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Antonis Pittas, Clip (painterly architectonics), 2015

Antonis Pittas

Clip (painterly architectonics), 2015
bronze, six photo prints, on mural pro paper and aluminium clip
bronze: 39,3 x 29,2 x 1,5 cm
with clip: 41,3 x 29,2 x 5 cm
photos: 29,7 x 19,9 cm
Edition 1/1 + 1AP
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This work consists of old-fashioned clipboards, reproduced in expensive materials, such as marble, bronze and other metals – materials usually used for government buildings or public sculptures with bureaucratic or...
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This work consists of old-fashioned clipboards, reproduced in expensive materials, such as marble, bronze and other metals – materials usually used for government buildings or public sculptures with bureaucratic or ‘official’ connotations. Attached to these are various collages of images showing hands, referring to hands of politicians and other political actors as represented in news media. Gestures that are supposed to underline the importance of what is said, expressing anger, power or, sometimes, fear. While the work evokes the art historical past, the present it represents is associated with violence and the rationalization of violence.
Photomontages of the German and Russian avant-garde often employed the hand of the artist as a sign of a new time to come: a time, in which the artist-engineer would have a crucial role in building society and realizing utopian ideas.

Clip (painterly architectonics) six A4 photo prints from the work "Photograph of a work, "Painterly Architectonics» (1920) Liubov Popova, (Archive, Costakis Collection, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki)
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