OPENING SATURDAY 17 - IMAGINE VISUAL ARTS (21 I. CHOUNTA STREET, PAIANIA)
"Ιnvisible Seams"

Weights of Art: When Weight Takes on Form
What does it mean to lift a weight? And what happens when the weight lifted by the body transforms into the burden carried by memory, desire, history, and culture?
Addressing these questions, visual artist Ennios-Eros Giogos presents his solo exhibition *Weights of Art* at Imagine Visual Arts on Saturday, October 17, curated by art historian Eleni Gatsa. A gorilla, Socrates, and a burger converge upon the same handle. Sculpture becomes the arena where ancient philosophy, consumer culture, animal strength, and contemporary self-image merge into a shared physical form.
The series takes as its starting point an object instantly recognizable at first glance: the kettlebell—an implement designed for exertion, endurance, and repetition. The artist retains the spherical mass and arched handle as a constant formal foundation, upon which he sculpts faces, busts, and bodies: a gorilla, a lion, a bear, and a dog; lips, a female torso, and a quilted vanity case; a Cycladic figurine and a topological knot; Socrates and Marcus Aurelius; a burger and a soccer ball; a hand grenade, a skull, and a warrior. Glossy blacks, bronze tones, and vibrant reds, yellows, and pinks lend the series the immediacy and dynamism of Pop imagery.
The exhibition is organized into thematic sections (Animal, Beauty, Minimal, Classics, Food, Sport, Ego) and maps the themes that preoccupy and shape modern humanity: power, beauty, origins, philosophy, desire, competition, self-image, and decay. In the "Classics" section, Socrates and Marcus Aurelius serve as reminders that philosophy has always been a practice of the self. In "Minimal," the Cycladic figurine meets modern exercise equipment, while the *Trinity Torus* shifts the form toward geometry and topology. In *Ego*, the grenade bearing the inscription "Army of One," the pink skull, and the warrior figure constitute the exhibition’s most incisive section.
The choice of the kettlebell engages with the long trajectory of contemporary art—from the readymade to Pop Art and appropriation practices—wherein an everyday object enters the realm of art and acquires new meanings. Its three-dimensional form also triggers the viewer’s bodily memory: the handle, the mass, and the gesture of lifting are recognized prior to any intellectual interpretation; standing before the sculpture, the eye perceives an object while the body recalls a movement. Weight ceases to be merely a physical property and becomes a cultural burden.
Each work is produced in a numbered, limited edition and comes with a certificate of authenticity. The three sizes—Heavyweight, Middleweight, and Featherweight—borrow their names from sports, thereby introducing the logic of measurement into the realm of sculpture. Scale becomes integral to the artistic concept, while repetition organizes the series into a system of variations based on a shared morphological foundation.
As Ennios-Eros Giogos himself notes: "Materials and form are the means; the message and society are the end." In the *Weights of Art* exhibition, an object designed to be worn on the body becomes a vehicle for images, history, and values.
Admission to the exhibition is free during the following days and hours:
Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 10:00–13:00 and 17:30–21:30

Wednesday: 17:30–21:30

Saturday: 12:00–18:00.