#FrancePeachy @FIAFNY Invitation to Exhibition Opening Stephen Antonakos FORM COLOR SPACE
Invitation to Exhibition Opening
Stephen Antonakos
FORM COLOR SPACE
Thursday, February 24
Reception: 6–8pm
Talk: 7pm
FIAF Gallery
22 East 60th Street, NYC
"Essentially a classicist in the Constructivist tradition, Antonakos has revealed the poetry of neon." — Irving Sandler, Art Historian, NY, 2009
Stephen Antonakos (1926–2013) called his work “real things in real spaces in the here and now.” There are no representations, allusions, symbols. Throughout his work, the forms, colors, and compositions are clear — but their experience in time and space is open and various. The crucial placements of his incomplete geometries allow the forms to be completed in the viewer’s imagination — to be sensed kinetically as well as visually. He considered that the viewer’s experience was what completed a work of art.
View FORM COLOR SPACE and enjoy a glass of wine at the opening reception on Thursday, February 24, from 6–8pm. At 7pm, art writer and editor David Ebony and Naomi S. Antonakos, Director of Stephen Antonakos Studio LLC, will discuss the exhibition in a conversation with Dr. Sozita Goudouna.
Exhibition curated by Lola Siena Koutoudi.
Masks, proof of Covid-19 vaccination, and valid photo ID are required to attend indoor FIAF events. Read details here.
Image: Blue Incomplete Circle on a Blue and Red Wall, 1978, 10x21 feet ©Stephen Antonakos Studio LLC