Alexandros Manganiotis
On Saturday 24 March, FOUGARO presents the exhibition "Alphabet" of architect and visual artist Alexandros Manganiotis. The works in the show are numbered prints on archival paper derived from a processing of the series "The Alphabet (from Alpha to Omega)", and will remain at FOUGARO till Sunday 6 May.
In 2017 the "Alphabet" of Alexandros Manganiotis was chosen to represent Greece in the 7th Beijing Biennale at China's National Art Museum. The entire series had been shown in 2015 in his solo exhibition "Alphabet: The Image of Letters" at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki.
The series of 24 compositions based on the letters of the Greek alphabet comprise hybrids of humans, plants and animals made using the colours of school-type pencils and pens over the hazy trace of the artist's own school certificate in the background. Intensely humorous and inventive, they display unexpected symbolisms and mental associations.
As noted by Yannis Bolis, curator of the State Museum of Contemporary Art, "The figures adopt personas, seem to be in a state of constant anticipation, converse with the stereotypes and conventions imposed by contemporary society, assume roles and behaviours, speak of realities and gender identities and propose an alternative, highly interesting perception of the world with its contradictions and dead ends, its certainties and subversions".
Admission free
Alexandros Manganiotis
Alexandros Manganiotis was born in Athens where he lives and works. He studied architecture at the National Technical University and has a Master's in Architectural design from “The Bartlett”, UCL, London. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions in Austria, Greece, Belgium, Japan, Cyprus, the Netherlands, Russia, Turkey, the UK and the USA.
His works can be found in the State Museum of Contemporary Art, the American College of Greece, the Freud's Dream Museum in St Petersburg, the Lafcadio Hearn Museum in Japan, the collection of Luciano Benetton, the Municipal Gallery of Chania, the A & L Katakouzinos Foundation and in other private collections.
