Homo Novus is a commentary on the agony and psychological profile of a multitask and hyper-attention modern subject characterized by a lightning shift of focus on various tasks and sources of information. Homo Novus is sarcastically represented by a readymade cartoon with an expression of despair, horror and stupidity while ironically lined-insulated with 18K gold leaves. Homo Novus, in a constantly nervous, confused and pointless mobility, breaks down and soars/ floats in an indefinite black. Overlapping information levels of sounds and speech are instilled into the inner world and form a distorted, divisive landscape that increasingly repels its ability for deep attention and reflection while the image / self is perpetually shifted nervously or hypnotically and is separated, magnified or shrunk, trapped and suffocated. It is essentially just a marginal subject, with multiple distorted selves which want to reflect the pathological landscape created by today's society of performance, of (the concept / perception)"I can" and narcissism. A landscape that traps modern man in neuronal diseases and mental infarctions.
Cynthia Gerothanasiou was born in Thessaloniki Greece. She is is a visual artist who graduated from the Fine Arts School of the Aristotle University of/in Thessaloniki. She holds an MA in Audio-Visual Arts , obtained in the department of Audio and Visual Arts- Ionian University_ Corfu-Greece. Her artistic work also focuses on the installation field. Fragility and cruelty in the social field, the invisible life processes are aspects that the artist explores, while using mixed materials and multiple expressive means. She has performed several group and solo presentations in Greece and abroad, while her work has received international awards and found in private collections and museums. She often chooses to work on a group artwork. She also works as a scenery and costume designer. She is involved in garment creative design. Since 2016 she has been teaching in the Department of Fine and Applied Arts_University of Western Macedonia_Florina_Greece. She lives and works/ occupies herself between Thessaloniki, Florina and Vienna.
