www.flimmusic.com or order a copy via flim@flimmusic.com or email@christoslialios.nl, a very limited edition!
Athens/Dresden, November 2005.
Bloom series of t-shirt
Four t-shirts, four colors, four drawings. Short sleeves, round neck. S-M-L in an edition of 30 printed at the studio of the artist Pantelis Pantelopoulos.
Make an order for 15,00 euros plus postage (5,00 euros for Europe and 10,00 euros for the rest of the world) via email@christoslialios.nl
Out of order!
Athens, summer 2005.
Artime #02
Magazine about art. Contributors for this second issue are: Denis Zacharopoulos, Alexandra Moschovi, Yorgos Armaos, Thanassis Moutsopoulos, Daphne Vitali, Barbara Papadopoulou, Nanoas Valaoritis, Ido Harari and many others.
Graphic design and concept by Christos Lialios.
ISSN 1790-1847.
Artime #01
An art magazine and guide to the arts which provides information and an appraisal of artistic events in Greece and abroad, particularly in the region of the eastern Mediterranean. It is published four times a year.
Contributors: Denis Zacharopoulos, Thanassis Moutsopoulos, Theophilos Tramboulis, Platon Rivellis, Daphne Vitali, Dawn Stevens, Manos Stefanidis.
Here's the poster designed for the launch issue of the magazine.
Graphic design and concept by Christos Lialios.
ISSN 1790-1847.
Who the Fuck Is Nuno Canavarro?
Story with no sound about the composer Nuno Canavarro.
May 2004.
Splendid Sound Recordings for Rainy Evenings Next to the River
Humanitarian Help by Drog A Tek
Did 04
Sound project which started with the support of the Jan Van Eyck Academie (post academic institute for fine art, design and theory). It has now becomes an independent self-sustained project which is comprised of sound and graphic art that seeks to address the significance of innovation in something modern while maintaining explicit roots in diachronic pop culture. It is one of those moments of aesthetic expression not frequently encountered that emerges from the collaboration of artists from a variety of backgrounds, ethnic origins and personal approaches and styles.
Drog A Tek is a music collectiva communicating through live performance, improvisation using analogue and digital instruments, field recordings, and experimental recordings in real time.
This piece of work has been made possible by Drog A Tek and Christos Lialios.
Track list: Unfinito / Flesh Eaters / Normalerelaxing / No More Desert
Video: No More Desert
Seven inch vinyl phonograph 33 rpm record, housed in a printed jacket that's been inserted into a poster print, folded to 7" size. Edition of 330. Athens, February 2004.
Out of print!
No Bold, No Roman, No Italic
Letterform.
© Christos Lialios, 2003.
Museum het Domein
De Verzameling 3.0
A digital publication on the contemporary art collection of the Museum het Domein Sittard. The profile of the collection is shaped by the critical and poetic engagement in the work of the youngest generation of artists from the Netherlands and abroad, with an emphasis on photography and video.
Text by Stijn Huijts director of Museum het Domein, editing by Els Kuijpers, design by Christos Lialios.
ISBN: 90-75883-25-0.
Sittard 2003.
Splendid Sound Recordings for Rainy Evenings Next to the River
Following the Path by Vasilis Tsonoglou
Did 03
Sound project which started with the support of the Jan Van Eyck Academie (post academic institute for fine art, design and theory). It has now becomes an independent self-sustained project which is comprised of sound and graphic art that seeks to address the significance of innovation in something modern while maintaining explicit roots in diachronic pop culture. It is one of those moments of aesthetic expression not frequently encountered that emerges from the collaboration of artists from a variety of backgrounds, ethnic origins and personal approaches and styles.
Vasilis Tsonoglou is a composer who writes music for theatrical performances as well working as a sound producer. ‘Following the Path’ was recorded in 2002 at his small studio apartment in Athens, during cold and raining winter nights.
Track list: Childhood: early mystery copy-loop / Family affairs / Childhood: instincts
Seven inches single. Printed inner sleeve inserted into a folded poster. Edition of 314. December 2002. The single can be ordered via wedidit@christoslialios.nl
Out of print!
Jan van Eyck Academie
Something left to print
Project made for an exhibition during the two years of studies and research at the Jan Van Eyck Academie.
Poster and an animated video to express the coming years after the two years of work in the academy.
December 2002.
Splendid Sound Recordings for Rainy Evenings Next to the River
Splendid did d
Did 02
Sound project which started with the support of the Jan Van Eyck Academie (post academic institute for fine art, design and theory). It has now becomes an independent self-sustained project which is comprised of sound and graphic art that seeks to address the significance of innovation in something modern while maintaining explicit roots in diachronic pop culture. It is one of those moments of aesthetic expression not frequently encountered that emerges from the collaboration of artists from a variety of backgrounds, ethnic origins and personal approaches and styles.
Red t-shirt. S, M, L, XL in an edition of 60.
Out of print!
Jan van Eyck Academie
Charles Nypels Lectures
Poster and flyer inspired by the new policy of the Charles Nypels foundation. The idea is based on the process of rewriting the name by tracing magnetic letters.
Lectures on the topic of contemporary research challenges into the expanded field of design by Gillian Crampton Smith, Paul Elliman, Jouke Kleerebezem, Filiep Tacq, Wouter Vanstiphout and Annelys de Vet.
Edition of 250 folded copies. Photo by Florencia Reina.
December 2002, Maastricht.
Splendid Sound Recordings for Rainy Evenings Next to the River
The Sound of Young Helmshore (Parts 1-3) by Septemberist
Did 01
Sound project which started with the support of the Jan Van Eyck Academie (post academic institute for fine art, design and theory). It has now becomes an independent self-sustained project which is comprised of sound and graphic art that seeks to address the significance of innovation in something modern while maintaining explicit roots in diachronic pop culture. It is one of those moments of aesthetic expression not frequently encountered that emerges from the collaboration of artists from a variety of backgrounds, ethnic origins and personal approaches and styles.
Septemberist is Andrew Johnson from The Remote Viewer and Hood. This is his own sound performance in a very melancholic electronic mood.
Track list: Part 1 / Part 2 / Part 3
The vinyl is housed in a printed jacket that's been inserted into a poster folded to 7" size. Edition of 323. Manchester/Maastricht, November 2002. A copy can be ordered via wedidit@christoslialios.nl
Out of print!
Jan van Eyck Academie
An Open Book
A selection of Dieter Roth's publications at the library of the Jan Van Eyck Academie. An open event
to the public with discussions about the work of the artist and the relationship to graphic art.
Introduced by Karel Martens. Organized by Christos Lialios.
Invitation by a poster in an edition of 50.
November 2002, Maastricht.
One More T-shirt
Bloom series of t-shirt
Printed with the support of the Traders pop gallery, in an edition of 10.
The t-shirt (L, XL) can be ordered via email@christoslialios.nl (sorry out of order).
October 2002, Maastricht.
Lettres
Typographic exercise on a poster. Series of two posters.
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The first one was printed first on silkscreen, and then a photo was taken of the printing process, which then becomes the poster.
Edition of 30.
Hey Mr. Postman Are There Any Letters For Me Today?
The second one came after I got some kind of typographic sickness that resulted in a brief non-productive period. Thinking and playing towards the next project.
Edition of 30.
Maastricht, 2002.
It Should Be a Nice Room
Wallpaper made for children rooms.
Maastricht, 2002.
This Afternoon, Life Drawing Classes
Nick Bell's Lecture
Poster designed for Nick Bell's lecture given at the Jan Van Eyck Academie.
Printed by Frans Vos. Edition of 20 copies (out of order).
This lecture was a part of a series lecture entitled 'This Afternoon, Life Drawing Classes", project that took place at the Jan van Eyck Academie in collaboration with Manuel Raeder.
The lecture was cancelled.
Maastricht 2002.
Workshop on Looping. A Book for Children
Montessorischool Binnenstad Maastricht
This workshop on 'Looping. A Book for Children' was held over a ten days period. It took place at the Montessorischool of Maastricht with a class of thirty children of five, six, and seven years old and they spent an hour every day colouring the books. No instructions were given. It has been made possible through the support of Frédérique Bergholtz, curator of Marres Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Mariet Collet, teacher and Christos Lialios. Montessorischool, Binnenstad, Maastricht.
This is the first workshop on this experimental research project about children's books.
The workshop and the book has been presented at Marres Centrum Beeldende Kunst.
Introduction performed by Steven Rushton. Maastricht 2002.
© Christos Lialios.
Looping. A Book for Children
A coloring book for children that looks like a sketch pad, with meaningless drawings based on loops.
It contains 48 pages with all sorts of variants of drawn spirals, circles, and doodles that flow naturally from the movements of the hands.
Printed by Rosbeek bv on Munken Lynx 100g paper and bound by Mathieu Geertsen in an edition of 270 copies.
A copy can be ordered via email@christoslialios.nl
Looping. A Book for Children
A poster designed for 'looping' book. The title on the poster has to be coloured by yourself.
It's the second invisible colour of the poster.
Edition of 300.
All the Way Back
Font based on loops, designed for 'looping' book.
© Christos Lialios
June 2002 Maastricht.
Jan van Eyck Academie
Annual Report 2001
A 'typewritten' annual report based on the old typographic systems of the type-writer machines.
The content is a very typical annual report except the activities section that images presents the unofficial activities like drawings on the wall next to the telephone or scratching a door in the toilet.
Printed in two colours (black for Dutch and purple for English) by Rosbeek bv, on "wit Repro Bank" 60g paper, Buhrmann Ubbens. Binding by Mathieu Geertsen, in an edition of 500.
This annual report has been awarded a prize for Best Designed Annual Reports, organized by the Graphics Culture Foundation, with the Gerrit Jan Thiemefonds and Uitgeverij Compres cooperating and with the support of the Royal KVGO and Océ-Nederland.
Ask for a free copy via info@janvaneyck.nl
Maastricht 2002.
Another Bunch of Flowers
A little paper-bunch contain a badge of nine different drawings of flowers. Sold out!
April 2002, Maastricht.
This Afternoon, Life Drawing Classes
Karel Martens' Lecture
Poster design for the lecture of Karel Martens given at the Jan Van Eyck Academie based on the typeface 'We Could Send Letters To Each Other Everyday'.
This lecture was a part of a series lecture entitled 'This Afternoon, Life Drawing Classes", project
that took place at the Jan van Eyck Academie in collaboration with Manuel Raeder.
Edition of 30 (out of order).
This lecture was given on 14.2.2002 following the work of K. Martens and debates on graphic design.
Maastricht 2002.
We Could Send Letters To Each Other Every Day
Experimental font assembled from different formats of envelopes.
© Christos Lialios, 2001.
Everything Is Fucked Up Habibi
T-shirt inspired by the 12th of September 2001.
October 2001, Maastricht.
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