ESPACE DE MEMOIRE art project

GREEK LANGUAGE

GREEK TEXT 93 x 93 cm aclylic on canvas metallic collor

On a broad sidewalk, Antonis Pangapoulos methodically arranged seven conceptually and philosophically charged words, written in thirty different languages. The words THE TIME,THE MEMORY, THE PHILOSOPHY,THE IDEA, EFFORT,THE MEDITATION,THE SOLUTION come from the artist’ s text, ΓAIA MNHMHΣ - ESPACE DE MEMOIRE, which has comprised the core of his visual language since 1990. The text is a condensation of his philosophical view, which revolves around the search for a universal visual languages as it is defined trough global cultural memory.

The project began as a painterly exploration in shades of blue and black, only, which traveled from the intersection of Logos and Memory to a text designed in such a way that it tunes into the viewer’ s subconscious or consciousness and is perceived as a picture of ideas.

Since then, the text has been translated into all the world’s living and dead languages and reproduced in every form and by every means of expression. Here, by selecting seven key words to philosophical concepts, Panagopoulos invites the stroller to search within and retrieve scattered bits of memory, beginning with an internal dialogue with his or herself.

Irini Savvani

ΓAIA MNHMHΣ - ESPACE DE MEMOIRE

White resin on sidewalk

Dimensions variable

Herodes Attikus str.