Shirts
Work Artirst Modal
Using advertising posters, colored paper sheets and wire as his main materials, Pavlos reconstructs objects of everyday life, clothes, still lifes, trees. Boxed inside cases made of perspex, these objects, imitations and counterfeits of the real, toys and games, acquire a museum-like character, poised as both valuable and mocking at the same time. They are provoking to the eye with their bright colors and the integrity of their construction; they are provoking to the mind as rags and trash of day-to-day life take center stage; they are mocking the community of consumerism and toy with the concepts of the hilarious, the unnecessary and the precious.
A work of art? A decorative object? A functional object? What is the difference between the actual and its reproduction? When does something become valuable? When is something cheap, worthless? What is unique? What is industrial? Do objects imply human presence or do they cancel it out? These are some of the questions raised by the works of Pavlos. Without magniloquence. Simply toying with reality.