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4. Alexandre Mimoglou, Art & Design

Published on June 7, 2022

 

Introduction

I want to share my own creative activities in relation to design with you in the midst of an important week for the international design industry the Milan Design Week (6-12/06/20202) and the Milan Furniture Fair (7-12/06/2022).

Design yesterday

In the eighties, I created a textile collection from my art for Knoll International in Europe. The textiles I designed completed furniture collections designed by important designers, such as Ettore Sottsass from Italy. Brief collaborations took place with other industrialists in Paris, such as Pierre Frey (textiles for interiors) and Bucol (textiles for high fashion). Tests were conducted at the time with other partners in the fields of porcelain objects, furniture, lamps, carpets, and table clothes with companies like Rosenthal in Germany, Hermes in France, and Varangis in Greece.

Design today

Today, I combine art and design again using the print on demand industry's versatility and possibilities. I work with my own art as well as art from other artists, both contemporary and historical. Professionals and consumers alike can use the products, presented online, in the retail, real estate, mega yacht, cruise ship, hotel, and aerospace industries.

Thank you.

Best regards.

Alexandre Mimoglou

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5. Do You Like To Meet “Them” In 22?

Published on July 15, 2022

 

Introduction

EURAN, European Art Networks has built one of the very first online art, architecture and design networks of about 300 international creators presented online since the late nineties. We are now working to expand and enhance it by including creative sectors from across Europe and beyond.

The main idea of EURAN is to establish channels of communication between the creative professionals and the public.

This communication can be achieved in two ways: from distance, with the help of the information technology industry and from close, with the help of the travel industry.

The first way is technology. As explained above, we are using it to present virtually creators and their work: we started with the internet and, since more than a year, we are using blockchain.

The second one is travelling. It allows for the possibility of meeting people in person and interacting with them. This field is now the area in which we wish to create collaborations with the Cruise, Hotel and Yacht industries, inviting their customers to meet with our creative partners and see their realizations while on their journeys. 

 

1. Theoretical approach of the "EURAN Cruises": do you like to meet “them” and see their creations?

When you travel, how do you spend your time? What are the chances of you meeting people? There are people who prefer being alone, and there are people who don't.

When you meet people, what type of people do you most enjoy meeting?

Creative people are always interesting for everybody, but we do not necessarily focus in meeting them. We read about them in books, magazines, catalogues, seeing their photos and videos on TV, at the cinema, on social media.

Do you know how and where you might be able to meet them if you wanted to? You might see them in galleries, studios, exhibitions, professional fairs, museums, offices, showrooms, factories.

Would you be interested in such meetings? Would it not be wonderful if you met a creative professional who can make a real difference to your life?

Creators are like the open skies, they are like high mountains, like the infinite sea. They can widen your perspective, make you see the world in a new way, they are inspired and they can inspire others.

In some cases, they can even lead countries.

If you answered yes to the above, then we agree: it can be interesting useful, pleasant and eventually also a good investment, to be in contact with creative people or their work or both.

That may be something EURAN can help you with. Indeed, during this summer 2022, we start developing a network of creative individuals and businesses that can receive visitors, present their products, and sell their services worldwide. You will be able to see them while traveling.

 

2. Technical approach of the “EURAN Cruises”: virtual only, physical only, virtual and physical

EURAN works for the progress of the Global Creative Sector and Industry, essentially by organizing networks of communication between the creators, industrials working with them, their clients and the public. We do it by launching projects between them, as the present one.

Our plan has three parts: the “EURAN Virtual Cruises” and the “EURAN Virtual to Physical Cruises and the “EURAN Physical Cruises”.

Information transfer and commercial transactions are the main functions of these three cases. The meetings have as target to give to our international clientele knowledge about the work of partner creative individuals, institutions and companies, and give them the possibility to buy artworks, related consumer products, design objects, as well as design and architectural services.

2A. Virtual only: organizing presentations of creators and their work, communicating it to the public: this is basically a dissemination of information work to be done with the use of technology. No physical contacts should take place within this part of the project.

2B. Physical only: people meets people, the public goes to the creators and interact with them physically. Travellers visit art galleries, artists’ studios, eventually museums, architects and designers.

2C. Both physical and virtual: the combination of physical and virtual contacts gives the possibility to have meetings with creators that we visit physically if we are in place but also the possibility to meet them from distance, if we are unable to be where they are. Of course this second option is a little less efficient than the first one but in the same time give us a much wider spectrum of persons that we can meet.

 

3. Where can take place the virtual and/or physical meetings?

3A. Culture production and exhibition related spaces

Art galleries: presentation by the gallery’s owner(s) and eventually the artist(s).

Studios of artists: personal presentation by the artist(s).

Art fairs and other art exhibitions: personal presentation by the gallery owners, curators and artist(s).

Museums, foundations and other institutions: presentation by employee(s) of the museum, guides, and eventually the artist(s).

Studios of architects and designers, showrooms presenting the designers’ work and products, fairs and other exhibitions presenting architecture and design.

Corporate and industrial premises where are conceived, produced and exhibited art and design products.

3B. Travel related premises

Art exhibitions in hotels, on board super yachts or cruise ships, in airports: presentation by the owner(s) of the exhibition spaces or their employees and eventually artist(s) and curators.

3C. Other premises

Corporate and industrial premises of partner creators, sponsors, clients.

 

4. Call for communication with us

We are calling now the categories of partners indicated here below to send us cooperation proposals via email at the below addresses. We will review them and return if we find them interesting. In advance, thank you.

4A. Creators that are part of the first period of the EURAN network: euran1-project-euran-2207@euran.com

4B. Representatives of creators that have been part of the first period of the EURAN network, but are not with us any more representatives-euran1-project-euran-2207@euran.com

4C. Creators that were not part of EURAN’s first period but wish to be with us now: euran2-project-euran-2207@euran.com.

4D. Art galleries presenting art of our partner artists or any other artists: galleries-project-euran-2207@euran.com.

4E. Companies that wish to sponsor our initiatives: sponsors-project-euran-2207@euran.com.

4F. Personalities that wish to give their patronizing to our initiatives: patronizing-project-euran-2207@euran.com.

In light of the fact that the project starts in the middle of the summer, we define the end of its first phase as the 31st of December 2022. 

Thank you for your attention. 

 

Alexandros Mimoglou

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6. Providing solutions for the creative component of high profile large construction projects in the cruise, mega yacht, hotel and real estate industries

Published on July 18, 2022

 

INTRODUCTION

Founded in 1994, EURAN builds networks of creative individuals and companies around the world. During the past 20 years, we have acquired expertise in dealing with high profile large construction projects

This type of projects, whether they concern cruise ships, mega yachts, hotels, or real estate developments, constitute a challenge in selecting, involving, and coordinating the participation of artists, architects, and designers.

1. The project managers have to navigate a labyrinth of a variety of tasks within the creative component of the projects, defining, first and foremost, its technical, aesthetic and financial aspects.

2. In order to accomplish their goals, they are required to "knock on many doors", of a variety of very different, eventually international, professionals.

3. The total image of a project is comprised of a variety of characteristics put together like pieces of a puzzle.

We can assist you, together with our partners, to get out of the labyrinth, to knock at the right doors and to unite the pieces of the puzzle, of your construction projects' creative part.

To that end, EURAN offers the following three options: 

PROPOSAL ONE: ONLY ONE CREATIVE BY FIELD FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT

Complete takeover by EURAN of the entire project in what concerns one or more of the three fields where we are active, with only one selected partner by field that we will propose you, or that you wish to use.

When the characteristics of the project are issued by only one creative, they are easier to assemble and create a unified image that people will see by “reading” the project.  

PROPOSAL TWO: SEVERAL CREATIVES FOR THE ENTIRE PROJECT

Complete takeover by EURAN of the entire project in what concerns one or more of the three fields where we are active, with not one but several selected partners by field that we will propose you or that you wish to use.

When the characteristics of the project must be issued by more than one creative, it is up to the project manager, who is acting like a chief of orchestra, to decide about who will be the contributors to the project, how these will contribute and how will be assembled successfully their contributions.  

PROPOSAL THREE: ONE OR MORE CREATIVES FOR PART(S) OF THE PROJECT

Partial takeover by EURAN of the project in what concerns one or more of the three fields where we are active, with one or more selected partners by field that we will propose you or that you wish to use.

When the contribution to the project is only partial, there will be two project managers: one at the level of EURAN, which will propose the best contributor(s) to the project, and one at the level of the total project who will take the decision in what concerns the final selection of contributors as well as the successful assembling of EURAN’s contribution with the rest of the project. EURAN can also play this role at the customers’ request.

We can assist you, together with our partners, to get out of the labyrinth, to knock at the right doors and to unite the pieces of the puzzle, of your construction projects' creative part.

As we can see above, the creative part of big construction projects is a long and rather complicated process which needs a special, expert, treatment that EURAN can offer you. We will be delighted to work with you, within a new exciting partnership, in what concerns art architecture and design of your present and future projects.  

In advance, thank you.

Best regards. 

Alexandre Mimoglou

Chairman EURAN European Art Networks AB

Architect, Visual artist, Designer

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7. The Medici before us; and now? EURAN Summer 22: display art, architecture and design in yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects

July 28, 2022

 

Introduction

We read online that “under Medici's rule, from 1434 to 1737, Florence flourished and was transformed into a cultural center of Europe. The Medici’s were passionate patrons of artists, architects, and scholars, sponsoring masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Sandro Botticelli”. 

EURAN: 44.000 artworks to 20.000.000 passengers

In our capacity as art consultants for the cruise industry, we have produced about 44.000 art reproductions since 2001 for the hotel parts of cruise ships, which were seen by more than 20.000.000 passengers. 

Summer 22

Continuing presently our goal of displaying creativity to the public, we are addressing now industries that operate spaces coming into contact with a wide audience around the world, namely yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects, to produce exhibitions with us.

We propose you to select between three types of exhibition:

A. Presentation of the creativity expressed by artists, architects and designers existing in your yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects.

B. Presentation of the creativity of our own partner visual artists applied at your yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects.

C. Presentation of artworks and design of our own partner visual artists.

In all cases we imagine to create small, flexible physical exhibitions, with a possible extension online where people will be able to see more and even buy items. 

Type A

Present the creativity within your own yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects

Are travelers aware of the architects and interior designers who designed their yacht, cruise ship or hotel? Are they aware of who designed the objects that are found in yachts, cruise ships, or hotels?

They are living for a few days in a space with several artists' work displayed, but do they know who these artists are?

Does it matter? Are your clients' decisions to buy from you influenced by it? In fact, it does.

Do you want to share the above information with them? Would you like us to assist you in the presentation of the creative component of your yachts, cruise vessels, hotels? It will be a pleasure for us to do it. Send us an email and we'll reach out to you to arrange that.

Our proposed operations are as follows:

1. Collect the above mentioned information directly from your company or/and from the creative professionals which participated at the construction of the yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects.

2. Create an exhibition with that information to be displayed at your premises.

Type B

Display the creativity of our own partner visual artists applied at your yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects

Creation of art in relation to a specific project, be it hotel, ship, building, is not a new idea. There have been numerous cases in the art history where artists were invited to get inspired by a certain subject, in relation to a customer, and create specially art for him/her.  

Therefore we consider it very interesting to have artists working specially for you and in that respect we propose the following operations:

1. Creation of art in relation to your yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects.

2. Physical exhibition and sale of this art in your yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects and eventually in your company’s offices and in the off line and online media.

Type C

Display the creativity of our own partner visual artists

We propose the following operations:

1. We exhibit in your yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects, the art and design on display at our e-shop. You can find there a large number of items, art or design inspired by art, which can be presented in the space of your choice. Certain items are ready for shipment; others have to be produced on demand, within a few days/weeks.

2. Design to be created immediately for specific operational yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects (produced on demand, within a few days/weeks).

For all types

Design to be created immediately by us for specific yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects (produced on demand, within a few days/weeks).

Work on a dissemination process with the above: catalogue, online presentation and sales, public relations.

Financial information

Fees for consulting and organizing the three types of exhibitions listed above are as follows: Yachts: 15-30K €, cruise vessels: 45-90K €, hotels: 15-30K €, large real estate projects: 45-90K €. The material and other expenses are not included. Yacht, cruise, hotel and real estate partners will keep a commission if sales take place offline or online.

We look forward to working with you on many exciting projects!

Thank you.

Best regards.

Alexandre Mimoglou

Chairman EURAN European Art Networks AB

Architect, Visual artist, Designer

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8. EURAN Imagineering: interested in art and design in interior architecture "concept projects"​ for the cruise, yacht, hotel and real estate industries?

Published on August 4, 2022

 

“Imagineering: the implementing of creative ideas into practical form” (source: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/imagineering) (First recorded in 1940–45; imagin(e) + (engin)eer)(source: https://www.dictionary.com/browse/imagineer)

 

Thursday the 4th of August 2022

 We have the pleasure to introduce to you today our new idea of “concept projects”.

 WHAT

We wish to be enabled to work on the architectural plans of future projects not yet realized, taking in consideration all related confidentiality and copyright questions, in order to organize with our creative partner architects, artists and designers, fictive proposals of art and design for interiors, demonstrating the potential and capacity of our company and professional networks. Our wish is to cover all the creative points of a construction project.

PROJECT PROVIDERS

Architecture firms or client companies developing projects in respective fields are requested to provide us with architecture plans for projects that are not yet due for realization or that are already planned for realization in the future.

CREATIVE PARTNERS

We are calling upon creators of our networks, artists, art consultants and galleries, designers as well as specialized in creative projects technology companies, to work with us.

SUPPLIERS

We also are calling upon companies that could be potentially our suppliers in creations of art and design. In case our projects get realized, they will participate at that realization.

SPONSORS

Sponsors would be welcomed, as we wish to present to the professionals and the public the results of our work in each branch and the sponsors would have the necessary exposure. We are calling upon companies who would like to participate as sponsors in our operations. They can be active in all fields of the economy, as the result of our projects should be known to the public. They can be providers of products and services that we will use in our projects, advertising them to their own customers. They can also be our future customers who would use the results of our projects for the benefit of their own clients.

HOW MUCH

Our financial planning is the following:

1. Partner providing the plans in our “concept projects”: providing plans for free. They will receive payment if their project will be realized. Our partnership may be helpful in that.

2. Creators participating in our “concept projects”: providing ideas of goods and services for free. They will receive payment when we will have customers.

3. Suppliers: proposing ideas of products and services for free. They will receive payment when we will have customers and use their products and services.

4. Sponsors: we defined a fixed amount of 50K Euro as sponsoring at the start of the cooperation to cover our operational expenses. The sponsors can also intervene in all stages of the project, and in particular to cover of the costs of the dissemination process: public relations, participation in fairs and exhibitions. In case the sponsors are suppliers, they will participate in the projects to be realized as indicated above.

WHEN

Our “concept projects” will start as soon as we find:

1. Firms, architects or their customers, who want to partner with us in such a project providing us with plans.

2. Sponsors.

SHOW

The results of those “concept projects” could be presented in some of the most important respective for each branch, international or local, fairs like: Monaco Yacht Show (28/09-01/10/2022, Monte Carlo, Monaco, https://www.monacoyachtshow.com), Cruise Ship Interiors Expo Europe (30/11-1/12/2022, London, UK, https://cruiseshipinteriors-europe.com), HORECA (10-13/02/2023, Athens, Greece, https://horecaexpo.gr), MIPIM (14-17/03/2023, Cannes, France, https://www.mipim.com).

We also could be present in some of the best art fairs globally, as the Paris+ (20-23/10/2022, Paris, France, https://parisplus.artbasel.com) and the Art Basel (15-18/06/2023, Basel, Switzerland, https://www.artbasel.com/basel).  

It will be a pleasure to work with you on exciting ”concept projects” in the future, and we appreciate your cooperation in advance.

Faithfully yours.

Alexandre Mimoglou

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9. You listen to us and we listen to you! The EURAN LinkedIn Newsletters from May to August 2022, and a call to give us your feeling about them

Published on August 24, 2022

 

We published since May a series of Newsletters in LinkedIn presenting several innovative ideas with the target to bring in contact creative and cultural sectors of the economy with the industries of cruise, yacht, hotel and real estate as well as with the public. We placed in those newsletters a series of appeals to various categories of professionals inviting them to become our partners.

The full list is the following:

1.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter May 5, 2022

Creative Europe's call "European Cooperation projects" proposal EURAN to submit no later than May 5, 2022 at 5 pm. (Proposals for EU financing concerning art, architecture and design projects). 

2.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter May 12, 2022

Introducing two plus one EURAN projects and inviting you to join us. (EURAN Industry, Virtual Cruises and NFT projects). 

3.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter June 3, 2022

Corporate advice for establishing and implementing a creative and cultural strategy in the cruise, mega yacht, hotel, and real estate industries. 

4.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter July 2, 2022

Alexandre Mimoglou, Art & Design. (Buy/create art and design products). 

5.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter July 15, 2022

Do You Like To Meet “Them” In 22? (Organize/participate at/propose meetings with creators). 

6.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter July 18, 2022

Providing solutions for the creative component of high profile large construction projects in the cruise, mega yacht, hotel and real estate industries. 

7.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter July 28, 2022

The Medici before us; and now? EURAN Summer 22: display art, architecture and design in yachts, cruise vessels, hotels and large real estate projects. 

8.   EURAN LinkedIn newsletter August 8, 2022

EURAN Imagineering: interested in art and design in interior architecture "concept projects" for the cruise, yacht, hotel and real estate industries? (Participate in art and design in interior architecture "concept projects").

We would be pleased to receive your feedback on them. As a result, we developed a survey to determine the level of interest in the numerous concepts we present in each of our newsletters.

We also created a series of questions and answers based on the subjects of the newsletters, in order to understand better your particular interests and possibilities.

We invite you to read the newsletters, tell us about your eventual interest for them, read the questions and give us your feeling and if you wish, to respond positively to one or more of our cooperation proposals.

The link to our survey is: https://us7.list-manage.com/survey?u=86da2d51f179a6e27c7bd375c&id=c3825374bb

In advance, thank you.

Best regards.

Alexandre Mimoglou

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10. EURAN European Art Networks, Concept project version 2: "Space, The Next Frontiers"​

Published on September 6, 2022

 

CONCEPT PROJECTS

We expressed a few days ago our first ideas concerning the creation of “art and design in interior architecture Concept projects” (our LinkedIn Newsletter of August the 4th, 2022). In pursuit of that idea, we now go much further, proposing a project to be called “Space, the next frontiers”. What are those "frontiers"? We see the following three:

FIRST FRONTIER: PHYSICAL REALITY

The first "frontier" is the one where most of the present interior design activities stop: we are used to the idea that interiors are defined by design, design is made from materials, innovation can come from the materials, the forms and their disposal in space.

SECOND FRONTIER: MIXED REALITY

Technologies can interfere with the design of interiors and change the perception of it, resulting in a mixed ("augmented" etc.) reality. We see this as the second "frontier".

THIRD FRONTIER: METAVERSE

Technologies can also create fictional spaces by themselves. Today we have “Metaverse”, an imaginary world that exists independently from the real one, where everybody is invited to enter, rebuild a new virtual reality from scratch and spend a "parallel life" as a person in it. This is the newest and most advanced, so far, "frontier'.

As science and technology develop very fast, we wait to see where else they will drive us in the future.

AIM: TECHNOLOGY ENHANCES INTERIOR DESIGN

Our vision now is to investigate the possible use of all the existing and under development new technologies in order to enrich the sensory and spatial experience of the physical architectural space itself.

PHYGITAL

How the above three types of space, the physical, the mixed and the virtual ones could coexist and produce a new “phygital” (both physical and digital) reality?

ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS

How an architect, an interior designer, working hand in hand with industries of materials, industries of design objects and technologists, would produce what we could call exciting new spaces?

ARTISTS

Is it possible to think even more freely, despite all material and technical limitations, and be able to go further? Who can help us achieve this, who can drive us beyond what we are used to seeing and doing?

Artists are able to do exactly that. It is indeed artists who are capable of paving the way for the "Next Frontiers" in association with architects and designers who are, in principle, the professionals of the "material world". Art can be used in many ways in this process; we would start with visual and multimedia arts, cinema, fashion, and music. Other disciplines concerned by this project could be science, philosophy and futurism.

PROTOTYPES OF INTERIORS

In order to reach conclusions that can be used and exploited, we want to investigate all of that right now: the result of this research should be used to develop prototypes of new interiors for the cruise, mega yacht, hotel and real estate industries.

That is an ambitious project in which you are welcome to join us today.

In advance, thank you.

Alexandre Mimoglou

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11. EURAN Cruise architecture: ideas for a new style of architectural design for large cruise liners

Published on September 14, 2022

 

INTRODUCTION: BIG BEAUTIES OR SMALL CHARMS?

Impressive, enormous, a miracle of technology and know-how, filled with art and design: those are the unchallenged qualities of the cruise ships of the present times. They are the result of the expansion of the cruise industry that took place in the past years. But some critics say that they do not have the same appeal as the smaller vessels, which often are more luxurious, even becoming mega-yachts lately; that they are destined to the mass tourism built for it and for that reason they lack of charm.

SHOCK AND RE-CONSIDERATION

The global health issue that surfaced globally last year produced a shock to the cruise industry, which completely shut down operations for more than a year and is still struggling to recover under difficult conditions. This might be the right time to reconsider, among other elements of the business, the design and the architecture of the largest among the cruise ships. It is on this topic that we focus here.

BLOCK OUT

Cruise ships have grown up in the last few years, and they continue to do so today. Thousands of people, passengers and crew travel on them. Although they are small cities in motion, they are not designed as such. They are thought more like building blocks. When compared with the most advanced land architecture, the architecture of the sea has a 20-30 years’ delay. Big building blocks are out of fashion in our days.

Our goal is to change that now. We should rethink how we approach cruise built environments radically. City planners are not involved in cruise ship projects, to our knowledge. We believe they should be. We should adopt new space planning procedures when the cruise vessels become the size of a city.

HEALTH AND ARCHITECTURE

It is also important to find new ways to respond radically to existing or to come threats, such as the current health crisis. Risks must be studied and dealt with architecturally.

OLD PRINCIPLES, NEW IDEAS?

One way to bring about all this transformation would be choosing to adopt the principles of Mediterranean architecture. During my architectural and town planning university studies, I worked on those principles for several years.

CHANGE OF PLAN

In what ways could this change the cruise ship typical plan? While keeping the basic principles of naval architecture in what concerns safety and security and aerodynamics of the external volume of the vessel, completely redesign both the interior and exterior of the vessel working with basic ideas such as the following: use broken lines and curves instead of straight lines; create many sub-spaces, like small squares; divide large common areas in smaller ones and reunite small ones that are unnecessarily split; position differently the cabins to avoid their regular juxtaposition side by side.

PSYCHO

Architects must also take action to prevent the generation of feelings of claustrophobia, boredom, and open space phobia, as well as the feeling of living and moving in mass; avoid creating spaces that resemble impersonal large hotels and commercial centers.

TRAPPED INSIDE

Cruising should also be more appealing to vacationers who don't like the feeling of being trapped inside massive buildings.

LISTEN TO THE REVIEWS

By adopting the idea of a complete architecture renewal, we would also listen to people, both those who take cruises or wish to, and those who do not. Concerns, both positive and negative, should serve as a good guide into novelty and innovation.

LIKE A HUMAN

Why not transform the big cruise ships of the future to small towns filled with surprises, where residential and leisure areas, corridors and open spaces are mixed harmoniously, like in the Greek islands. Can we design the largest of the vessels like small towns built in a human scale, where will be enjoyable to live from a few days to several weeks?

ACT NOW

The above ideas would be fascinating to explore with you with the aim of developing a new innovative concept of a new type of cruise vessels, a concept made for a future that will respond positively to today’s challenges.

  

Please notice: it has come to our attention that, some days ago (text written the 19/10/2021), a shipyard showcased a concept of a very long cruise ship that had a few houses in the open area at the rear of its deck, such as those in Santorini. Despite the fact that it was on a very small scale, without significant or essential use for the entire design of the ship, the use of architectural elements from the Greek islands has finally just reached the doorstep of the industry.

Alexandre Mimoglou

Architect, Town Planner, Visual Artist, Designer, Chairman EURAN European Art Networks AB (Stockholm, Sweden)

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12. Signification, Dynamism, Expression, Energy, Fusion, Sensualism, Brilliancy in the Cycladic architecture, high values for the 21st century

Published on September 27, 2022

 

TOWN PLANNING PRINCIPLES BASED ON ANALYSES OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN THE GREEK ISLANDS OF THE CYCLADES, APPLICABLE TO 21ST CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

 

1. SIGNIFICATION. The architectural or urban plan must be charged with more signification, based on a complex organization.

"To name an object is to eliminate three quarters of the enjoyment of the poem, which is derived from the happiness of discovering little by little: suggest it... that's the dream."   Stéphane Mallarmé

"I prefer objects rich in meanings to those which have a clear meanings."   Robert Venturi 

 

2. DYNAMISM. The urban space has to cease being static, by introducing into it broken lines and curves.

"Oblique and elliptic lines are naturally dynamic, their emotional influence is a thousand times greater than that of vertical or horizontal ones. No dynamic architecture can exist without them."  Filipo Tomaso Marineti

 

3. EXPRESSION. The constructed environment must favor participation in social life, through an adequate arrangement of common spaces founded on the concept of the square.

“In today’s cities ... the streets, after the advent of the automobile, have completely lost their “room-like” quality, I believe that town planning can begin when people will become conscious of this loss and will try to reintegrate the street … in its role of community room."    Louis Kahn

 

4. ENERGY. The urban space has to be more than a simple addition of architectural objects. A dynamism must be transmitted from several built compositions by the breaking up of monolithic volumes and their replacement by many small volumes. Therefore, the urban aesthetic unity finds its coherence in plurality of the perspective parts.

"Buildings which have a relationship to those which are around them are more imposing than those which do not."   Robert Stern

 

5. FUSION. Urban space must reinforce its unity by overlapping the notions of "interior" and "exterior". A group of architectural elements (doors, stairways, arcades, etc...) is constructed in a dispersed order and in a regular, functional, and surprising way. In such an environment, the union of architecture and nature creates an harmony that results from the meeting of the artificial and the natural. 

"The architect's role is to set up a series of environments which will give to the inhabitant the possibility of communicating with everything that surrounds him, through a series of surprises which make him more conscious of the place where he is."   Charles Moore

 

6. SENSUALISM AND BRILLIANCY. Volumes obtain a "provocative" grace of lines and surfaces, and so they can be seen as having a sensual quality. This architecture is covered with a white veil, color of suggestion and purity, perfect background upon which bright colors can be carefully applied. If is finally flooded, saturated with light.

"The notion of volume once again fakes on the importance it had at the dawn of our civilization: it becomes a living, moving element."   Siegfried Giedion

"White is full of living possibilities... It rings like a silence that suddenly can be understood."   Wassily Kandinsky   

 

Alexandre Mimoglou

Architect & Town Planner (Paris, France), Diploma of Advanced Studies in Aesthetic and Sciences of Art (D.E.A. Sorbonne University)

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13. EURAN, European Art Networks: "Concept art exhibition"​, a new concept for art exhibitions

Published on November 18, 2022

 

“CONCEPT ART EXHIBITION”: IDEAS FOR ENHANCED ART EXHIBITIONS TO TEST NOW

Proposal for art exhibitions enhanced with related activities and events in Art Galleries, Museums, Art Clubs, Corporate offices, Hotels and in parallel in external commercial spaces and on the Internet. This concept can be adapted to comprise “enhanced exhibitions in movement” on board Super yachts and Cruise ships.

 

MULTI EXHIBITIONS

This concept is particularly interesting for us because it gives us the possibility to create exhibitions and the related activities described below, simultaneously in several places.

 

CONCEPT FOR INTERIORS AND CONCEPT FOR ART EXHIBITIONS

We associate the present ideas with the ones that we expressed recently in our newsletters concerning interior architecture and in particular the use and integration in it of new technologies.

 

CONTENT

We suggest that you exhibit works of artists in collaboration with us in your space. This can be done as follows:

A. To form your exhibition, you would acquire from our online stores a series of artworks, from one or more of the participants, in this business, artists, listed above. They can be "open edition" unframed digital reproductions (unsigned and numbered) in various materials (canvas, paper, aluminum, foam or wood) or framed "open edition" reproductions on paper (https://www.stores.euran.eu/open-edition-art-printed-on-demand). These are produced by print-on-demand companies located in different countries. You can also obtain, if you wish, original pieces or signed and numbered reproductions. These will be sent directly to you by the artists. In any case, we will offer you a discount based on the number of copies you order, at the public price listed online.

B. During this exhibition, your company / organization should order more pieces from us, also with the above mentioned discount.

Please, if you are interested, guarantee a minimum total value for the artworks you will acquire during the exhibition. Make an offer to us (amount excluding the relevant VAT and transport costs).

In some cases it is possible to organize and present an exhibition at your premises, personally by the artist.

 

DATES

The availability of such exhibitions is permanent and may be changed at will if deemed necessary. The festive period at the end of this year as well as the days before (from today) and after (until mid-January), in our opinion, could be a plus for their success.

 

TECHNOLOGY

Modern technologies as they evolve are gradually used in the presentation of art exhibitions. Our goal is to use them in our exhibitions. We are currently contacting technology companies that could partner with us on this.

To continue in this direction we would need confirmation of your interest and possibly a sponsor's contribution to cover the related costs.

 

TRADE

Our aim is to create a quality exhibition which could generate income for the artists.

In addition to this, we believe that a contemporary art exhibition through which visitors can acquire exhibited works, as an investment, to decorate their home and workplace, enrich their collection or choose gifts for friends, family or clients, is more interesting than an exhibition they just visit. For this reason, most museums and art institutions internationally maintain shops for the sale of products related to the content of the exhibitions.

 

SALES IN THE EXHIBITION

These fall into four categories:

1. Sales of works that will be part of the exhibition: reproductions of works of art with or without signature and numbering as mentioned above.

2. Possible posters, cards and puzzles that will feature the exhibition works and that can be produced to order.

3. I design utilitarian products using artwork that can be produced to order.

You can see all of this in our online catalog of our online store at www.stores.euran.eu.

 

SALES IN LOCAL STORES

All derivative art products can be displayed alongside and outside the exhibition, in local shops, expanding the audience of the exhibition to include all residents of your city, even people who are not directly interested in visual arts and have not previously visited your exhibition space. But to do that, it will require a special communication from us directly to them with your input, if of course you like the idea. This action could have a triple benefit: generate revenue for us, you and the shopkeepers as well as an additional audience for your venue.

 

SALES ON THE INTERNET AND BLOCKCHAIN

All exhibits and related derivative products can be acquired as are already online in our e-stores. More items, both artworks and design, are continuously added.

We are studying the creation of a special website for the exhibition, in which we can present your town in its cultural dimension. We should mention that we intend to digitally present this event to art interested persons with whom we communicate internationally.

We will add works of art which are available exclusively on the internet, in the blockchain system and are called NFTs (https://opensea.io/accounts/euran-european-art-networks).

 

PARALLEL ACTIVITIES WITH PERSONALITIES

Parallel activities within the exhibition or in relation to it, could be organized, with the participation of art critics for the analysis of the visual artist's work and possibly the presentation of their personal creative work. Additional activities can be organized in connection with the exhibition, in the exhibition space and other spaces, by creators in the field of arts, music and fashion, expanding the public that will be informed about the exhibition.

 

PARALLEL ACTIVITIES WITH PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

We always believe in the relationship that should exist between art, business and society. Local business organizations could be invited to visit the fair and perhaps, because of the holidays, combine related Christmas or New Year activities with the fair, adding visitors to it who might not otherwise be interested in it. The members of such organizations could, moreover, with their families constitute a future permanent audience of you.

 

THE LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL MEDIA

Local, national and international media could be informed in cooperation with you about this innovative type of exhibition. If there is interest on their part, we could work with them for the proper presentation of the event, providing relevant photographic material and information they would request.

 

ARTISTS

The artists we recommend for the first stage of this project are: Alexandre Mimoglou (art name "Alexis") (Greece, France) (https://www.stores.euran.eu/artworksbyalexis), Mrs. Maria Papafili (Greece)( https://www.stores.euran.eu/maria-papafili-art), Mr. Thomas Holm (Sweden)( https://www.stores.euran.eu/artworks-by-thomas-holm), Mr. Lino Di Vinci (Italy)(https://www.stores.euran.eu/artworks-by-lino-di-vinci), Mr. Martino Motti (Italy)(https://www.stores.euran.eu/ works of art -by-martino-motti).

More artists will be added in the near future, also from different countries, as we are in the process of rearranging and developing our networks.

Thank you for your attention.

Alexandre Mimoglou

Architect, Chairman EURAN, European Art Networks AB, Stockholm, Sweden

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