Glorious elements
The first part of the diptych «Glorious elements-Plastic kisses» hosted in Back to Athens 2023. 2 modular exhibitions on the unbearable lightness existing in a plastic world, composed of glorious elements in Athens and Vienna.
In times of prosperity and tranquility, simple things and habits are absorbed in the flow of everyday life. Trivial situations and personal concerns ultimately leave no real imprint. Minor issues replace matters of true importance. The ongoing global crises since 2008 has brought about radical changes for humanity resulting in a violent upheaval of everyday life and impact on our way of thinking. What challenges us to handle and overcome difficulties are the glorious elements of human nature and individual qualities.
As global history advances with a profound effect on our national identity, we are called upon to reshape the new landscape, to seek our individuality and acceptance within it. We enter this new world carrying a bulk of old and new thoughts, empathies, desires, beliefs, behaviors, past and present conditions. Social network channels and digital platforms collect and absorb all of these conflicting elements, as they offer freedom of expression to individuals from a diversity of social, educational, cultural, political and religious backgrounds. Our social self-image, both in the real as in the virtual world, provides insight on identity of the personal and political individual of today’s world. Often, we fall into the misconception that through social media we can change the real world into an imaginary habitat, a fake - plastic one.
*The public image as a reflection of oneself, the other - the ideal self-image, the collective understanding of reality and the escape of a fragmented impression of the actual self*, are the issues examined in «Glorious elements». Artists: Marion Fischer, Katerina Kanakakis, Marilia Kolibiri, Eleni Mylonas, Michail Parlamas, Ilias Polychroniadis, Panos Sklavenitis / Mihalis Zaharias, Michaelangelo Vlassis - Ziakas, Eirini Vlavianou.
«Glorious elements» is curated by Georg Georgakopoulos.
«Glorious elements» is hosted in Back to Athens International Art Meeting 2023. It is the first exhibition of the diptych «Glorious Elements/ Plastic Kisses» presented in Athens and Vienna, realized with the financial support and auspices of the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports YPPOA.
Back to Athens 10 International Art Meeting | 2023: Geometry of racional is curated by:
Georg Georgakopoulos, Fotini Kapiris, Christian Rupp.
Organised by APART Art Research and Applications.
Support/ participation: Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports [Financial support & Auspices for «Glorious Elements/Plastic Kisses»], City of Athens [Auspices], Austrian Embassy in Athens, Bundesministerium für Kunst, Kultur, öffentlichen Dienst und Sport, ZOIA, Land Tirol, Czech Center of Athens, CHEAPART, ARTmART, Modular expansion, Participation: Athens Intersection Cultural Program.
Back to Athens 10 International Art Meeting | 2023: Geometry of racional
Isaiah Mansion
65 Patission & Ioulianou, Athens, 104 33
Opening: Tuesday, June 28, 2023, 16:00 - 22:00
Duration: June 28 – July 2, 2023
Hours: Wednesday– Friday 16:00 - 22:00, Saturday – Sunday 12:00 – 22:00
