Artwork in the exhibition

Back to
Athens 9

(Exhibition photos)


2022

Group exhibition
Isaiah Mansion
Athens

From the exhibition press release:

Through her sculpture ‘‘Fall’’, Maria Stamati deals with the uncertainty of modern man’s life, who is living as if he is in constant fall or levitation, with the notion of threat, of overturning and ultimately of danger hanging “over” him like a sword of Damocles.

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BACK TO ATHENS 9, 2022

‘‘No Man’s Land/Dreamland’’

Press Release

As a curator, for the second consecutive year, I received an invitation from the organizers of the highly successful art meeting ‘‘Back to Athens 9’’ 2022. It was held at the same venue at 65 Patission & Ioulianou Street (former Stavrakos Schools), in one of the last buildings of unique architecture in Athens, which is included in the axis (Aeolou-Patission Street). It was and it is one of the most interesting invitations and I was waiting for it with anticipation and enthusiasm (!)

The reason for this: the title ‘‘No apocalypse now, a review’’, since the “Back to Athens” art meeting is celebrating its 10th anniversary (2012-2022), as well as the idea for 15 curators to coexist again with 100 artists, in a space of 2.700 sq.m. This is not only an important experience, but also a statement. A statement that unites us with the audience, a wide and diverse audience, with a relationship of interaction in a time when the only constant is the instability that overwhelms us and prevails through social and political events, with the War in Ukraine at the spearhead and its implications on the lives of all of us-globally.

The exhibition is called ‘‘No Man’s Land/Dreamland’’ featuring 23 participating artists, aiming at creating a new dialogue: with each other, with space, with a wide and big audience, while rethinking the values derived from Plato and Aristotle, as our organizers correctly put in words. Their target is moving from an independent-immaterial territory, a No Man’s Land, to the Ideal State of Plato that it can be: Dreamy, Imaginary or Dreaming (!)

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Through her sculpture ‘‘Fall’’, Maria Stamati deals with the uncertainty of modern man’s life, who is living as if he is in constant fall or levitation, with the notion of threat, of overturning and ultimately of danger hanging “over” him like a sword of Damocles.

Efi Michalarou, Art Critic & Exhibition Curator

Participating Artists: Katerina Anastasiou, Ioanna Assani, Vicky Vasiliou, Costas Vittis, Flora Zafeiraki, Maria Zygomala, Aikaterini Kanakaki, Nikos Kryonidis, Sofia Kyriakou, Dimitris Lempesis, Alexandros Maganiotis, Evangelia Basdekis, Lamprini Boviatsou, Pericles Boutos, Margarita Petrova, Fotini Poulia, Rania Rangou, Alexandra Roussopoulos, Nadia Skiada, Fani Sofologi, Maria Stamati.

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