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9/12/2005

Marigo Kassi

Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, Nafplion

Cutting & Sewing

The Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation, as part of the events in celebration of its 32 years of operation, hosts an exhibition by the well-known painter Marigo Kassi. The exhibition "Cutting & Sewing" comprises an installation of dozens of clothes made of paper which hover in space and create a poetic atmosphere, as well as three new illuminated works.

The link of the paper clothes with the exhibits of the Museum is obvious, and so is the Museum's choice of enriching its programme of events with contemporary forms of artistic expression associated with tradition.

In her text about the artist, art historian and National Gallery curator Lina Tsikouta writes: "The artist hangs many transparent rods from the ceiling of a hall in an irregular pattern, at the ends of which she attaches little paper dresses draped around their small hangers. The dresses are all different, with their motifs, laces and bows, cut out of handmade paper the artist has brought from England and America. They are all handmade, all unique like the female beings they stand for. The white colour dominates, along with a few blacks, greys, pinks and light blues and two or three of her photographs as a child incorporated in the work. Some two hundred and fifty unique dresses allude by association to the uniqueness of the female personalities that hang as if from the ceiling of a peculiar drycleaner's of the memory, cleansed and purified. The validity of the dresses points to the women themselves, while the 'emergence' of the image results in a nostalgic 'reality' in which the leading role is held by memory in the course of existence and the consciousness of time along the way".

Bio

Marigo Kassi was born in Athens, where she lives and works today. She studied at the Athens School of Fine Arts (Painting and Pottery) and in Paris on a Greek state scholarship. Since 1988 she teaches at the Vakalo School of Art and Design. She has also designed children's clothes for the Eleni Marneri Gallery. The artist has had many individual shows and has participated in several group exhibitions in Greece and abroad.

Opening: Saturday, 10 December 2005, 7.00pm

Peloponnesian Folklore Foundation
Vas. Alexandrou 1 - Nafplion
Opening Hours: Every day 9.00am-3.00pm and 5.30-8.30pm. Closed on Sunday afternoons.

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