Carpets 2 Painting

Vassilis Karakatsanis ‘Carpets 2’ Vassilis Karakatsanis presents the “odd” family Abd Al Aziz which, having Beirut as its seat and being active in various cities (especially in the Mediterranean), trades ‘magic’ carpets to people who have the courage to travel on them, living out either the illusion or the reality. The members of the family are dispersed in various cities, thus maintaining the independence of their personal lives, each one influencing the buyers, with their dynamics or by employing other ways, those of seduction or magic. The profits are equally handled for all the members of the family by a firm based in Geneva. After 25 years, Karakatsanis comes back with a topic he has been preoccupied with in the past, but with a different motive. In 1991 in Galerie Titanium Vassilis Karakatsanis in co-operation with Maya Tsoclis presented ‘Carpets 1’.Works of art of great dimensions which, with carpets as their main theme, approached the application of his printed works of art on fabric and the creation of women’s clothes by Tsoclis in a discursive exhibition, at the gallery. His artistic approach today is nothing other but the ‘horizontal cross-section’ of the majority of his approaches, all the years of his work, with its final ‘key’ being the fabric, a material which prevailed in his artistic endeavour, most prominently as an element of the surrounding space but also with an evident ‘experiential relationship’. [*TA NEA, 4/12/1989 Athens, Charis Kambouridis] ['Carpets 2' by Vassilis Karakatsanis has been presented with solo exhibitions during 2016 in Genesis Gallery/Athens & during 2017 in Liza’s Krügermeier Gallery in Stege-Møn/Denmark. Parts of the 'Carpets 2' series during 2016 & 2017 has been presented in St. Regis–Le Patio Gallery & in 3rd World Art Dubai International Contemporary Art Fair in Dubai represented by The Art Cocoon Gallery/Dubai/UAE, in ALMA Contemporary Art Gallery/Trikala, in Papatzikou Art Gallery/Veria, in My Art Box by Technohoros/Athens & in ArtSpace Gallery/Santorini] Vassilis Karakatsanis (b.1957, Athens/Greece) lives and works in Athens. He has exhibited his work (solo exhibitions) in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Ecuador, Turkey, Denmark and Germany. His thematic choices and his personal artistic vocabulary are informed by his experience and observation of the surrounding world. He organizes his exhibitions by using a theatrical attitude: he transforms the mundane every day objects into structural elements of his work. He uses a clean and rich color palette and vivid contrasts. He creates installations by using elements from the existing three dimensional spaces and by transforming them into art forms. He researches with sensitivity the limits between reality and illusion. www.v-karakatsanis.gr

Painting:Gouache on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:8 W x 10 H x 4 D in

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