«BIJECTION» 15/04/2010 – 22 /05/2010

On Thursday, April 15 at 8.00 in the evening Maria Demetriades opens the latest exhibition of the latest work of Vassilios Michael at the Medusa Art Gallery.

Can space have desires? In his brief 1930 text on space, Georges Bataille describes how “…sous nos yeux pudiquement détournés, l’espace rompt la continuité de rigueur”. The objects of Vassilios Michael, who lives and works in France since 1982, take place in this turning of the eyes, where space is set in motion and interrupts the continuity which so neatly ensures the presence of things. Using such diverse materials as Plexiglas, iron, polyester and steel, the artist, who was born at Kotas, Florina in 1950, creates series of geometric shapes and mathematically constructed objects. As we contemplate the shiny surfaces of the sculptures, our desire for the space turns like a kaleidoscope into a desired space. It is not only the diffraction of light on the shapes, which are formed by architectural, local or symbolic references, but also their expansive, imposing and precisely calculated installation. In this solo exhibition –“Bijection”– at Medusa, Vassilios Michael continues his work on the change, the revolution of space. In mathematics, the one-to-one relationship describes the equivalence of two functional spaces. Indeed, it is in such a way that each element in an X space corresponds mutually to another, fully proportionate element in a functional space Υ. It is a function of equivalence just like a function of relativity whose spatial properties result from its relative description. It must be pointed out that this mathematical function agrees with the definition of the picture that Ludwig Wittgenstein gives in Tractatus: “2.12 The picture is a model of reality”.
The topical exhibition of Vassilios examines, on the basis of the artist’s 9 new sculptures, the relationship between the gaze and the object as an equivalence relation between two pictorial spaces; to the space of the object corresponds the space of desire in the imaginary process. Visitors to the gallery are invited to come to these spaces until May 22, 2010 and experience the way they meet each other.
J. E. S.

The exhibition is realised thanks to the generous support by
Lignite Mines of Achlada SA.

 

Duration of the exhibition: 15 April – 22 May 2010