{"id":83039,"date":"2022-11-10T09:43:36","date_gmt":"2022-11-10T09:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/?p=83039"},"modified":"2022-12-16T13:48:06","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T13:48:06","slug":"acts-of-modernism-a-conversation-on-antonis-pittas-exhibition-jaune-geel-gelb-yellow-acts-of-modernism-with-antonis-pittas-and-theo-van-doesburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/events-en\/acts-of-modernism-a-conversation-on-antonis-pittas-exhibition-jaune-geel-gelb-yellow-acts-of-modernism-with-antonis-pittas-and-theo-van-doesburg","title":{"rendered":"ACTS OF MODERNISM. A CONVERSATION ON ANTONIS PITTAS\u2019 EXHIBITION jaune, geel, gelb, yellow: Acts of modernism with Antonis Pittas and Theo van Doesburg."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the completion of Antonis Pittas\u2019 exhibition <em>jaune, geel, gelb, yellow: Acts of modernism with Antonis Pittas and Theo van Doesburg<\/em>, \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 is hosting a conversation on the political legacy of modernism and the internal contradictions of the major protest movements. The conversation, which will be moderated by Anny Malama, Publications Editor of \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4, will feature Johan F. Hartle, philosopher and rector of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (Akademie der bildenden K\u00fcnste Wien), Panagis Panagiotopoulos, associate professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and Daphne Vitali, curator of \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em>2019 marked the onset of the \u2013often violent\u2013 \u201cYellow Vests\u201d protests in France, a grassroots movement asking for more economic justice. For Antonis Pittas, who at that time was an artist in residence at the Van Doesburg House, home of Theo van Doesburg who was a pioneer of the historical avant-garde movement De Stijl, this coincidence was an opportunity for him to investigate the legacy of modernism through a political lens. He photographed the protesters, the police and their altercations on the streets and used their images to produce silhouettes made of reflective yellow foil, a material used in road signs. In his exhibition, Pittas has placed these silhouettes in front of original Van Doesburg\u2019s works that are being exhibited for the first time in Greece. These silhouettes seem to block the way but also to protect his work and legacy.<\/p>\n<p>With the conversation \u201cActs of Modernism\u201d, \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 focuses once again on the main issues around Antonis Pittas&#8217; exhibition. What are the philosophical and political contradictions of modernism that have survived to this day? What is the role of the yellow colour in contemporary history of art? Is there a duality in the large-scale protest movements that on the one hand they ask for more justice, equality and prosperity and on the other hand they often advocate political ideologies linked to authoritarianism and irrationality?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the occasion of the completion of Antonis Pittas\u2019 exhibition jaune, geel, gelb, yellow: Acts of modernism with Antonis Pittas and Theo van Doesburg, \u0395\u039c\u03a3\u03a4 is hosting a conversation on the political legacy of modernism and the internal contradictions of the major protest movements. The conversation, which will be moderated by Anny Malama, Publications Editor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":83033,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-exhibition-post.php","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,30],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83039"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83039"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83857,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83039\/revisions\/83857"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.emst.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}