Yorgos Maraziotis - Hard Desires

11/05/2023 - 24/06/2023

Base-Alpha Gallery

Kattenberg 12, 2140 Antwerpen, Belgium

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Yorgos Maraziotis’ new solo show at Base-Alpha Gallery is a large scale sculptural still-life that questions the notions of power and desire by blurring the boundaries between myth and reality.

Having as an inspirational point the paralysation of human relations due to modern day economic and technological structures, and the political responses to epidemics and crises, Maraziotis enters the gallery space and builds up a seductive and sensorial installation that combines sculpture and photography. His mediums, from raw industrial materials, found objects and religious ritualistic symbols to marble, neon glass and printed matter, carry antithetical notions such as the familiar and the distant, the safe and the dangerous.

The sleek composition of the artworks in space adds tension and creates voyeurism narratives, inviting the viewers to trust their gaze and their somatic senses in order to fully engage with them.
Furthermore, their bold tactility and their desirable air associate to flesh and the erotic referencing the relationship with the other, the value of the social body and the contemporary lack of touch.
Hard Desires toughens dialogue and physical relations through an intimate landscape that bears beauty, playfulness, discomfort and trauma.

Hard Desires is the second Belgian solo show of Yorgos Maraziotis with Base-Alpha Gallery in Antwerp.

EXHIBITION VIEWS

ARTWORKS

Yorgos Maraziotis
I'm really an object, 2023
Stainless steel
100 x 15 x 0,15 cm
Edition of 3

Price : Euro 1.500,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Untitled, 2023
Archival print on dibond
90 x 120 cm
Unique

Price : Euro 2.500,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Untitled, 2023
Archival print on dibond
90 x 120 cm
Unique

Price : Euro 2.500,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Untitled (Aphrodite), 2023
Brass, stainless steel
30 x 40 cm
Edition of 3

Price : Euro 1.300,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Untitled (Suzanne), 2023
Brass, stainless steel
30 x 40 cm
Edition of 3

Price : Euro 1.300,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Arnie, 2023
Ceramics
10 x 14 cm
Edition of 15

Price : Euro 300,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Apollo, 2023
Stainless steel, chains
90 x 170 x 3 cm
Unique

Price : Euro 3.200,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Hymn, 2023
Neon glass, cables, transmitter
42 x 30 x 3 cm
Unique
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Symphony #1, 2023
Framed stainless steel, silver-plated amulets
23 x 32 cm
Unique

Price : Euro 1.500,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Ceremony, 2023
C-print, plastic, metal
22 x 22 x 210 cm
Unique

Price : Euro 1.250,00 (VAT incl.)
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Yorgos Maraziotis
Untitled (Marleen), 2022
Steel, marble, rubber, screws
80 x 155 x 31 cm
Unique

Price : Euro 4.000,00 (VAT incl.)
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