At the heart of Gramma_Epsilon Gallery our purpose is to connect the present female avant-garde with the climate of experimentation and the female-led emancipatory movements of the 1960s and 1970s. We aim to document the work of the artists of the era, a time characterised by
extraordinary inventiveness and experimental strength, yet of which still little is known.

Gramma_Epsilon Gallery in Athens presents the group exhibition curated by Paolo Cortese ‘The Different Revolution’. A preview of which was also presented during Artissima 2024, and aims to document the research carried out since the 1970s by 20 female artists, most of whom are Italian.

Fifty years of protest: battles, struggles and debate in order to see women finally emerge from a society which rejected their passage into history. A protest staged in the most diverse ways: politics, theatre, student demonstrations, but also through the unique voice of the talented who fought using art in order to be heard: these are the protagonists who knew how to write that part of history in a truly unpredictable way. 

Women who, during the general climate of protest in the 1970s, fought to reclaim a role that could no longer be ignored: female art collectives soon formed and came together to share their lived experiences and to support each other. Many women artists chose to hit the streets and took part at the forefront of the demonstrations, while others carried out their revolution in a different way, maybe seemingly less obvious, yet equally as powerful.

The solo show of Greta Schödl Warps of Light, curated by Paolo Cortese and Rosanna Ruscio, opens at Gramma_Epsilon Gallery in Athens on Tuesday 18 June at 18.00.

This is the first solo exhibition of the Austrian-Italian artist in Greece, and focuses mainly on two elements fundamental in Schödl’s poetics: writing as catharsis and nature as a point of reference. The fifty artworks on display include two-dimensional works, object-books, marble sculptures, and installations. Born in Hollabrunn, Austria, in 1929, Greta Schödl has been living and working in Bologna since the late 1950s. Starting within the realms of textile art, and then moving through more graphic practices, she soon encountered calligraphy.

After a shift from static graphic elements to freer movements and vibrations of the line, she then searched the capabilities of thread and, through this medium, the profound meaning of female existence. She uses the mediums of paper or textile, where she literally weaves her words. The emphasis of her work, however, is not limited to the verbal element but rather to its arrangement within a well-defined space and the relationship it creates with the medium in use.

In her work, Schödl has been applying a very precise methodology for over 50 years, which is demonstrated by repeating the movement of writing a word that is usually the very subject of the work.