Solo exhibition by Vassilis Karakatsanis @ The Art Cocoon Gallery, based Dubai / United Arab Emirates Painting

The Art Cocoon Gallery, based Dubai / United Arab Emirates, presents ‘Distinct District’, a solo exhibition featuring works by Vassilis Karakatsanis. Exhibition duration: 23/3 – 23/4/2019 'Distinct District' A visual approach to the Athenian landscape through personal experiences. Each painting is a true story that has played out in the suffocating, concrete environment of districts in Athens and Piraeus. A personal journal with churches as bookmarks, identifying each region. These are ‘distinct’ points, which do not depict reality but rather sum up the artist’s feelings and, through this virtual reality, presumably the viewer’s too. Furniture, objects, insects and animals stand out against the urban grid, evoking our effort for an urban way of life – at times authentic, at times not. There is asceticism and abstraction in the depiction of the urban landscape, and humorous symbolism, as the artist states his personal conclusions and acceptance of reality. An acceptance and affirmation that required a 36-year artistic journey in order to be expressed. In most of his thematic units, he deciphers the urban landscape as an internal process. Today, surrounding space is presented as a surprise, as theatrical action. Vassilis Karakatsanis He was born in 1957 in Athens where he lives and works. He studied painting at the Athens School of Fine Arts, art theory at the Barcelona School of Fine Arts, and conservation of architectural monuments at the Centro Europeo in Venice, with scholarships from the Greek State Scholarship Foundation, the Spanish Government and the Council of Europe. From 1982 to the present, he has exhibited his work in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Ecuador, Turkey, Denmark and Germany (solo exhibitions). Available exclusively on Artsy shows, and on our website. For a 3D Virtual view of the exhibition please follow this link:https://bit.ly/2yClZV2 Artsy link: https://bit.ly/2YhxNIr Press Release: https://bit.ly/2JAyUj3 All artworks are available for inquiry until the 23rd of April, 2019.

Painting:Gouache on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:5 W x 10 H x 0.1 D in

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