Travelling Art

 

India, New Zealand, Thailand, New York, passing through Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. The art of Alexandros Georgiou is an art “on the road,” made of discoveries.

In 2005 Alexandros Georgiou was in Varanasi, one of the holiest cities of India on the River Ganges. He worked with the local copy shop, creating photocopies in black and white of photographs with this analogue machine, then hand-painting each image, adding text on the back and sending these works of art in the form of a postcard to the people participating in the project, without keeping any copy of them.  This become the first of the “traveling”works of art of Alexandros Georgiou. Over the next decade many more projects have followed.

India has been the the setting of many of the artistic projects of Alexandros Georgiou and the country where his artistic career joined for the first time the concept of a journey. The Greek artist discussed with the Sienese public his latest two projects: Chardham of 2014, a long journey through the temples dedicated to Lord Vishnu in the four corners of India, a symbol of the four corners of the world; and Maha Shakti Peetha of 2015, a pilgrimage to the discovery of 18 temples dedicated to Goddess Sati.