Nine young artists present their work at Ersi Gallery
Ersi Gallery and the Advanced Drawing Laboratory co-organize, in the framework of the 16th Audiovisual Arts Festival of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of the Ionian University, the group exhibition entitled “Exercises of the Gaze”.
Kassandra Thoma, Mercy 2,2023, Acrylics & gold foil on wood
The exhibition features students from the Advanced Design Laboratory of the Department of Audio and Visual Arts of Corfu, with the exhibition’s coordinator, the visual artist, and Associate Professor of the Department, Mr. Spyros Verykios. The exhibition includes works by nine students and graduates of the Laboratory, which emerged after independent research within and after the completion of their studies.
Spyros Mavrodis, Broken shell
The curator of the Branch of the National Gallery of Corfu, Ms Marina Papasotiriou, who introduces the exhibition, writes:
“On the occasion of the title of the exhibition Exercises of the Gaze, another way to navigate through the works is proposed. The word exercise means perseverance, patience, methodicalness, critical thinking, solution. The gaze, on the other hand, means sensation, tension, observation, admiration, surprise and much more. What possibly draws the viewer’s gaze and leads him or her towards the exercise in this particular exhibition is the materials of which the works are made. And not to be limited to the gaze and vision, materials mean texture. They can even mean smell and touch. So one approach to the works could be multi-sensory.
Speaking of senses, these are the primary means by which one perceives the world around one. It is perhaps safe to say that vision occupies a dominant position among the senses as it contributes to the primary formation and conception of reality due to its immediacy. However, it is not always self-evident that the visual experience is common to all, with the interpretation of the stimuli arising from it being universal, as the individual’s experiences, education and culture play an important role in the way he or she interprets that experience.” The exhibition includes works in different materials and media, drawings, paintings, photography, constructions and installations. In the artists’ texts we can trace keywords, such as truth, silence, identity, self, memory, experience, imagination, that can guide us in viewing their works.
Theodora Patiti, Confession of O, 2022, Chinese ink on paper
The participating students are:
Yannis Andreou, Angeliki Dobrogianni, Kassandra Thomas, Christos Mavrodis, Theodora Patiti, Vivi Perysinaki, Adriana Rodakou, Dimitris Spanos, Omer Hajiserif. Spyros Verykios also participates in the exhibition.
Opening : Thursday 8 June 2023 at 19:00
Duration of the exhibition : Thursday 8 June – Friday 30 June 2023
The Department of Audio and Visual Arts was founded in 2005 in Corfu and is the only Art Department in Greece whose curriculum focuses on the hybrid convergence of Art and Technology in the field of research and teaching.
Its curriculum includes subjects such as visual fiction, visual arts, comics, illustration, video, photography and 3D graphics.
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