Date/Time
08/09/2020 - 15/02/2021
10:00 - 18:00

Location
B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music

In early September, The B. & M. Theocharakis Foundation inaugurates its new visual arts period with the retrospective exhibition of the renowned creator Costas Tsoclis, in view of the artist’s 90th birthday.

“Costas Tsoclis”, writes the exhibition’s curator, Takis Mavrotas, “is amongst the leading conceptual artists, and his profound insight leads him, approximately since 1955 until today, to the transformation of the real into the imaginary and of the invisible into the visible, for he relentlessly attempts to master a personal expression of plasticity imbued by poetical tension and philosophical power. Bold and brave, he struggles with the principles and the limits of painting in order to complete his multifaceted oeuvre that reflects his perceptive spirit. His work is characterised by constant evolution, high technical precision and semiotic density, probably because the simulacrum of its significance renders his work unique through the dissimilarity of its morphoplastic hypostasis; unique with regard to art, unique in terms of the emotions it triggers to the spectator. Hence, Tsoclis earned his place amongst the pioneers of contemporary art, with an immense set of semantic tension through paintings, installations, structures, performances, assemblages and video projections that corroborate his words: ‘Art is not meant to render the human being unhappier, but to redeem him.’”

EXHIBITION CURATOR – CATALOGUE EDITOR
Takis Mavrotas
ASSISTANT CURATOR
Marina Miliou-Theocharakis
EXHIBITION COORDINATION
Evangelia Efthimiadou
COMMUNICATION
Marina Kampouroglou
Anna Georgiadou
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS
Irene Alexandrakis
Anna Plessa
TRANSLATION
Dimitris Saltabassis
Marina Miliou-Theocharakis
CONSTRUCTIONS DESIGN
Dimosthenis Kristalis
ART PHOTOGRAPHY
Thalia Kibari
ARTIST’S PHOTOGRAPHY
Harris Papadimitrakopoulos
Marina Miliou-Theocharakis
Chrysanthi Koutsouraki
ART TRANSPORT AND INSTALLATION
Swift Art Services
GRAPHIC DESIGN
Thymios Presvytis
Thodoris Anagnostopoulos
(Peak Design)

DURATION: 7 September – 8 November 2020