{"id":30168,"date":"2023-08-02T14:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T14:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beta.cycladic.gr\/exhibition\/28078-2\/"},"modified":"2023-08-29T08:25:10","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T08:25:10","slug":"28078-2","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/ektheseis\/28078-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Konstantinos Giotis"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Konstantinos Giotis<\/h1>

CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT<\/p>

19 OCTOBER \u2013 29 NOVEMBER 2022<\/p><\/header>

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\n Konstantinos Giotis\u2019 painting exists in-between figuration and timeless ambiguity. \n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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With a methodological interest in the materiality of paint and the medium\u2019s 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.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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