Noble Lies, Rania Rangou

Rania Rangou:Noble lies
3 November – 29 December 2012  
TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki


In parallel with the events of the 53rd Thessaloniki Film Festival




Is the future perhaps already written as a repetition of the past? Is there actually a 'new', or is there the 'old' in a new version? Ultimately might the future be part of a series of 'noble and brave lies?' Possibly, the unexpected is also a brave falsehood. How unexpected can the 'unexpected' be? In her new solo exhibition, which includes paintings, collages and processed images, Rania Rangou converses with the past, present and future by detecting the common ground between them. By creating a 'room where the unconscious and the conscious coexist', elements surface, inconsistencies, scenarios, fears and battles that have to do with violent change, the repetition of things and the inevitable stillness. Noble or brave lies about the ways of history, the flow and sequence of events, and what is taking place each moment, changing the shared perception of reality.

THANOS STATHOPOULOS Athens, September 2012


http://raniarangou.blogspot.gr/2012/11/noble-lies-tint-gallery-thessaloniki.html

Ο Διχοτομημένος Ιππότης

Christos Athanassiadis 
"The cloven knight"
10/11 - 8/12/2012 

Christos Athanassiadis presents his solo exhibition on Saturday, November 10h at 12:00-16:00 at a.antonopoulou.art gallery.
Τhe latest work of Christos Athanassiadis refers to the short story of Italo Calvino “The Cloven Viscount”.
In his story, Calvino describes the two halves of the viscount each having its own separate existence, while one half represents good and the other evil.
The battle of good and evil is fought in a misty, almost invented historical frame where eventually none is victorious. At the end, the viscount “becomes whole again”, neither good nor bad, an amalgamation of malice and kindness, therefore seemingly similar to the person that was cloven.

Athanassiadis with his paints creates his own story inspired by Calvino. With references to Carpaccio and Giovanni Bellini, he also creates his own weak historical frame in which his story unfolds.
The surroundings break and intersect creating continuous parallels worlds. Good, evil, history, painting, iconography, gradient ochre, stunning red come together to create a historically complex environment.
Athanassiadis depicts his knight intersecting, joining nature, marching into a dialogue of good and evil.
Perhaps is the dissection of the modern man, who Marx calls alienated and Freud calls suppressed.

The modern man incomplete, enemy of his own self and nature, creates a hostile environment and gets entangled in it. Athanassiadis’ cloven knight probably declares the cessation of the battle between the two halves.
He declares a wholesome man who will be part of nature, part of his environment and in touch with the light of his inner soul.
 C. Marinos



Αθανασιάδης Χρήστος , "Ο Διχοτομημένος Ιππότης"
a.antonopoulou.art , Αριστοφάνους 20, 4ος όροφος, Ψυρρή
Τηλ.: 2103214994

http://www.aaart.gr/Content/Exhibition.asp?c=3&l=gr&a=417