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Celebration? Realife Revisited
Marc Camille Chaimowicz

OPENING 21.05.2026

ARCH proudly presents Celebration? Realife Revisited (1972 - 2000), the seminal work by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, that marked a decisive shift in early 1970s art from object-based practice toward immersive, lived environments. Emerging in the aftermath of the social upheavals of the late 1960s, the work reflects a broader cultural shift—one that sought to merge art with everyday life and to rethink how meaning is produced collectively rather than imposed.

Image courtesy Cabinet, London and the Estate of Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Marc Camille Chaimovicz
Celebration ? Realife Revisited
1972 - 2008
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
Installation view, Celebration? Real Life Revisited, Cabinet, London, June 9 – July 29, 2000

Celebration? Realife Revisited
Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Opening 21.05.2026

Marc Camille Chaimowicz, (involuntary) Self Portrait, Ventimiglia, February 6th 2016. Courtesy the Estate of Marc Camille Chaimowicz

Konstantinos Giotis
Desire lines, 2026
Fine art inkjet print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper 308gsm
24 x 21 cm
Edition of 20, +5 APs
Artwork © Konstantinos Giotis (2026) Courtesy the artist

Konstantinos Giotis (b. 1988, Greece), lives and works in Athens.

The edition is based on a drawing made several years ago — forgotten, then rediscovered last summer among folders of notes and printed material, where it went on to influence a number of works, including a painting shown at ARCH.

It presents itself as a playful, colorful abstraction of a landscape with a moon reflected in the lower section, painted in a quick, reactive way. Disappointment often allows for contradictory and surprising results. The web simultaneously erases and gives rhythm to the composition — an omnipresent symbol, a trope. It has a lot to do with negation and the idea of representation.

There is something performative in the production of painting and drawing. It is necessary to take different approaches, different personas, in order to examine different scenarios. Not research, but experiment through randomness and desire

Ph: .mamalakis