Dépôt Αrt gallery (Neofitou Vamva str.5, Kolonaki,
Athens) is hosting on Tuesday 27th of March (20:00 up 23:30 the art group
exhibition " The Art, Myself "
Duration of the exhibition: 27 March
– 20 April 2018
The exhibition is curated by the art
historian and assistant professor at the University of Athens Κonstantinos Vafiadis.
Dimitris Lazarou has the
responsibility for the concept, organization and communication of the
exhibition.
69 contemporary visual artists
present art works of painting, sculpture and photography, inspired by the words
of the French poet Paul Verlaine: "Art is to be absolutely yourself."
Paul Verlaine is characterized as a
purely lyric poet who has marked a transition from romance to the symbolism
movement, and is distinguished by the musical effect of his writing, through
the use of several secrets of French procreation, such as appearances,
assertions and imparisyllabic lyrics.
Art historian and Assistant
Professor at the University of Athens Konstantinos Vafiadis in his text, titled
"Commentary on Paul Verlaine's Exclusion: Art is to Be Absolutely
Yourself" notes:
“Consequently the aphorism of the
lyric poet Paul Verlaine (1844 – 1896) “Art is to be absolutely yourself, seems
to adopt a view of the same aspect. Nevertheless it reveals ambiguity as it
refers to two ancient notions, concerning Representation, absolutely not
compatible to each other.
According to the first notion Art is
considered to be realized to matter, reference to the Self as a materialistic
projection to the exteriority of a nonvisible essence, and thus as a way out
(exit) from the walls of an individual consciousness.
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| Papalexandri Aspa |
In that case the artistic work
constitutes a symbolic parallel to the self having a reference relationship, a
point without objective but relevant substance.
According to the second – more
ancient – notion. Art is the Self in an absolute Sense. In that case the
artistic work constitutes a presence, it doesn’t refer to the Self. It is the
Self. Thus the artistic work sheds the arbitrary character that is innate in
the relationship between phonetics and the meaning and at the same time it
establishes itself as objective.
Having all these in mind and within
the frame of Paul Verlaine’s symbolic thought the latter seems to support the
second notion of the artistic representation as a testimony of the art work. It
proceeds even further by equating the art work with the self or rather by
substituting and converting the self into the ultimate piece of Art fully
independent from the recent manipulating collectiveness.
In that sense the french poet seems
to prepare the path that was destined to lead to the “Death of the Art” and
later on to the postmodern Situation, innate to the variations of Conceptual Art – not only to
the manipulation of the artistic produce by the “World of Art” since the latter
doesn’t do anything else but continuously direct the dominant World of power.”
The participant artists are:
Maria Andreou // George Androutsos
// Anna Antarti // Antonis Antzoulidis // Elena Antoniou // Giannis
Antonopoulos// Maria Apostolou // Nikos Apostolou // Maria Argyrakopoulou //
Eleni Sameli Varouxakis // Liza Merlin Vasilatou //Konstantinos Vapheiadis
//Nineta Vretou// Palida Georgoulakou // Anastasia Gkinaki // Giannis
Darlamitsos // Tasos Dimos //Elisavet Dionyssopoulou// Tania Drogossi //
Stathis Theodoropoulos// Gerasimos Thomas // Ioanna T. // Ioanna Kazaki //
Leonidas Kampanakis // Evita Kanellou// Christina Karamanli // Eleni Karatza
//Michael Kevgas // Georgia Kokkini // Christos Kontaroudis // Vassilis
Kontogeorgos // Marina Koutsospyroy // Evi Kirma // Penny Konstantinou //
Grigoris Latsios // Spyros Lytras // Peny Manavi // Katerina Mavroleon //
Konstantina Mina// Niki Michailidou // Stavroula Michalopoulou// Fiona
Mouzakiti // Mata Bigali // Georgia
Bliatsou // Vassiliki Bloukou // Eirini Pagoni // Despoina Pantazi // George
Papadimitriou // Styliani Papathanasiou // Aspa Papalexandri // George
Partsinevelos// Maria Pastra // Eirini
Petropoulou // Aikaterini Pouliassi // Nadia Rapti // Natassa Rachovitsa //
Katerina Rimpatsiou // Vicky Samouilidou
//Afroditi Sezenia // Katerina Soroula // Sofia Stavrou // Pandora Sofianessa
// Konstantinos Tzalalis // John Jomakas // Kerassia Touliatou // George Tsakiris
// Katerina Hatzi // Katerina Hortaria // Aristidis Chrysanthopoulos
General information for the
exhibition:
Curator: Konstantinos Vafiadis
Concept - Organization -
Communication: Dimitris Lazarou (repdla@hotmail.com)
Graphic designer: Giorgos Kastanakis
Video editor: Tasos Petsas
The instrumental composition
"This life of mine" which accompanies the video of the exhibition, is
created by Tasos Petsas.
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| Anastasia Ginaki |
Translations in English: Maria Sirri
Opening: Tuesday, 27th of March |
20:00 - 23:30hrs
Duration: 27th of March
up to 20th of April
Facebook link:
Facebook.com/events
Dépôt Art gallery
Neofytou Vamva str. 5
GR 106 74 Kolonaki, Athens |
Tel: 210 3648174
e-mail:info@depotgallery.gr |
Facebook:depotgallery.gr
Opening Hours : Tuesday to Friday: 14:00 - 20:00
Saturday: 11:00 -
15:00
Sunday &
Monday closed
Due to the Easter holiday period the
gallery will be closed from 5th till 11th of April.
ENTRY IS FREE
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