| Yorgo Alexopoulos is a New York based multimedia artist. Over the years he has created paintings, sculptures and video installations that are inspired by the basic fundamental questions that humans feel the need to answer and which make us distinctly different from all other living creatures on our planet; why are we here? What is the purpose of all of this? What happens to us when we die?
The necessity to know the complexities of all existence is the source and driving agent behind our religions, scientific inquiry, worldviews, and, most importantly, our beliefs. Beliefs are the machinery for guiding our behavior through time. Our beliefs about the world around us dictate our actions. In a world full of competing religions that balkanize societies Alexopoulos often wonders if people are critically thinking about what it is that they believe in and begins his inquiries with this.
His work critically scrutinizes cultural self-definition and religious beliefs through the juxtaposition of symbolic and literal text. He uses a color-rich palate to create an abstract personal language of images, motifs and text that juxtapose ancient cross-cultural symbolism, scientific text, astronomical data, religious motifs, mythology, and ancient enigmas. He is interested in how scientific empiricism affects issues of faith-based ideology and the idea of ego transcendence through deep states of psychological introspection. The work draws its inspiration from science, religion, physics, mythology, art, and popular culture.
Alexopoulos is presenting a video installation titled "The Infinite Sphere" (a phrase lifted from a famous quote by French mathematician Blaise Pascal; "Nature is like an infinite sphere, who center is everywhere and circumference is nowhere"). The piece is composed of five video projections that fill the room with computer animations and sounds. Each projection juxtaposes his personal interpretation of the infinitely large and the infinitely small; grand scale cosmology and quantum physics. The videos are meta narratives depicting departure/travel, transmigration, multiple dimensions, the perceptible, the imperceptible, the infinitely small, the infinitely large, metaphysics, space-time, consciousness, and natural cycles. With this piece he hopes to create an environment where viewers can contemplate their place in the universe and critically examine their own beliefs
Yorgo Alexopoulos has exhibited in a number of group shows since the late 1990's. In 2002 he mounted his first solo exhibit at the Bronwyn Keenan Gallery in New York City.
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