HERO-IN
Through a series of work-pieces, sometimes reminding movies’ posters or American comic’s pages, the artist comments on facts of nowadays with a targeted sense of humour and a slightly nostalgic mood.
Heroic figures are suspended over Middle East without being clear whether their attitude is protective or threatening; invisible soldiers of past era stalk on an African village; vague figures ambush over a European city and finally, the Statue of Freedom is set in the centre of Middle Earth in “Lord of the Rings”.
In artist’s imaginary universe heroes – although inspired from always good, willing-to-help supermen of American comics – remind more ambiguous phantoms that wait for the right time to act.
Apostolakis’ work is surely strongly political. It is a caustic comment on both Imagination and Reality and the crossing between them: based on the always present human need for Heroes.
In the comic’s imaginary world the Good and the Bad are defined by the artist’s pencil; but where is the difference in real society where this business is done by the media? Maybe that in reality heroes are never there when you need them….
