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Melting Borders | Mixed Media by Matlakas | London in London. Item composed of synthetic
Melting Borders | Mixed Media by Matlakas | London in London. Item composed of synthetic

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Matlakas

Melting Borders - Mixed Media

Featured In London, London, United Kingdom

Price from $1,200 to $5,000

My intention with this action is to highlight the beauty of culture and how nevertheless the difficulties Armenian culture remained very strong, so what remains of a flag is simply the real essence of culture, the sweetness of it. Flag belongs to politics and the real importance belongs to traditions and culture what people share and not what people struggle or fight for.

With this action I wanted to symbolically melt the borders away, leaving only the sweetness and the beauty of humanity, The first "Melting Borders happened in Armenia and by performing it I wanted to highlight the essence and beauty of its culture.

The shirt is what remains of the action which I intend to repeat in other countries and it also represents, a new flag, which is "politics free", the "Sweet Flag".

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Wescover creator since 2019
ART IN ALL FORMS

Riccardo Matlakas is best known for his multi-talented capacity in different art forms including
performance, dance, painting and sculpture.
He obtained a degree in Sculpture at the University of Fine Arts in Naples and an MA in Social
Sculpture at Oxford Brookes University.
Riccardo values the context he works in as the main inspiration for his work, finding a common
ground with each culture he connects with. He creates cathartic actions and performances in the
fore-front of current political, environmental and spiritual concerns by digging for the essence of
humanity beyond race and custom. The artist often collects relics from his performances which later
become objects of memory and contemplation. Amongst many residencies and exhibitions abroad
Riccardo Matlakas has performed and shown his work in Moscow Biennale of young artists in
2010, Gwangju Biennale in 2014 and Prague Quadrennial and had his work collected by the
museum of Modern Art in Odessa, Ukraine and the Museum of Palestine in Cape town.