Kalo Mina in March opens Dimitris Kontodimos with the installation ¨More than meets the eye¨. The starting point of this work is the concept of remembering in a double meaning.

In his artistic work, which is based on a process of wandering around the city, Dimitris Kontodimos explores new forms of expression of the urban landscape. Starting from the everyday and universal nature of the city, he arrives at his own personal perspective by rearranging objects, contents and contexts from the public space. They lose their primarily functional role, as he places them in a newly defined context that opens up new possibilities for reading. The selected objects are mainly building materials or objects and products of urban civilisation.

By incorporating found objects from urban architecture, art and fashion, he creates images in which the sculptural process goes hand in hand with urban life. Seemingly disparate everyday objects, which together make up the totality of a city, encourage a dialogue between the concepts of memory, structure and spatiality and the collected objects. The city, a place of action, where the ephemeral and the monumental, the everyday and the impermanent meet as a chronology of its own history.

The installation ¨More than meets the eye¨ focuses on common and recognisable building materials in the urban space.  Elements such as architectural ornamental decorations stand next to parts of scaffolding and pieces of marble. Although they are removed from their original context and far from their original purpose, they come together to form a new narrative. They are joined by small building blocks as a kind of commentary, reminiscent of children's toys - a reminder of our past, of our first attempts to build something. With the same playful approach to building - without rules and without purpose - Dimitris Kontodimos also assembles his works of art.

Dimitris Kontodimos (*1994) lives and works in Athens. He completed his education at the University of Ioannina GR.  In 2021 he received the Master of Fine Arts from the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). His work has been exhibited at home and abroad, in art spaces, at art projects and art fairs.  Most recently his work was part of the European Capital of Culture Eleusis initiative: 2023 Eleusis, Mystery 56, "In from the margins".