Antonis Pittas

Antonis Pittas’ marble sculptures combine classical associations, grand gestures and political acts. The marbles are shaped in different sizes of tires and barricades used by protestors during riots, which are set on fire in order to attack police forces or used to build defences against actions taken by the police forces. The white marbles are covered with quotes taken from newspaper articles of the riots in Istanbul and from the uprisings and violences in Ukraine. After the exhibition ends the texts will be taken off and, like the leftover dark spots of burned tires on the streets, the graphite will leave its own smudgy dark spot on the marble. When the piece will be installed again, the texts will be reapplied on the marble, creating a new version of it in which the text takes a new position on the marble and create a new possible meaning.