Euripedes Bachos: A live visual/performance
Cloth stripes/pieces interweave giving structures with a compositional logic which is bold, intuitive but at the same time based on solid knowledge of her milieu, namely, the sculptural handling of the third dimension. In this exhibition experience meets boldness, knowledge of the material meets risk-taking following the artistic instinct, so that the Dionysian element of ceremonial cult is negotiated through the Apollonian element of solid artistic background. The Apollonian element however, becomes meaningful in the arts precisely when it is imbued with the element of the instinctive – of that which moves beyond logical control. As Anton Ehrenzweig has shown in ‘The Hidden Order of Art’ introducing the notion of unconscious scanning, the logical control of the artist alternates with ‘unconscious’ creative practice –in which artistic solutions, ideas, material accrue from non-logically controlled procedures. This is not dissimilar to how humankind in classic antiquity produced civilization: namely, by celebrating, embracing, living the element of worship and cult as such, while at the same time fostering and advancing, pure logic. Artists like Athena Nikolaou allow us to feel and think on issues in a more meaningful way as they dwell on the limits and on the point where reason converses and interweaves with that which moves beyond it.
Dr.Panagiotis Dafiotis
Cloth stripes/pieces interweave giving structures with a compositional logic which is bold, intuitive but at the same time based on solid knowledge of her milieu, namely, the sculptural handling of the third dimension. In this exhibition experience meets boldness, knowledge of the material meets risk-taking following the artistic instinct, so that the Dionysian element of ceremonial cult is negotiated through the Apollonian element of solid artistic background. The Apollonian element however, becomes meaningful in the arts precisely when it is imbued with the element of the instinctive – of that which moves beyond logical control. As Anton Ehrenzweig has shown in ‘The Hidden Order of Art’ introducing the notion of unconscious scanning, the logical control of the artist alternates with ‘unconscious’ creative practice –in which artistic solutions, ideas, material accrue from non-logically controlled procedures. This is not dissimilar to how humankind in classic antiquity produced civilization: namely, by celebrating, embracing, living the element of worship and cult as such, while at the same time fostering and advancing, pure logic. Artists like Athena Nikolaou allow us to feel and think on issues in a more meaningful way as they dwell on the limits and on the point where reason converses and interweaves with that which moves beyond it.
Dr.Panagiotis Dafiotis