Evaluator vasilis alexandrou (Artist)

During the last years I have been evolving practices that mobilize objects rejected by the modern urban environment. In bulky industrial objects (chairs, doors, building planks etc) I put gestural interventions; I reuse and convert them, abolishing their initial function so as to create new conceptual relationships. Used objects, their age and wear carry for me a special poetic. My aim is to reveal the fragile balance between memory and garbage, history and contemporary urban culture, tracing lost narrations in these used materials. Keeping away from practices that raise the personal experience into an axiom, I search for the common in the individual, the public in the private, seeking to reconstitute something that could approach to collective memory as far as possible. Biography: Born in 1990 in Thessaloniki Greece, where he lives and works. Graduated with honors from the School of Fine Arts of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 2014. He has created a work for public space that is exhibited on a permanent basis "On a burned piano", University of Macedonia and he has displayed his work in three solo exhibitions "διά βίας μάθηση | éducation forcée" French Institute of Thessaloniki (2017), “Object’s Origin Rejected” Culture Center of Alimos Municipality, Athens (2017), and "Mother Tongue" Gallery Choros 18, Thessaloniki (2014) and in more than 50 group shows. He represented Greece in Mediterranea 18 Young Artists Biennale "Home" 2017, National Gallery of Tirana, Albania. Since 2016 he is co-curating the site-specific project "Inappropriate painting course". During the period 2015-2017 he taught engraving at the Municipality of Thessaloniki. Since 2017 he has been teaching in the art workshop for adults on alternative methods of art creation, within the framework of the specialization courses of the University of Macedonia.