A Greek start to the year with "Black Sun," an exhibition presented by the Europe department of the Applied Research Center in Contemporary Cultures from September 19 to October 12, 2018. Opening on Thursday, September 20.
Demosthènes Davvetas, director of the Europe department at IESA arts&culture, is presenting an exhibition titled "Black Sun," shown at the start of the academic year in the IESA arts&culture Gallery. Seven Greek artists are invited to present works created especially for this event under the enigmatic title "Black Sun."
Demosthènes Davvetas, Pelagia Kyriazi, Kornelios Grammenos, Michalis Manousakis, Aemilia Papaphilippou, Panagiotis Tanimanidis, and Marilena Zamboura come together around the concept of "Black Sun," evoking at once the astronomical phenomenon, Georges Bataille, but also Aristotle’s "melancholy," and symbols more generally.
The Greek artists exhibit drawings because they claim an immediacy through the frontality of testimony. For them, art remains a remedy, a pharmacopoeia as Plato called it, or a catharsis as Aristotle said.
