{"id":7698,"date":"2011-11-09T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=7698"},"modified":"2021-10-05T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2021-10-05T08:09:10","slug":"george-hadjimichalis-the-painter-a-k-a-novel-emst-new-commissions-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/exhibitions-en\/george-hadjimichalis-the-painter-a-k-a-novel-emst-new-commissions-2011","title":{"rendered":"George Hadjimichalis &#8211; The Painter A.K. &#8211; A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens presents from November 9th, 2011 until March 18th, 2012 the new work by George Hadjimichalis titled <em>George Hadjimichalis. The Painter A.K. &#8211; A Novel<\/em> in the framework of the series \u0395\u039cS\u03a4 Commissions 2011, with commissions by the Museum that are realized with the kind support of Bombay Sapphire gin.<\/p>\n<p>George Hadjimichalis\u2019 new project, entitled<em>\u00a0The Painter A.K. &#8211; A Novel<\/em>, is an installation that consists of 265 small and medium-sized paintings, 27 photographs, a structure and a video, which comprise the retrospective exhibition of an imaginary painter. Adopting the practice of a novelist, Hadjimichalis envisions a fictional person and creates his artwork, telling a story. It is a work open to multiple readings and includes a plethora of references and correlations. In this work, Hadjimichalis connects the personal to the collective, the experiential to fantasy, fiction to reality, identity to otherness, and the self to the Other. The work also contains an underlying autobiographical element, as the life of the imaginary painter inevitably meets that of the novel\u2019s creator. In this narrative piece, George Hadjimichalis addresses issues such as the human body and the human soul, illness, loss, memory, psychosis, and death.<\/p>\n<p>The title of the project and, by extension, the title of the exhibition, is, in essence, the information given about a book. George Hadjimichalis is the author, the painter <em>A.K.<\/em> its title, and the type of the book is a novel. It clearly concerns a visual novel, which isn\u2019t written in words but images, mostly painted but also photographic and moving (video), which took approximately four years to make.<\/p>\n<p>Through <em>A.K.<\/em>\u2019s psychological state, Hadjimichalis tells us, indirectly, about his own story, his own journey through art, his own thoughts, desires, needs, phobias and preoccupations, revealing secret moments from his own life. A quest for the self through the Other, as well as of the self as the Other, is ultimately the raison d&#8217;\u00eatre of the entire project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens presents from November 9th, 2011 until March 18th, 2012 the new work by George Hadjimichalis titled George Hadjimichalis. The Painter A.K. &#8211; A Novel in the framework of the series \u0395\u039cS\u03a4 Commissions 2011, with commissions by the Museum that are realized with the kind support of Bombay Sapphire [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":76601,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,34],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7698"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78305,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7698\/revisions\/78305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}