ART-REVIEW:Maro Fasouli -From the Elbow to the Wrist

Maro Fasouli, Untitled, 2020, 228 x 294 cm, Cloth, woven, spray, pastel, thread, reed, © Maro Fasouli, Courtesy the artist and OPANDAMaro Fasouli’s exhibition “From the Elbow to the Wrist” at City of Athens Visual Arts Centre, focuses on manual labor and folk tradition, but completely deconstructed and repositioned in a new-contemporary context. The artist approaches and presents her subject, in a hedonistically sharp and ultimately expressionist way just like the painting of the German  Die Neuen Wilden artists in the late 1970s and 1980s. The exhibition is structured and extends on two levels: the wall and the space. Fasouli’s wall hangings are much stronger than her sculptures, because while on the walls the viewer can distinguish influences and writings from artists such as El Anatsui, Beatriz Milhazes or Sheila Hicks, but Fasouli appropriates them and creates a new artistic result, which gives them her personal stamp. Unlike her sculptures that look like dummies with diverse elements and materials  that some of them  mention the works of Louise Bourgeois, but are much weaker and sophisticated. This creates a confused image for the viewer, since the wall hangings can stand and function on their own – independently, and the sculptures are like surplus and meaningless talk in space, in a completely well curated exhibition – Efi Michalarou

Cover Photo: Maro Fasouli, Untitled, 2020, 228 x 294 cm, Cloth, woven, spray paint, pastel, thread, reed, © Maro Fasouli, Courtesy the artist and OPANDA

Info: Curator: Christoforos Marinos, City of Athens Visual Arts Centre, Parko Eleftherias, Vassilissis Sofias Avenue, Athens, Duration: 6/10-8/11/20, Days & Hours: Tue-Sat 10:00-20:00, Sun 10:00-14:00, www.opanda.gr

 

Maro Fasouli, Untitled, 2020, 253 x50 x 50 cm, Thread, woven, foam, spray, © Maro Fasouli, Courtesy the artist and OPANDA
Maro Fasouli, Untitled, 2020, 253 x50 x 50 cm, Thread, woven, foam, spray paint, © Maro Fasouli, Courtesy the artist and OPANDA