A general view of the exhibition
A general view of the exhibition
Museum
van
Hedendaagse
Kunst,
Antwerpen
25
May
- 21
june
1998
Costas
Varotsos
is
one
of
the
most
prominent
Greek
artists
of
the
past
decades.
His
work
can
be
situated
at
middle
ground
between
sculpture
and
installation,
his
work
shows
a marked
predilection
for
glass.
It
would
be
confusing,
however,
to
label
him
but
a glass
artist.
The
introduction
of
glass
enables
him
to
give
a thoroughly
individual
dimension
to
the
time-honored
trinity
of
space,
form
and
material
in
his
artistic
research.
Varotsos
works
both
inside
and
outside
and
in
the
process
he
always
searched
for
a clear
interaction
between
the
work
and
its
environment.
His
works
do
not
so
much
usurp
the
surrounding
space,
but
much
rather
appear
to
try
to
be
asorbed
by
their
environment.
At
the
very
basis
of
his
work
lies
the
opposition
between
the
transparency
of
the
material
on
the
one
hand
and
the
opacity
of
starkly
geometric
forms
on
the
other.
This
exhibition
features
several
works
inside
and
outside
on
the
terrace
of
the
museum.
The
terrace
looks
out
on
the
river
Scheldt
where
one
can
see
the
ambitious
"Horizon".
This
30
meter
wide
wing,
floating
on
the
water
as
it
were,
was
also
on
display
at
the
16th
Venice
Biennial
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