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Panos Dimitropoulos
The basic principle underlying Panos work is the application of semiotics to create conceptual installations that evaluate the contemporary state of human condition.
Panos’s work is heavily influenced by his cultural studies background and schools of thought associated with Barthes, Benjamin and Baudrillard. Principles such as poststructuralism, critical theory and discourse analysis in turn are employed for decoding how meaning is created through sign systems that reveal everyday human values but also forces of power and misdirection.
His art sits in the inspirational intersection of Dada, Arte Povera, Surrealism and YBAs, using mainly everyday objects and material to deconstruct their meaning and reconstruct symbolic cultural narratives that critique ideologies and suggest a return to more humanistic sensibility.
The resulting works construct an ironic, non beautified, conceptual art that eliminates the noise from the complex, pompous and pretentious to simplify and emphasize on the essence of the art experience and the importance of a direct connection between artwork and audience.
His work has been exhibited in various galleries across Europe and Asia in-between which he lives and works.
Major Exhibitions
The 3rd Culture: China-Europe Arts and Science Exhibition – group show, ARTPLUS Shanghai International Art Fair, Shanghai, 9.26
Objectively Absurd: A conversation between two artists – group show, Artcons Gallery, Athens, 6.26
Closed – solo show, Yijin Musuem, Shanghai, 7.24
Light – group show, Outsider Gallery, Zhengzhou, 4.23
In Sight Out – solo show, JoyBean, Beijing, 3.23
Encore – group show, 021 Art Fair, Shanghai, 12.22
The Forgotten Words – solo show, Square Gallery, Shanghai, 10.22
Welcome to the jungle – group show, Hauhui Art Museum, Zhengzhou, 9.22
Upcoming Promises – group show, Simulacra Studio, Beijing, 8.22
Condition Critical – solo show, Simulacra Studio, Beijing, 8.21
Antonyms – group show, Goethe Institut, Shanghai 7.21
Telephone – group show, online, phonebook.gallery, 12.20
Spoilet – solo show, Square Gallery, Shanghai, 7.20
Connecting the dots – group show, 1929 Art Space, Shanghai, 5.19
Unknown Asia – group show, Grant front Pavilion, Osaka, 10.18
Flux – group show, Chelsea College of Arts, London, 4.18
On starting another conversation about comparative feminism group show, WhyWhy Art, Nanjing, 5.17
Eruturf – group show, WhyWhy Art, Nanjing, 6.16
The Absent Ingredient: Presence within Absence – solo show, The Exchange, London, 10.15
Tracing my Echo – group show, 1 Year Gallery, Taipei, 2.15
Paradise Lost – group show, M50 Studio Gallery, Shanghai, 6.14
Off Spring – group show, Curious Duke Gallery, London, 11.13
Summer Exhibition – group show, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, 6.12
The Spring Exhibition – group show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, 5.11
Arte Laguna – group show, Arsenale, Venice, 2.11
Complexity – solo show, The Empire Gallery, London, 10.10
Colour of Perception – group show, Topolski Century Gallery, London, 5.09
Hot – group show, The Empire Gallery, London, 10.08