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Repetitions Ι

Repetitions Ι
Group Exhibition
May 27 - September 28, 2023
Poros

Nikos Alexiou
Beppe Caturegli
Alekos Kyrarinis
Christina Mitrentse
Myrto Xanthopoulou
Maria Ikonomopoulou
Nina Papaconstantinou
Nikos Podias
Efi Spyrou
Panos Charalampous
Thalia Chioti

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Eleven artists - Nikos Alexiou, Beppe Caturegli, Panos Charalambous, Thalia Chioti, Alekos Kyrarinis, Christina Mitrentse, Maria Ikonomopoulou, Nina Papaconstantinou, Nikos Podias, Efi Spyrou, Myrto Xanthopoulou - interact over the element of repetition. They adopt a “private” approach, and each one reveals his or her identity, methodology, and visual idiom. They employ various media and materials. Often, in terms of process and technique, the artists of the exhibition have the reference to manual work with an underlying social and political dimension as their common denominator. Despite each artist’s “individuality”, this exhibition reveals common grounds. Repetition is expressed as a pattern; as the identical juxtaposition of text and words; as successive images. The artworks of the exhibition are characterised by repetition of movement, obsessive ritualism, order-arrangement, and scrupulous immersion.

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Epi Timvo at the Archaeological Museum of Poros

Alekos
Kyrarinis
Epi timvo at the Archaeological Museum of Poros
May 27 - September 30, 2023
Poros
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Alekos Kyrarinis describes the unbreakable continuity of time with fifteen works, which are to be exhibited at the Archaeological Museum of Poros. He refers in a lyrical way to the relationship between the living and the dead, to the need for a vivid, eternal memory that keeps the deceased present.
This need has always existed from the furthest antiquity and is expressed through inscriptions, drawings, sculptures, memorials - all of which are defined as funerary. 'Epi Timvo*', to this day, are recalled 'men's honors', but also anonymous everyday figures, familiar and dear to some people.

Alekos Kyrarinis perceives the importance and the weight of the " museological " past which, however, he does not separate from the experienced present. The figures he draws work together with the representations of the vessels and the tombstones of the Museum; at the same time, however, they also refer to Christian religion and iconography. Guardian Angels protect and watch over as connectors to the beyond, to the unknown universe where the deceased reside.
The exhibitions at the Archaeological Museum of Poros present a dialogue between the past and the present, between the Museum's exhibits and the visual world of a contemporary artist. Alekos Kyrarinis intensifies this dialogue, extending it to the relationship between experience and memory.

Epi timvo = on the tomb

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