art exhibition

For professional studies course we had to visit one art gallery and take a picture of an artwork and then write something for it, try to thing the thoughts of the artist  to come up with that specific idea. 

The exibition took place at the gallery “Kypriakh gonia” on the 14^th-30^th of November.

The artwork we have chosen doesn't have a title, as the artist George Georgiades doesn't give titles to his artworks. The specific artwork is on sale for 450 euro.

The media he uses are: acrylic paint, newspaper collage, needles, plastic, wood, pictures.

What we see: Deformed man: big head/eyes/mouth/, tiny ear, long thin neck, short legs.

In the backround, we can see different photos, on the left we can see pictures of: grass, trees, and a person standing next to the tree and on the right we can see people selling products at a market.

Our point of view:

As soon as we look at the artwork, our attention mostly focuses on the man. It looks like something is bothering him. We had a lot of thoughts like:

Times of war, people are trying to make a living, depressions, sadness , hardship, struggle

We see the artist has emphasized the colour red which reminds us of blood. Also in our opinion the sad man that doesn't wear shirt and he is saturnine he is poor and he tries to find food, maybe he made the background like that to show us that the man is in a big city like NY(tat there are graffiti on lonely streets), that there are a lot of poor people fighting for food.

And then on the left we can see some photos of nature flowers and bright colors  showing that there is always light in the darkness and there is beauty  in everything.

We chose this specific artwork as we found it interesting. George Giorgiades has a unique way of working. What has drawn our attention on this specific art piece, is the use of color and medium that gives it life. We like the fact that it’s a bid messy and uneven (maybe because the artist wants to show something) . In addition the artist uses different ways of creating his art. 

In my opinion fashion design communicate with art and design, so we have to go to exhibitions.

Fashion designers get inspire from anything, why not from a piece of art?

What do you think when you see this artwork?