i visited the exhibition DAMIEN HIRST yesterday. Just an appartment in the middle of Palaio Faliro with 3 rooms used as a temporary space. The artists were Dimitris Karadinopoulos, Andreas Kasapis, Kostas Roussakis and Yiannis Tzavelas. Kasapis produced a mural-graffiti (if i am allowed to use the term) that was in usual style, however i thought it was slightly less detailed than other works of his that i ve seen. Which is maybe a step to something new in his work? I really love his work i think he has an amazing way of portraying the sadness and loneliness of modern urban man together with an optimistic smth hovering over the work. Karadinopoulos showed a cast of wht looked like the back of Formula 1 car, which was interesting as an object but because i have seen older video works of his i think they were much more succesful and whole as artworks. Roussakis showed a wonderful ladder beggining from the wall and ending on the floor made out of cardboard, it was so simple but yet so inviting to climb it and silmutaneously it was so obvious it was fragile that i felt trapped between these two feelings and it instantly made me really warm to the work. Lastly Tzavelas showed a mural on the wall which showed potential but it possibly needed more space for the drawing to breath and maybe more defined lines to his whole presentation.
I am really glad that people have fresh ideas like these and that they have the initiative to show their work in this manner. The best thing is to see these -dare i say it- underground initiatives and as a good friend said last nite "suburbia might be the new down town"...well It is a weekend so i will not be writing more. More details to come, as well as visuals
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