Kaleidoscope team exhibition 30 Oct - 27 Nov 2015
1 ALMA Contemporary Art Gallery Ipsilanti 24, Kolonaki 10676, Athens  Opening Hours Sun, Mon, Tue : Closed Wed - Fri : 10.30 - 14.30 & 17.30 - 20.30 Sat : 10.30 - 15.30 or by appointment to Nikolas Almpanis Managing Director nikosbit@gmail.com +30 6936807660 Maria Almpani Art Director malmpani@gmail.com +30 6977715842
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About “Kaleidoscope” written by Eleni Gatsa, Art Historian
A 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 implications 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 emotional states, living their own secret life through the cross-connect seemingly mismatched 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 initial 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.
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About “Kaleidoscope” written by Eleni Gatsa, Art Historian
The four artists sometimes allegorical, sometimes implicitly, are interlaced with images of reality and fantasy that lead one step beyond realism, dream and escape 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.
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Leonidas Giannakopoulos General Warlock 22 x 18 cm ink on paper 2015
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Leonidas Giannakopoulos Minister of Inteligence 34 x 26 cm ink on paper 2015
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Leonidas Giannakopoulos The Mayor 34 x 29 cm ink on paper 2015
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Leonidas Giannakopoulos Lady of honors 32 x 22 cm ink on paper 2015
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Leonidas Giannakopoulos Agent 062 25 x 23 cm ink on paper 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis I , as nobody 122 x 205 cm Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis I , as nobody ( Detail ) Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis Elephant 50 x 30 cm Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis Lion 50 x 30 cm Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis Butterfly 50 x 30 cm Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis Jaguar 50 x 30 cm Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis Zebra 50 x 30 cm Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis Egg 50 x 30 cm Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Alexandros Maganiotis ΕΛΠΙΖΩ (I HOPE) 6 pieces of 50 x 30 cm each Acrylic ink on semitransparent film 2015
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Konstantinos Patsios Il Comadante 40 x 30 cm mixed media on paper 2014
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Konstantinos Patsios Medea 1 220 x 150 cm mixed media on paper 2015
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Konstantinos Patsios Medea 2 220 x 150 cm mixed media on paper 2015
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Konstantinos Patsios Melancolia 40 x 30 cm mixed media on paper 2015
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Konstantinos Patsios Mare nostrum 45 x 32 cm mixed media on paper 2014
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Konstantinos Patsios Zeus 40 x 30 cm mixed media on paper 2012
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Dimitris Skourogiannis Play Doll 1 137 x 77 x 10 cm digital print on paper / mixed media 2010
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Dimitris Skourogiannis Play Doll 2 137 x 77 x 10 cm digital print on paper / mixed media 2010
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Dimitris Skourogiannis Barbie Masterpiece, Guido Reni 47 x 37 x 14 cm digital print on paper / mixed media 2010
ALMA Contemporary Art Gallery Maria Almpani Nikolas Almpanis
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An electronic publication for ALMA Contemporary Art Gallery Designed by Nikolas Almpanis Š 2015