ARTIST PROFILE

Penelope Vlassopoulou

  • Greece (b. 1977 in Athens)
  • Currently in Athens, Greece.
  • Multidisciplinary artist exploring the poetic potential of urban elements and the city as a link to common human experience.
Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm, Trace A, Improvisation X

Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm, Trace A, Improvisation X

  • 2014
  • Powdered pigment on Paper
  • 16 x 23 cm

  • Improvisational drawing where a form documented from a manhole cover in the Kurfürstendamm area of Berlin functions as building unit for the composition.

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    Metamorphosis/Kurfürstendamm | 2014

Metamorphosis/ Kurfürstendamm draws on the Kurfürstendamm area in Berlin, Germany continuing the practice of improvisational drawings and expanding into the fields of history and collective memory through a dialogue with the Stolpersteine, the commemorative plaques in the city pavements for those prosecuted during the Nazi era.