DIMITRIS FOUTRIS
In the new site specific installation of Dimitris Foutris, entitled B is everything you can imagine from the material world, the level of perception of the material world is intrinsically related to the level of perception of daily activities. Dialogues, thoughts, relationships and roles interact with the materiality of the world around us, or rather with our memory of it.
The focus of this reasoning is not the everyday, but rather daily life as a modern human condition, within which the different narration layers are recorded and stratified. Elliptical, fragmentary and repetitive, like memory itself, these incidents are not tangent to life, but stand in its proximity up to the point of questioning the real. Among the shapes of this collage, in the gaps, we identify faces and biographies refined into what we call experience.
An element of particular importance for Dimitris Foutris is - like in his previous work - the creation of the works’ viewing conditions and interpretation framework. Thus, space becomes an integral part of the work itself, specifically the voids, which are hierarchically classified as equal to the wide range of media used. From installation to photography and video the works deal with the boundaries between the material and immaterial, between objects and language.
DIMITRIS FOUTRIS Insallation view
LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL
The exhibition is an essay on the metaphysics of objects, the aesthetic sense of art, and the rarefaction of sensory perception to the point where art reaches its essential and definitive dimension beyond the visual.
Schnabel presents a series of large scale paintings, two video projections and a body of watercolor drawings.
As the artist states: I've always done filmmaking and painting simultaneously; they are connected. Sometimes I'll make a film to conceive one image that didn't exist before, then the image becomes a painting. There's a process to all of this and I'm interested in all of the layers – if I hadn't made that one camera frame then these paintings wouldn't exist. Every idea deserves a different medium to illustrate it best.
Schnabel's exhibition is mainly concerned with the study of an unreal and Arcadian nature, where the human figure is rarely present, unless at a level of an archetypical consciousness. Her canvases translate as visions of nature in various moods: on this base she paints elements as the ancient olive trees so ethereal and detached from representation. Like details in some backgrounds in Renaissance paintings, magnified, where the spiritual dominates the narrative.
It is in her films though that the poetry and the purity of her sprit becomes most visible: a man running in a snow landscape in an endless effort to reach a world that perhaps goes beyond the limits of the senses (Rishi Running, 2004).
A Dialogue Between Spirit And Nature, 2011 demonstrates her multifarious practice encompassing a variety of disciplines, bringing music (Charlemagne Palestine), sculpture (Luigi Ontani), dance, and theater (masks by Balinese naive artists) into contact with rituals and liturgies, which Schnabel intuitively orchestrates. Like in hypnotic tunes, where new ways of juxtapositions bring together unconventional and heterogeneous materials into a revelation of the soul.
As Antonitsis emphasizes: There is no crack in Lola's song, nor in the joy of her listeners. LOLA MONTES SCHNABEL Insallation view

opening reception : Tuesday, November 29, 2016, at 19:30pm
the solo show of Dimitris Foutris on the 1st floor
the solo show of Lola Montes Schnabel on the ground floor

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