The Untold Story
Sole sound in the silence your footfalls*
Vasilis Zografos
Opening - Nuit des Bains: January 18th from 6 p.m., in the presence of the artist
Exhibition: January 19th to February 24th, 2024
Drawing on various media (painting, ceramics, photography), Vasilis Zografos offers an aesthetic imitation of an object that generates a space for reflection, contemplation, and meditation. For his series of works "Sole sound in the silence your footfalls", Zografos performs a double gesture of spatialization. On the one hand, he transposes an object onto the vertical surface of the canvas; on the other hand, he positions his ceramics on the ground and in relation to the painted image. It is an indeterminate form of immobility, an economy of expressions presenting ways of being developed from a perspective of intentional dissimilarity of the similar. More than a critique of representation, materiality, and the autonomy of the medium, the focus is on the aesthetic beauty and thought of objects and images. Achieving an active passivity, it is the mark of beauty; the expression of radical indifference. But objects and images are also containers of unthought thoughts. From this point of view, Zografos' work can be considered a powerful act of spatialization, a proposal that revitalizes exhibitory values and invites the contemplative and performing gaze of the viewer.
Thomas Symeonidis Writer,
Lecturer in Aesthetics and Philosophy, Athens School of Fine Arts
Sole sound in the silence your footfalls*
Vasilis Zografos
Opening - Nuit des Bains: January 18th from 6 p.m., in the presence of the artist
Exhibition: January 19th to February 24th, 2024
Drawing on various media (painting, ceramics, photography), Vasilis Zografos offers an aesthetic imitation of an object that generates a space for reflection, contemplation, and meditation. For his series of works "Sole sound in the silence your footfalls", Zografos performs a double gesture of spatialization. On the one hand, he transposes an object onto the vertical surface of the canvas; on the other hand, he positions his ceramics on the ground and in relation to the painted image. It is an indeterminate form of immobility, an economy of expressions presenting ways of being developed from a perspective of intentional dissimilarity of the similar. More than a critique of representation, materiality, and the autonomy of the medium, the focus is on the aesthetic beauty and thought of objects and images. Achieving an active passivity, it is the mark of beauty; the expression of radical indifference. But objects and images are also containers of unthought thoughts. From this point of view, Zografos' work can be considered a powerful act of spatialization, a proposal that revitalizes exhibitory values and invites the contemplative and performing gaze of the viewer.
Thomas Symeonidis Writer,
Lecturer in Aesthetics and Philosophy, Athens School of Fine Arts