"Raidor Bass" a sculpture by Ithaka Darin Pappas

The Reincarnation of a Surfboard is a body of sculpture work created by Ithaka Darin Pappas. The project, which began in 1989 consist of approximately 300 wall-mounted sculptures that have been made using recycled surfboards as raw building material. The series to date has been exhibited on four continents.

Reinkarnasi Papan Selancar oleh Ithaka Darin Pappas dipamerkan di pameran grup Surf Skate Roots Rock - Los Angeles

Reinkarnasi Papan Selancar oleh Ithaka Darin Pappas dipamerkan di pameran grup Surf Skate Roots Rock - Los Angeles

Karya Ithaka Darin Pappas di pameran "Surf Skate Roots Rock" di Los Angeles, Juli 2023. Foto: Ithaka Darin Pappas. Patung dalam foto di sebelah kiri "Sophula" (dari serial Tree Girls, Flower Sisters & Mother Nature) dan "Bucerius Palus Tinea" dari serial Aliens of AkahtiLândia) dari keseluruhan tubuh seni papan selancar Ithaka berjudul "Reinkarnasi Seorang Papan luncur". Pameran seni selancar kolektif "Surf Skate Roots Rock", didirikan/dikurasi oleh Alan Scott (dan diproduksi oleh Alan Scott, Josh "Bagel" Klassman dan Dan Spillane) diadakan pada 8 Juli 2023 hingga 27 Juli 2023 di The Vortex at 2341 E Olympic Blvd di pusat kota Los Angeles, California. Artis unggulan termasuk; C.R. Stecyk III, Skip Engblom, Steve Olson, Wes Humpston, Greyson Fletcher, Josh “Bagel” Klassman, Ray Flores, Never, Josh Paskowitz, Corky Carroll, Marty Grimes, Lonnie Toft, Ric Clayton, Jayme Burtis, George Wilson, Matt Wesson , Gregg Smith, Grant & Chris Rohloff, Kid Caviar, Tim Jackson, Kelly Jackson, Mark “Funcrime” Munski, Steve Shehelp, Jeff Shehelp, Tonan Ruiz, Geri Lewis, Ithaka Darin Pappas, Pat Conlon, Bart Saric, Sean Strain, Susanne Melanie Berry, Rachel Anne Air Hujan, dan Alan Scott.

Artis kontemporer, Ithaka Darin Pappas

"Umbilicus" by photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas (Speak Magazine 1996)

Fall 1996Another relaunch, another controversial cover, another bad issue. The infamous belly button, the work of photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas, caused the issue to be immediately returned by hundreds of distributors and newsstands. The image was most commonly called "disturbing," which is exactly why we chose it. To date, this is Speak's worst-selling issue. ______________________ In 1996 my project Umbilicus was featured on the cover of the cutting edge culture magazine called Speak, with graphic design by the brilliant Martin Venesky.

Artist-musician-photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas by photographer Dede Fedrizzi (São Paulo Brazil 2013)

 Artist-musician-photographer Ithaka Darin Pappas by photographer Dede Fedrizzi (São Paulo Brazil 2013)

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"Nicky & Hopper" a 1990 sculpture by Ithaka Darin Pappas [The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard]

"Nicky & Hopper" 

a 1990 sculpture by Ithaka Darin Pappas 

from the three-decade body of work entitled, 

[The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard]

Takashi Murakami with "Polyrhythm" (1992) Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas

Takashi Murakami with "Polyrhythm" (1992) Photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas at Galerie Mars in Shibuya-Ku

 At the beginning of his career, Murakami appeared to be content with the lot of most successful contemporary artists: to create work that is admired by critics and desired by wealthy collectors but leaves the general public baffled or hostile. He was constructing conceptual pieces similar to the art being made in the West. Among those early works, which began attracting attention in the early 90's, was "Polyrhythm", a seven-foot-high slab of yellow resin, minimalist in form, on which many toy United States infantry soldiers climb. 

Read Full article here:  https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/03/magazine/the-murakami-method.html

Takashi Murakami photographed with "Polyrhythm" by Ithaka Darin Pappas 

in Tokyo Los Angeles (1992) 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takashi_Murakami

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For more information about this image please contact: 

ithaka.art@gmail.com - Also see: @_ithaka_

Takashi Murakami with his piece "Physical Pie" photographed by Ithaka Darin Pappas (1992)

 

"Murakami Yawns At Mars"

World-renowned contemporary artist #TakashiMurakami @takashipom photographed at Mars Gallery in Shibuya-Ku, Japan, Tokyo (1992) by Greek-Californian artist/photographer #IthakaDarinPappas @_Ithaka_ @photographer_ithaka.d.pappas

For licensing inquiries regarding these rare images of

Takashi Murakami by Ithaka Darin Pappas,

please contact ithaka.official@gmail.com

"Physical Pie" by Takashi Murakami (1992)

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(Interview) ITHAKA DARIN PAPPAS - SportTV 3 - Portugal

Artist, Ithaka Darin Pappas Surfing Powerful Winter Waves in Greece

Greek-American contemporary artist and musician, Ithaka Darin Pappas surfing powerful winter waves in Greece. Photo: Giorgos Papandreou

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GHOST PRISM #2 by contemporary artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

GHOST PRISM #2 by contemporary artist, Ithaka (Ithaka Darin Pappas)

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Artists Chad Guest and Ithaka Darin Pappas at the Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica

Artists Chad Guest and Ithaka Darin Pappas at the Patrick Painter Gallery in Santa Monica for the opening reception of the 3-artist show "Mann, Guest, Lagarrigue" which featured Guest's large scale painting "The Tenth" (pictured). March 9th 2019.

The Tomas Blot series by Californian artist, Ithaka Darin Pappas

Artwork by Californian artist: Ithaka

series: The Tomas Blots

Links:


https://www.discogs.com/artist/468212-ITHAKA


https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIZXy50yj_t9UuHqeOQhpGQ


http://planetithaka.blogspot.com/


https://genius.com/artists/Ithaka


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas


http://ithakaofficial.com/


https://www.facebook.com/IthakaBlue/


https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/ithaka/69363540


https://store.cdbaby.com/artist/Ithaka2


https://www.instagram.com/_ithaka_/?hl=en


https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5225987/


https://thehundreds.com/blogs/content/ithaka-interview


https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ithaka


















http://upmagazine-tap.com/en/pt_artigos/ithaka-2/
https://everything.explained.today/Ithaka_Darin_Pappas/

Ithaka, invited artist at Night of a Million Waves (Los Angeles Times)

Ithaka Darin Pappas, better known as Ithaka, is an American hip-hop artist, sculptor and surfer who placed this piece up for auction at the Night of a Million Waves Gala and Art Auction on Saturday in Huntington Beach.

Photograph by: Ani Yessayan, Los Angeles Times

Source:

http://www.latimes.com/tn-2026405-tn-hbi-me-surfboards-1-jpg-20141013-photo.html

DIACTOR BILANTEUS - Insect Painting By, Ithaka (2015)

"DIACTOR BILANTEUS", by @_ithaka_ from my recent art-biology project, Aliens of AkahtiLândia, Brazil at F+ Gallery in DTSA (12" x 16" framed, resin-coated, manipulated photograph on canvas) *Currently available:http://www.ebay.com/itm/-/252203473555?

Ithaka With Recycled Surfboard Sculpture

California-born contemporary artist, Ithaka 

with one of his recycled surfboard sculptures entitled Inspyring Souls

from the body of work known as The Reincarnation Of A Surfboard.

This piece was made in Southern California.

Ithaka On Instagram: @_ithaka

ITHAKA EXHIBIT - OPENING FEB 21st 2015 (7-10pm) at F+ Gallery - Santa Ana, California

ITHAKA EXHIBIT - OPENING FEB 21st  2015 (7-10pm) at F+ Gallery - 661 N. Poinsettia Avenue in Santa Ana, Ca 92701. Also featuring insect works by guest artists David Clyde Kersh, Erica Ellingson, Ian Morris, Nathan Paul Gibbs, Steven Kutcher, Will Thompson -and a special appearance by world-famous live insect handler Diana Terranova. All show info at below link, see you there: https://www.facebook.com/events/338590866327366/


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Aliens of AkahtiLândia (artist's statement)

I'd been living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for five years and was feeling it was time to move on, when after researching a tip from an anonymous stranger in October 2010, I investigated (and soon afterward purchased) a small brick house on an acre of jungle property just outside of the Serra do Mar Atlantic Forest Reserve on the southern coast of the State of São Paulo – about 300 miles south of Rio. Needless to say, it was a move that somewhat metamorphosized my mostly urban-suburban upbringing and adulthood.

The immediate neighborhood of about 2000 acres,  an area called AkahtiLândia (pronounced: aah-kah-tee-land-eeah), is extremely rural. There is a native Guarani village just down the road, where many of the local residents literally live in mud and stick huts. There are several rivers and small mountains, exotic birds and wild animals.

For the past four and a half years, I've been occupied with a mutated version of the life I've known since my early twenties: making art and music…and surfing, but this time in a neo-tropical forest environment.

The things that have really impressed me most about the jungle are the tiny animals; spiders, moths, beetles, worms, etc. Visually, there's no end to the variety. The colors and geometric forms are absolutely mind-blowing. To me, insects are living, cutting-edge, contemporary art forms.

I spend several hours a week just observing and photographing them. And attempting to ID them. But sometimes that's impossible, as many of them have yet to be officially recognized by the scientific community. It's also probable that in creatures having such short reproductive cycles (some procreating more than thirty generations of offspring in a single year) that subtle adaptations are constantly resulting in new variations of existing species.

I've noted some insects with extremely sophisticated behavioral traits. A few, believe it or not, seem to demonstrate what appear to be real emotions.

This relatively recent obsession of mine has fueled an entire body of work entitled, Aliens of AkahtiLândia - integrating all three of my visual mediums; sculpture, photographs and mixed-media paintings. The sculpture pieces, although based on actual creatures I've seen or photographed, are modified and manipulated versions of the real thing, while the flat mixed-media pieces are normally truer to the actual entities that inspired them.

I call them Aliens not only because of their seemingly unearthly eccentric multi-colored appearances and high IQs, but also because of their extremely complex, functional and almost indestructible body designs. Most people who believe in extraterrestrial life think that beings from other solar systems will appear somewhat humanoid and be more or less our size. I disagree. I find it more likely that they would be something much smaller and more insect-like.

Imagine if some of these creatures already present on this planet originated from other parts of the universe. How would we even know it?

One earth insect, the Tardigrade - aka the Water Bear, has already been proven to be capable of surviving the vacuum of space.

And if one or more of these minute species already here was actually more intelligent than man, how could we even measure or determine that? (maybe they simply choose not to communicate with us).

More importantly, would we admit something so much smaller in stature to humankind is in fact superior to us in many ways?

Ithaka 2015

Ithaka: Aliens Of AkahtiLândia Exhibit Opening At F+ Gallery in Santa Ana, California

February 21, 2015 (SANTA ANA, CALIFORNIA) - F+ Gallery presents Ithaka: "Aliens Of Akahtilândia" : Photos, sculptures and paintings representing exotic insects observed during the last four years by California-born artist, Ithaka, at his jungle property in Brazil's Atlantic Rainforest. The show will also feature depictions of a select number of these same insects by special guest artists; Erica Ellingson, Ian Morris, Nathan Paul Gibbs, Will Thompson and David Clyde Kersh. 

Brazilian açai smoothies and coffee will be provided opening night thanks to Sambazon's mobile cafe. As well as fine wines courtesy BIBI GRAETZ (Italy).

The opening reception will take place on February 21^th from 7-10pm. The show will remain on exhibit for two weeks after the opening with viewing opportunities available by appointment.  

The evening is planned in coalition with the Santiago Arts District where 7-10 other gallery openings will be happening within walking distance. Other galleries of note are Curbside Gallery, Kaboom, and Shutter + Light. 

Hosted by:

F+ Gallery

661 North Poinsettia Street

Santa Ana, CA 92701

(714)493-9430

Ithaka  – AkahtiLiandia, Brazil  (Statement from the Feature Artist)

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I'd been living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil for five years and was feeling it was time to move on, when after researching a tip from an anonymous stranger in October 2010, I investigated (and soon afterward purchased) a small brick house on an acre of jungle property just outside of the Serra do Mar Atlantic Forest Reserve on the southern coast of the State of São Paulo – about 300 miles south of Rio. Needless to say, it was a move that somewhat metamorphosized my mostly urban-suburban upbringing and adulthood.

The immediate neighborhood of about 2000 acres, an area called AkahtiLândia, is extremely rural. There is a native Guarani village just down the road, where many of the local residents literally live in mud and stick huts. There are several rivers and small mountains, exotic birds and wild animals.

For the past four and a half years, I've been occupied with a mutated version of the life I've known since my early twenties: making art and music…and surfing, but this time in a neo-tropical forest environment. One thing that has really impressed me most about the jungle are the tiny animals; spiders, moths, beetles and worms. Visually, there's no end to the variety. The colors and geometric forms are absolutely mind-blowing. To me, bugs are living, cutting-edge, contemporary art forms.

I spend several hours a week just observing and photographing them. And attempting to ID them. But sometimes that's impossible, many of them have yet to be officially recognized by the scientific community. It's also probable that in creatures having such short reproductive cycles (some procreating more than thirty generations of offspring in a single year) that subtle adaptations are constantly resulting in new variations of existing species.

This relatively recent obsession of mine has fueled an entire body of work entitled, Aliens of AkahtiLândia - integrating all three of my visual mediums; sculpture, photographs and mixed-media paintings. The sculpture pieces, although based on actual creatures I have seen or photographed, are modified and manipulated versions of the real thing, while the flat mixed-media pieces are normally truer to the actual entities that inspired them. I've noted some insects with extremely sophisticated behavioral traits. A few, believe it or not, seem to demonstrate what appear to be real emotions.

I call them Aliens not only because of their seemingly unearthly eccentric multi-colored appearances and high IQs, but also because of their extremely complex, functional and almost indestructible body designs. Most people who believe in extraterrestrial life think that beings from other solar systems will appear somewhat humanoid and be more or less our size. I disagree. I find it more likely that they would be something much smaller and more insect-like.

Imagine if some of these creatures already present on this planet originated from other parts of the universe. How would we even know it?

One earth insect, the Tardigrade - aka the Water Bear, has already been proven to be capable of surviving the vacuum of space.

And if one or more of the minute species already here was actually more intelligent than us, how could we even measure or determine that? (maybe they simply choose not to communicate with us).

More importantly, would we admit something so much smaller in stature to humankind is in fact superior to us in many ways?

Ithaka 2015

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