SALON GROUP SHOW

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SALON GROUP SHOW

30 Artworks

11 Artists

A Salon for the 21st Century

Hotbeds for new creative talent but also spaces for political and cultural debate, the salons of eighteenth century Paris were the galleries and art fairs of today. They were critical centres of artistic and political discourse. The salon can be defined as a place or setting that offers the potential for people to meet, it allows for a unique environment of socialisation and education where ideas about the arts, literature, politics and current affairs can be discussed and debated. Throughout history, there have been many derivations of the salon which existed all across Europe from the 14th to 18th centuries.

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During the Enlightenment, French salons acted as incubators for social and cultural innovation. Within the arts, the salons served as both cultural hubs and platforms for the exchange of often radical ideas that continue to influence the cultural fabric and practises of the visual arts as we know them. Salon 2022, a new exhibition curated and organised by the team at TSIVRIKOS SHAKE, will reimagine the idea of the salon by bringing together a diverse group of artists committed to exploring contemporary concepts of expression, language, and identity – ideas that both influence and define cultural and societal developments in the 21st century.

In a return to the illustrious tradition of the eighteenth century salon, ‘Salon 2022’ showcases the work of eleven different artists, each working in different media and exploring different themes, from landscape and nature to minds and bodies, to environmental issues and sustainability and our relationship with technology and self presentation in the digital age. Despite operating across a range of media, the artists are united in their celebration of materiality and pushing the boundaries of their chosen medium, be it the recycled materials of Svetlana Bogatcheva’s sculptures to the dense, richly textured canvases of Geoff Uglow’s paintings or the colourful, playful textile of Anne Von Freiburg’s work.