Kaleidoscope team exhibition 30 Oct - 27 Nov 2015

1ALMAContemporary Art GalleryIpsilanti 24, Kolonaki10676, Athens Opening HoursSun, Mon, Tue : ClosedWed - Fri : 10.30 - 14.30 & 17.30 - 20.30Sat : 10.30 - 15.30

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3A kaleidoscope of personal narratives and performances, compose the artworks of Leonidas Giannakopoulos, Alexandros Maganiotis, Konstantinos Patsios and Dimitris Skourogiannis, presented on Friday, October 30, at the group exhibition hosted by ALMA gallery in Trikala. The exhibition will last until November 27, 2015.

The artists with their works "travel" the viewer from experience to memory, from the past to the present and the future, and from the real world to the world of the possible and the transcendental.Leonidas Giannakopoulos with his special technique, invents forms located at an unspecified time that balance between familiar and new, mix the logical with the illogical, creating eventually a utopian environment. The details of his artworks are impressive. It is a meticulous work with characteristic image clarity, where the perception of reality intersects with symbols, concepts and characters of the collective memory, creating dreamlike worlds.With an association of image and speech in Alexander Manganiotis’ artworks, each letter is a symbol that when acquires its own image with anthropomorphic characters through the humorous - cynical look of the author, forms words. The viewer with this imaginative and original technique, penetrates into the dreamlike narratives of each artwork and is then left to his own connotations.

The spontaneous compositions of Konstantinos Patsios have diverse implica-tions and symbolisms, which the artist expands and enriches with contemporary existential, political and historical problems. The works reflect the anguish of the modern world, become pictorial views - confessions of experiences and emo-tional states, living their own secret life through the cross-connect seemingly mis-matched images and impressions, constituting a harmonious artistic proposal.The visual style of Dimitris Skourogiannis, is pervaded by intense lyricism and deep knowledge and understanding of his current themes. His works have an ini-tial substrate, then with original materials and techniques evolve from level to level, new items are added, resulting in an overall symbolism, beyond their initial report. Issues such as the search for identity, adulthood, through the "multi-read" of his artworks, are transformed gaining a deeper reflection.

About “Kaleidoscope”

written byEleni Gatsa, Art Historian

4The four artists sometimes allegorical, sometimes implicitly, are interlaced with images of reality and fantasy that lead one step beyond realism, dream and es-cape from the ordinary. At an era that one needs different thinking and different aesthetic, the viewer of the exhibition is entitled according to his personal look to identify, collate and finally to understand the symbolisms.

About “Kaleidoscope”

written byEleni Gatsa, Art Historian

5 Leonidas GiannakopoulosGeneral Warlock22 x 18 cmink on paper2015

6 Leonidas GiannakopoulosMinister of Inteligence34 x 26 cmink on paper2015

7 Leonidas GiannakopoulosThe Mayor34 x 29 cmink on paper2015

8 Leonidas GiannakopoulosLady of honors32 x 22 cmink on paper2015

9 Leonidas GiannakopoulosAgent 06225 x 23 cmink on paper2015

10 Alexandros MaganiotisI , as nobody122 x 205 cmAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

11 Alexandros MaganiotisI , as nobody ( Detail )Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

12 Alexandros MaganiotisElephant50 x 30 cmAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

13 Alexandros MaganiotisLion50 x 30 cmAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

14 Alexandros MaganiotisButterfly50 x 30 cmAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

15 Alexandros MaganiotisJaguar50 x 30 cmAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

16 Alexandros MaganiotisZebra50 x 30 cmAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

17 Alexandros MaganiotisEgg50 x 30 cmAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

18 Alexandros MaganiotisΕΛΠΙΖΩ (I HOPE)6 pieces of 50 x 30 cm eachAcrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015

19 Konstantinos PatsiosIl Comadante40 x 30 cmmixed media on paper2014

20 Konstantinos PatsiosMedea 1220 x 150 cmmixed media on paper2015

21 Konstantinos PatsiosMedea 2220 x 150 cmmixed media on paper2015

22 Konstantinos PatsiosMelancolia40 x 30 cmmixed media on paper2015

23 Konstantinos PatsiosMare nostrum45 x 32 cmmixed media on paper2014

24 Konstantinos PatsiosZeus40 x 30 cmmixed media on paper2012

25 Dimitris SkourogiannisPlay Doll 1137 x 77 x 10 cm digital print on paper / mixed media 2010

26 Dimitris SkourogiannisPlay Doll 2137 x 77 x 10 cm digital print on paper / mixed media 2010

27 Dimitris SkourogiannisBarbie Masterpiece, Guido Reni47 x 37 x 14 cmdigital print on paper / mixed media 2010

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