2024-05-16 12:15:25
The Ametrine house on the Island presents the everlasting visible exhibition of the sculptor Stefanos Durtas “Boat 365”.
“Watching the works of sculpture or the jewellery of Stefanos Durtas, we are going to distinguish in a number of of them the types of the instruments. The instrument is a medium however it could additionally change into a undertaking. The creator directs, implements and presents an set up. The simplicity of the medium itself, the instruments and the combination. The boat. The place. The womb that offers start to photographs, colours, smells and sounds. Having at his roots the custom of Epirus, in craftsmanship and jewellery, Stefanos Durtas creates and returns – as a return – a piece from and for his place. The boat itself as a instrument. Undertaking and gear. Each day and multi-use instrument for the person of the island. Software that opens paths within the water world of the lake. Connecting with the state, foraging, day by day work, escape, return and leisure. A undertaking created by necessity itself. This work is put in on the small island of Ioannina as an emblem of a primitive picket construction but in addition as a reference to the connection of individuals with their place and with the means-tools created by the necessity of day by day life on the island”, writes the puppeteer, actor and artwork theorist Theodoris Korozis.
The opening of the exhibition will happen on Sunday, Could 12, from 5 pm to 9 pm, and it is going to be open on daily basis of the week, from 10 am to 7 pm.