Dedication: An Exhibition of Paintings by Florent Frizet
Featuring a performance of The Avenirologic Hymns by Denis Maksimov/AVENIR INSTITUTE

Through a contemporary approach to abstraction, the works of Dedication render the tradition of figurative elegy endemic to Greco-Roman Antiquity and the Western Renaissance. Iconic images of the martyr, the rebel titan, the sacrificial body, are proffered through discreet traces of color. Figures emerge through suggestion, their praise resounding mysteriously. 

“Dedicated to whom? To solitary figures, true heroes and combatants who, at a given moment, made irrevocable choices, radical in the face of an other, a father, a domineering god: a Martyr.”

The exhibition will be accompanied by a performance of The Avenirologic Hymns, critical contemporary prayers to the deities of roaming futures. The Hymns are the original work of Denis Maksimov/AVENIR INSTITUTE. (Performance at 21:30 precisely).

Florent Frizet (b. 1989) born in France, currently lives in Athens. He has graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieur des Beaux-Arts de Lyon and co-funder of hd.kepler Platform. Selected exhibitions and performances include Astrorythmes, OCC, (2018), Manifesto & Compromise, Super, Berlin (2018), Athens and its periphery in regards to contemporary paintings, The Breeder Gallery, Athens (2017), Even Closer to the Stars at the Institut Francais, Athens (2017), Elysee, Super, Athens (2017) and more.

AVENIR INSTITUTE is a think tank and creative studio at the intersection of epistemology, politics, technology and aesthetics with a focus on critical analysis of potentiality in futures. We produce and present transdisciplinary research and design as academic publications, lectures, foresight consulting, exhibitions, performances and festivals. The Institute was co-founded in 2015 by Denis Maksimov and Timo Tuominen with nodes in Brussels, Berlin, London and Athens.