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ReMap3

An international contemporary art programme

Kerameikos-Metaxourgeio, Athens, Greece

12 September – 30 October 2011

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MEHDI CHOUAKRI / LUCA TREVISANI - PLACET EXPERIRI

The work of Luca Trevisani (*1979, IT) is defined by the examination of physical correlations and philosophical themes. He turns his ideas into delicate sculptures and drawings, experimental films, and installations. Abstract topics like ephemerality and fragility are inherent in form and content. Fluctuation, metamorphosis, variability, balance and a certain proximity to alchemy as well as childhood experiences are also essential to Trevisani. All these influences paired with his bold use of materials, which are often found quaint items, and organic components, characterise his art. At ReMap 3 Trevisani presents new drawings and sculptures.

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PAIN: INDEPENDENT CURATORIAL BY MARINA VRANOPOULOU / ALEKSANDRA WALISZEWSKA'S SOLO SHOW - PART OF GROUP MODULAR EXHIBITION THAT DEVELOPS IN TIME CHAPTER THREE: PAIN / ALEKSANDRA WALISZEWSKA

In the exhibition Chapter Three: Pain / Aleksandra Waliszewska, the Polish artist creator, develops a multinarrative phantasmagoria where various creatures (in most cases a young atrophic figure) are pictured in a single uncanny and emotional scene.

The basic element of the hero’s situation in Waliszewskas’ paintings is pain, either as a threat, or as physical or emotional condition. The English word pain was created from the Greek πόνος, meaning “penalty, or the price of blood, vengeance (the offence) after punishment”. Through the Latin poena, which gave the French pein (originally meant “the torture of witnesses of the faith”), came the English pain with the meaning “pain as a result of pain from the torture and subsequent punishment in general”.

The production of this pain is animated from the personal traumas and experiences, the moral and the social dilemmas of the artist in combination with explorations of the condition of the Other. Pain is attributed with the creation of an exuberant archive of images of stable dimensions, with familiar protagonists, known to us from diverse sources of High and Low visual culture. (For example, archetypes inherited from old master paintings, figures from horror films and victims exposed to us from pedophilic and sadomasochistic documentation).

Waliszewska’s origin as well as the atmosphere of her artworks (in which, meadows, fields, snowy landscapes, dark rooms and humble materials are depicted) encourage a global and at the same time also local (that derives from the European specificity of Poland) reading of her work, that mixes with voyeurism and psychoanalysis as central sub themes among others.

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ILEANA TOUNTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTER / LIKE A (W)EDGE

 

Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center present the group show “Like a W(edge)” as part of ReMap3.

As the title of the show declares, the idea for this year’s participation of the Ileana Tounta Contemporay Art Center , is based in a pun on the English terms wedge (wedge) and edge (boundary).

The wedge is a simple mechanical tool that is primarily used to lift objects and the temporary stabilization in space. It is placed in some way among the items to co-operate and restore the imbalance in both their use and their relation to space.

Accordingly , the fourteen artists of the gallery operate and “invade” virtually on the second floor of an abandoned building thus creating a delicate balance .They redefine – even temporarily – the limits and the operation of the site, thus creating a new dynamic relations, considerations and debates.

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