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Opening: 31.03.2017, 19:00
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Perished Sun
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Kalfayan Galleries
Kalfayan Galleries (11 Haritos Street, Kolonaki, Athens) present the group show of Yiannis Papadopoulos, Panos Tsagaris and Kostis Velonis titled “Perished Sun”. The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday, 31 March 2017 from 19.00 to 21.00.
In ancient Greece, the eclipse was considered to be an evil omen, an augury of discord and suffering. The endless eclipses that Greece has experienced during the last years, beyond being the pleasurable experience of an astronomical phenomenon, bear witness to the covert dimension that accompany superstitions.
The exhibition attempts to shed light on these signs that pass unseen through the routine of ordinariness. Together with the failures and setbacks in everyday life, the show translates them into a geometry of their elliptical shapes, their eclipses and shadows. This ambivalent approach to the eclipse in the projects of Yiannis Papadopoulos, Panos Tsagaris and Kostis Velonis is transcribed as a resistance to pre-existing structures, as an error that seeks its continuation, the tension of a disorder that becomes the product of creativity and revision of the established order.
In ancient Greece, the eclipse was considered to be an evil omen, an augury of discord and suffering. The endless eclipses that Greece has experienced during the last years, beyond being the pleasurable experience of an astronomical phenomenon, bear witness to the covert dimension that accompany superstitions.
The exhibition attempts to shed light on these signs that pass unseen through the routine of ordinariness. Together with the failures and setbacks in everyday life, the show translates them into a geometry of their elliptical shapes, their eclipses and shadows. This ambivalent approach to the eclipse in the projects of Yiannis Papadopoulos, Panos Tsagaris and Kostis Velonis is transcribed as a resistance to pre-existing structures, as an error that seeks its continuation, the tension of a disorder that becomes the product of creativity and revision of the established order.
Panos Tsagaris, Your soul is the link between the mortal life and the divine spark, 2016 gold leaf, acrylic paint and silkscreen on canvas, 200 x 150 cm