Mike Petrakis "PeopleOnProduce"
M55 Art
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"Every human's start, is (he)art..."
"PeopleOnProduce" is an exhibition by Mike Petrakis, that reflects the human existence in controversy to art. The everyday life as a flood of reality elements surrounding us; icons, words, 'products' and things, filtrate by man and woman on any level of interaction, through all kind of relationships between genders. Humans have become just simple "clients" of their own creations, people convincing people, showing and selling ideas and behavior patterns, types of life intoxicated by information and advertisement, through movies, magazines, and mass media, a repetition over repetition.
Institutions, religion, politics, nothing is new or different just continuing again and again in the same loop, ending in a merely entropy that leads to an aftermath of contradictions.
Mike Petrakis confront and make us reach out in to a new level of consciousness bringing this true in front of us with his art.
-The inundation of 'lifestyle'
-People's collision with themselves (he/she) and with the others
-Our escape from the nature
-People's collision with technology evolution
"My art is inspired by a wide range of images and notions, from objects to words - coming from the massive world pop - mass cultures of previous and contemporary times. The modern world is illustrated more emphatically, the basic principles of consumerism, politics, lifestyle and of course personal experience.
According to my artistic beliefs, Art ought to be active and innovative, without a trace of repeated, static patterns. Art ought to be revolutionary, inspiring, awakening, urging people to follow it."
Mike Petrakis powerful and unique visual language and innovative art - philosophy recharge any particular semiology and conveys in a smart and useful message by playing with ironic dispositions and configurations of reality elements and factors.
Bringing to the spectator a rich variety of artworks affected by the nowdays culture and ending in a contemporary diachronic value and focusing mainly on the concerns of all p! eople worldwide.
After his many shows in Greece and world wide publications like Dazed & Confused magazine, and also his artwork Pop Corn put as a giant poster in the streets of New York and San Francisco, now the artist bring to M55 Art Gallery a more complete and deep picture of his work and art-philosophy.
"I believe that art, the last years is 'asleep' not taking a position in any of all our matters and must not decorate only your walls or your spaces, but your mind and soul as well..."
Mike Petrakis
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Schedule
from December 22, 2011 to January 21, 2012