Speech and writing
have a major presence in the art of the generation which appeared in the
early 1970s, the members of which displayed particular interest in the
prime importance of the spoken and written word as primary materials in
the formation of a new sensibility towards the work of art.
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Stephen
Antonakos
Neon
for the W.P.A., 1981
Neon
wall 4’x73’,6’’ (in the exhibition "Neon Fronts", Washington Project for
the Arts, Washington, D.C.)
(photo
by Mark Gulezian/Quicksilver) |
Stephen
Antonakos
Alphavitos,
front endpapers
(photo
by Greg Heins) |
Chryssa
Cycladic
Books, 1957-1962 |
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Dimitri
Alithinos based all of the first period of his work, from 1972 till
around the early 1980s, on the semantic powers of speech and writing as
the foundations for a new vision of the history of civilization. |
Dimitri
Alithinos, Ohne Titel,
1993-94
(Detail
from the installation, „Epikentro” Center for Contemporary Art, Patras
1994) |
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Yorgos
Lazongas
Video
stills from Blind Painting, 2001 |
| Yorgos Lazongas
makes an in-depth, consistent processing of painting as a text undergoing
constant change through successive layers of parallel writings. |
Bia
Davou
Sails,
1981 |
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Bia
Davou introduces since the early 1970s the logic of a new speech and
writing inspired by computer flowcharts and the mathematical method of
Fibonacci sequences. Based on the structure of the new languages of communication
she goes on to sequential structures by which she develops, in the early
1980s, a series of correlations with the structures of classical art monuments
and the metric system of the Odyssey. |
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The
year 1976 is an important milestone in the career of the celebrated Greek
sculptor Achilleas Aperghis. His switch from the formalistic processing
of the sculptural gesture to an approach of sculpting as an intellectual
activity in space is presented in a radical way in the construction of
his philosophical Rooms. They are places for meditation where thinking
dominates and is recorded in its first indirect representation –in writing.
These works are accompanied by the spoken word, sounds and writing, just
like the first of the Ladders series he presented in 1978. |
Achilleas
Aperghis
The
Room with the Letters (from the series 5 Rooms), 1976 |
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