Fall Viewing Room
1 – 30 November, 2020
Bertrand Lavier
Walt Disney Productions 1947-2013 No 15, 2013, Acrylic and oil painting on canvas,diam.120 cm
Since the late 1960s, Bertrand Lavier (b. 1949, France) has created a complex and eclectic universe creating artworks that challenge and questions the notion of the identity of the artist, and the relationship between the artists ego and the rest of the world, each work of his, is a sardonic dare towards the insufferable codes and rules of the art system and of contemporary culture.
Major point of reference in the artist’s oevre is the “Walt Disney” series through which paintings and sculptures that previously existed only in mass-produced strip cartoons in comic books have become real, three-dimensional artworks.
Images from the publication Walt Disney Productions, Bertrand Lavier, editions Dilecta, 2012
Jonathan Meese
“DR. FRESH FOR K.U.N.S.T.!”, 2019
Acrylic on canvas
270,4 x 180,3 x 4 cm
Jonathan Meese (b.1970, Tokyo) appeared on the international art scene back in 1998 and is now one of the contemporary art world’s most enigmatic, seductive and rebellious figures. He is renowned for his multi-faceted work, including wildly exuberant paintings that mix personal hieroglyphics and collage, installations, ecstatic performances, and a powerful body of sculptures in a variety of media.
At the core of his work remains an unrelenting sense of history, based on intimate drawings, symbols and objects which form the mythological universe of his life’s work, drawing in the innocent by-stander almost by force.
Installation views from the artist’s solo exhibition at Bernier/Eliades | Athens, in 2019 | Photos by Boris Kirpotin
Rallou Panagiotou
“No More Black Shoe”, 2019
Marble, lacquered wood and wool
257,7 x 118,6 cm
Rallou Panagiotou (b.1978, Greece) creates sculptural topologies with composite materiality and formal conciseness. Assembled from highly mediated fragments of built environments, anatomized commodities and traces of gestures, her work collapses distinctions between different orders of objects and technologies via a currency of emotions.
Susan Rothenberg
Primo, 2007, Oil on canvas, 198 x 213,5 cm
Susan Rothenberg’s (1945 – 2020) early works that came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, were mainly large acrylic, figurative paintings of horses. Since the 1990s her works were mostly reflections of her move from New York to New Mexico. With the use of thickly layered and intense brushwork, her paintings acquire life and depict scenes from everyday life – either an unpleasant event or a moment of remembrance.
A distinctive element also of her works is a tilted perspective which attributes to the work an eerily objective psychological edge.
Installation views from the artist’s solo exhibition at Bernier/Eliades | Athens, in 2008 | Photos by Boris Kirpotin
Robert Wilson
Elk, 2019
UHD video seamless loop
75” Plasma Monitor/ digital player/speaker
Ed. 2/2
The video portraits of Robert Wilson (b. 1949, USA) infuse references found in painting, sculpture, design, architecture, dance, theater, photography, television, film and contemporary culture. The final result on the HD monitor resembles a photograph, but on closer inspection reveals Wilson’s highly developed theatrical language in conjunction with the startling clarity and precision of HD video.