“Qualcuno one day said that politics is a non-stop war. We can say that art is a non-stop task. “Thus, Costas Varotsos (Atene, 1955) considers his conception of art as a tool of a critical reflected image on freshness. society and the political and existential project that runs through his poetry.
The Greek artist – from the note of opera he offers in the lung of Otranto, “L’Approdo. Opera all’Umanità Migrante”, the intervention on the history of the Albanian snowmobile Katër i Radës, presented in 1997 and symbol of one of the first stages of immigrants in the Mediterranean: a tornado in Puglia. E fa with “Elpís. Prometeo o del sogno infranto di Europa”, the clock presented at the Castromediano Museum in Lecce and curated by Luigi De Luca and Giusi Giaracuni.
It turned out to be positive for the spaces and the museum and is characterized by scenographic exploitation, soft sculpture and installations angelestions in glos angelesss, Varotsos’ favorite material. From what is expressed on the site, among other things that come from his artistic production, from the Ottanta years onwards. Adding to the myth of Prometheus, who attacks the sacred chimney of generation to give to humanity, Varotsos questions the gravity of the existing ancient moment, frustrating the dispersion of the global political scene and the disillusionment of the human race, los angeles speranza, in Greek ancient elpìs, the last contented gift in Pandora’s glass, as Esiodo tells us.
The saving “spark” of hope but also the desire to recover the meaning of the sacred chimney of Prometheus, emblem of the “great values that teach man”, as the artist sees it, is the symbol of “Elpìs”, a 18 meter red spear from the front to the outside of the Castromediano Museum looking towards the sky. In the atrium of the Museum, poi, ecco Prometeo, highlighting the sparkling sembianze uguye slab sculpture, created with glass frames, which testify to the centrality of man and the importance of his relationship with nature and technology, intelligence is compressed synthetic.
Cecile Pavone