From an Australian fishing village to the Greek island of Anafi, artist Andrew Hazewinkel brings together sculpture, photography and personal memory in the Athens exhibition “Beauty Is Between Us”, presented at Nikos Yfantis’ space on Praxitelous Street through May 9, according to iefimerida.gr
Based in Athens for the past five years, Hazewinkel works between photography and sculpture, creating pieces that connect antiquity with contemporary experience and material transformation. The exhibition unfolds as a sequence of objects, images and surfaces that blur distinctions between body and landscape, archive and presence.
Among the featured works are lead sculptures such as “Livoskopos I” (2025), cast directly in coastal environments, primarily on Anafi, where the artist returns every year. “I take the casting process out of the foundry and move it into the landscape,” Hazewinkel says, describing how molten lead is poured into molds pressed into tidal sand so that each piece absorbs traces of the surrounding geology and sea materials.
The artist links this process to childhood memories from a fishing village on Australia’s southeastern coast. “The first casting I ever made was probably when I was six years old,” he recalls, describing how he and his father melted lead to make fishing sinkers.
Large suspended leather works, including “Suspicious Marble (Omphale)” (2017), revisit ancient myth through archival imagery.
Throughout the exhibition, photographs sourced from flea markets and museum archives are transformed into sculptural forms, emphasizing the tension between image and object. For Hazewinkel, beauty is not fixed but emerges “through movement between different states.”
Source: iefimerida.gr
