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Constantinos Taliotis
MERCEDES
5-20 May 2011
APOTHEKE
Constantinos Taliotis returns to APOTHEKE two years after his critically acclaimed show 'Love At Last Sight' with 'MERCEDES', opening on Thursday, 5th May 2011.
Having in his most recent practise explored notions of historicity, narrativity and the aesthetics and ethics of B-movies, Constantinos Taliotis' 'MERCEDES' hovers between installation and objet trouve, the cinematic and the archival, the prop and the 'real'. With an intentional disregard to the singular Taliotis' 'MERCEDES' questions first and foremost the privileged position of the individualist work of art, without however regressing to the utopia of the 'collaborative' or the 'relational'. Mining desires of ownership, categorisation and cataloguing, Taliotis' work implodes, rather than expands, the gallery space in its exploitation of the politics and history of, in this case, APOTHEKE. At the same time, 'MERCEDES' is a Constantinos Taliotis' work through and through, not least in its survey of how the design item is convolutedly multi-folded into art and its often appropriated debates and its attentive staging. Unresolvedly critical 'MERCEDES' is a work which reaffirms Constantinos Taliotis as one of the most important transdisciplinary contemporary cultural producers from Cyprus.
