Apostolis Zolotakis, Celluloid and Cigarettes | 16.4-21.5.2010 - cheapart

We perceive the notion of Time mainly through the endless diversification of everyday images. The world is marked out primarily through the image and its constant changes are recognized especially through the image. The installation “Celluloid and Cigarettes” poses questions pertaining to the human journey in the river of time. The depiction of this course in art and technology, but also the reality itself sail together. In this journey, that possesses only horizon and not a return to its starting point, the human changes and along with him changes the whole of his environment. His ways, practices and his perception of them, their “storage” in the reservoir of world experience are being altered or they vanish. Parts of contemporary human take their place in the material and immaterial museum show-cases, are transported on the ship of time to the island of the past, sealing the end of an era, opening up new windows and hoisting the sails in the open horizon.

Apostolis Zolotakis was born in Athens in 1963. In 1983 he began his studies at the Minerva Art Academy in Groningen, Holland. In 1988 he graduated in graphic design and photography and in 1990 in computer graphics, silkscreen and painting. In 1990 – 1991 he worked as ‘Artist in Residence’ at SCAN (the former National Institute for Computer Graphics, Animation and Multi Media). Since 1990 he has exhibited his work in Holland (Design Institute - Amsterdam, “Fort Lux” - Ijmuiden, “Van Ij tot Zee” - CSM Amsterdam, Oerel Festival – Terschelling, etc), where he lives and works, in other European countries, in the U.S.A, Australia, and Russia. In Greece he has been showing his work since 2006. His most recent exhibitions in 2009 include shows at Leonidas Kanellopoulos Cultural Centre in Eleusis, in K-Art and the Dutch Institute in Athens. www.zolotakis.com