Fragments
Vivianne van Singer and Vasilis Zografos
Opening: Thusday 13th of January at 6pm
Exhibition: 14 January 2021 to 5 Mars 2022
In it’s usual context of creating a dialogue between contemporary international artists, espace_L gallery this time invites Vivianne van Singer and Vasilis Zografos.
The latest series of the work by Thessaloniki, Greece-based artist Vasilis Zografos substantiates the painting medium’s enduring significance in today’s digital image culture, against common claims of its demise, by examining the tension between memorialization and design, commemoration and utility, reflection and affordance. It draws on an archaeological tradition rather than a Modernist legacy to update the medium’s bearing and contemporary relevance, from the local perspective of artistic development in Greece.
In this way, Zografos confronts the painting medium’s exhausted art history with the hyper-mediated virtuality and functional design of ancient craft traditions, more in tune with today’s fragmented and instrumentalized digital image culture. New ceramic works of the artist, that constitute a unique composition from fragments of vessels, come in addition to the exhibition.
Vivianne van Singer is a literal creator of traces, fashioning kaleidoscopic variations like a game for the intellect between order and chaos, or the whole and the part. Her reflective propositions are like visual pilgrimages deconstructing mechanisms of memory, function as comments in small worlds. One finds in her work a dense amalgam of imagination and detailed study, irony and scientific precision, often lyricism, too, with parables or metaphors of an almost metaphysical nature in a conceptual and sensitive way.
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