EKFRASI-YIANNA GRAMMATOPOULOU GALLERY presents the solo exhibition of Kostas Tsolis entitled ‘Odors of Time [Memories & Ark]’. The exhibition, which was inaugurated on May 16, runs till June 15. Kostas Tsolis was born in Athens and studied at the School of Visual and Applied Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has presented his work in solo and group exhibitions in Greece and abroad. He was a member of the visual arts group Katalipsi (1986-1990). Since 2003 he has been a member of the special laboratory staff of the Athens School of Fine Arts (ASFA). He lives and works in Athens. Yiorgos Icaros Babassakis writes the following about the exhibition:
 
“It is a coherent remixing of the stories that constituted the History of the so-called short 20th century, the era of the extremes, according to the historian Eric Hobsbawm (09.06. 1917 – 01.10.2012). The artist deconstructs and then reconstructs, using a method of dialectical pasting and a papercut strategy, photographs and images of events that shook the 20th century, mixing them with selected captures of moments of everyday life.
 
At the same time, in a quasi-repository, the artist exhibits magazines wrapped in black tape, in which catalytic events and everyday snapshots unfold from the perspective of the media. At the same time, he lines up books constructed by himself using the method of pasting, but also the historical methods of détournement introduced by Guy Debord in the 1950s and cut-up / chopping-up / reassembly, invented by William S. Burroughs & Brion Gysin in the 1960s. He also reconstructs the covers of iconic 20th century publications.
 
The artist constructs a new narrative of old events, in order to highlight their actual significance that has been distorted or even eliminated by the dominant narratives of political expediency. He invites us to a mental recomposition of the historical record, as he intertwines the power of art with the study of events, pushing the viewer into an extremely fruitful reexamination of History (with a capital violet) through his works that interweave with temporalities, constituting another archive, a new ark of processed memories.”

• Efrasi-Yianna Grammatopoulou Gallery is on 9a Valaoritou St, 10671 Athens. For more info visit the gallery’s site