Art as a Response. A visit to the exhibition “Linear B” | CHRISTINA GRAMMATIKOPOULOU
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© Photo by Alexander de Querzen
I think the first time I discovered Christian Guémy, aka C215, it was totally by hazard, through two little books : The Blue Book and The Red Book.
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For centuries, we human beings have coped with our environment just thanks to the set of sensorial systems biologically developed for that scope.
“So I must leave, I'll have to go to Las Vegas or Monaco and win a fortune in a game, my life will never be the same”
Abba, Money, Money, Money, 1976.
The power to educate or to seduce, to heal or to scare, to tame or to arouse, to unite or to divide...
From cave murals to digital pictures, images have always had a profound impact on human thought.
Hence, they’ve been often seen as carriers of ideas, used by the political or religious leadership in order to propagate ideologies and direct the masses towards one direction or the other.