“East Bit” is the name of the central textile “street” created by callas at the exhibition “Love Solidarity Death (LSD)”, which is hosted by the Onassis Foundation. It is a “podium” of knitted fragments in full color, which invites the visitor on an intergalactic walk through space and time.

This idiosyncratic road creates the central axis of this polymorphic narrative and mentally takes us from the cobblestones of Pikionis to the clubs of New York, ending with a kind of marble “monument”, a miracle of statics, “Punctenon”. Behind it stands a temple of black plastic cages, the Arc project. It is a square ark that salvages the marble architectural remnants of a neoclassical home: a shabby but still elegant decorative furushi.

Have fun, laugh, joke, have fun, dance and tune in to the pulse of the global arts and music scene. This is the essence – and perhaps the essence – of the exhibition presented by the duo of Lucky and Ari Ionas, two brothers who have been leaving their idiosyncratic and heretical mark on art for twenty years now. As exhibition curator Nadia Argyropoulou notes, this “exhibition is an episodic retrospective of the future” compiled by The Callas – musicians, artists, performers, publishers, organizers of city and provincial festivals, film and video makers, welcoming the owners of their spaces and tireless explorers of other places and modes – “disturbing the raw material of his co-emotional action”, introducing episodes of a multifaceted creative adventure into the exhibition space.

The materials used by the two artists are things collected in the center of Athens.

From the very entrance to the exhibition, the effect of an orgy of use of color captures the visitor’s eye. To the sounds of cicadas, you move among these exhibits of clothing, idiosyncratic handicraft carpets and brilliant woven images that could be components of a psychedelic Mediterranean temple. The materials used by the two artists are things collected in the center of Athens, in the small shops of the city, which retain the intimacy of a more human everyday life. Marbles come from the very heart of the city, from which the punk Parthenon of the two creators is “built”. These are fragments of the Athenian sidewalks, which, thanks to the ingenious engineer Dimitris Korres, are intertwined into a seemingly vulnerable structure, which nevertheless manages to miraculously balance. “Her strength is her weakness,” Ms. Argiropoulou comments, and this could be the motto of the entire Kallas work.

On both sides, to the right and left of the “road” leading to the Ark, a row of colorful knitted Madonnas, dynamic and rebellious, raise their hands to the sky, as if participating in some kind of primitive dance. On the back of each Madonna, her scribbles are presented on a page from a small notebook. This is the first inspiration, the beginning of the difficult work that must be done until the craft is completed. In this particular case, the knitted pieces are made by two brilliant knitters, the mother and aunt of two artists, who shape the visions of Callas with their needles.

“You walk sluggishly, with a hangover, on the slabs of Pikionis, and you feel the fragments, thirst, ancient marbles and barks adjacent to plastic sewer pipes, cats and oleanders, and the sun always rises from there behind crazy Hymettos,” they said. wrote themselves in their note, and this phrase sums up their inspiration.