The third solo painting exhibition of Aristomenis Theodoropoulos, titled OUT, invited the viewers to discover “all the unseen places that surround us and lie outside the boundaries of the situations we experience”

The artworks were created during the challenging and demanding previous period, as it was shaped by the unprecedented health crisis and the mandatory confinement that followed. When looking at the paintings, the forms seem to be in a constant flux, creating multiple imaginary paths. This uneasy feeling is referring to the previous phase that was characterized by an uncanny instability. The viewer becomes partaker of an in-between state, a non-defined space, as all these details, that we have learned to ignore or that evoke feelings we may not want to experience, reveal themselves before him. At the same time, the deliberate human absence allows personal narratives to develop around the concepts of isolation and existence. Therefore, the works in the exhibition acquire as many interpretations as the people looking at them.

 However, when experiencing this intermediate situation, an interesting tension, capable of changing the course of events, occurs between opposing tendencies. Just as a loud laugh can turn into a loud cry and for a moment the two can coexist, before one prevails and eventually overwhelms the other, in Theodoropoulos’ paintings, the opposites coincide and become synchronized in an unbreakable harmony. The transition from one condition to the other is sometimes so imperceptible that it is almost soundless.

The exhibition was curated by Foteini Vergidou and was held at Mets Arts Center in Athens, 21 October – 06 November 2021.