Artist: Thanasis Totsikas Venue: Akwa Ibom, Athens Exhibition Title: The Crucifixion of Thanasis Totsikas Date: June 15, 2020 – July 10, 2020 and September 10, 2020 – October 10, 2020 Curated By: Maya Tounta Click here to view slideshow Full gallery of images, press release and link available after the jump. Images: Images courtesy of Akwa Ibom, Athens Press Release: In 1985 Thanasis painted a depiction of life’s ladder and titled it The stairway of life . In 1988 he made a sculpture in metal with the same title. I found these in the digital archive of his work a few days ago and called him up to ask about them, but he appeared pretty unenthusiastic, so I let it go. This morning as I sat down to write this text – I had a whole outline for it – it wouldn’t come out. I went back to looking at the 80s ladders. We haven’t reproduced them for you here, but just imagine, these are full of dynamism, strength and forward hope. Now it ...