Night of the World | Giorgos Maraziotis

Opening: Thursday 28th November 2013, 20.00
Exhibition duration: November 28th – December 28th 2013
Exhibition hours: Daily 14.00-20.30 | Saturday 14.00-18.00
Curation: Sotirios Bahtsetzis

Beton7 Gallery presents the new solo show by Giorgos Maraziotis, Night Of the World curated by Sotirios Bahtsetzis.

The human being is this night, this empty nothing, that contains everything in its simplicity—an unending wealth of many presentations, images, of which none happens to occur to him—or which are not present. (...) One catches sight of this night when one looks human beings in the eye—into a night that becomes awful, it suspends the night of the world here in an opposition. In this night being has returned.

Giorgos Maraziotis inspired by the reference of the German philosopher G. W. Hegel on the Night of the World (from Realphilosophie manuscript, 1805-1806) for its new solo show, produces a series of installations using natural or artificial medium (ground- charcoal, marble, neon lights, gesso e.t.c) and a series of silkscreen prints that were created by the artist at its 4 month stay in New York.
Maraziotis uses the whole exhibition space and produces a certain path for the visitor that through the fragility of his media and the textures of his art pieces, his delicate but jagged 2D forms (that could be seen as 3D depending on the viewing spot) and the relationship of light and the absence of it, tries to interpret this Night, the emptiness of the human kind and finally the human subconscious that Hegel refers to.
Through the composition of the works, a sanctity is assigned at the space while by leaving some of the areas empty, by treating white and black colours as a “situation” and by exploring the semantics of its media (something that also plays a key role in his canvas pieces), the installation that the artist proposes is a study on the concept of time, the limits of (our) sensibility and how a vision of the human condition can be perpetuated today.

Giorgos Maraziotis’ short bio
Born in Athens, in 1984.
Studied (BA(Hons)) Illustration at the University of Wolverhampton and Silkscreen at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. He works as a painter and visual artist with various teams and institutions (both public and private ones). Since 2007, he has also been working as a set- designer for the theater.
In 2012, he was proposed to represent Greece at the 1st W.Y.A exhibition in Nottingham while at the same time, he was invited as a guest lecturer at the Digital Communication Department of Wolverhampton University.
A year later, he is taking part at the “International Cheap Laser Summit” exhibition, at the Tinguely museum in Basel. His work has been exhibited in team and solo shows in Greece and abroad.

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