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Rhymes

curated by Stratis Pantazis
Admission: Free
Opening: 02.11.2023, 19:00
02.11.2023-02.12.2023

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 12:00-20:00,
Wednesday: 12:00-18:00
Saturday: 12:00-15:00

Add to calendar 2023:11:02 19:00:00 2023:12:02 20:39:00 Europe/Athens Rhymes Rhymes - More informations on /events/event/4629-omoiokatalixies Ekfrasi-yianna grammatopoulou Gallery Stratis Pantazis

The art gallery ekfrasi - yianna grammatopoulou presents a group of new works by Dimitris Skourogiannis under the title Rhymes.

Thomas Symeonidis, writer and an associate tutor in Aesthetics and Philosophy at the Athens School of Fine Arts, notices: "The work of Dimitris Skourogiannis could be seen as an anthropological and cultural reflection, as an attempt to assemble different versions of a single, synthetic image of confrontation and reconciliation with the multiple idea of death. Skοurogiannis constructs symbolic forms through a fiction of materiality that is deployed in three dimensions. Disparate materials are arranged together weaving simultaneously the common, ontological thread that runs through his practice."

In Rhymes, as the art historian Stratis Pantazis notes, "we re-discover the elements that compose Skourogiannis'' visual vocabulary. The sketch and colour meet sculpture, assemblage, readymade, photography, collage, embroidery on tulle and writing. The volume of the 3-dimensional materials and objects he uses on the background of his works, is "muzzled" by the stretched tulle, which comments, adds or juxtaposes the,under development,morphological and conceptual content of each work. The different levels cover one another and all together compose the final image."

In Dimitris Skourogiannis works, the color, the lines and the materials are united with myths and fairytales such as Persephone, The Princess and the Pea and Beauty and the Beast. They open a dialogue, they "rhyme" or they conflict with the given narrative tradition. They create stories that speak about the present time, stories without ending.   

Rhymes

Πριγκίπισσα που κοιμάται, 2022-2023, κεφαλάρι από παλιό κρεβάτι [ξύλο, αφρώδες γέμισμα, καπιτονέ σατέν με ντυμένα κουμπιά], θραύσματα αντικειμένων από πορσελάνη, ύφασμα επικολλημένο σε ξύλο, δεμάτι από χορτόσχοινο, μεταλλικά κουμπιά, βαμβακερό και ακρυλικό τούλι, βαμβακερές κλωστές, ακρυλικά, 97,5 x 124,5 x 12,5 εκ.