"L.C.A.M.P. (Lucky Charms and Magic Potions)"
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Ioanna Pantazopoulou
ILEANA TOUNTA CONTEMPORARY ART CENTRE
48 Armatolon-Klefton st. 114 71, Athens - GR on the 1st floor
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19.04 > 02.06, 2018
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In her third solo show titled Lucky Charms and Magic Potions Ioanna Pantazopoulou presents a series of new sculptures inspired by myths of lucky charms in everyday rituals, enchanted objects and the search for magic in a fantastical world.
The artist creates S.S.S., a shrine-like sculpture that lights itself up. Ten year old expired sealed jars of pasta sauce, mushroom, and smoked aubergines that never reached the supermarket shelves, become bricks, totems and jewels in a shrine structure held together by galvanized industrial metal shelves that are transformed into an embellished illuminated structure. The shrine monument pays tribute to preserved vitality. The jars are displayed almost like specimens and there is the implication that if they remain unopened they will remain intact forever.
Ioanna Pantazopoulou is concerned with the way in which waste is mutually proportionate to luxury and how both are dependent on economic wealth and excess production. She challenges herself with unusual materials, which however always have a story to tell. The search for unwanted, discarded objects and materials play a significant role and become an essential factor for the making of her works.
The center piece of her exhibition is surrounded by a series of smaller sculptures that coordinate with the same idea and process. W.O.F. (Wheel Of Fortune), a colourful circular woven tapestry, is composed of magic broomsticks intertwined with burnt rags. S.H.W., a silver hammock-sculpture created with hundreds of gold tinted aluminium ex-voto (“tamata” in Greek) depicting a house, provides a wish for a safe and happy home. L.C.C. is a carousel maquette made from gold plated tokens commemorating the 100 years of the foundation of the Greek state, which are erected by bamboo scaffolding on firewood bark. In T.P.A., cosmetic containers, cocktail sticks and goat bells are playfully plastered together to build a maquette for a utopian architectural complex. Finally, M.F. is a woven magic carpet from burnt jewellery and rags.
Through this new series of sculptures the artist embodies luck and superstition and transforms discarded ordinary objects into something wasteless. The correlation between expired waste and commodity fetishism is the meeting point of these works that question and attempt to create new connections between the past and present, of what is lost and found.
Ioanna Pantazopoulou b.1984 in Athens, Greece and currently lives and works in New York. She received both her BA (2007) and MA (2009) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, U.K. Pantazopoulou is represented in Athens by the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center and in New York by Safe Gallery. She has exhibited her work at Culture Lab in West Palm Beach, SAFE Gallery in New York, JAG Projects in Hudson, NY, Situations Gallery in New York, NADA Miami, Grand Union Gallery in Birmingham, U.K., Primetime Gallery in New York, Alex Mylona-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, Hydra School Projects in Hydra, Greece, The NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece and many more. Her work is included in the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Athens, Greece.
The artist creates S.S.S., a shrine-like sculpture that lights itself up. Ten year old expired sealed jars of pasta sauce, mushroom, and smoked aubergines that never reached the supermarket shelves, become bricks, totems and jewels in a shrine structure held together by galvanized industrial metal shelves that are transformed into an embellished illuminated structure. The shrine monument pays tribute to preserved vitality. The jars are displayed almost like specimens and there is the implication that if they remain unopened they will remain intact forever.
Ioanna Pantazopoulou is concerned with the way in which waste is mutually proportionate to luxury and how both are dependent on economic wealth and excess production. She challenges herself with unusual materials, which however always have a story to tell. The search for unwanted, discarded objects and materials play a significant role and become an essential factor for the making of her works.
The center piece of her exhibition is surrounded by a series of smaller sculptures that coordinate with the same idea and process. W.O.F. (Wheel Of Fortune), a colourful circular woven tapestry, is composed of magic broomsticks intertwined with burnt rags. S.H.W., a silver hammock-sculpture created with hundreds of gold tinted aluminium ex-voto (“tamata” in Greek) depicting a house, provides a wish for a safe and happy home. L.C.C. is a carousel maquette made from gold plated tokens commemorating the 100 years of the foundation of the Greek state, which are erected by bamboo scaffolding on firewood bark. In T.P.A., cosmetic containers, cocktail sticks and goat bells are playfully plastered together to build a maquette for a utopian architectural complex. Finally, M.F. is a woven magic carpet from burnt jewellery and rags.
Through this new series of sculptures the artist embodies luck and superstition and transforms discarded ordinary objects into something wasteless. The correlation between expired waste and commodity fetishism is the meeting point of these works that question and attempt to create new connections between the past and present, of what is lost and found.
Ioanna Pantazopoulou b.1984 in Athens, Greece and currently lives and works in New York. She received both her BA (2007) and MA (2009) in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, U.K. Pantazopoulou is represented in Athens by the Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center and in New York by Safe Gallery. She has exhibited her work at Culture Lab in West Palm Beach, SAFE Gallery in New York, JAG Projects in Hudson, NY, Situations Gallery in New York, NADA Miami, Grand Union Gallery in Birmingham, U.K., Primetime Gallery in New York, Alex Mylona-Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece, Hydra School Projects in Hydra, Greece, The NEON Foundation in Athens, Greece and many more. Her work is included in the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Athens, Greece.
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