back to Athens 2013

back to Athens  19.4- 28.4.2012

 Slipping Signs Resurfaces

 19.4 – 28.4.2013

 Hotel PINDAROS 2^nd floor

Last year’s group exhibition at Penindaplinena Gallery, titled Slipping Signs,showcased five multi-media artists working from scapes to escapes, scopes, styles and space, as the artists seized these at shifty and slippery moments. Working from seismic landscapes of burning colours from the sky, expressionistic strokes of thick oil paint enveloping the canvas, and acrylic on cardboard, to refined pencil on paper drawings, Slipping Signs’  explosive remnants of material, rephrased interruptions and formed fresh beginnings.  Random and anticipated transformations transpired from dark to light, from reflection to position, from networks of lines to swelling surfaces, addressing matters of identity and continuation, repetition and inscription, site and interiority, frame and de-centralization.

A starting point, at the time, for many of the artists’ works, took off from a given inner place, or city, where, although the intention seemed to be to move in this identifying place of ‘rest’, there was also a longing to explore disruptions that ‘promising’ sites do not anticipate. The works composing the first exhibition,Slipping Signs, evoked a new habitat to revive vision, to dream another dream, to embark on re-constructing intimate possibilities where the impulse of identifying insists on slithering. Comfortable in zones of indefinite and infinite connections, the works exhibited a vigour, surfacing through this distinct treatment of pencil, paper, ink, acrylic, canvas and cardboard.

Slipping Signs Resurfaces is a proposal for a new phase of exhibiting older and new works, and inviting more artists, local and international, to participate in this exhibition, and to include, among paintings and drawings – small scale and large – installation, video, photography, and, site-specific installations. Focusing on contemporary works of all media and makings, this exhibition aims to talk to the breaking of boundaries and confinements that control, categorize and rigidly identify. Stretching the material, aesthetic, and political margins of individual works, as well as the social fabric in which these are produced,Slipping Signs Resurfaces, places emphasis on reconsidering the social space, which impacts artistic production. It looks at a range of works, which shift horizontally in a ‘liquid life’ of incessant fluctuation between elusive boundaries of means and material.

On a global level, we are experiencing, more than ever, a social, personal, economic, institutional, and collective volatility, during which the only way to look forward is through a critical reevaluation of a past system of secure structural powers immune to fluid forms of being human and publicly productive.

Participating artists: Anastasia Mina, Dimitra Bista, Konstantino Dregos, Clemens Behr, Socrates Fatouros, Maria Aristotelous, Kyriakos Kousoulides

Curated by: Tasos Stylianou

I participated with the second version of 41_415.

photos taken by Christoforos Doulgeris.