Eleni Koroneou Gallery presents the new work by Yorgos Sapountzis in his second solo
show at the gallery, titled “ATM (…songs about love and death)”.
Sapountzis’s
multi-media work engages both public and private spaces, taking often as his
starting point public monuments and everyday images, objects that represent
some aspect of collective and personal memory. At the core of most of his works
are sculptural installations that employ such materials as aluminum sheets and
rods, brightly colored fabric, pins, knots and straps. All these materials
share certain common qualities: they are light, flexible and ductile.
In the
current exhibition “ATM”, Sapountzis will present among others, a series of
monotypes on fabric. The prints depict sequences of a film that was never shot,
leaving behind a personal souvenir album of the artist. The content of these
images, is drawn from routes in the city of Berlin
The daily
encounter with the materials and objects that he comes across in his routes,
reconstruct within the works, the scenography of a city. Buildings, machines,
bodies, all generate power, heat; only the fluidity of the memories rescues his
personal narrative. The closed nervous system of the city with the countless
images in high resolution dominates and imposes. Within this inhospitable
condition, the abstract precedes as an imperative need.
Yorgos
Sapountzis will also present his new performance in the gallery as part of the
exhibition.
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