Social Distortion | Less real more human
Vienna based artists Martina Menegon, Alexander Martinz and Stefano D’Alessio meet artists Kostas Lales and Magda Lambropoulou in Athens, for the exhibition Social Distortion / Less real more human at the ArtWall.
Social Distortion includes new media installations and sculptures that center around fluid bodies, constantly switching between physical and digital states. The artworks revisit and transform the body, carrying a remembrance of the physical flesh, digitally and socially distorted to serve a new formal aesthetic. Whether it is about feeding back information into the pornographic maelstrom, creating new awareness of the self by translating it into virtual disorienting and grotesque 3D-scans, developing new ways of archiving memories or coding and decoding real life events from and into digital personae, the body is always the core and platform of these expressions.
Artists: Martina Menegon Alexander Martinz Stefano D’Alessio, Kostas Lales, Magda Lambropoulou.
Curated by: Martina Menegon, Alexander Martinz and Stefano D’Alessio
with Fotini Kapiris and Georg Georgakopoulos
"Social Distortion" exhibition in Athens, is part of the Offspring Young Artists program for the cultivation of new generation artistic practice.
The Artwall Project Space was initiated in July 2012 as a result of collaboration between the Fresh Hotel Athens and CHEAPART. The aim of the Artwall was to showcase contemporary art and become a catalyst for discussion and collaboration among artists and art professionals. The Artwall's program was designed and implemented (2012-2017) by Fotini Kapiris, artist and curator, to meet requirements and standards of contemporary artistic production.
Opening: Friday, February 3, 2017, 20:00
Duration: 3 – 28.2.2017
Hours: Wednesday & Friday: 17:00 – 21:00, Saturday 13:00 – 16:00
ArtWall Project Space
26 Sofokleous str. 10552, Athens
