Panos Mitsopoulos 15 januari - 28 maart 2013

Visual artist Panos Mitsopoulos graduated in 2004 at the Rietveldacademy in Amsterdam. During the past years he worked with the theme: cosy cage. In this theme he compares the life of an encaged canary with modern life in metropoles. The light yellow color of the canary, locked inside a cage he uses and explores in different ways: Balancing shades and cage constructions, sometimes cosy, floating in space like they are trying in vain to blend into one another.

The work of Panos Mitsopoulos reflects resistance, unsteadiness and it reflects the liberation, which exists in a transition or a changeover in life.

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24 hours safe escapes to the Dark and Light
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Panos about his work:
On one side: I'm a canary living in a cosy cage. Sometimes, the door is open. I step out of my cosy cage, and enter a passage where I can enjoy my little "safe" escape which I continue to paint in yellow, my colour. However, this passage is a narrow, empty and limited space. And yet, I don't dare to go further away. So I try to make the best of it.

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