Sarantis Gagas

'art can put individuals on another track.'

Gagas thinks that memories are an important figurative example of recycling: knowing where everyone comes from is essential, to understand each other's differences. He feels that for too long people have thought having is at the centre of life instead of being. Too long people of the western world have created innumerable mountains of rubbish. He believes that only recently are people beginning to wonder what the consequences are of producing so much waste. For years we have lived in the here and now without worrying about what we are leaving behind for future generations.

The work of Gagas is conceptual. He wants it to stimulate thought and feels that it has to sow a seed that makes people look at things from another angle. He is aware that art can't change the world on its own, but that it can give us other points of view. For the 'Recycle Art' project he has created four paintings in which he has incorporated old shoes. Each shoe tells its own story. It is about the memory of each object: the individual memory of the one who used it and the collective memory of the civilisation which produced it.

website: www.s-gagas.gr

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