Panos Dimitropoulos

The basic principle underlying my work is the application of semiotic conceptualisation to various meaning agents but mainly juxtapositions of found objects to compose installations in the form of surrealistic meta-texts. These objects upgraded from a mere commodity status and freed from their original context - but still empowered with their socio-cultural associations - come from the world of things to communicate the world of ideas. They enter into a signification play with each other as they endlessly strive for meaning domination.
My primary concern is the theoretical at its attempt to become critical; the physical is treated as secondary, lightweight, unpretentious or dematerialized. The resulting installations compose a discerning, self-ironic, provocative, non beautified and with a dose of slapstick conceptual art that poses a critique on the condition of contemporary humanity.
The apotheosis of materialism as well as the state of being that contemporary art has entered, have created the circumstances for a self-sustained conceptual art that treats the totality of objects as a visual language and through their (re)use makes a sustainability statement by actually reducing the number of objects in the world through combin...

MA Media, Art and Communications Studies, Goldsmiths College

BA (Hons) Communications and Image Studies, School of Arts and Images, University of Kent at Canterbury

2,4,6/18 Recharge group show and event, Mao
Livehouse, Shanghai
6/17 'Erutuf' group show, Nanjing,
6/16 WhyWhy Studio group show, m50, Shanghai
4/15 ‘Tracing my Echo’ group show, 1yeargallery, Taipei
7/14 ‘Concepd’ solo show, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai
11/13 ‘The 7th Layer collective’ group show, Curious Duke Gallery, London
6/12 ‘Summer Exhibition’, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
5/11 ‘The spring exhibition’ group show, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
2/11 Finalist at the ‘Arte Laguna Prize’, Arsenale di Venezia, Venice
10/10 ‘Complexity’ solo show, The Empire Gallery, London
11/09 ‘The colour of perception’ group show, Topolski Century Gallery, London
03/08 ‘Hot’ Group show, The Empire Gallery, London
04/05 First Prize at the ‘Patras Art Carnival’ competition, Greece