Andreas Angelidakis
Demos - A Reconstruction
September 22, 2018–November 30, 2019Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
The grand opening of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (MOCA Toronto) took place with a community celebration on September 22nd, 2018.
Andreas Angelidakis’s DEMOS – A Reconstruction on Floor 1 of the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto is an installation of 74 foam modules that visitors of all ages can move and rearrange. While soft and lightweight, the modules explore powerful ideas around both architectural and colonial legacies as well as our relationship with computer coding and future technologies.
Everyone is welcome to respond by creating a seat, a stage or even a monument. Each demo is then demolished to make way for the next DEMOS.
DEMOS – A Reconstruction is MOCA’s first Invitation Project, a series of site-responsive installations that straddle the disciplines of art, architecture and psychology to explore the formation of social space.
Andreas Angelidakis was recently included with major installations at Documenta 14 in Athens and Kassel (2017) curated by Adam Szymczyk. He is shortlisted for the Nam June Paik award that is presented at Westfälischer Kunstverein (fall 2018).
Works by Andreas Angelidakis are included in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, the National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens, the Nouveau Musee National de Monaco, Schloß Freudenberg in Wiesbaden, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, the Zabludowicz Collection in London and the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens.
