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GIORGOS TSERIONIS
b. 1967, Athens. Lives in Athens.
Small Greek Landscape, 2019
Heidegger is Watching the Milky Way, 2018 Native Land #9, 2018
All my works are answers to this main question: “What is the function of vessels today, what could be their content?” I am not concerned with manufacturing usable vessels or realistic ceramic sculptures. Rather, vessel as a scape, sometimes completely abstract and distorted, like a rhetorical device, is the central point of reference of my work, while its result is more than just the situation of the shape of a utensil.
My engagement with clay presents an ongoing dialogue about the medium’s vast realm of possibility.
Many of the works take on the look of natural life forms, or ruins (as a symbol of a changing world). It’s intriguing that many of these life forms look as though they have been touched by a natural conflict. Other vessels appear to be more mechanically designed, but they have been intentionally elaborated with the least of efforts, as if they were the remnants of an imaginary performance.
I believe that the environment where ceramic pieces are and how they are presented are also a part of the pieces. It goes without saying that how we interpret pieces depends on where they are shown.
Giorgos Tserionis
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