Athanasiou Arxontoula - Projects, Exhibitions & Participations

2022 EOS gallery

Αrchetype

Noun, neutral
1. The model, the exemplar
2. (Philology), the original manuscript, from which all later manuscripts come or preserve an ancient text.
3. (Typography) a printed book from the beginnings of printing until about 1500.
4. (Psychology) the set of memories present in the human brain, which present collective
experiences of the human race.

The Archetype was a composition of five matrices-“archetypes” that deal with the inner thoughts triggered by the endless search for self of people during their confinement during the COVID-19 period. As the journey of his own being begins towards his inner, deeper self, the “Abyss”, the man questions the world around him, the truths and the deeds. He dreams and his dream nourishes the hope for a new world and this world will be better and free from the darkness of the times..
The designs were original and the main element in the works was the eyes. The matrixes were placed in a box shape and in the center was placed a piggy bank in the shape of a brain on a handmade plaster hand.

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Falling Eyes

Year of creation: 2022
Dry point 
Dimensions: 30×21 cm
 
It is time for me to walk the Abyss. Time to reclaim my own. I must talk to the Morningstar. I do not have high hopes for the meeting”.
Dream in Sadman No 4, “A Hope in Hell”.

Mind Trap

Year of creation: 2022
Dry point 
Dimensions: 30×21 cm
“If my dream was true, then everything we know, everything we think we know is a lie. It means the world is about as solid and as reliable as a layer of scum on the top of a hell of black water which goes down forever and there are things in the depths that I I don’t even want to think about.
It means that we’re just dolls. We don’t have a clue. What’s really going down, we just kid ourselves that we’re in control of our lives while a paper’s thickness away things that would drive us mad if we thought about them for too long play with us, and moves from room to room an put us away at night when they’re tired or bored.
Rose Walker in Sadman, No 16 “Lost Hearts”.

To a better place

Year of creation: 2022
Dry point 
Dimensions: 30×21 cm
“It is never “only a dream”, John Constantine. Here less than other places…”
Dream in Sadman No3, “Dream a little Dream of Me”

It didn't kill me after all

Year of creation: 2022
Dry point
Dimensions: 30×21 cm
“You know what happens when you dream of falling? Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes when you fall you fly.”
Dream in Sadman No6, Fables and Reflections”

My dream

Year of creation: 2022
Dry point 
Dimensions: 30×21 cm
“Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and Dreams are the shadows-truths that will endure when were facts are dust and ashes and forgot..”
Dream in Sadman No19, “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”