AMP presents the group exhibition Supernature: an Exercise in Loads, bringing together more than 20 artists to showacase their works. The exhibition Supernature: An Exercise in Loads is based on the encounter with the first gym in Athens to specialise in competitive bodybuilding. Owned by highly esteemed pioneer of Greek bodybuilding Spyros Bournazos, the gym constitutes a unique hybrid of formal qualities. Don't miss this interesting exhibition, from 10 February to 31 March at the AMP Gallery in Athens, Greece.

Its function of zestfully hosting the hyper-activity of competitive bodybuilding future is matched by an "archival" quality which throws light on traces of this very activity from the '80s and '90s.

The exhibition investigates an association between art and the nature of competitive bodybuilding. Competitive bodybuilding is an amalgam of privacy and display, a mix of openness for the public and psychedelically esoteric inaccessibility. The few minutes in which a bodybuilder contestant is onstage tick by not for the presentation of power or skill, but for the presentation of a new self, of his re-structured self, which was re-built anew by himself.

Generated by the encounter with the gym, the exhibition has a site-specific nature. This site-specific aspect comes forth as a virtual shift of roles between the gallery space and this space of physical exercise and alteration. Artworks included in the show were filmed in the gym, within its mirrored walls, among the equipment, trophies, copies of ancient statues and images of bodybuilding superstars and the exercising athletes. The films "co-exist" with the actual artworks in the gallery space.

Participating artists include Markus Amm, Charles Atlas, Amy Bessone, Günter Brus, Dan Colen, Diohandi, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Charlie Hammond, Annette Kelm, Terence Koh, Thomas Kratz, George Lappas, Robert Longo, Linder, Jack McConville, Lorna Macintyre, Sophie Mackfall, Michaela Meise, Scott Myles, Sterling Ruby, Rudolph Schwarzkogler, Daniel Silver, Jannis Varelas and Jennifer West.

The show is curated by Rallou Panagiotou and Andreas Melas.

Don't miss the group exhibition Supernature: an Exercise in Loads, bringing together more than 20 artists to showacase their works at AMP Gallery in Athens, Greece.