The EIGHT presents the solo exhibitions ΜΠΟΥΦΑΝ by Myrto Xanthopoulou and “Predella” by Kostas Tzimoulis, from February 18 until March 3, 2020.

MΠΟΥΦΑΝ blue jacket hot mess bottoms up cold floor white birds (I close my eyes) your jacket over and over A collection of songs about the ΜΠΟΥΦΑΝ that never dries. Predella A predella is the platform or step on which an altar stands. In medieval and Renaissance painting, the predella is a number of small-scale narrative paintings along the frame at the bottom of an altarpiece. Predella scenes are now often separated from the rest of the altarpiece in museums.

In the exhibition “Predella” by Kostas Tzimoulis, the sets of works- sculptures, drawings, photographs and video – constitute notes on the relationship between the immaterial, the unrealized, the unused on the one hand, and the handcrafted, the material, the processed, on the other. The pieces can be perceived as a promise of a future realization, οr, on the contrary, a reminder of a past presence. In any case, their presence traces the absence of something bigger. Of a main volume that is missing. The sculptures consist of a variety of materials: Plaster, aluminum, Styrofoam, marble, plastic, wood, polyurethane, paper, ceramic, photograph, projection. Plaster units have a steady and repetitive place in the sculptures. Different materials, edited or not, are combined, creating sculptural situations that converse with architecture and design, and dictate a floor plan viewpoint from a distance.
This is the core of “Predella”, and it is articulated in syllables: each sculptural set is a syllable of meaning.