CHARLEROI. IN MEMORY OF WEALTH, CELEBRATION AND RELIGION I 2009 I 10’00”
New work, commissioned by Contour 2009
Sapountzis’s new installation combines video, performance and sculpture, inspired by the historical monuments in Mechelen. The project engenders a confrontation of the present with the past, disrupts the symbolic apparatus of monuments, questions the political and cultural mechanisms that facilitates and enables their production and prompts us to re-think the relationship between the individual and historicised public space.
YORGOS SAPOUNTZIS (GRC/°1976)
Sapountzis’s work centres on an experimentation with monuments and public sculptures in order to question their role, function and meaning in public space. He is currently shortlisted for the Deste Prize, Athens. In 2008 he had a solo presentation in Statements at Art Basel. Recent exhibitions have been at the Kunstverein Arnsberg and the Künstlerhaus Stuttgart.
Charleroi. In memory of wealth, celebration and religion
Courtesy of the artist, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin and
Loraini Alimantiri/Gazonrouge, Athens