GROUP SHOW

GILBERT & GEORGE, CRISTINA IGLESIAS, MIKE KELLEY, GEORGE LAPPAS, FLORIAN MAIER-AICHEN, NIKOS NAVRIDIS, TONY OURSLER, THADDEUS STRODE

January 25 – February 15, 2003

Following their major retrospective exhibition at the Art School of Fine Arts and the «Nine Dark Pictures», the famous artistic duo of Gilbert & George presents another work at the Bernier /Eliades gallery.

The Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias combines sculpture with architecture and creates human scale works that are directly related to the environment. Characteristic of her works is their architectural structure.

The Los Angeles based artist Mike Kelley is engaged with sculpture, painting, installations and Performance art. His work is characterized by his ability to reveal the social and moral substructures of the modern society that is dominated by suppression and conflicts. The artist will present his new works at a solo exhibition at Bernier/Eliades, in November 2003.

The latest works of the Greek artist George Lappas are dominated by the struggle between the sculptural presence and the photographic transparency so that the photographic elements are absorbed and used in the creation of powerful luminous spaces.

The works of the German photographer Florian Maier-Aichen, through digital manipulation, blur the line between reality and illusion. His photographs falsify the notion of photography’s ability to represent things are they are and instead present the viewer with fictional images of heightened perfection.

The Void and its relation to Space is the ontological problem around which develops the work of Nikos Navridis. The artist investigates the formulas which result in dualities such as empty/full, interior/exterior. The notion of the limit and the variability of such limits is expressed by latex, the material he usually employs.

Tony Oursler’s work consists mainly of electronically generated images projected onto various surfaces, mostly figures that are abbreviations of the human body mixed in with props made out of simple materials. Themes such as violence, television, the mass media, sex, drugs, mental illness, pop culture, religion and pollution are among many that define the work’s techno-social landscape.

The technique of the works of the Californian artist Thaddeus Strode has strong affinities to the style of comics: strong outlines, combination of words with pictures, vivid colours. Strode’s works combine, with a unique way, comic culture, west-coast surfer ideology, eastern philosophy and adventure stories.