Kostis
Velonis, "Unlearning Alphabet", 2016, wood, plywood,
acrylic, 250 x 80 x 7 cm
Kalfayan
Galleries, Athens present the group show
of
Yiannis Papadopoulos, Panos Tsagaris and Kostis Velonis titled
“Perished Sun”.
In
ancient Greece, the eclipse was considered to be an evil omen, an
augury of discord and suffering. The endless eclipses that Greece has
experienced during the last years, beyond being the pleasurable
experience of an astronomical phenomenon, bear witness to the covert
dimension that accompany superstitions.
The
exhibition attempts to shed light on these signs that pass unseen
through the routine of ordinariness. Together with the failures and
setbacks in everyday life, the show translates them into a geometry
of their elliptical shapes, their eclipses and shadows. This
ambivalent approach to the eclipse in the projects of Yiannis
Papadopoulos, Panos Tsagaris and Kostis Velonis is transcribed as a
resistance to pre-existing structures, as an error that seeks its
continuation, the tension of a disorder that becomes the product of
creativity and revision of the established order.
Yiannis
Papadopoulos, "The World according to Kosmas Indicopleustes",
2017, oil paint on prepared carton, 75 x 91.2cm
Panos
Tsagaris, "From the unreal, lead me to the real from darkness,
lead me to light", 2016, acrylic paint, spray paint
and silkscreen on canvas, 200 x 150 cm
Perished Sun
Kalfayan Galleries, Athens
31 March- 6 May
