Constantinos Taliotis - Mercedes

Constantinos Taliotis returns to APOTHEKE two years after his critically acclaimed show 'Love At Last Sight' with 'MERCEDES', opening on Thursday, 5th May 2011.

Having in his most recent practice explored notions of historicity, narrativity and the aesthetics and ethics of B-movies, Constantinos Taliotis' 'MERCEDES' hovers between installation and objet trouve, the cinematic and the archival, the prop and the 'real'. With an intentional disregard to the singular Taliotis' 'MERCEDES' questions first and foremost the privileged position of the individualist work of art, without however regressing to the utopia of the 'collaborative' or the 'relational'. Mining desires of ownership, categorisation and cataloguing, Taliotis' work implodes, rather than expands, the gallery space in its exploitation of the politics and history of, in this case, APOTHEKE. At the same time, 'MERCEDES' is a Constantinos Taliotis' work through and through, not least in its survey of how the design item is convolutedly multi-folded into art and its – often appropriated – debates, and its attentive staging. Unresolvedly critical 'MERCEDES' is a work which reaffirms Constantinos Taliotis as one of the most important transdisciplinary contemporary cultural producers from Cyprus.

Constantinos Taliotis (b. 1983) lives and works in Athens, Greece and Nicosia, Cyprus. In the past two years, Taliotis’ work has been exhibited in group and solo shows in Nicosia (War Fever, Nicosia Municipal Art Centre, Love at last sight, APOTHEKE), Athens (Kappatos Gallery, Art Athina), London (Fold Gallery, The London Art Fair) and Venice (Arte Laguna Art Prize).

Opening: Thursday, 5th May 2011, 20:00

*APOTHEKE will also be participating at ART ATHINA 2011, in Athens, from the 12th to the 15th May 2011, with new works by Maria Toumazou and Maria Anastassiou.