MELETIOS MELETIOU
(Lemesos - CY, 1989)
vive e lavora a Cipro e a Roma - IT
lives and works in Cyprus and Rome - IT
im-mundus - 2018
fil di ferro cotto 36cmim-mundus 2 - 2019
fil di ferro zincato 36cmim-mundus 6 - 2019
cemento bianco e foglia d’oro 36cmim-mundus - 2018
cooked wire 36cmim-mundus 2 - 2019
galvanized wire 36cmim-mundus 6 - 2019
white cement and gold leaf 36cmcourtesy l’artista
https://meletiosmeletiou.com
https://www.pastificiocerere.it/mostre-attivita/meletios-meletiou-buffer-zone/
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The artist combines in a round shape a both political and esthetic reading. The material recalls the barbed wire usually placed at the boundaries of hostile areas; though, rolled up on itself as it is, its disruptive function fades away and is superseded by a self-concentrated world, void of free accesses and options of space crossing. The human world is out of its context: its dwellers cannot know it, and are just outer observers of an iron planet turned from outside in. The very straightness of such a redundant material is at odds with the shape containing it, and reveals the endless inner variables found even within a perfect sphere. Among them, the most immediately evocative is the association sphere/football, a relationship intentionally urged by the artist, who looks forward to an interactive use of the work. Likewise a child kicking a ball, wordlessly and out of preset rules, it would then arise a strong and unconventional interaction out of the players’ actions. And through the childish attitudes freed by this reading, the initial signification of the sphere would be dismantled, and a less intellectualistic and more practical language would step in. All observers would connect with one another, and none dropped out, thanks to the idea of the game. All being partakers of a new social whole.
courtesy the artist
https://meletiosmeletiou.com
https://www.pastificiocerere.it/mostre-attivita/meletios-meletiou-buffer-zone/