Curator: Iris
Kritikou
Art direction:
Yiorgos Tzaneris
Opening: Thursday 26th of April 2018 / 20:00hrs
Duration of the
exhibition: 26th of April till 19th of May 2018
Bringing to surface
the delicate qualities and the fascinating applications of the fluid
transparency and the challenge of the random that asserts non expected
whispering worlds, Aristidis Chrysanthopoulos paints the “almost” of the
landscape, the recollection of an everyday object or the human circumstances.
Rejoicing the fragility of small new worlds that are born by his paintbrush,
depicting silently the pacings of the void on the paper. Firing softly and
transcending the innumerable possibilities, the visual and emotional calibre of
a temporary artistic existence.
Penetrating into the
work of Aristidis Chrysanthopoulos claiming the vision of pauses and voids and
intruding into the moist places of his delicate conversation with the cracks of
the everyday we could consequently comprehend the landscape of the random and
the minimum, caress with our glance and mostly, the soul of the selective
layers of light and darkness that transform the non-written gesture of the
random in a field of secret wandering of the human existence.
The speaking Greek
light and the soft and low intonations of the painter, his sensitive paintbrush
that gives birth and immerses, that choose something in silence and denies
wisely something else, the intrinsic, barely noticeable divergences of the
textures, the fragile narration of the minimum that searches and finds and
loses again and finds again the transparent thread of the narration jumping
from crack to crack sometimes glittering and sometimes trembling, it is the
original matter and the indelible ingredients of an exquisitely imprinted living
human universe that breathes and shivers giving us deep emotions.
Outlining a populated
and inner place, transporting the spectator’s vision to an almost metaphysical
intensity of the silence of the night and the unbearable midday heat, Aristidis
Chrysanthopoulos proves the way and the calibre of the watercolor is not always
a subtle case.
It is mostly a
provocative plastic mean that orchestrates and synchronizes the vision, the
desire and the quick hand of the painter creating a special atmosphere and
leading to delightful, for the accustomed spectator, paths of fertile
confessing matter. In a prismatic field of different textures and moist
moments, with vivid choreographies of the “first impression” with dense in
their abstract concept, plastic values.
The unknown heroes of
Aristidis Chrysanthopoulos, sometimes real and sometimes imaginary in private
moments where the recollection of George Bouziani’s beloved lurks, balance
lightly between the ideal and the real with the minimum but significant individual
weight.
The square paper
handkerchieves, in small sizes where an impeccably organized universe can fit,
embrace the comforting pauses of the white void and digest the sensitive
spectrum of colors that ranges from the light blue, and pale red to almond like
color and the vivid turquoise and from the ripe yellow to the green of the
finite time, transporting unaltered on the paper the painter’s psyche and
releasing a rejoicing essence in time and space.
Therefore the
spectator’s vision coincides with that of the painter knowing beforehand that
it penetrates into small but unprecedented Greek moments. In private midday
rests and erotic whisperings of the night. In unmade iron beds reminding us
Yannis Tsarouchis relevant paintings, in cypress like shadows and recollections
made of soil. In waters and spots and dusts that mark fragile uniqueness of
every image.
Iris Kritikou
April 2018
Born in Amaliada
(Peloponnesus)
1996 – 2001 Bachelor Degree (5-year studies) of Fine Arts
in Aristotle University in
Thessaloniki in the Department of ¨Visual and Applied Arts¨ trained by Maki
Theofylaktopoulo.
Practice courses of
the Department:
Set designing-
professor Apostolos Vettas
Engraving– professor
Xeni Sahini
Photography-
professor George Katsaggelos
Participation in set
designing and costume seminars–professors: Ersi Dhrini, Giannis Hatzigiannis,
Haris Sepentzis, Thomas Ikonomakos, Mary Haniotaki.
In 2015 was selected
as a Greek participant artist in «Castra 2015» International Biennial of
watercolor, Ajdovščina – Slovenia.
His work can be found
in private collections in Greece and abroad.
Currently occupied as
a Fine Arts teacher in Primary and Secondary Education.
Member of Greek
Chamber of Visual Arts
Member of Association
of Fine Arts teachers
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018 «FRAGILES»,
Gallery GENESIS, Athens, Curator: Iris Kritikou
2014 «Aristeidis Chrysanthopoulos», Art Gallery
Myrό, Thessaloniki
2013 «dreamemories», Art Gallery Ikastikes
Anazitisis, Athens
INTERNATIONAL
PARTICIPATIONS
2015 «Castra 2015» International Biennial of
watercolor, Ajdovščina – Slovenia
He already
participated in many group exhibitions.
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