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On Friday, 17 January, at 19:00<\/strong>, Sianti Gallery<\/strong> presented the solo exhibition of a restless sculptor, Giorgos Georgiadis, titled \u201cReinstatement >72 centuries A.C.\u201d<\/strong> with works created during the last decade<\/strong>. Curator of the exhibition is Iris Kritikou<\/strong>, an archaeologist and art critic, who, deeply impressed by the artist\u2019s skills and overpowering humor (as he chose to sculpt apes with various human features), underlines:<\/p>\n

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\u201c\u2026Georgiadis human apes, have, above all, style, along with a radiant vintage allure. As the artist <\/em>himself, they exhibit an everlasting wisdom, an effortless kind of humor, an acute self-sarcasm, an <\/em>inner gentleness and a vigorous sense of youth. They pose with self-satisfaction, decorated with <\/em>sunglasses and flowing scarfs, carrying the light backpacks of a future heavenly excursion. They flirt <\/em>and they fall in love. They breed. They hold protectively their newly-borns in their arms. They make <\/em>speeches, they talk about politics and they shout. They fight and they lose control. They eat bananas. <\/em>They wear flat caps and top hats. They wave the American flag with evident arrogance. They travel. <\/em>They balance on bicycles; they drive expensive cars with characteristic ease or ride old bikes with <\/em>bravery. Sometimes they meet on the carousels of an invisible night circus like lunatics under the <\/em>moon, and sometimes they\u2019re packed in the insides of an Indian bus full of garlands, lights and other <\/em>glamourous, yet transient wedding decorations. Georgiadis\u2019 ape men form circles and music bands, <\/em>they rock and cannot wait to engage in new adventures. Like true imitative beings, the steal roles <\/em>and human behaviors. They steal whatever catches their eye and whatever shines. They steal <\/em>attention, in general.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

SEE PHOTOS FROM THE OPENING NIGHT<\/strong><\/p>\n

ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder The works as a whole \u2013 each of them unique and unnumbered \u2013 along with the 15 smaller works of the same series, were created during 2014-2024, along with those of the previous group, titled \u201cReverse Mythology\u201d. For the artist himself it is a challenge to work with two slip cast ceramic stoneware in an effort to depict the twists in human relationships: \u201c\u2026As time passed by, I saw in my <\/em>fantasy how people, as they reached their higher level of evolution, begun a gradual return to their <\/em>primal roots, i.e. the primates \u2013 as they are called in the Theory of Evolution by the English <\/em>physiologist Charles Darwin. A total return to their point of beginning. The special characteristic of <\/em>this mutation might be that, during their trajectory, they will keep some of the habits they exhibited <\/em>in their previous lives as Homo Sapiens: their erect walking, as well as some traits of appearance, but <\/em>mostly their love of technology and machinery. And bikes, in this case, is a lasting symbol of Man\u2019s <\/em>mechanical evolution\u201d.<\/em> In the end, Iris Kritikou notes in connection to Georgiadis\u2019 charismatic pack: \u201c\u2026we understand even <\/em>better his connotational motive, his mastery and acute intellect, which he infuses into this game of <\/em>loud and superficially funny transformations, the mimicry following in its communicative force the <\/em>flow of public opinion reminding us, in a way, the epidemic of \u2018rhinoceroses, as conceived by the <\/em>great Romanian writer, Ionesco. Yet, it is in our hand to resist the political and universal gloom, the <\/em>hypocrisy and the conformative hypnosis, the vast loneliness of individuality, the catalyzing and void <\/em>demureness through art, beauty and inexhaustible humoristic seriousness\u201d.<\/em> <\/p>\n

ARTIST\u2019S BIO<\/strong><\/p>\n

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 \u201cArte e Sport\u201d Award, in 1991 the \u201cFontane di Roma\u201d 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
\nsum 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nFriday 17 January, at 19.00<\/strong><\/p>\n

DURATION
\n17 January – 7 February 2025<\/strong><\/p>\n

CURATION
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