ARISTOTLE GEORGIADES: POST-LEISURE
Georgiade’s most complex work ingeniously incorporates one of the gallery’s North Avenue windows. Called History Painting, it consists of an elaborately carved but unpainted wood picture frame hung on a free standing partly hollow wall made of several sheets of drywall painted white. In place of a picture, the wall behind the frame has been cut away to reveal a box-shaped area. Through this space a toy train runs backward on a track laid out in a figure eight; small archways cut out of the drywall panels allow the train to wind through the different layers of the wall and around the frame.
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The appeal of “Post-Leisure” is that it focuses attention on a frequently overlooked topic–the role of labor in a service-oriented, high-tech society–without being self-righteous or obscure. The visual elements are interesting, well-made, and appropriately to the subject matter. The installations are open-ended enough to allow for a multilayered reading but concrete enough to communicate a great deal to the average person.
