Konstantinos Giotis
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
19 OCTOBER – 29 NOVEMBER 2022
With a methodological interest in the materiality of paint and the medium’s potential to act as a speculative space to explore representation, personal and collective narratives and references, the works become a building block for the construction of a contemporary imaginary.
Large scale and expansive or small and intimate, the works revolve around fantasies, desires or autobiographical deviations. Through an open-ended process affected by moods, encounters, memory and research, the work becomes a vessel of suggestive relations. Motifs and painting tropes that often derive from popular culture or the public sphere, appear in atemporal scenarios and as representational mirages root the works in reality, in a dialectical process of subjectivity and power structures. Scenes infused in ambiguity, inhabited by vanishing ghostly presences, figures moving fluidly in and out of focus, implying moments of transition and transformation. Often working with overlapping layers of paint, transparencies and a plethora of representational ideas, concealment and disclosure takes place, creating networks of affective
THE ARTIST
Konstantinos Giotis (b. 1988) lives and works in Athens, Greece. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London (MFA 2015), at the Department of Fine Arts and Art Sciences, University of Ioannina, GR (BA, 2013) and at the Facultad de Bellas Artes, Universidad Complutense, Madrid. In 2020 he has been awarded the ARTWORKS SNF Artist Fellowship. Recent exhibitions include: “180×120”, curated by Florent Frizet, (Athens, 2022); “There is nothing inevitable about time”, TAVROS (Athens, 2022); “New Greek Painting”, Archaeological Museum of Agios Nikolaos (Crete, 2021); “Head2Head”, KEIV (Athens, 2021); “Beyond Nostalgia Hijack”, CAN Christina Androulidaki Gallery (Athens, 2021); “Please, please me”, The Symptom Projects (Amfissa, 2020); “Cra(u)sh. Or how you made me kiss the pavement”, Grace (Athens, 2020).
ARTWORKS
CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT
As part of the Contemporary Art Program, the Museum of Cycladic Art presents the Cycladic Café Art Project connecting social spaces with art. Aiming to embrace both the greek and the international contemporary art scene, the Museum presents works by internationally acclaimed and emerging artists, which relate to current Museum exhibitions and activities. The Cycladic Café Art Project stimulates an intimate dialogue bringing art closer to everyday life.
Curated by:
Aphrodite Gonou & Atalanti Martinou
WITH THE SUPPORT
