Yorgos Sapountzis
22 Jan - 26 Feb 2009
YORGOS SAPOUNTZIS
"Horizon Drop"
22.01.2009 – 26.02.2009, Opening 22.01.2009 at 7 pm
“The idea stems from losing your body balance in the city.
That precise moment you try to find a point to reorientate yourself
with.
This point becomes a start. It is stored in the back of your brain.
Several times you recall and recall this point and the more you do
that this point becomes an object.
An object that inside contains the repetitive pattern of your need
but also contains “information”.
Information that at first you never liked because it made you feel
sick. ..
that's when you create another object in order to leave pure your
creation (that you now also start to like) and then you push back the
embarrassing starting point, and at the same time you try to get
revenge for all the information that you had to consume until now.
This action makes you feel unbalanced again.. only this time it's not
that there is the safe point but only your aesthetic repetition – a
copy – of your need.
Does that help?
Yes, but only if you don't look anymore at the meeting point between
the sky and all of us.
How could you not?
Yes, you look!!
then you see that the horizon drops a little bit to the left.
But now you like your pointpointpoint and you like your infokiller
and you like the generator that creates myths for the both of them.
But the horizon drop?
This triangle – a small system of recalls and reliefs – will fail. ...”
(Yorgos Sapountzis)
Yorgos Sapountzis was born in Athens in 1976. He studied at Athens School of Fine Arts and at UdK in Berlin. He lives and works in Berlin. Yorgos Sapountzis’ work was shown at Art Basel Statements 2008, Athens Biennial 2007 and in various other group exhibitions such as “Social Diagrams. Planning reconsidered” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2008), “In Present Tense” at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens and “UP TO, AND INCLUDING THE LIMITS” at Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (both in 2007). The artist is represented by Loraini Alimantiri / Gazonrouge, Athens and Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin.
"Horizon Drop"
22.01.2009 – 26.02.2009, Opening 22.01.2009 at 7 pm
“The idea stems from losing your body balance in the city.
That precise moment you try to find a point to reorientate yourself
with.
This point becomes a start. It is stored in the back of your brain.
Several times you recall and recall this point and the more you do
that this point becomes an object.
An object that inside contains the repetitive pattern of your need
but also contains “information”.
Information that at first you never liked because it made you feel
sick. ..
that's when you create another object in order to leave pure your
creation (that you now also start to like) and then you push back the
embarrassing starting point, and at the same time you try to get
revenge for all the information that you had to consume until now.
This action makes you feel unbalanced again.. only this time it's not
that there is the safe point but only your aesthetic repetition – a
copy – of your need.
Does that help?
Yes, but only if you don't look anymore at the meeting point between
the sky and all of us.
How could you not?
Yes, you look!!
then you see that the horizon drops a little bit to the left.
But now you like your pointpointpoint and you like your infokiller
and you like the generator that creates myths for the both of them.
But the horizon drop?
This triangle – a small system of recalls and reliefs – will fail. ...”
(Yorgos Sapountzis)
Yorgos Sapountzis was born in Athens in 1976. He studied at Athens School of Fine Arts and at UdK in Berlin. He lives and works in Berlin. Yorgos Sapountzis’ work was shown at Art Basel Statements 2008, Athens Biennial 2007 and in various other group exhibitions such as “Social Diagrams. Planning reconsidered” at Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (2008), “In Present Tense” at National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens and “UP TO, AND INCLUDING THE LIMITS” at Argos Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (both in 2007). The artist is represented by Loraini Alimantiri / Gazonrouge, Athens and Isabella Bortolozzi Gallery, Berlin.