The nest
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The nest
Chandris, Pantelis (1963 Athens)
His exhibition activity began in 1987 with his participation in the Biennial of Young Artists from Europe and the Mediterranean. This was followed by solo presentations and participations in group events, in Greece and abroad, including the exhibitions “Germinations” in Aachen (1991), “The Tree” at Averoff Gallery in Metsovo (1993) and “Messengers of the Gods” (Mesaggeri degli Dei) at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome (1996).
Primarily a creator of constructions, Pantelis Chandris is interested in conveying concepts. Using natural materials, as well as plaster, paper, colors, metals and polyester, he creates compositions that are dominated by various types of contrasts, dreamlike and complex images, and a strong element of symbolism and allegory.
Easily recognizable, a gigantic toy, a common place, a passage for all living creatures, a wish, often a prayer, a nest in balance. The construction-sculpture, without resorting to rhetoric, uses the simplest means to approach the simplest concept: protection, cradle of life, a distant warm memory; and at the same time a reference to the natural world under attack, a trace of the flight path, a trail in the sky, the nest rooted in the ground, the nest looks like a museum.
Easily recognizable, a gigantic toy that keeps an important element from its spectator: hidden in its innermost curve, right in the center of the white wall of plaster, alluding to the inside of an egg, the white of existence when gestating its perfection, hidden in its curve is a metal water drainage, a way out for a fluid world. The realistic as well as hermetic nature of the work is preserving balance, the playful is supplemented by the cryptic. Reflection, irony, polysemy, an embrace.