{"id":14354,"title":"Gesture","dimensions":"34 x 30 x 100 cm","date_begin":"1961-01-01","material":"iron, coloured thread, wood","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":24,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens - Donated by the Artist","cached_tag_list":"object EMST assemblage","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"\u003cp\u003eNIKOS KESSANLIS\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGesture\u003c/em\u003e, 1961\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIron, coloured thread, wood\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e34 x 30 x 100 cm\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eDonated by the artist, 2001\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eInv. No. 124/01\u003c/p\u003e\r\n","date_end":null,"reference":"124/01","stream_count_app":16,"permalink":"gesture","description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"category":{"en":"Sculpture","nl":"Sculptuur","fr":"Sculpture"},"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/032/717/large/PHA124_01_S1.jpg?1470059260","poster_credits":"(c)image: National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST), Athens","translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e[\u0026hellip;] In the works grouped under the umbrella title Gestures (1960-1962) created when the artist was living in Sixties Paris, then dominated by the New Realists and their theoretician, Pierre Restany, Kessanlis appropriated scraps of urban and industrial reality. His Gestures had much in common with the work of the New Realists, who had reworked a core artistic paradigm of the historic avant-garde of the early 20th century \u0026ndash;the ready-made\u0026ndash; inscribing it into public space, the society of consumption and spectacle.\u0026nbsp; Kessanlis extracts obsolete industrial objects and rubbish like cloths, plaster sacks, crumpled paper and parts of metal machines from the urban fabric and the \u0026laquo;And the post-industrial city [which] has become a huge objet trouv\u0026eacute; which limits cannot track down\u0026raquo; and inserts them in his work.\u0026nbsp; [\u0026hellip;]\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTina Pandi, EMST\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNikos Kessanlis. From matiere to the image\u003c/em\u003e, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2007\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e[\u0026hellip;] In de werken verzameld onder de overkoepelende titel \u003cem\u003eGestures \u003c/em\u003e(1960-1962), gecre\u0026euml;erd toen de artiest leefde in het Parijs van de jaren zestig en die vervolgens door de New Realists en hun theoreticus, Pierre Restany, be\u0026iuml;nvloed werden, eigende Kessanlis zich aspecten uit de stedelijke en industri\u0026euml;le realiteit toe. Zijn \u003cem\u003eGestures\u003c/em\u003e hadden veel gelijkenissen met het werk van de New Realists die het essenti\u0026euml;le artistieke denkkader \u0026ndash; de readymade \u0026ndash; van de historische avant garde aan het begin van de 20\u003csup\u003ee\u003c/sup\u003e eeuw in een nieuw kleedje stopten. Ze deden dat door het denkkader te integreren in de openbare ruimte en de gemeenschap van consumptie en spektakel. Kessanlis haalt verouderde industri\u0026euml;le objecten en rommel als kleding, gipszakken, verfrommeld papier en onderdelen van metalen machines uit de stedelijke omgeving en de \u0026ldquo;postindustri\u0026euml;le stad [die] een heus objet trouv\u0026eacute; geworden is waarvan de grenzen niet vastgelegd kunnen worden\u0026rdquo; en verwerkt ze in zijn werk. [\u0026hellip;]\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eTina Pandi, EMST\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNikos Kessanlis. From matiere to the image\u003c/em\u003e, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2007\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNikos kessanlis. From matiere to the image\u003c/em\u003e, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, 2007\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003e\u0026Sigma;\u0026tau;\u0026alpha; έ\u0026rho;\u0026gamma;\u0026alpha; \u0026upsilon;\u0026pi;ό \u0026tau;\u0026omicron;\u0026nu; \u0026gamma;\u0026epsilon;\u0026nu;\u0026iota;\u0026kappa;ό \u0026tau;ί\u0026tau;\u0026lambda;\u0026omicron; \u003cem\u003e\u0026Chi;\u0026epsilon;\u0026iota;\u0026rho;\u0026omicron;\u0026nu;\u0026omicron;\u0026mu;ί\u0026epsilon;\u0026sigmaf;\u003c/em\u003e (1960-1962), \u0026pi;\u0026omicron;\u0026upsilon; \u0026delta;\u0026eta;\u0026mu;\u0026iota;\u0026omicron;\u0026upsilon;\u0026rho;\u0026gamma;\u0026epsilon;ί \u0026omicron; \u0026Nu;ί\u0026kappa;\u0026omicron;\u0026sigmaf; 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