Escape is round the corner, 2018
Steel rusty rod, 48 x 106
‘56-year span’ is a curated display of works from 1962 through to the present; an interconnected journey incorporating seventeen art pieces exploring experience, effect and event, invoking im- mediacy and immutability.
Among the works exhibited are two abstract compositions in bronze from the 1960’s and 1970’s, by the sacred monster of Greek modernism; Klearchos Loukopoulos, followed by two early threadworks from Savvas Christodoulides (Couple, 1997 exhibited at the XLVII Venice Biennale), where the artist practices the various gestures involved with the act of sewing. Three works by Vasso Gavaisse, the two from the 2010 Water Leaf series. Three works from Alexandros Tzannis, one of his large scale works in ink and ballpoint pen on paper from 2015 and two parasites from his current series; borrowing elements from the iconography of science ction. Three works by Ilias Papailiakis, results of the artists ongoing journey with the impact of political historical events as well as his research into the history of world painting. Four new works from Kostis Velonis, two canvases and a wall sculpture titled Escape is Round the Corner, executed from a discarded rod into a three-dimensional line.
Six artists of different generations creating works originating from dissimilar ideologies and medi- ums, like/referring to, the multicultural societies where we live today. The works enter into a dia- logue with one another without sacrificing their particular identities, resembling the mixed ethnic communities where multiple cultural traditions co-exist.
9/19 /2018- 29/ 09 /2018 “56-year span”, Marinos Vrachimis Art Proposals, Nicosia, Cyprus
