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Perdre ciel et terre,
1958
by Christos Kalfas
Painting : plaster, mixed media 120 x 120 x 5 cm 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch
$5,550
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Painting: plaster, mixed media
120 x 120 x 5 cm 47.2 x 47.2 x 2 inch Height x Width x Depth
Silver wood frame
122 x 122 x 6 cm 48 x 48 x 2.4 inch
Artwork sold in perfect condition
Artwork location: France
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In the work Perdre Terre et ciel, Christos Kalfas illustrates with great poetry the notion of “permanence”. This theme, which is regularly found in his works, allows him to rethink the question of time far from the linear perspective that we generally have of it. In reference to Roland Barthes, he considers that certain ideas or events can slip over time, change space, repeat themselves continuously and "permanently". In the same way, the elements that make up his paintings can therefore detach themselves from their meaning or their initial context and “reincarnate” in new situations, loaded with illusions, dramas, eroticism or lucidity. They are then transformed into “quotes” which necessarily include variations and can be adapted to any interpretation. “(My art) has thus become a myth, a pretext and an occasion for a creative exercise without suffering pathetic consequences” (Interviews, Oct. 1995). For him, it is by working on the “skin” of each thing that one can manage to build a real personal mythology.
Although the quotation superimposed on the surface of this painting is a direct reference to the ancient text of Thucydides dedicated to the Peloponnesian War (The Peloponnesian War, Book III, LXXXII, 4-8), the work does not does not want a literal transcription of a historical scene of the battle which opposed the Spartans to the Athenians. On the contrary, it is a question of expressing the relevance of this quote in a current context:
"Reckless audacity passed for courageous devotion A reserved caution for disguised cowardice
Moderation for the pretext of softness Intelligence in everything for total inertia”
It is an awareness of the error of judgment, misunderstandings or greed, which can lead to tragic results, such as a fratricidal and ideological war. Man's weakness of judgment is plastered over the naked, fragile, defenseless human body. This giant in exile, without face and without identity, hermit without reason or appearance who wanders in a desert, appears like an empty and fragile soul whose only possible salvation can emerge from the two most powerful weapons that the human being possesses: his spirit. and his thought. Symbols of life and rebirth, the robins and the egg suggest the possibilities of renewal available to this disembodied being, lost between two worlds, just waiting to come back to life before our eyes.
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Work
In the work Perdre Terre et ciel, Christos Kalfas illustrates with great poetry the notion of “permanence”. This theme, which is regularly found in his works, allows him to rethink the question of time far from the linear perspective that we generally have of it. In reference to Roland Barthes, he considers that certain ideas or events can slip over time, change space, repeat themselves continuously and "permanently". In the same way, the elements that make up his paintings can therefore detach themselves from their meaning or their initial context and “reincarnate” in new situations, loaded with illusions, dramas, eroticism or lucidity. They are then transformed into “quotes” which necessarily include variations and can be adapted to any interpretation. “(My art) has thus become a myth, a pretext and an occasion for a creative exercise without suffering pathetic consequences” (Interviews, Oct. 1995). For him, it is by working on the “skin” of each thing that one can manage to build a real personal mythology.
Although the quotation superimposed on the surface of this painting is a direct reference to the ancient text of Thucydides dedicated to the Peloponnesian War (The Peloponnesian War, Book III, LXXXII, 4-8), the work does not does not want a literal transcription of a historical scene of the battle which opposed the Spartans to the Athenians. On the contrary, it is a question of expressing the relevance of this quote in a current context:
"Reckless audacity passed for courageous devotion A reserved caution for disguised cowardice
Moderation for the pretext of softness Intelligence in everything for total inertia”
It is an awareness of the error of judgment, misunderstandings or greed, which can lead to tragic results, such as a fratricidal and ideological war. Man's weakness of judgment is plastered over the naked, fragile, defenseless human body. This giant in exile, without face and without identity, hermit without reason or appearance who wanders in a desert, appears like an empty and fragile soul whose only possible salvation can emerge from the two most powerful weapons that the human being possesses: his spirit. and his thought. Symbols of life and rebirth, the robins and the egg suggest the possibilities of renewal available to this disembodied being, lost between two worlds, just waiting to come back to life before our eyes.
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