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Mark Hadjipateras

Mark
Hadjipateras
Mark Hadjipateras
August 25 - September 23, 2007
Poros

Mark Hadjipateras’s photographic work moves freely between media, with the traditional canvas being replaced by a photographic base material or “substrate”. Forms and their archetypal elements are a central investigation in his work as it is related to artistic creation in our multicultural and globalized era. Playfulness, humor, chance become visual strategies in his work, where the dichotomies between high and low art have ceased to exist. In the artist’s work, the photographed objects are constructed and reconstructed – taken out of context, appropriated, manipulated, staged.

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Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki

Mina
Papatheodorou-Valyraki
Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki
July 28 - August 22, 2007
Poros

The paintings of Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki, often of monumental size, are directed towards an intense and emotive interpretation of large-scale mechanical objects. The pictures are set down on the canvas spontaneously, and forms interlock in a dynamic composition with vibrant colors. According to Dr. Iliopoulou-Rogan, Mina Papatheodorou-Valyraki “paints in precisely the same manner that she breathes, feels and moves, in a constant creative tension, without ever repeating herself or resorting to facile solutions that aim only to impress her viewers. What is more important is that her work never lacks quality or integrity of execution. The artist’s vivid style is justified on every square millimeter of her paintings and in them nothing is fragmented or remains aloof from the rhythm and pulse of the entirety.”

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Stephen Antonakos

Stephen
Antonakos
Stephen Antonakos
July 7 - July 25, 2007
Poros

Antonakos’s nonobjective art has a strong minimalist character and an architectural presence. In the 1960s, he was among the first to use neon as a new material in sculpture. Antonakos has developed a vocabulary based on the dynamic tension between complete and incomplete geometric forms as well as vibrant colors. The dynamic configurations of geometric planes create sensations of motions and depth. In the exhibition in Citronne, through the presentation of neon, paintings, drawings, and sculptures-models, we aim to investigate the intermedium dialogue of his work as well as the conceptual development of his ideas.

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Demosthenis Kokkinidis

Demosthenis
Kokkinidis
Demosthenis Kokkinidis
June 16, 2007 - July 4, 2007
Poros

Kokkinidis's figurative but nonrealistic work breathes spontaneity and directness. His paintings do not refer to visual reality but are intense mental images of the artist's reflection on both his art and life, where the mythological becomes the vehicle for the metaphysical. His work as well as his thoughts are characterized by sharp economy of means, verbal or visual. He implies ideas and narratives. His paintings have always provoked different levels of reading, and the work presented in Poros is no exception.

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Last Present

Peter
Seibt
Last Present
August 19 - September 15, 2006
Poros

Seibt’s landscapes are glowing with shrill reds, greens and yellows. Their frank sketchiness and brilliant but arbitrary colors give a unique freshness and spontaneity. His freedom of expression through the use of pure colors and exaggeration of drawing and perspective dazzle the viewer. His choice of color owns very little to natural appearances. His use of color is purely expressionistic. As he describes the functioning of his work is to be “transreal, leading from one reality to another.”

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Vassilis Theocharakis

Vassilis
Theocharakis
Vassilis Theocharakis
July 21 - August 18, 2006
Poros

The treatment of the Greek landscape by Theocharakis through the fluid technique of watercolors loosen his imagination as well as his brush with marvellous achievements of using only the essentials in line and color. His delicate brushstroke suggest air and light by leaving areas of the background unpainted so that the white background becomes as much a part of the composition as the paint and creates a sense of fluctuating space. Fluidity and sensuality deriving of the curving of the form characterize his work.

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