Yorgos Sapountzis at Freymond-Guth 2011
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Urnerknabe am Schaufenster/ Empathie Kuddelmuddel, 2012 Raster – Boat Trip on the Canal, 2012 Die Pathologie des Spiegeleingangs, 2011 |
Urnerknabe am Schaufenster, 2013 Video 5’40 min, Music by Øyvind Torvund aluminum tubes, textile, needles, ropes |
Urnerknabe am Schaufenster/ Empathie 2013 Installation view Kunsthaus Glarus, 2013 Windowdisplay with sculptures from the Collection of the Kunstverein Glarus aluminum tubes, textile, needles, rope |
Childhood memory of forms and colors on the old cemetery (Kuddelmuddel), 2012 Installation view Kunsthaus Glarus, 2013 |
Hit on the Go, 2012 aluminum plate, ropes variable sizes |
Seven Head Copies on Screen, 2013 (rear left) Alberto’s lines of three colors, 2013 Copy of Flora’s Leg, 2013 (rear right) Reklame – Deus Ex Machina d, 2012 Reklame – Deus Ex Machina c, 2012 |
Seven Head Copies on Screen, 2013 (back) Reklame – Deus Ex Machina a, 2012 Reklame – Deus Ex Machina b, 2012 |
Reklame - Zimmermann, rot 2012 fabric, metal plates, photocopies, pins, plaster, preserving glass 192 x 100 x 63 cm |
Reklame - worker / Reklame - cook/ Reklame - doctor (left to right) Installation view Kunstverein Münster, 2012 |
Reklame - worker (detail) 2012 |
Reklame - worker (doctor) 2012 |
Neonews Installation view Kunstverein Münster, 2012 |
Neonews (detail) 2012 |
Installation view Ursula Blickle Foundation, DE 2012 |
The Death of One God Is the Death of All Installation view Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK |
Feet of Joy (foreground) Installation view Overgaden, Copenhagen, DK |
Mirror Cast 2012 Aluminium plates, aluminium tubes, plaster, fabric, glass, pickles, band Dimensions variable |
Dead Theatre (left) 2012 Aluminium plates, aluminium tubes, plastic tubes, band, cables Dimensions variabl |
Head on the Ground 2012 Aluminium plate, band Dimensions variable |
Fast Cast 2011 Installation View Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2011 The show concentrates on the idea of the street, and the action of walking. Yorgos Sapountzis takes the recognised dimensions of paving stones found in the city of Berlin and uses them to create a measuring device (a grid of of aluminium poles and fabric) to measure all floor areas of the gallery. These grids (colour coded for each room) are then collapsed and hung from the walls. A statue by the German sculptor Richard Scheibe titled Schreitender (Genesender) translated as Walker provides the second focus for the exhibition. The sculpture’s face, and sections of the arms and legs were cast in plaster secretly at night by the artist. These moulds then form or are integrated with sculptures in the exhibition and the action of casting the statue is also the content of the video work Fast Cast Past. |
Fast Cast 2011 Copy Of His Head With A Copy Of His Face Inside, 2011 2011 Plaster, aluminum, jars Installation view, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2011 |
Fast Cast New Body (His Arm, His Leg) 2011 Plaster, aluminum, jars, cloth Installation view, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2011 |
Fast Cast New Body (His Arm, His Leg) 2011 Plaster, aluminum, jars, cloth Installation view, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2011 |
Die Welt in Teilen (Office), 2011 2011 cloth, aluminum Installation view, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2011 |
Die Welt in Teilen (Bedroom) Die Welt in Teilen (Corridor) Die Welt in Teilen (Living Room) 2011 cloth, aluminum Installation view, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, 2011 |
Die Arbeiter und die Badende 2011 Installation View Based in Berlin, 2011 For based in Berlin, Sapoutnzis developed the work Die Arbeiter und die Badenden (The Workers and the Bathers), which refers to two types of sculpture commonly found in Berlin’s public spaces. Light, mobile materials are transformed into fragile and ephemeral sculpture: colorful fabric panels, exercise bands and thin aluminum rods — amidst them a performance captured on video. This configuration surges into the space, occupies it, proliferates chaotically and crashes through the ceiling to create a more structured image from the fragmentary gypsum casts of Berlin sculptures in the space above. Sapountzis’s works function like parasites. They draw their energy from existing sculptures, dissect and re-order them, without ever reaching a point of closure. His installations do not maintain a hermetic monologue: they spin sometimes delicate, some- times confronting strands between what exists and their own demands. Music and sound are produced by the composer Øyvind Torvund. |
Die Arbeiter und die Badende 2011 cloth, aluminium tubes, glass jars, plaster , 2 video projection dimensions variable Installation View Based in Berlin, 2011 |
Die Arbeiter und die Badende 2011 cloth, aluminium tubes, glass jars, plaster , 2 video projection dimensions variable Installation View Based in Berlin, 2011 |
Die Arbeiter und die Badende 2011 cloth, aluminium tubes, glass jars, plaster , 2 video projection dimensions variable Installation View Based in Berlin, 2011 |
Aparere 2011 cloth, aluminium tubes, glass jars, newspaper, plaster, wood Installation detail Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT |
Aparere |
Aparere 2011 cloth, aluminium tubes, glass jars, newspaper, plaster, wood Installation detail Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, IT |
Die Pathologie des Spiegeleingangs 2011 Table, cloth, aluminium tubes, jars with pickles, alu-tape, newspaper, paint Dimensions H 240 x B 220 x T 162 cm (h 94,5 x w 86,6 x d 63,8 inch) |
The Door the Gates In collaboration with Mirjam Varadinis, curator for contemporary art at Kunsthaus Zurich |
The Door the Gates In collaboration with Mirjam Varadinis, curator for contemporary art at Kunsthaus Zurich |
Yorgos Sapountzis Announcement Poster for Performance MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 watercolor, string on newspaper 70 x 100 cm |
Yorgos Sapountzis Performance MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Performance MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Performance MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis
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Yorgos Sapountzis |
Yorgos Sapountzis Performance MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View solo MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View solo MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View of Sculpture on Roof (projected in exhibition space) MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View of Sculpture on Roof (projected in exhibition space) MUSAC Leon Spain 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Performance Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi/ Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Performance Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi/ Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin 2010 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View DESTE Foundation Award Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 2009 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View DESTE Foundation Award Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 2009 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View of Sculpture on facade (projected in space) DESTE Foundation Award Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 2009 |
Yorgos Sapountzis Installation View DESTE Foundation Award Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 2009 |
Heritage of Its Architecture Video still DESTE Foundation Award Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 2009 |
Heritage of Its Architecture |
Heritage of Its Architecture Video Film still DESTE Foundation Award Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens 2009 |
Post Canonical Forms C-9
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Pre Bellevue |
Pre Bellevue 2010 Detail Museo de Arte Contemporáneo |
Fundamentals on Curves |
Charleroi, in memory of wealth, celebration and religion |
Charleroi, in memory of wealth, celebration and religion 2009 Installation view Contour 2009: The 4th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Brussels |
Charleroi, in memory of wealth, celebration and religion 2009 Installation view Contour 2009: The 4th Biennial of the Moving Image, Mechelen, Brussels |
The Heritage of its Architecture
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The Heritage of its Architecture 2010 Installation view One Film - one Week, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts
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The Heritage of its Architecture 2010 Installation view One Film - one Week, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts |
After Electricity |
After Electricity |
After Electricity 2008 Video still National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens |
After Electricity 2008 Installation view National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens |
After Electricity, the remains of a start |
After Electricity, the remains of a start 2007 Performance Music Megaron Athens, GR
| After Electricity, the remains of a start 2007 Performance Music Megaron Athens, GR |
Yeti lines Filmed with a web cam at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
Yeti lines Filmed with a web cam at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
Yeti lines Filmed with a web cam at the Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin |
Gold (Thessaloniki)
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Gold (Thessaloniki) 2005 Video Duration 5 minutes 50 seconds, looped |
Gold (Thessaloniki) 2005 Video Duration 5 minutes 50 seconds, looped |
Gold (Thessaloniki) 2005 Video Duration 5 minutes 50 seconds, looped |
Halfstar |
Halfstar 2005 Video Duration 1 minutes 10 seconds Music by Psycho Mafia (Øyvind Torvund and Sindre Andersen) |
Halfstar 2005 Video Duration 1 minutes 10 seconds Music by Psycho Mafia (Øyvind Torvund and Sindre Andersen) |