Giorgos Gerontides: A flock of fakes. Definitions of the non-natural
In his solo exhibition titled 鈥淎 flock of fakes: definitions of the unnatural鈥�, Giorgos Gerontides, an established visual artist, presents the relationship between the artwork and the museum precisely in terms as a centuries-old convention.
He focuses on the relationship between humans, nature and the animal world, using natural history museums as a case-study. In three separate, 鈥渓iving鈥� installations/sections presented at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens, the artist comments on a theme that has always been timely, but has now become ominously urgent: the power of humans over other species, the relationship between works of art and real or embalmed animals, natural history itself -nowadays presented to us in a more unnatural form than ever-, and, finally, on our own inconceivable categorizations and interventions in the natural environment and, by extension, in the way the latter is recorded and presented in museums.
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In his solo exhibition titled 鈥淎 flock of fakes: definitions of the unnatural鈥�, Giorgos Gerontides, an established visual artist, presents the relationship between the artwork and the museum precisely in terms as a centuries-old convention.
He focuses on the relationship between humans, nature and the animal world, using natural history museums as a case-study. In three separate, 鈥渓iving鈥� installations/sections presented at MOMus-Museum Alex Mylona in Athens, the artist comments on a theme that has always been timely, but has now become ominously urgent: the power of humans over other species, the relationship between works of art and real or embalmed animals, natural history itself -nowadays presented to us in a more unnatural form than ever-, and, finally, on our own inconceivable categorizations and interventions in the natural environment and, by extension, in the way the latter is recorded and presented in museums.
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