Michalis Katzourakis

Works in Two and Three Dimensions

June 30, 2012 - July 25, 2012

Poros

Virvili Square
18020 Poros Island
Greece

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Opening Hours
Mon-Sun:
11.00-13.00 & 19.00-23.00

Michalis Katzourakis was born in Alexandria in 1933. He studied painting under André Lhote and drawing and poster design under Paul Colin in Paris (1951-1955). Between 1960-1967, he was art advisor to the National Tourist Organization (EOT). In 1962, together with F. Carabott, he established the K&K Athens Advertising Center. In 1979 the historic Denise René gallery organized his first solo exhibition in Paris. In 1997, at the opening of the 47th Biennale of Venice, Kantzourakis’s large sculpture, Incontri, was presented on a floating platform. In 2001, the Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art and, in 2002, the Athens School of Fine Arts presented retrospective exhibitions of his work (1965-2001), including paintings, sculptures and constructions.

In Michalis Katzourakis’s «Works in Two and Three Dimensions» there is a dialogue between works in small and large scale, indoor and outdoor environments, paintings and monumental sculptures.

The exhibition has chosen to display pivotal points in the development of the artists’ ideas and his concerns with the figurative and the abstract. His sculptures, dating to the late ’60s, are notable for their dynamic, with full and elliptical geometrical forms, rectangles, squares, circles and lines, as well as for their colour. These works are «imposed upon» and «intervene» in the urban landscape. The minimalist sculptures focus on explorations of the geometrical form and classical analogies; it flows from the artist’s own artistic geometric glossary.

In his recent works, Katzourakis revisits with sensitivity the artistic transposition of the visual stimulus in windows, objects from our everyday environment. The stark geometry of the older works is transformed into an abstract approach to the world.