ArtRabbit is an open submission platform. Anyone can add events. Organisation owners can manage their organisation presence. Use the events or the venues search to find listings near a location. Athens Attica, Greece. Gagosian Gallery Athens. For both artists, the written word is a formal foundation and a conceptual conduit.
Exploring processes of human consciousness and perception, Gordon reveals the dual nature of the self, while Weiner exposes the sculptural dimensions of language. What do you do when you dig something upβdo you put it back, or do you display it? Because if you display it, there would be a hole where it has been.
The gestures can be read as either innocent or sinister. Precise details, like veins and creases in the skin, emerge from more amorphous, uncarved areas.
The hands are simultaneously in progress and in ruin, their missing fingers and jagged surfaces evoking fragments of ancient sculpture. This battle of selfhood, a persistent theme in Gordon's work, continues in Shadows and Ghosts His phrases and striking graphicsβstenciled, painted, inscribed, or otherwise applied to walls and surfacesβinescapably alter their given context.
Here, in overlapping English and Modern Greek, Weiner evokes the predatory attraction of one culture for another, suggesting a fatal erotic encounter. The text is presented in vivid blue and reflective silver and arranged in sliding sculptural segments that accentuate the innate materiality of language. Douglas Gordon was born in in Glasgow, Scotland and lives and works in Berlin.
