{"id":55003,"date":"2024-07-17T16:12:38","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/?post_type=exhibition&p=55003"},"modified":"2024-08-12T10:18:38","modified_gmt":"2024-08-12T08:18:38","slug":"alexandros-simopoulos","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/cycladic.gr\/en\/ektheseis\/alexandros-simopoulos\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexandros Simopoulos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alexandros Simopoulos<\/h1>

CYCLADIC CAFE ART PROJECT<\/p>

UNTIL SEPTEMBER 16, 2024<\/p><\/header>

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\n The works in the series “Every beach I have ever slept in” have been produced in the past two years, but have been more than a decade in the making. The title of the series is literal, as the works depict every beach the artist has slept in during his lifetime. \n <\/div>\n \n \n<\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n
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Some of these beaches have disappeared due to tourist development, and others are likely to face the same fate. Alexandros Simopoulos depicts these beaches through memory, imagination and photographic references collected over the years. In dialogue with folk art, but also with the history of landscape and seascape painting, he paints places that he has experienced many times, and in different states.<\/p>\n

Although the “virgin beach” consists one of the greatest modernist topographical fantasies, the artist insists on seeing it as a temple, a nest and a place of healing. A space outside of external or forced negotiations and boundaries. A possible space of escape from the (productive) temporal and spatial shell (Lefebvre).<\/p>\n

The coast is ever-changing, the most fleeting and transitory feature on earth. Beaches are multi-sensory fields, where the haptic, the visual and the acoustic cross and mingle. The “beach effect” (Barthes) involves a slowed-down scattering and reconfiguration of sound, sight and sensation, queerly incarnated. As the link between sensory cause and effect loosens, other connections become imaginable. At the beach, our haptic system seeks to experience an embodied nature. Play becomes a performative experiment through the plasticity and fluidity of the sand, and the environment in general. Bodies extend into things and things extend into bodies. The beach becomes a space of relationship and enchantment, a temporary autonomous zone.<\/p>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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