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On Friday, 17 January, at 19:00, Sianti Gallery presented the solo exhibition of a restless sculptor, Giorgos Georgiadis, titled “Reinstatement >72 centuries A.C.” with works created during the last decade. Curator of the exhibition is Iris Kritikou, an archaeologist and art critic, who, deeply impressed by the artist’s skills and overpowering humor (as he chose to sculpt apes with various human features), underlines:
“…Georgiadis human apes, have, above all, style, along with a radiant vintage allure. As the artist himself, they exhibit an everlasting wisdom, an effortless kind of humor, an acute self-sarcasm, an inner gentleness and a vigorous sense of youth. They pose with self-satisfaction, decorated with sunglasses and flowing scarfs, carrying the light backpacks of a future heavenly excursion. They flirt and they fall in love. They breed. They hold protectively their newly-borns in their arms. They make speeches, they talk about politics and they shout. They fight and they lose control. They eat bananas. They wear flat caps and top hats. They wave the American flag with evident arrogance. They travel. They balance on bicycles; they drive expensive cars with characteristic ease or ride old bikes with bravery. Sometimes they meet on the carousels of an invisible night circus like lunatics under the moon, and sometimes they’re packed in the insides of an Indian bus full of garlands, lights and other glamourous, yet transient wedding decorations. Georgiadis’ ape men form circles and music bands, they rock and cannot wait to engage in new adventures. Like true imitative beings, the steal roles and human behaviors. They steal whatever catches their eye and whatever shines. They steal attention, in general.”
SEE PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING NIGHT
ARTIST’S BIO
Giorgos Georgiadis was born in 1934, in Amarousio. In 1954-1959, he studied sculpture at the School of Fine Arts with a scholarship by the State Scholarships Foundation, at the workshops of M. Tombros and G. Papas. In 1958, he studied folk art in Lesvos with a scholarship. In 1959, with a scholarship of the Eugenides Foundation, he studied metal techniques in Florence under Bruno Bearzi. In 1975, he was sponsored by the Ford Foundation. In 1069-1980, he taught sketching at the Doxiades Athenian Technical Organization. He has presented 11 solo exhibitions, and has participated in many group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. In 1984, he represented Greece at the Venice Biennale. He has been awarded: the 1 st Prize of Young Panhellenic (1961), the honorary Diploma of the Greek Writers Society (1974), the 1 st Prize of an international exhibition held by the European Council in Brussels and the 2 nd Prize of the Second Biennale of Alexandria (1976), the Award of the Italian Journalists (1985), the Award of the Athenian Municipality and the 2 nd Prize of the International Exhibition of Monte Carlo (1988). In 1990 he received the “Arte e Sport” Award, in 1991 the “Fontane di Roma” Award, and in 1993 the golden medal of the Italian Academy of Letters and Science of Liguria. He has been honored by the Municipalities of Pefki and Amarousio for the
sum of his work. He is a member of the Chamber of Fine Arts of Greece, where he served as a member of the Grading Committee. He is, also, a member of the Sculptor and Graduates Societies of the School of Fine Arts.