Dionisis Kavallieratos
"The Son of the eagle breaks his legs.
The son of the eagle walks on his hands"
November 22, 2012 – January 17, 2013
Athens
Bernier-Eliades Gallery, is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Dionisis Kavallieratos on Thursday, November 22, 20:00-22:00.
Dionisis Kavellieratos was born in 1979 in Athens. He lives and works in Berlin. He graduated from the School of Fine Arts in 2002 and completed (2003-2004) the Radar Project (residency) in Venice and Krakow.
Kavallieratos’ flexible artistic practice includes small and large-scale sculptures in wood, clay or mixed media and drawings in pencil and charcoal. His work reveals a dazzling inner world -a personal universe of a post-pop mix of mythology, history, politics and religion- that addresses fundamental issues such as good and evil, life and death, sex, heroism and immortality through a surreal and ironic point of view. His sculptures of astonishing virtuosity subvert historical and social data with references from the mass psychology of pop culture, comics and Dante’s hell, to children’s stories and Al-Qaeda. Dionilsis Kavellieratos’ works create a personal cosmology with poetic narratives that depict the human species in the depths and heights of its greatness, through a humorous and ironic style.
Recent solo exhibitions include: The Ballad of Chicken Banana, Karas Gallery (Zagreb, 2011), The Curse of the Monk with Iris van Dongen, Galerie Cosmic (Paris, 2009), Recent group exhibitions: Faces, Onassis Cultural Centre ( Athens, 2012), Derti Humanism, Faggionato Fine Arts (London, 2011), A Rock and a Hard Place, 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art(Thessaloniki, 2011) Satan Get Behind Me and Push, Peres Projects (Berlin, 2010), Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennale (2009).