Urgent Conversations Athens - Antwerp
(c)image: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens
From 1961-62 the artist utilizes neon tubes for the first time – a material which will characterise all of her later work. Charmed by the lights and lit signboards of New York, she introduces the use of neon into a series of sculptures, the most emblematic of which being The Gates to Times Square (1964-66). She wants to convey the liveliness, constant motion, color, phantasmagorical atmosphere and multilingualism of the megalopolis. Her minimalist, wall-mounted sculptures of large dimensions, constructed mainly with neon, aluminum and steel, embody characteristic elements from her visual language, such as Chinese typography and calligraphy.
Eleni Ganiti, EMST
Stamatis Schizakis, EMST