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The section titled "Platonic Eros" refers to Plato's Symposium and the Neoplatonic theories about the "Form" as the archetype of all thoughts, concepts, things, and their reflections. This reflection, which appears incomplete and sinks deeper into the abyss of the material world, suffers and seeks to reunite with the fullness of the "Form." This process gives rise to "Platonic Eros". The artist selects various pairs of objects to illustrate this theory, categorizing them into three groups: the natural (stone, seashell, branch, tomato, carrot), the utilitarian (knife, fork, spoon), and the personal (toothbrush, wallet, key). So, during their presentation, the two identical artistic objects are placed, in this specific case, the two drawings of the wallet, and between them, in physical form, is the presumed "Form" of them, an actual wallet.
Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus
Title: Wallet
Description:
The section titled "Platonic Eros" refers to Plato's Symposium and the Neoplatonic theories about the "Form" as the archetype of all thoughts, concepts, things, and their reflections.
This reflection, which appears incomplete and sinks deeper into the abyss of the material world, suffers and seeks to reunite with the fullness of the "Form.
" This process gives rise to "Platonic Eros".
The artist selects various pairs of objects to illustrate this theory, categorizing them into three groups: the natural (stone, seashell, branch, tomato, carrot), the utilitarian (knife, fork, spoon), and the personal (toothbrush, wallet, key).
So, during their presentation, the two identical artistic objects are placed, in this specific case, the two drawings of the wallet, and between them, in physical form, is the presumed "Form" of them, an actual wallet.
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