Artist: Gerasimos Floratos
Exhibition title: Slanwich Motel
Venue: SCHLOSS, Oslo, Norway
Date: April 6 – May 5, 2018
Photography: Courtesy of the artist and SCHLOSS, Oslo. Photos: Vegard Kleven
SCHLOSS is proud to present our first solo show with Gerasimos Floratos (b.1986).
Gerasimos Floratos’ paintings and sculptures play with the idea of site specificity and the notion of what it means to be ‘rooted’ in a single place. His works employ pyscho-figurative bodies as mechanisms for charting space in many forms; psychogeography of the globalised world, societies or microcosms built through commonalities of practice, and the internal space of the mind. For the artist, the slouchy alter egos present throughout his work operate as sites for exploring the relationship between the material and psychological bodies. The coded visual language present throughout his practice is partnered with a unique lexicon from which he draws titles for the works and exhibitions.
Gerasimos Floratos, Slanwich Motel, 2018, exhibition view, SCHLOSS, Oslo
Gerasimos Floratos, Slanwich Motel, 2018, exhibition view, SCHLOSS, Oslo
Gerasimos Floratos, Slanwich Motel, 2018, exhibition view, SCHLOSS, Oslo
Gerasimos Floratos, Slanwich Motel, 2018, exhibition view, SCHLOSS, Oslo
Gerasimos Floratos, Slanwich Motel, 2018, exhibition view, SCHLOSS, Oslo
Gerasimos Floratos, Slanwich Motel, 2018, exhibition view, SCHLOSS, Oslo
Gerasimos Floratos, Smush Town Secret, 2017, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 280 x 203 x 2.5 cm / 110 1/4 x 80 x 1 in
Gerasimos Floratos, Organic Trash Dog, 2017, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 280 x 203 x 2.5 cm / 110 1/4 x 80 x 1 in
Gerasimos Floratos, Outbound Soft Min, 2017, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 259 x 213 x 2.5 cm / 102 x 83 3/4 x 1 in
Gerasimos Floratos, Local Soft Body, 2018, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 182 x 242 x 2.5 cm / 71 2/3 x 95 1/4 x 1 in
Gerasimos Floratos, Envoy Slumper, 2018, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 121 x 182,242 x 2 cm / 47 2/3 x 71,748 3/4 x 3/4 in; Minion Bridge, 2018, Oil and acrylic on canvas, 121 x 182,242 x 2 cm / 47 2/3 x 71,748 3/4 x 3/4 in