ART PRESENTATION:Trickster/The variable practice
The mental ability that is stated by the word “Metis” is multi-layered, but always emphasized the effectiveness and the pursuit of the success in a field of action. Therefore, we need multiple skills useful for life such as:craftsmanship at work, magic tricks, the use of potions and herbs, war tricks, frauds, duplicity and gumption. Meanwhile in shamanistic mythologies, bears the characteristics of an anthropomorphic animal but also the qualities of a mythological hero who breaks the laws while being in fact a seducer.
The vision of group exhibition ‘’Trickster/The variable practice’’, at a.antonopoulpou art, τhrough the coexistence of artists and architects with very good works, in one of the reports that stands out at the beginning of the artistic year. Τhe vision of the curator of this exhibition is to assemble works of contemporary artists who, by their tactics, bring forth the reading of the world as a permanent global variation, where apparently insignificant details of daily practice find their meaning in the evolution of things, and the conjunctures are no longer problematic imponderable factors but the field of genesis of new dynamics. In those works and tactics, a kind of intelligence still survives, which does not paralyze in front of the unpredictable (the conjunctions), which is able to cope with perplexities in front of the distance that separates an ideal project from the effort of its implementation. So Works of younger artists as: Nikos Arvanitis, Georgia Sagri and Kostas Sachpatzis, of older artist Eleni Kotsioni and oldests as Nikos Kesanlis and of Architects as: Zisis Kotionis and others. S critical that co-curators are two experienced artists Alexandos Psychoulis and Kostas Velonis, that with very targeted manner, through the choices of works and artists, unfold the thread of a visual narrative, where although pluralism and diversity of artistic media, remains clean, clear and robust.
Info: a.antonopoulou art, 20 Aristophanous Str., Psyrri, Athens, duration: 29/9-22/11/14, Days & Hours: Wed-Fri: 14:00-20:00, Sat: 12:00-16:00, www.aaart.gr