SHORTCUTS

Shortcuts is a special edition published on the occasion of the exhibition Forever, which presents a cross-section of works from the Dakis Joannou Collection in an effort to offer a general idea of its orientation. In order to highlight the Collection’s principal thematic axes of interest, the show has been separated into four distinctive categories: (i) From Figure to Object / From Object to Figure: which includes artists working mainly in the ‘80s, whose work largely adopts a critical approach to consumerism, Western lifestyle, and the impact of the media and popular culture; (ii) Corporal Angst / The Ailing Body: the artists in this section reflect the multiple anxieties surrounding the human body and its well-being; (iii) Anthropocentrism, Identity Politics and the Transformation of the Self: for the most part anthropocentric, the work here reflects a return in recent years to the human subject and an increasing interest in attempting to define the self; (iv) Multi-Cultural Politics and the Intersection of the Global and the Local: the works featured in this section are sited within a multi-cultural context, reflecting the gradual dissolution of boundaries between ‘east’ and ‘west’ and the notion of ‘centre’ vs ‘periphery’.

Year of publication:

2002

ISBN:

9963-575-37-4

English – Greek / Paperback / 27 x 37 cm / 76 pages / 66 color / 3 b&w