Sianti Gallery will be featuring the solo exhibition of sculptor Giorgos Georgiadis, named Reinstatement > 72 Centuries A.C. beginning at 7 pm on Friday, January 17.
The exhibition showcases a collection of sculpted apes with “an effortless kind of humor, an acute self-sarcasm, an inner gentleness and a vigorous sense of youth,” says Iris Kritikou, the exhibition’s curator, who wrote extensive notes praising the work’s complex lens on humanity.
The apes mimic imagery of heartwarming, arrogant, and even ridiculous human activity, including falling in love, driving expensive cars, talking about politics, traveling, affectionately holding their newborns in their arms, forming rock bands, and more.
“I saw in my fantasy how people, as they reached their higher level of evolution, begun a gradual return to their primal roots, i.e. the primates – as they are called in the Theory of Evolution by the English physiologist Charles Darwin. A total return to their point of beginning,” Georgiadis explained in a statement regarding his vision for the project.
Reinstatement > 72 Centuries A.C. is a continuation of 15 smaller works by Georgiadis created between 2014 and 2024, titled Reverse Mythology.
As a sculptor, Georgiadis has been rewarded a myriad of prizes for his work, with the 1st Prize of Young Panhellenic in 1961, the honorary Diploma of the Greek Writers Society in 1974, the 1st Prize of an international exhibition hosted by the European Council in Brussels and the Award of the Italian Journalists in 1985 barely scraping the surface.
In 1984, Georgiadis represented Greece at the Venice Biennale, the annual international cultural exhibition dubbed by many as the “olympics of the art world.”
The exhibition will run for 3 weeks, finishing on Saturday, February 8.
