Steven Papadopoulos

NEWS & EVENTS

A solo exhibition. Thursday August 11th 2011, 6:30pm-9pm. Spazio Dell’ Arte Gallery 400 Eastern Avenue, suite 201, Toronto www.spaziodellarte.com 

IDLE HANDS

By Steven Papadopoulos

My investigation lies between modernism, the modern-world and the Grotesque.  For this exhibition I have combined four different bodies of work, which approaches the subject of the Grotesque and beauty from several different angles.  I work the grotesque in juxtaposition to the urban, through ideas surrounding the organic and practices of vanity by using hair, insects and the industrial significance of the horse.

The juxtaposition of the organic against the background of industry has driven these bodies of work to explore the relevance of industry, whether it’s a machine, a fly, a horse or the combination of these objects and their significance to each other.  This body of work has taken four years to explore, re-investigating the Grotesque each time from a different perspective.

My most current body of work has been developed using a process of layers upon layers of either clear gesso or mylar, on top of every drawn or painted layer.  This helps to create physical depth and acts as a form of construction to the mechanical forms. This process also gives me the opportunity to disassemble the image and strategically reassemble it, in order to evoke possibility and function.