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Dimitris Gketsis at The Breeder

December 30, 2022

Artist: Dimitris Gketsis

Exhibition title: The Fault in our Stars

Venue: The Breeder, Athens, Greece

Date: November 10 – December 23, 2022

Photography: all images copyright and courtesy of the artist and The Breeder

The Breeder Feeder is pleased to present The Fault in our Stars, Dimitris Gketsis’ new solo exhibition presenting a series of his signature style wall reliefs. Gketsis’ new resin sculptures are reminiscent of marble reliefs that decorated monuments in Ancient Rome and Greece fusing classical vocabulary with a contemporary sensibility. His works are populated by female figures, hybrid entities and animals. He uses mythology as a source material for his investigation of how the social context of the post-colonial and patriarchal environment has shaped our current time.

In contrast to the dominant representation of the ideal of the white, male Man of Reason that we see in classical art, Gketsis responds with a cyborgian vision of hybrid, manifold beings proposing new hierarchies and subjectivities. In his works the boundaries between stereotypical definitions of male and female, black or white, human or animal merge.

His protagonists elude the strictures of a fixed, coherent identity; they propose a self, set free, filled with possibilities. His critique of existing societal norms and his proposition of new politics of identity is presented here with satire and humor. His sculptures inspired by antiquity adopt contemporary references drawn from pop Greek culture to fashion and music. Works like Woman Warrior and Social Visibility draw equally from the latest Balenciaga campaigns and the famous Schiaparelli corset while at the same time embracing hybrid androgynous representations of the female figure.

Dimitris Gketsis (1993) graduated from Athens Shool of Fine Arts in 2012 while he was studying in Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Munich. Recent solo and group exhibitions include: Attempt vol.I: Iridescent Lover Knife, We are Bud, Αthens (2017); Chromatic Festival Art Contemporary Club, Μontreal(2019); Accidental Encounters, for Grace/Athens, Athens (2018); I Need A Hero Action Field Kodra / Kodra Fresh, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2014).

Dimitris Gketsis, The Fault in our Stars, 2022, exhibition view, The Breeder Feeder, Athens

Dimitris Gketsis, the procession of horses, Polyester resin with fiberglass, copper & aluminium leaf ,acrylic spray, 136 x 67 x 8 cm

Dimitris Gketsis, Justice and revenge (woman huntress), Polyester resin with fiberglass, copper leaf, 116,5 x 80 x 4cm; Neptune horse, Polyester resin with fiberglass, copper leaf, 108 x 67 x 4 cm

Dimitris Gketsis, Monstera tree, Polyester resin with fiberglass , copper leaf, dimension variable ( 113 x 42 x 3 cm)

Dimitris Gketsis, Social visibility, Polyester resin with fiberglass ,acrylic spray and aluminium leaf, 88 x 60 x 3 cm; Forget, Polyester resin with fiberglass ,acrylic spray and aluminium leaf, 74 x 50 x 3 cm