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Eleni Koroneou Gallery: Eftihis Patsourakis, "Desire for Truth" - 15 Jan 2010 to 27 Feb 2010 Current Exhibition |
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Eftihis Patsourakis, Desire for Truth
Eleni Koroneou Gallery |
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EFTIHIS PATSOURAKIS �Desire for Truth� 15 January � 27 February 2010 Private view: Friday 15 January 2010, 8-10 p.m. Opening hours: Thus. � Fr. 11 a.m - 3 p.m. & 5-8 p.m. Sat. 12-4 p.m Eleni Koroneou Gallery is pleased to present the new work of Eftihis Patsourakis in his second solo exhibition. Patsourakis was born 1967 in Crete and he lives and works in Athens. The multidimensional artistic practice of Eftihis Patsourakis explores a variety of questions such as individual and collective memory, the reflection of space and time, of the human gleam in space and the relationship between the physical, spiritual and social environment. Patsourakis uses trivial materials (post-it papers, cigarette butt covers, photograph cuts, empty pages of old photo albums) that become structural elements of the picture, mainly through their repetitive use. His work moves between the aesthetics of the sublime (erhaben), the mechanistic and abstractive sensitivity of minimalism and in a dimension of banal pop innovation. In the present exhibition Desire for Truth* the artist presents two units of his work, titled �Sand� and �Curtain�. �Sand� is a series of collage made of empty pages from old family photo albums. It is about mini-private archives of traces of images which are in full development. Absent images of faces create an image with references to the tradition of abstraction that appears here as a connotation of the end of the images, as a metonymy of death. Mosaic Memory of anonymous people, irrevocably doomed to a loss, compose this work. The work stands as a reminder that history is not the sum of our small private moments. In the series"Curtain" Patsourakis "highlights" with the twisted fluorescent color folded sheets of paper that usually cover the photos between the pages of a photo album. The artist thus highlights the traces of a desire. The vision, the present and the future meet in a fold *Jules Deleuze reading of Proust�s novel In �Search of Lost� in Proust and Signs claims that the search of Marcel Proust is oriented not to the past but the future. The �search� is not steered by the effort of recall or the exploration of memory, but by the desire for truth. For further information, please contact Eleni Koroneou Gallery [email protected] Tel. +30 210 3411748, 210 9244271 Eftihis Patsourakis Born in 1967 in Crete 1986-1991 TEI, Athens, Department of Conservation of Works of Art and Antiquities 1993-1998 School of Fine Arts, Athens, BA Fine Art 1999-2000 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, MA Fine Art Lives and works in Athens. Solo Exhibitions 2008 Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul 2007 "History in Memory", Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens 2005 Hahi&White; Gallery, London Group Exhibitions 2009 "Paint-id, Contemporary Painting in Greece", curated by Sotiris Bahtsetzis, Macedonian Museum for Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki "The First Image", curated by Denis Zacharopoulos, Centre Regional d' Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussilon, Sete, France 2008 "Visual Arts in Greece 3", curated by Christina Petrinou, State Museum of Contemporay Art, Thessaloniki "Conceptual Obsession - Obsessive Conseptualism, curated by Soteres Bahtsetzis, TinT Galley, Thessaloniki Group Show, Elastic Gallery, Malm�, Sweden Onassis Foundation, Athens 2007 "Dermatografies", Syggrou Hospital, Athens, Greece ReMap KM, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens "Emergency Room", Ileana Tounta Gallery, Athens "This-Then-That", Rodeo Gallery, Istanbul "Who is here", curated by Denis Zacharopoulos, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki "The harder you look", Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens 2006 "What remains is future", curated by Nadia Argyropoulou, Arsakio Patra, Patra cultural capital of Europe 2006 "Action Field Kodra 06 (ProTaseis)", curated by Elpida Karaba, Sotiris Bahtsetzis, Anne-Laure Oberson), Kodra Thessaloniki, Greece "An Outing, The Beltsios Collection", curated by Sotiris Bahtsetzis Trikala, Greece 2004 "Agora", Transition Gallery, London "Manderley", curated by Xenia Kalpatsoglou, Hotel Astoria, Τhessaloniki, Greece 2003 "So much so Great", curated by Xenia Kalpatsoglou, Larissa Contemporary Art Centre, Greece "Don�t start from the good old things but the bad new ones", curated by M. Trimikliotis, Whitechapel project space, London, U.K. Catalogues 2006 "Action Field Kodra 04 (ProTaseis)", Thessaloniki "What remains is future", Patra cultural capital of Europe 2006 "An Outing, The Beltsios Collection", Trikala 2004 "Manderley", Hotel Astoria, Thessaloniki "Action Field Kodra 02 (ProTaseis)", Thessaloniki "So much so Great", Larissa Contemporary Art Centre, Larissa 2001 "The Doughnut Concept": creativity and commerce 2000 "Central Saint Martins Degree Show", London "(X)HIBIT 2000" |
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