Post by LeBasse Projects on Mar 11, 2010 14:37:56 GMT -8
LeBasse Projects presents the first US solo exhibition of Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis's essential incentive is the desire for unveiling images and sounds from social revolts and individual agitations. This is portrayed in the disproportionate bodies and faces that act as reflective mirrors to their inner psychology. His images are opposed to any established identity; they constantly work under a process of modification that constructs innovative grounds as a purpose to deconstruct them. He unites this ambiguous transcendental happiness with a pandemonium of symbols and signs in order to build a playground of disarray. The incomplete and erased drawings are intentionally depicted with the purpose of highlighting as well as embracing the aspect of imperfection.
With the sarcastic title "is everybody happy?" the viewer is invited in a satirical play of chaos having the female figures as the central characters. The artist uses fragments from advertised models as a fundamental source in order to dismantle the "ideal" image of refinement. The collage-like women stare insistently towards the spectator, carrying these uncanny shiny smiles that express derision and irony in conjunction with confusion and anxiety. A jumble of narratives is created out of ink and acrylic, which brings into surface the relationship between the female nude and the male gaze. Distorted "Olympia" as an objectified image, uses her frozen smile to flirt with the spectator, exposing her body in a contemporary scene.
Alexandros Vasmoulakis :: Is Everybody Happy?
LeBasse Projects
Saturday, March 20th, 2010
