Over the past month, 14,000 tremors have highlighted both the fragility and resilience of the Greek islands. In response to the recent seismic events in Santorini, Charta Gallery presents Resonance of the Islands – a selection of works that reflects their presence in the creations of artists from different generations.
Through various media, Resonance of the Islands captures the evolving dialogue between nature and creativity, movement and stillness, past and present.
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The exhibition is supported by To Collect Contemporary Art, an initiative that carries out various cultural projects worldwide, including an annual land art installation on the island of Limnos, Greece. This shared experience deepens our connection with the people and cultural heritage of the Greek islands.
Installation view
Artworks
Lothar Braun
SANTORIN – Tur zum Horizont
oil on canvas, 1993
120×100 cм
Lothar Braun
MIKONOS
oil on canvas
120×100 cм
Lothar Braun
SURREALIST ARCHITECTURAL LANDSCAPE
oil on canvas, 1967
120×80 cм
Lothar Braun
HOUSE FACADE
oil on canvas
65×95 cм
Otto Hainzl
WIR series (EN: We – Dramaturgy of Social Life)
Edition 1/1
Print on CrystalBond
94×200 cм.
A horse lies awkwardly in a strange green landscape. Thousands of people, their faces as small as pinheads, are packed into a stadium stand, forming an anonymous pattern. A group of tourists stands on a narrow strip of beach, caught between a guileless sea and a skyless horizon.
It is always us.
In this body of work, the artist exclusively depicts scenes saturated with human traces—fingerprints of existence. In doing so, he points both to us and to himself. Almost every detail in these photographs is arranged—not by the artist, but by life itself.
This is precisely where the point is made: the apparent randomness of the scene fades, revealing the underlying dramaturgy of social life. The seemingly ordinary images of everyday moments unfold into a reflective space—the WIR space. With deeper observation, the works develop a distinct WIR quality.
The quiet and restrained handling of the camera, the richness of detail, the technical precision, and the artist’s meticulous gaze all serve as stylistic devices through which he captures our social fingerprints.
Stefan Ivanov
Random objoect III, 2016
wood, polymer, copper, silver
104х38х36 cм
This sculpture series are closely linked to the idea that the objects and elements contained therein are no longer perceived as inanimate objects or familiar characters, but rather on the opposite. They start living their own autonomous existence, which is parallel and independent from our reality. The objects embody a new meaning, which leads out of their apparent substance. The occurring events are subjected solely to their inner logic.
Stefan Ivanov artworks examine the “private existence” of non-human and non-living objects at the same time rejecting the anthropocentric perception of the world. He attempted to obliterate the boundaries between sculpture, painting and design and merge them into an original perception for a new aesthetic world irrespective of the people-made paradigms.
His selection of everyday objects is revealed through unusual settings and situations where the inhabitants of the water environment turn banal daily objects into their shelter … into a playground. It is a world that exists in dreams or in a child’s idea of imaginary living.
Seestueck (See-See)
Print
60,5 x 60 cм
This is an original art poster featuring an art work by Gerhard Richter, made 1970: “Seestück”.