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Curation:Tenia Menegaki
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Opening:22 December 2023
A few words from Giannis:
“In the series 'Chairs,' I am concerned with the symbolism of 'power' that causes socio-political upheavals marking human beings. The artwork symbolizes the collaboration of art and life while simultaneously serving as a social critique. The chair loses its utilitarian function. It captures the phenomenon rather than the content. It perceives the world as a receptor of cosmic forces. It concerns an allegory of human power beyond the real. It generates new thoughts about this object. Is it the chair itself, its representation, or its semiology that should concern humanity?”
Giannis Argyriadis
The “From Within” chair is strikingly impressive, imposing, with a minimalist aesthetic, a matrix that incubates both material and idea. It steals the show as a step towards viewing a communal world, an essential piece of domestic furniture, evoking a sense of warmth for wine-drinking, and providing pleasure for proper body posture. The same “From Without” chair, capable of accepting anything, becomes dangerously arrogant as a symbol of power for those seated at the center of the universe, undermining those with short memories, irrational minds, style, and prestige. Art cannot endure them. Argyriadis's chair is made from solid materials, such as high-strength wire, single-stroke weaving around the matrix, as well as fragile, soft, crystalline paper and ceramic elements. Creator Giannis Argyriadis draws attention to the use of the “From Within and From Without” chair, as it functions as a moldable form between pleasure and power.