1977 BA Sculpture Degree Show Slide - 'Angelika Vardalos'

Date

1977

Collection

Chelsea College of Art and Design College Archive

Creator(s)

Angelika Vardalou

Code

CCAD/1/12/1/2

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License

Creative Commons

35mm colour slide of degree show installation of a number of large sculptures in white room in varying mediums and styles.

Annotation on slide mount 'BA Show 1977 Angelika Vardalos'. Date stamp 'Jul 77'.

Identified by former student and artist Angelika Vardalou in 2021, with the following notes. Vardalou graduated BA Hons in Fine Art and Sculpture in 1977.

Materials in use: "thin cement casts, cement fondue, heavy panels suspended from the ceiling, plaster, paint, needles, floor drawings - markings. Also a cast cement floor piece."

"I think there were mainly 3-4 larger + smaller cast cement suspended panels".

Vardalou notes that the "smaller installation shouldn't overpower as they do in these images, the 1st main installation".

"1st installation was based on Mycenean tombs, the thalamus, entry to the dead [and] the afterlife: it was the mysterious procedure from the entry to the tombs not preparing the visitor for the extraordinary cosmic-egg feeling th[at] it lead to, that had impressed me; I reversed the narrow open entrance into a compact form, can't remember the other rounded forms of the supposed thalamus, repeated, well enough though. Thesis: Freud, the interpretation of dreams - surrealists on dreams [and] the unconscious - Jungian archetypal symbols."

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