Andreas Angelidakis, Andreas Lolis, Socratis Socratous
Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality

June 22, 2019–October 6, 2019
Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

The exhibition “Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality” at Cranbrook Art Museum is curated by Laura Mott, Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Design. Participating gallery artists include Andreas Angelidakis, Andreas Lolis and Socratis Socratous.

Landlord Colors: On Art, Economy, and Materiality reconsiders periods of economic and social collapse through the lens of artistic innovations and material-driven narratives. It examines five art scenes generated during heightened periods of upheaval: America’s Detroit from the 1967 rebellion to the present; the cultural climate of the Italian avant-garde during the 1960s-1980s; authoritarian-ruled South Korea of the 1970s; Cuba since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s to the present; and contemporary Greece since the financial crisis of 2009. Featuring more than sixty artists, Landlord Colors is a landmark exhibition, publication, and public art and performance series. While the project unearths microhistories and vernaculars specific to place, it also examines a powerful global dialogue communicated through materiality. Landlord Colors discovers textured and unexpected relationships between these artists whose investigations share themes of ingenuity, resourcefulness, and resistance.