• SABOT
  • plot
  • who
  • where

• creators
  • Răzvan Botiș
  • Stefano Calligaro
  • Aline Cautis
  • Radu Comșa
  • Camilia Filipov
  • Joe Fletcher Orr
  • Lucie Fontaine
  • Nicolás Lamas
  • Daniel Moldoveanu
  • Pepo Salazar
  • Alice Tomaselli
  • Alexandra Zuckerman

• past
  • NATALIA LAZURCA | waters/lusters/gems
  • PEPO SALAZAR LACRUZ | Reinforcement of Good...
  • STEFANO CALLIGARO | Glitterature
  • DANIEL MOLDOVEANU | The Whatever Moment
  • RĂZVAN BOTIȘ | the Ceramist
  • CLUJ afterSCHOOL#3 | George Semeniuc
  • ALEX MIRUTZIU | The unnerving inches of being
  • PEPO SALAZAR | W I N
  • NICOLÁS LAMAS | Liminality
  • CAMILIA FILIPOV | Surface Actually
  • ALINE CAUTIS | Searchers
  • VLAD NANCĂ | In the natural landscape...
  • CLUJ afterSCHOOL#1 | Anca Brânzaș
  • ALEX MIRUTZIU | Dignity to the unsaid
  • STEFANO CALLIGARO | Petanqfuck
  • JOE FLETCHER ORR | A Flamingo...
  • MIKOŁAJ MOSKAL | Bones
  • PEPO SALAZAR | Belong anywhere. Meat floating job position
  • Künstlich, natürlich!
  • RĂZVAN BOTIȘ | Cashmere thoughts
  • RADU COMȘA | Naked and drawing with a compass
  • DANIEL JACOBY & GERARD ORTIN et al. | Tofu Absorbs Flavour
  • NONA INESCU | Hands don't make magic
  • OBJECTS OF DESIRE
  • NOA GUR | Ways of making visible
  • ALEXANDRA ZUCKERMAN | The Dreaming House
  • STEFANO CALLIGARO | All-Yo! Crypto-Phylo-s'
  • MIHUȚ BOȘCU KAFCHIN | Fraction of lightnings, plants, and synapses
  • NICOLÁS LAMAS | The value of formlessness
  • ALINE CAUTIS | something for/from everyone
  • RĂZVAN BOTIȘ | Going Twomblysh, Woolish, Foolish
  • GEORGE CRÎNGAȘU | The Ocean and the Friendly Shore
  • ALEX MIRUTZIU | Each thought's an instant ruin with a new disease
  • ALICE TOMASELLI | Fracas in a brothel
  • VLAD NANCĂ | Garden of Mary
  • GAUDEL DE STAMPA @ Sabot
  • &
  • LUCIE FONTAINE | i-n-v-e-n-t-o-r-y
  • PAUL BRANCA| L'origine de l'espace privé &&&
  • ALEX MIRUTZIU | Film program
  • SABOT @ Pies | New Nomenclature
  • SABOT @ Gaudel de Stampa | Play Dice Would Be Nice
  • DIMITRIOS ANTONITSIS | Sarmale with Ketchup
  • COLLECTOR | A collective assemblage by amt_project
  • RADU COMȘA | Things As They Are
  • STEFANO CALLIGARO | For not turning all my nothing into something
  • ALINE CAUTIS | With, For, and Against Each Other
  • ŁUKASZ JASTRUBCZAK | Mirage
  • MIHUŢ BOŞCU KAFCHIN | A prologue to vanity and self-adoration
  • VALENTINA MIORANDI / See you!
  • VLAD NANCĂ | Works
  • MAJA BORG | Construction work: the pornography of world peace
  • YLVA OGLAND | In any weather, at any hour of the day or night
  • RADU COMŞA | Being Radu Comşa
  • ALICE TOMASELLI | Mihai
  • ALEX MIRUTZIU | Manifest of flaw

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DIMITRIOS ANTONITSIS

Sarmale with Ketchup

- a sleek show fitting the sleek space of Sabot and breathing contemporary air into the Transylvanian folklore -

March 21st – May 5th, 2012

A graduate of the New York Film Academy and a former fashion photographer, Antonitsis is keenly aware of the different ways reality can be manipulated or exaggerated. (Tina Sotiriadi | Art in America, April 2002)

The Folklore, as a term of Dimitrios Antonitsis’ personal vocabulary, is invariably concerned with the practice of handcrafts. Always manifesting a soft spot for the discarded and the rejected, the artist easily fell for the triviality of Romanian fleamarket-stands, where he purchased used ceramic pots and vessels, woven rugs and bedspreads, and even some coarse wood-crafted decorative objects. These forsaken, modest artifacts became the chosen ingredients for his challenging task of pursuing a juicy aesthetical discourse and transforming them into his own contemporary dish.
The mundane titles "Sarmale with Ketchup" (for his solo show at Sabot), and "Panache de Papanași" (for the concomitant exhibition at the Museum of Art in Cluj), should be therefore read as an act of resisting social formatting.

Antonitsis uses his latest sculptural work as a sharp metaphor for leisure, fun and luxurious consumption. Bonus, a giant canine treat in aluminum and Bunny Labyrinth, a kids game silk-screened on a woven rug comment on our complicated and troublesome relation with overachievement, social power and reward. His aesthetic language stretches from an attractive and minimal object making to an overcharged and exaggerated folklore design, always responding to the goal of articulating the concepts as accurately as possible. Afterall, Antonitsis is an artist who feels responsible for bringing truth to his audience. He can be wrong or misunderstood, but he must struggle to reflect reality in a way that speaks out the truth, whether we comprehend it or not.

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Artist and curator, Dimitrios Antonitsis is the founder of Hydra School Projects, a cutting edge international platform for the visual arts set up in an elementary school on the Greek island of Hydra.

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Accompanying the artist’s double exhibition project, a printed-matter conceived by Dimitrios Antonitsis will be published by Sabot in collaboration with the Museum of Art Cluj-Napoca.