SexoMania - The full spectrum of love in contemporary art

On Friday, 21 October 2016, opens the SexoMania exhibition of the Open Call for 4th International Visual Arts Festival of Patras | RE-culture 4, with 21 artists: Kalypso Adamidou, Vicky Aliprandi, Dimitris Andreosopoulos, Elena Efeoglou, Theodora Foudoulaki, Yanna Kali, Aurelia Kavaliaouskaite, Maria Koutroumani, Christos Kyriazidis, Polyxeni Marlits, Moka, Konstantinos Pardalis, Paskevision, Chrisanthy Petra, Dimitris Protopapas, Konstantinos Vasileiou, Dimitris Vavouras, Elli Velliou, Kostas Vlachopoulos, Nikos Vrouvas, Grigoria Vryttia and a total of 74 of their works curated by Megakles Rogakos and under the architectural supervision of Kleopatra Tsirli at the former Municipal Baths of Patras.

The art historian and exhibition curator Megakles Rogakos notes:

"SexoMania is an unconventional exhibition that explores the current uncontrolled sexual desire as expressed in the unprecedented phenomenon of Internet Sex Addiction with the anonymous, and therefore exculpatory, access to the ‘cybersex,’ which is for an increasing amount of people an escape from the often gray and banal erotic reality. It is hopeful that today 21 young artists (under the age of 40) in today’s Greece of crisis, regardless of globalized trends, are interested not so much about the superficial representation of sex, as its expressions, mechanisms, and extensions. Their works that are presented indiscriminately and without censorship in SexoMania view and highlight the full spectrum of the object – the subjective uniqueness of love, the charming dimension of perversion, and the critical position of the evaluation of our culture. The absence of rules and boundaries in art gives artists the ability to communicate freely with virtue, honesty and boldness whatever they are unable to explain with words or to share with their actions. Their guilt thoughts find eloquent expression in the visual arts".

SexoMania is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue that includes texts of the curators for all the individual exhibitions of RE-culture 4.

Opening: Friday 21 October, 18:30