Exposition

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Zoe Panagiota (aka Betty) Nigianni

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50 A3 drawings black and coloured markers, including: 3 A3 collages on paper with newspaper cutouts and printed photos. 12 A3 drawings on paper with coloured markers + 1 A3 with black ballpoint pen and markers. 13 A3 drawings on paper with black marker, and red, pale blue, gold, pink and orange markers +1 A3 wo-sided. 17 A3 drawings on paper with coloured markers. 1 drawing on sketchbook cover with red nail polish. 1 text drawing on sketchbook cover inside. 1 drawing on sketchbook cover back inside with black, orange and gold markers. Some of the above is preparatory work for 4 large prints and 13 paintings. 22 A4 drawings with ballpoint pen. I did the art between 2023-2024. I adopted the visual vocabulary of the graphic novel, which I partly studied and read a lot about looking at different graphic artists' work, when I was attending classes at the University of Malmo, Sweden, in 2012. I mixed this with stylistic elements of the architectural sketch, using heavily the black marker and stick figures. Much of this work is, amongst other, about children. I wanted to emphasise that, by intentionally applying stylistic elements from children's drawings, too, in a naive architectural composition. Using this visual approach, I wanted to give a comically sharp twist to the otherwise dark subject matter. "Pop and Politics" (Pop Og Politikk) Where does the boundary run between art and popular culture? Pop art embraces the iconography of mass culture. Themes are taken from advertising comics, cinema and TV. The slick, impersonal style is a deliberate provocation. In Norway, pop art is part of a broader left-wing protest movement. Everything from capitalism and imperialism to environmental and gender politics is subjected to critical scrutiny. The exclusive, unique artwork is replaced by mass-produced prints and posters, well suited to spreading a political message." From the National Museum, Oslo, Norway. For Nikos, Filip and "Brandon". See exposition in connection with "The (Origins of) The Game", "Debris", and "The Loot".
typeresearch exposition
keywordsgraphic design, graphic novel, politics, Investigative art, globalisation, violence, masculinities, économie sociale, Economics, avant-garde, neo-avant garde, pop, activism, crime, postmodernism, romance, Contemporary art, Anticapitalism, globalism, politics of representation, non-philosophy, naive realism
date12/06/2024
last modified05/12/2024
statusin progress
share statuspublic
copyrightZ.P.Nigianni
licenseAll rights reserved
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2883619/2883620


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