Born in Greece in 1936 and died in 2017, it is a magnificent retrospective that the Prada Foundation of Venice proposes.
Sculptor or painter? Both my general!
His relationship to simple and raw materials and the sobriety of their shaping make him one of the leaders of the arte povera. Coal, steel, wood, string, rope, wood, hair, coffee bags, etc. everything is recovered to anchor "modernity in the past".
From abandoned elements found everywhere, he creates rigorous organized arrangements whose spatial presence is often voluminous.
Happy messes are mostly gathered or assembled in organized and geometric steel shapes: a square, a cube, a rectangle. Often the assembly is chosen according to the apparent opposition of the materials - such as wool and steel.
If the first contact with his work is rather brutal, it gradually returns to his work over the rooms. Special mention for the hanging, very successful, whether the hanging cabinets or the scales full of soil along the stairs.
Some paintings, from his early years of work, are also shown. They are surprisingly sweet in the midst of this "industrial revolution". Letters, shapes and symbols, often black, on plain backgrounds.
A must see !
