DIMITRIS MYTAS «ZERO TEN»0

The M55Projects gallery presents the photography exhibition “Zero Ten” and the homonym photo book (published by Metehmio) of Dimitris Mytas.

Myta’s book entitled “Zero Ten” is a personal diary, an experiential approach to his children’s growing-up through the last decade, while at the same time it reveals the decennial photographic evolution of his perspective. It is basically, as he himself stated, “a dynamic reference to childhood through the dual perspective of the observer photographer/ father”.

The common scenes of daily family life that all parents experience are his source of inspiration that compels him to create a children’s world, dreamy and ambiguous, with visual symbols and references springing from his extensive knowledge of photography.

Mytas takes pictures of a carefree, optimistic and, quite often, comical childhood. In some of the close-ups the bodies of the children and their expressive movements fill the frame and create an interesting play of form, while in others he combines poses and gestures with the available geometry of the surrounding area: the strange movement of the little one with the adjacent light that dissolves the cohesion of the floor, the folds of the sheet that penetrate the body of the baby diagonally, the associations of the picture in which the carefree expression of the child is disturbed by the spikiness of the prickly cactus, or the movement of Kostis’ body on the beach in perfect harmony with the lines of the horizon.

The work of Mytas pays yet further tribute to childhood and shows that the use of expressive means to reveal your feelings and admiration for this age, inevitably leads to an impressive artistic result, worthy of admiration and deeper interpretation.

The means of expression Mytas uses are purely photographic. His quest is composed of “traditionally” powerful codes, which have contributed to the evolution of the history of photography and still shed light on its modernist values. In “Zero Ten”, Mytas says more about the pictures of his children and less about the children themselves, thus avoiding any commentary on his family life. This is what actually differentiates him from the modern tendency to deny the photographic “charisma” while it simultaneously reinforces and highlights the ideological approach to the subject and the critical introspection of the family environment that make the viewer an active participant.

Curator: Nina Kassianou

Opening : Friday, October 7^th, 20.00 pm

Duration of Exhibition : 7^th - 23^th October 2011

Opening Hours: Monday-Friday : 18.00pm - 21.00pm

Sat-Sun : 11.00am - 14.00pm