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Venue
Alatza Imaret
Artist
Savvas Christodoulidis
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Garden in The Night, installation, 2007 |
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| The garden is a narration of time and space. The work of art negotiates the concept of the garden and the possibility of its composition within the process of painting and the concurrent gathering of objects. This concept is greatly developed in a frontal manner in order to employ the role of a “narrative shield”, as it is defined in Anne Cauquelain’s A Small Essay for Ordinary Gardens. The same theory was supported by Tellos Agras in the late 40s with his Across the Garden. The poet perceives the space as a concept with a single dimension. The main reason -a matching of the artistic thought and process- is therefore based on proposed objects and surfaces, placed in order for equal viewing. In this particular piece, the garden is a value that signifies more than anything else the notion of a level surface: a borderline between the inside and the outside, an impervious but at the same time passable barrier, a decorated vault which declares but also conceals what succeeds it. The garden is the place and the time of narration.
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