Spoon, Alexeev, Nikita (1953), 2014

Spoon, Alexeev, Nikita (1953), 2014 is held by Metropolitan Organisation of Museums of Visual Arts of Thessaloniki – MOMus, dated 2014. Museum description: The section titled "Platonic Eros" refers to Plato's Symposium and the Neoplatonic theories about the "Form" as the archetype of all thoughts, concepts, things, and their reflections. This reflection, which appears incomplete and sinks deeper into the abyss of the material world, suffers and seeks to reunite with the fullness of the "Form." This process gives rise to "Platonic Eros". The artist selects various pairs of objects to illustrate this theory, categorizing them into three groups: the natural (stone, seashell, branch, tomato, carrot), the utilitarian (knife, fork, spoon), and the personal (toothbrush, wallet, key). Thus, during their presentation, the two identical artistic objects are positioned, in this specific case, the two drawings of the spoon, and between the pair of drawings is physically suspended the assumed "Form" of them, which is a real spoon. The museum record gives material recorded as Pencil, ink, and watercolor on paper; maker recorded: Alexeev, Nikita (1953). These details come from the holding museum's own record; how far this object represents a wider collectible type has not yet been independently verified.