Flags
Artist
Leda Papaconstantinou
(born 1945)
Date1987
MediumDry pastel and charcoal on paper mounted on MDF wood
Dimensions148 x 133.5 cm
Collection No1553
DescriptionThe
work "Flags" by Leda Papaconstantinou is themed around an object-symbol,
with emblematic, ceremonial and revolutionary intentionality. The artist
ventures to ingrain the flags in the harshness of coal and the softness of
pastel hues, to infect the dynamics of their symbolisms with the intensity of
her colours and different textures. Here too, her artistic idiom —for the
achievement of which she has availed in her oeuvre of a variety of methods,
e.g. performance, action, installation, painting, photograph, video and
combinations of the above— salvages her preoccupation with corporeality and
with concerns about contradicting capacities like male-female,
reason-sensitivity or hard-soft, in a revisiting that overcomes their
deep-rooted meanings.