アントニス・ピッタス

Born in Athens, Greece in 1973, Pittas lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He studied at the Athens National University of the Arts, the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam), and the Sandberg Institute (Amsterdam), and was an artist-in-residence at the Bard College Curatorial Studies Center in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. He is an honorary research fellow at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam. Pittas is an artist whose research and practice focuses on the theme of "recycling history (modernizing history/historicizing the present)." As an observer of the times rather than an activist, Pittas' work explores aspects of safety and control, economic crisis, resistance, violence and vandalism that arise from contemporary social and political issues. Sampling the visual languages of modernism and historical avant-garde art, including Bauhaus, TAEIL, and Russian Constructivism, Pittas uniquely maps their historical development paths and examines how each phenomenon is re-emerging in the present. His research-based approach is based on the idea that utopian aspirations can easily reverse and lead to destruction, oppression and the affirmation of power and authority, and his work seeks to provide a space for reflection on both history and the present by revealing the dynamics of this reversal.

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Photo by Bob Bronshoff