‘The Inner Side of the Wind’ is an art exhibition that took place during the summer of 2024 in Pyrgos Kymis, at the Chryssanthopoulos Mansion (a branch of the Folklore Museum of Kymi), and it is centred on craftsmanship, emphasising materiality and handmade objects. More than 70 works of art where displayed across the house’s two floors, made by 42 artists, engaging in a dialogue with the building’s distinctive atmosphere, its architecture and the remarkable murals made by the original owner, the 19th century folk artist Sotiris Chryssanthopoulos.
The concept of the exhibition’s visual identity results from the ideas of craftsmanship, wear and tear and materiality. It is based on an ‘airy’ typography with big spaces between words, something that, besides making a direct reference to the title, manages to give the overall composition a sense of weathering and incompleteness, while part of the text appears somewhat handwritten. All the information, set up with a repetitiveness reminiscent of a knitting pattern, sits on a grid system (inspired by the above technique but also from the obsessive repetitiveness of the exhibition space’s murals), which also bears signs of wear and tear. A single colour was used in all the applications, a blue shade inspired by that of cyanotype (a technique that we encounter in the exhibition), in order to soften the sharpness of the compositions while giving an undertone of dreaminess. Finally, the sense of materiality is further enhanced in the printed applications through the use of uncoated papers with natural shades and texture.
