Notes on an outcast monument 2017
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| Giorgos Papadatos, Notes on an outcast monument 2017 |
Transitional monument for the future (Repubblica di Napoli in grayscale)
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| Giorgos Papadatos, “ Transitional monument for the future (Repubblica di Napoli in grayscale), 2016 |
The work is an altar-monument (altarino) dedicated to a
city-circumstance in which I happened to traverse one of my three youths and to
which I have no wish to return.
The monument is aesthetically optimized. Without the baroque realisms
which this city deserves (grey is perennially safe and never ludicrous).
And naturally is is transitional and ephemeral like all honest
monuments.
It moves between two basic principles.
The text by Paolo Virno The horror of homelands and part of the film Youth
by Paolo Sorentino, who is the same age as me, where the double appears of the
retired Diego Maradona, a monument of himself, doing soccer practice with
time's ball and answering that he belongs not to youth but to the future.
So, then, using as tools the concepts of monument-youth-horror of
homelands, with the aid of the deified Diego Maradona and with the help of the
small oxymorons which make up our present, the work aspires to function
subversively, even ironically, in relation to the concepts of
return-memory-homeland- pubescence etc and think of the future which is the
homeland of us all.
Giorgos Papadatos, Nice Athens, Feb 2016
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| Giorgos Papadatos, “ Transitional monument for the future (Repubblica di Napoli in grayscale), 2016 |
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| Giorgos Papadatos, “ Transitional monument for the future (Repubblica di Napoli in grayscale), 2016 |
Radical Resort L.t.d
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| Giorgos Papadatos, Radical Resort L.t.d, 2014 |
Five square meters for all
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Giorgos Papadatos, five square meters for all, 2014
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Giorgos Papadatos, five square meters for all, 2014
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Giorgos Papadatos, five square meters for all, 2014
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Notes on a transitional monument
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Giorgos Papadatos, notes on a transitional monument, photocopied portrait of Jürgen Habermas ,wood,cord,photocopy, 30x25x20, 2013
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Giorgos Papadatos, notes on a transitional monument, photocopied portraits of Noam Chomsky,wood,rock,tend etc 2012
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Giorgos Papadatos, notes on a transitional monument, photocopied portraits of Ranciere,Chomsky,
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Notes on trapping, 2009,
cyclopedia Iovani 1979 pages, print,
dim 20x20
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Notes on trapping 1B, 2010
35X50 cm
marker on paper
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Thinking system with mouse trap, 2010
Dim 70X30X15 cm
wood, print, metal mouse trap
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Noam Chomsky – David Barsamian, Propaganda and the public mind, 2001
Cornell Capa, Old prospector with bear trap used for trapping, 1947
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Bear trap, primitive deadfall instructions
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Siberian bow trap
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vietnamese human traps
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The houses of the guards of water, air, fields etc
( a mausoleum for illuminism )
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The house of guards of the flights (after Dennis Oppenheim),
marker on paper,
dim 50X70 cm, 2011
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The house of the guard of water, 2009
Wood, print, roofmate
Dim 90x80x35 cm
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Houses of guards, 2009
Marker and pencil on paper
Dim 50x70 each
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Marcel Raval: CLAUDE-NICOLAS LEDOUX: ARCHITECTE DU ROI 1736-1806. Paris: Arts et
Metiers Graphiques, 1945. First edition.
Plan of the ideal town of Chaux, surrounding the royal saltworks of Arc-et-Senans
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Yona Friedman, Spatial City, 1960
Frank Lloyd Wright, Sketches for Boadacre City, 1932
Paul Maymont, Ville Flottante, 1960
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