4.3-6.4.2010

battlefield

Vicky Anastasiou, Alexis Avlamis, Dimitris Christides, Ellie Froudaraki, Leonidas Giannakopoulos, Dimitris Gizinos / Andreas Vousouras, Giorgos Karagiorgos, Stelios Karamanolis, Xanthie Kostorrizou, Georgia Kotretsos, Sifis Lykakis, Giorgos Papadatos, Nikos Papadimitriou, Konstantinos Papamihalopoulos, Personal Cinema & The Erasers, Miltiadis Petalas, Andreas Sitorego, Marilia Stagkouraki, Orestis Symvoulides, Yiannis Theodoropoulos, Nikos Tranos, Mihalis Zaharias, Apostolos Zerdevas


As time goes by, reality simulates that of a battlefield upon which contemporary visual artists are called upon to portray; the result may be violently pop, with references to a contemporary view of pop culture - comics, video games, digital aesthetics of the Internet ...

Battlefield. A battle field. A scene of death, blood, violence, of ideological, religious and national fanaticism, and of political interests. A ground of conflict.

Through their own interpretation of the meaning of the battle (field), 23 young artists refer directly to what is essentially our social space, to the contemporary political situation, the current state of our society and global definition set by the current socio-economic conditions, to Media and the Internet. Violence, sovereignty, social exclusion, fear of the unknown, of the future and of foreign to us elements, are yet only few examples of the aftermath of contemporary rivalries within contemporary fields of battle.

With variation in style, aesthetics, materials, yet dynamic and open to new visual approaches that derive from within the global Internet culture, artists explore the concept of contemporary battles, the reality surrounding us.

The exhibition is divided into two levels, ground floor video installations, and sculpture/video installations on the first floor of a more "traditional" approach. The exhibition is curated by the Battlefield team.