Works On Paper
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on view from May 25 to June 22, 2019 at MKG127, Toronto.
In Works on Paper, Partheniou's 5th solo show at MKG127, she disrupts the audience’s assumptions with a bait-and-switch, swapping out a well-worn title trope with a tongue-in-cheek double-take. The title itself becomes a readymade material to be manipulated by honing in on the flexibility of language: taken as a set of parameters (works relating to paper) and taken as a directive (physical proximity to paper). Paper is so familiar that it’s often invisible - with this new body of work, what is usually a backdrop becomes foregrounded, and the medium becomes the subject.
Review:
The Totemic Quotidian in Roula Partheniou, by Ulysses Castellanos, MOMUS, June 22, 2019.
acrylic on found & altered objects
Edition of 4
acrylic on wood
Edition of 3 (Editions of 3 also available in black and blue)Constructed using screenprint of hand-drawn grid
Edition of 2 (Editions of 2 also available in red and blue)
Constructed using screenprint of hand-drawn grid
Edition of 2 (Editions of 2 also available in black and red)
Constructed using screenprint of hand-drawn grid
veneer on wood, altered IKEA table
Edition of 5
acrylic on MDF and wood
varied edition of 3
acrylic on MDF, wood and resin
Edition of 2
acrylic on MDF and wood
Varied edition of 2 (primary and secondary colours)
acrylic on MDF and resin
Edition of 3
acrylic on MDF and wood
hand-punched paper
Edition of 12
cotton and hemp cast paper
acrylic on wood and MDF
graphite on paper
graphite on paper
graphite on paper