"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
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