Costas Tsoclis Museum

In collaboration with Museo Costas Tsoclis and Nel Chiostro delle Geometrie / sixth edition – Sommer Bauhaus curated by T S Krypton and Tearc for Estate Fiorentina 2019

Opening at Il Ponte gallery thursday 30 may, h 6.00 pm

Talk and artist’s performance at the Church of Santa Verdiana thursday 30 may, h. 9.00 pm, Piazza Annigoni 27, Florence

Galleria Il Ponte (in parallel with the current exhibition, Carlo Battaglia. Pittura 1969-1979) presents a small show in its lounge space dedicated to the great Greek maestro Costas Tsoclis, displaying five Object Artworks from 2011 entitled Nothing.
The artist says: “I’d like these works to be like when someone greets you cordially at a get-together among friends, you look at them and their face tells you something, but you can’t remember where or when you met them. This creates unease, tension, a guilty feeling I’d say! You’d like the moment in question to come to mind, but you can’t put a finger on it.”

At the Church of Santa Verdiana, introduced by Bruno Corà, the artist will hold the talk Anche in fine, come in principio, il Logos sarà! about his new position on intention, non-object artwork.
“Dragged along by the storm of events, art, the impotent ship of salvation, and the artist, its dilettante captain, at once a distinguished class of castaway, at once outcast from the stolen reality.
A dog barking or a bird singing in the din, believing his voice can cover the mayhem of the world and give it rhythm and sense.
And when he realizes his incapacity, either he despairs and falls silent forever, or he starts barking even louder, or singing even more sweetly, until he bursts. As his sole recompense, the arrogant judgements of others on his person and rarely the historical declaration in which he so passionately hopes.
Depending on the ruthless Lord’s mood”.

To be followed by the artist’s performance, Tsoclis, Noi.
“In the sea of our life and work many persons surely swim and drown. We ourselves remain on the surface, like living examples of that collective attempt at salvation, but losing bit by bit our original form and assuming the general human form. Without sex, without age, without country. Within the scope of my related called “Living Painting” which began in 1985 with Harpooned Fish and continued with a series of analogous works through the great complex tragedies to Ten Points of Vision at Paphos in the summer of 2017, I am now offering my own self as a screen onto which will be symbolically projected certain persons (among many others) who have partecipated in the formation of the person, of the work, known as Costas Tsoclis. This is not so much to render justice (which I would also wish) but to create yet another work of art and drive “Living Painting” forward to it ultimate limits.
With this work I am not proposing a new vocabulary, but with familiar words I am writing yet another poem, the beauty and performance of which I cannot predict”.