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| Kostas Tsolis […] Blood revenge is perhaps as constant and inviolable a law for animals as it is for humans, claims the anthropologist Jean-Paul Roux. All of central and northern Asia deeply felt the fear of what they call “the revenge of killed prey”, he continues. This seems to be more generally the revenge of every animal that has been killed, with the difference that the fear that a prey provokes is greater than that which a domesticated animal provokes because relations with wild animals are less obvious and stable than those with domesticated animals. Evidently this fear arises more during hunting than in sacrifice, and especially in the so-called “small hunt”, or hunt where the hunter finds himself exposed to the dangers of the hunt alone. The “big hunt”, or the group hunt with hunting dogs or with clubs is collective, on the one hand and yet is also an organized expedition which does not leave room for the unexpected. In both cases, however, the danger of revenge persists. Kostas Tsolis explores the blood of the prey as a theme that permeates history from the age of mythology up until recent political history. The harsh images that Tsolis presents/uses are rarely seen in Hellenic galleries, especially when they emanate from a sensitive period in the history of our country. For this reason, above all, we have nothing to do here with distant “primitive” head-hunters Dayak from Borneo but with Greeks who have cut off the heads of their fellow Greeks. Hunting, or (hunting) execution, the uses of lethal weapons, display of the trophy as the ultimate post-death souvenir, are all part of this exhibition. The blood-thirsty disposition of mankind pervades everything. The carcasses remain to rot at the scene of the crime or are cut, stuffed and displayed with pride. This exhibition is as raw as the frigid hunting landscape […] Thanassis Moutsopoulos  Download CV |  Lamp at Trikala public square |
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