NEW YORK, N.Y.- Simone Subal Gallery announces the opening of Yorgos Sapountzis’s Head Zest, New Walls on December 11, 2011. The exhibition will be on view through January 22, 2012. This is the first New York solo show for the Berlin-based artist. Sapountzis’s multi-media works engage both public and private spaces. Many of his projects take as their starting points public monuments, objects that represent some aspect of social, collective memory. A native of Athens, Greece, Sapountzis is intimately aware of how such structures effect both the topography of a city as well as the way individuals construct their identity. He is, though, less interested in what a specific monument depicts, but the fact that the form means something particular for a group of people. For Sapountzis these monuments are conceived as a relational space. It is in the symbolic energy contained in these public works of art that S