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Sunset in Athens (part three) an exhibition in progress

Admission: Free
Opening: 31.03.2017, 12:00
31.03.2017-01.07.2017
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Sunset in Athens (part three) continues at Vamiali's gallery and from Friday 31 March is enriched with new works and new participations. As a project in progress, this exhibition is being developed gradually and in stages within the last months. More works from different artists added to the initial core, so that the context and content grow organically, be fluid and in constant flux, where each artistic practice might enter or intervene in another. An exhibition in progress, at the time of instability, displacement and transformation, inviting the viewer every time to a new experience and a fresh "re-reading".

In the past, the exhibitions titled "Sunset in Athens" were an homage to painting, the new trends and directions. Keeping the same title now for the third part, this version is seeking a different approach. There is a nostalgia in the enigmatic title, a romanticism, but also a covered metaphor, an allegory. In Greek language the word dusk is the same with the word "West". So if we play on words we could say that is this a sunset in Athens or is Athens a city of the West (Europe); A dusk in Athens or Athens, a city that goes down? A symbolic image or the exculpation of the romantic image of the city as a place of enjoyment? The interpretations remain open.

The exhibition "Sunset in Athens" focuses and explores the universal themes of the human condition as love, loss, loneliness, optimism, discontent, imposition, desire, intimacy, longing and embraces the idea of microcosm, which contains an entire universe. Through micro, the artists approach the macro, the human soul and inexhaustible of the human condition, in order to highlight the subtle practices which through personal, idiosyncratic systems revive a given structure.

Sunset in Athens (part three) an exhibition in progress

Installation view, Dimitra Vamiali