Marginalia Gallery | Nicosia | Cyprus | Vassilis Karakatsanis 'Sections 2010-2020' Painting

Marginalia Gallery Fine Art Arch. Kyprianou 15 D-E 2059, Strovolos, Nicosia, Cyprus T: +357-99657080 E: marginalia.gallery@gmail.com W: www.marginaliagallery.com Opening hours: Tuesday - Friday 10.00-12.30 & 17.00-20.00, Saturday 10.30-13.30 Vassilis Karakatsanis ‘Sections 2010-2020’ Exhibition Opening: Saturday 12 December 2020 from 10.30 - 13.00 & 17.00 -20.00 Exhibition Duration: 12 December 2020 to 16 January 2021 From December 12, 2020 to January 16, 2021, the Marginalia Gallery in Nicosia, presents the painter Vassilis Karakatsanis. The exhibition is entitled ‘Sections 2010-2020’ - ‘Sections 2010-2020’ and concerns the artistic recording of the last ten years of the artist, through the sections ‘Urban Details’ - ‘Carpets 2’ - ‘Distinct District’. • ‘Urban Details’ The art critic Anthi Argyriou mentions: “In Vassilis Karakatsanis’ collages and paintings the intense colour fields that constitute the background of a bright social life are prevalent while they converse with objects that the artist often depicts on his artistic surface: high heeled shoes, chairs, teapots and glasses; all are fetishes of a social status that has become the purpose and meaning of life for generations. Karakatsanis in the section ‘Urban details’ puts emphasis on an artistic tradition that is winking at pop art and refers to the aesthetics of advertising, lifestyle and the superficial, frivolous survival of a specific social class: the powerful middle social class that has developed greatly during the historic period of Greek Metapolitefsis, the years of the financial blooming that has reached its peak when they undertook the Olympic Games of 2004 only to collapse like a house of cards five years later. The glow and the optimism that are emitted by a prosperous public life that looked like it has beaten the dragon of the fairytale are emblematic, even when reminders of a not very glorious historic past intrude the canvas taking the shape of an ‘autistic’, repetitive photo album of beloved faces that are lost in the glamour of oblivion. Nevertheless the Karakatsanis’ social cartography saves a personal element: diary pages are hidden behind glasses and cocktails as silent reminders of an intensively experiential look that exhibits and at the same time penetrates the hypocrisy of the mentality of the modern ‘ego’ of the urban lifestyle. The artist- witness, historian, the artist- semiologist.”. • ‘Carpets 2’ In this section, Vassilis Karakatsanis presents the 'quirky' family Abd Al Aziz, based in Beirut and active in various cities, especially in the Mediterranean, trades 'magic' carpets, to people who have the courage to travel with them, living illusion or reality. The family members are scattered in different cities, thus keeping the independence of their personal life, influencing the buyers each, with their own dynamics or using other ways, seduction or magic. This artistic interpretation of him is nothing more than the 'horizontal cross-section' of most of his approaches, all the years of his work, with the 'key' finally the fabric, a material that dominated his painting effort, both as an element of space environments, but also with a very clear experiential relationship. • ‘Distinct District’ An artistic approach to the Athenian landscape, through personal experiences. Each play is a true story that all took place in the suffocating, concrete environment, neighborhoods of Athens & Piraeus. Writer & journalist Nikos Vatopoulos states: "The experienced gaze on the city, the gaze that sweeps the crypts and niches of the beggar, this gaze, which has a store of experience, has claimed the right to be free. Freed from stereotypical hiring in Athens, Vassilis Karakatsanis defines the extension of an active design for the visual mapping of a square personal mural. It flows into Athens with a mood of equal confrontation, face to face, feeling to feeling, gesture to gesture, to finally awaken its own palimpsest, which carries a common body of memories and desires. Athens as projected through the new works of Vassilis Karakatsanis is more the idea of an Athens than its imprint. It is more the concentration of a fantasy than its depiction. [….] ". 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, U.A.E. 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 All health and safety measures due to the COVID-19 pandemic will be adhered to at all times.

Painting:Gouache on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:1 W x 1 H x 0.1 D in

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