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DIMITRI XENAKIS: Current projects and exhibitions

Dimitri Xenakis art
 
Gardens in Metamorphosis

"Jardins en métamorphose" (Gardens in Metamorphosis).
Art in landscape in the parks of the city of Thiais (France).
Dimitri Xenakis designs an installation work for a pond.
Curators: Marie Deparis-Yafil and Anne-Laure Meyer.
Thiais, May to July 2012.

Garden Festival GWC

Nagasaki Garden Festival. GWC. Japan 2012.
Secondt edition of this Festival. Kazuyuki Ishihara, landscape artist is the
initiator of the project.
Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis design a luminous garden.
Nagasaki. Japan. Opening on October 9th 2012.
Pictures

International landscape Architecture magazine

Publication: International Landscape magazine "Paisea" n°018.
In this special issue "Landscape and art", five pages dedicated to Dimitri Xenakis's
landscape installations.
Bilingual: English/Spanich. Septembre 2011.
Take a look.

Festival de jardins no Ibirapuera

Publication:Catalog of the Sao Paolo Modern Art Museum garden festival (Brazil).
Invited artists and Landscape designers: Beatriz Milhares, Ernesto Neto et Daisy Cabra
l Nogueira, Pazé, Florence Mercier, Luois Benech, Michel Racine et Béatrice Saurel,
Christine et Michel Péna, Erik Borja, Dimitri Xenakis and Maro Avrabou.

Portuguese/English. January 2011.
Take a look.

Light Totem
 

Public Commission: Light Totem.
Designing of a permanent light totem for « Les Petits Soyeux » kindergarden.
Commissioned by the City of Lyon.
Lyon, France. December 2010.
Pictures


Nagasaki Gardening Festival, Japan
 

Nagasaki Garden Festival. GWC. Japan.
This is the first edition of this Festival. Kazuyuki Ishihara, landscape artist is the
initiator of the project.
Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis are expected to design a garden on the theme of
"Peace in the world".
Nagasaki. Japan. Opening on October 9th 2010.

Pictures

5 Seasons's Festival, Belgium.
 

Five Seasons's Festival. Province of Liege. Belgium.
The main point of this Festival is landscape design combined with ecology.
Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis will design "A recycling Garden": A garden project
using recycled industrial material, depolluting and wild-life attracting plants.
Belgium. October 2010.
Pictures

Chaumont Garden Festival in Sao Paulo. Brazil
 

Modern Art Museum of Sao Paulo Garden Festival in Brazil. Ibirapuera Park.
Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xenakis are invited by the Museum and the festival of Chaumont.
They will design a 100 M2 garden.
The Festival theme is "Food".
Sao Paulo, Brazil. Opening: September 22, 2010.
Pictures

Banks of Art, Dordogne River valley, France
 

"Les Rives de l'Art" ("The banks of Art").
Art and Patrimony in the Dordogne River Valley.
Designing of an outdoors installation in a public garden by Dimitri Xenakis.
Molières village. Dordogne. France.
Opening August 1st 2010.
Pictures

Ship Canal of Midi: Toulouse, France

Canal du Midi (Ship canal of Midi) :Toulouse.
Designing of an art installation on the canal banks by Dimitri Xenakis.

Toulouse. France.
Opening: June 28 th 2010.
Pictures

Ecology: Source of creation

Publication: "Jardins écologiques/ Ecological gardens. Ecology, source of creation ":
By Sophie Barbaux.
319 pages, 24x26 cms. English / Chinese, English / French.
You will find in this book three environmental projects designed by Maro Avrabou and
Dimitri Xenakis. Editor: Ici consultants.
Take a look

Manor's Park of Cugnaux (France)
 

Manor's Park of Cugnaux (Toulouse).
Designing of an outdoors installation by Dimitri Xenakis.
Cugnaux, France.
From October 17th to December 18th 2009.
Pictures

Park of Méréville
 

Vegetable Garden of the Méréville Castle's Park.
Outdoors installation in the vegetable garden of the park of Méréville (18th century).
France. Dimitri Xenakis in collaboration with Maro Avrabou.
From September 19th to October 31st 2009.
Pictures

Svetlobna Gerila
 

Svetlobna Gerila. Light-installations Festival of Ljubjana (Slovenia).
Re-Designing of "Greenhouse effect" installation by Maro Avrabou
and Dimitri Xenakis.
Ljubjana, Slovenia.
From June 15th to July 18th 2009.
Svetlobna Guerila Festival's Web-site

Garden of Arts
 

Jardin des arts. (Garden of Arts).
Designing of an outdoors installation in the Private "AR MILIN" Park
by Dimitri Xenakis.
Chateaubourg, France.
Opening: April 28th 2009.
Pictures

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Chaumont Art and Nature Center
 

Art and Nature Center of Chaumont.
Designing of an outdoors installation in the park By Maro Avrabou and
Dimitri Xenakis.
Castle of Chaumont Sur Loire, France.
From April 2d, 2009 to December 31 2009.
> Pictures               >Press folder

Creative Gardens Publication
 

Publication: "Creative Gardens": Chaumont sur Loire, International
Gardens Festival, 1998-2008.

By Sophie Barbaux. Editor: Ici consultants.
320 pages, 24x26 cms. English / Chinese, English / French.
Front page picture: "The garden of Venus and Chance" by Maro Avrabou and
Dimitri Xenakis.
Take a look at the book                  Purchase the book (Editor's web site)

Chamarande Castle Park
 

Chamarande Castle Park:
Designing of site specific artworks and scenographic units in the park.
Giant photo prints, Play activity and functional spaces, signal units.
In collaboration with Maro Avrabou.
Chamarande, France.
From September 27th to September 28th 2008.

Pictures

Singapore Garden Festival: 2008 edition

Singapore Garden Festival: Designing of a garden,
in collaboration with Maro Avrabou.
Singapore: July 25th - August 01st 2008.
Pictures

 
Land Art sur les Terrils
 

"PICS" Biennale (peaks Bienale ).
Landscape installation on an ancient mine dump.
Charleroi, Belgium.
From May 27th to July 25th 2008.
Pictures                     Video

"Les environnementales" Bienale: 2008 edition

"Les Environnementales" Biennale (The "Environmentals Bienal ").
Art in nature Biennale.
Designing of two site-specific installations.
Opening: April 15th 2008. Jouy en Josas, France.
Pictures

Lumiscent Garden Dijon, France
 

"Gravity #2". Luminescent garden.
Dijon, France.
From March 21st to April 4th 2008.
Pictures                       Video

environmental light-installation in Geneva

 "Trees and Lights " Festival.
Environmental light installation, especially designed for the Rousseau island.
In collaboration with Maro Avrabou.
Opening in December 2007, in Geneva, Switzerland.

Pictures                           Previous catalogs                   

Nuit Blanche 2007, Paris

"Nuit Blanche" Festival: Dimitri Xenakis and Maro Avrabou invited to participate to the 2007
edition.
They will present a light-installation ( "The Greenhouse Effect") in a public space, in
the famous "chinatown" of Paris .  Night of October 06, 2007
 Pictures of Nuit Blanche 2007                    Pictures of the Installation's previous version.

 
Residency in an agricultural school

"Territory and Landscape":
Residency in an agricultural school. Site-specific artwork. France. November / December 2006.
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Public commission
               
Dimitri Xenakis pre-selected for a public commission.
Construction of a School at Vellefaux.
Communauté de communes du Chanois (70).
Design of a shelter for observation of forest and its fauna. France.
Décember 2006.
Public commission
Dimitri Xenakis pre-selected for a public commission.
Construction of the Highschool Sud Toulousain (31).
Conseil Régional Midi Pyrénnées. France.
November 2006.
   
Interview D Xenakis and M. Avrabou
Dimitri Xenakis et Maro Avrabou interviewed on "L'art est public" web site,
November 2006.
Link to French article..
 
"Greenhouse effect": Light Installation
         
Territoires occupés :
Invited by The street-theater company: "Metalovoice" Corbigny, Nièvre. France
Maro Avrabou and Dimitri Xénakis adapt their "Greenhouse effect" installation
to an agricultural environment.
July 29 - September 21, 2006. Pictures
Art in nature: Castel of Jehay, Belgium
       

Castle of Jehay : Exhibition "Espaces poétiques" (Poetic spaces).
Site specific artwork in the Castel's park . Curator: Mr Philippe Hoornaert. Province of
Liège; Belgium.
June 11 - October 01, 2006.    Pictures

             
Street garden

Street gardens Festival of Lyon:
Design of a garden in collaboration with Maro Avrabou."Le fil du jardin". Commissioned by
the city of Lyon.
Festival Opening June 15, 2006.   Pictures

 
Chaumont Garden FestivalChaumont Garden Festival
 

International gardens Festival of Chaumont sur Loire.
Design of a garden in collaboration with Maro Avrabou. "The game of Vénus and chance ".
aquatic garden and floating puzzle.
Festival Opening April 29 - October 15, 2006.     Pictures
www.chaumont-jardin.com

 
       
Light Installation: Kappatos Gallery, Athens          
   

"Visions". Athens Imperial Hotel. Kappatos Gallery.
Light Installation in a hotel room, in collaboration with Maro Avrabou. Curator: Irini Savvani.
April 03 - 19, 2006.          Pictures

         
Light Installation in public space: Lyon

Superflux Festival. Roger Tator Gallery. Light Installation in a car,
"Greenhouse effect ",
in collaboration with Maro Avrabou.
Lyon. Décembre 8 ; 9 and 10, 2005.
Pictures