Opening: 13 January 2012, 20:00
Duration: 14 January– 8 February 2012
Penindaplinena Gallery is pleased to present the group show entitled, Slipping Signs.
Dimitra Bista |
Socrates Fatouros |
Anastasia Mina |
Maria Aristotelous | Konstantinos
Dregos
Landscapes seem seismic when
burning colours from the sky and expressionistic strokes of thick paint envelop
the canvas. In this group show at Penindaplinena Gallery, explosive remnants of
material rephrase interruptions and form fresh beginnings. The exhibition Slipping Signs showcases five
multi-media artists working from scapes to escapes, scopes, styles and space,
as they seize them at shifty and slippery moments. In these works, random and
anticipated transformations transpire from dark to light, from reflection to
position, from networks of lines to swelling surfaces, addressing matters of
identity and continuation, repetition and inscription, site and interiority,
frame and de-centralization.
A starting point for many of these artists’
works takes off from a given inner place, or city, where, although
the intention seems to be to move in this identifying place of ‘rest’, there is
a longing to explore disruptions that ‘promising’ sites do not anticipate. The
works composing the exhibition Slipping
Signs evoke a new habitat to revive vision, to dream another dream, to
embark on re-constructing intimate possibilities where the impulse of identifying
insists on slithering. Comfortable in zones of indefinite and infinite
connections, these artists’
works vigorously surface through a distinct treatment of pencil, paper, ink,
acrylic, canvas and cardboard.
Maria Aristotelous’
thick coats of paint in long strokes splattered in apparently unintended
smears are pencil lined, like fluid feathers of interaction and interruption in
these painting’s reflections. Dimitra Bista’s
refined pencil on paper drawings subtly move in a net of lines and scratches
which seem to meet somewhere between a deliberate de-centralization of
‘beginning’, and, a lack of colour and neat symmetry. Although working with
seemingly inflexible materials, such as leather and porcelain, glass plaster
and tar, Konstantinos Dregos’ sculptures,
like flesh, flow organically through space without ever trapping these forms in
a solid surface. Paint drips on canvas like water seething before the bubbles
morph into flowers, half blooming, half fleeing. In a leveling and surging
force, the drawings of Anastasia Mina
work like pencil and writing; smooth surface and compulsive depth; an urging
and urgent process of impulsive intensity which, while engrossed in a swirling
repetition, also dissolves the raw residues of lead to reach a liberating
coexistence of black on white. In City
End, Socrates Fatouros handles
the textures of oil and acrylic on cardboard through a fragile vigor of colour,
which erupts, in a volcanic temper, from the centre out. The city doesn’t end
somewhere; it unfolds. No longer a heart, the edges of this city extend beyond
an ‘identifiable’ city, or as in the sculpture, City 1, the sign and the city stand tall yet dizzy, suspended from
a precarious pole.
Maria Petrides, Independent writer
Επικοινωνία:
PENINDAPLINENA Gallery
Τάσος Στυλιανού
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