Urgent Conversations: Athens – Antwerp

    ENELNL

    The exhibitions Urgent Conversations: Athens–Antwerp and Urgent Conversations: Antwerp – Athens are a collaboration between EMST and M HKA, a theoretical and visual dialogue, based on works from the collections of both museums, which includes more than 70 works structured in 22 topics.   

    28.04.2017 - 07.01.2018        

    M HKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen - Leuvenstraat 32, 2000 Antwerpen

    EMST, National Museum of Contemporary Art - Kallirrois Avenue & Amvr. Frantzi Str., Athens 11743

    TOPICS

    Back
    (c)image: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens
    Untitled, 2004
    Apostolos Georgiou
    Painting
    acrylic, canvas

    Apostolos Georgiou’s painterly work is characterized by a distinctive personal style, formed in the 1980s. Untitled is an anthropocentric and markedly narrative painting, where the artist draws his subjects from people’s everyday lives. Interpersonal relationships, and personal anxieties and deadlocks, are conveyed with a subtle sense of humour, sarcasm and affection, throwing into relief the existential and autobiographical character of his work, as well as his central questioning of human relationships and human existence. […] Georgiou paints from nature, through the observation of the world around him. His subjects are mostly derived from his personal experience and from small everyday episodes, focusing on situations such as chaos, confusion, and complication, as well as on a nonsensical and often surreal element, which he detects even in the most quotidian acts. […] Through his prosaic descriptions, Georgiou investigates deeper questions concerning the constant presence of human fear and the fundamental despair and difficulties in life. The protagonist is an anti-hero filled with a poignant sense of life and an anxiety to exist in this world. 

    — Daphne Vitali

    Back