50,000,000 Tons Of Landscape | Solo Exhibition
Duration: March – April 2025
Zoumboulakis Gallery presents Stefanos Rokos’ solo exhibition, titled “50,000,000 Tons of Landscape”, from March 20 to April 17, 2025. He will present mixed media works on canvas or paper, three sculptures and an animation.
Stefanos Rokos notes:
“In this new series of my works, 50,000,000 Tons of Landscape is a naïve and erroneous definition of the volume, extent, weight, majesty, and power of landscapes —especially when compared to the short human stories, which seem unequal in front of a huge mountain or a thunderous, torrential waterfall”.
As Maria Papadima, professor at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and translator, writes in the book “50,000,000 Tons of Landscape” accompanying the exhibition:
“At what point does man become part of the landscape? When he looks at it and is enchanted and overwhelmed and wants to penetrate it, to sneak into it secretly, to know its most hidden corners, to get lost in some aspect of it, underground or above ground, or to occupy its most central position, a hill, a square, a bridge, an entire town, where he will meet his peers and join them, crossing waterfalls and mountains, constructing or demolishing buildings; choosing to exercise over himself the sovereign rights of the multitude or to remain tiny and latent, part, finally, manifest or invisible, of the landscape”.