APOTHEKE
Phanos KyriacouCRASHED HELMETS MUST BE REMOVED
Phanos Kyriacou
CRASHED HELMETS MUST BE REMOVED
15 - 30 October 2009
Besides information's usefulness exists its multilayered uselessness. To deal with such a porous secret however requires a mature and continuous exploration of personal narratives. Phanos Kyriacou for his CRASHED HELMETS MUST BE REMOVED show at APOTHEKE reveals rather than exhibits finds from his personal engagement, his dig, as an artist with objects and spaces beyond their functionality.
Openings, nooks, doors, protruding fingers, hiding heads open portals to Phanos Kyriacou's ironic and Daedalic humour, a tool and a working methodology of the artist's sustained attempts at overthrowing usefulness. Performance relics, photographs of found objects and situations, a new sculptural piece diffuse and are trespassed by Kyriacou's humour differing his contextual position within the often disaster-inclined contemporary Cypriot art. His child-like behaviour, most obvious in the artist's video works at CRASHED HELMETS MUST BE REMOVED, is nothing but a camouflaged aversion to the oppressive and grading worn masks of seriousness. An abhorrence to pragmatic realism.
Alike the corpus of works by Phanos Kyriacou, his CRASHED HELMETS MUST BE REMOVED is a proposal for reviewing historical, spatial and objective information in opposition to desires and demands on art's conjectural lineage.
Press Release
Politis 17 Oct 2009
Review of Exhibition
www.politis-news.com/cgibin/hweb?-A=903158&-V=archivearticles&-p
