Omikron Gallery Nicosia

Elementary Devices - Savvas Christodoulides
26 November - 31 December

Omikron Gallery proudly presents Savvas Christodoulides solo exhibition, titled Elementary Devices.

As integral components of the works of art, objects – small utilitarian and decorative items and larger pieces such as furniture and boxes – attempt, by becoming part of the artwork, to erase their primary function. The objects, having become components of the artwork, define and simultaneously demarcate, a new conceptual platform alongside the idea of gathering objects (récupération) and of a notion of formalistic re-invention. In Denis Diderot’s Aesthetics, the author refers to the art of gathering, coining it as “a virtue of collecting forces and materials.” He himself understands the paradox that is given existence from the “marriage” of assorted items as a crease in reality, and by extension as an expression of generosity and faith towards the objects themselves.

The works examine the possibility of delineating another expression or “pronunciation”, if you may, of the familiar outside the tangible limits of utilitarian parameters, in other words outside of that which we refer to as foyer. Something that is familiar is but a transparent and liberatin...