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Australia
Painting, Oil on Canvas
Size: 66.1 W x 59.8 H x 1 D in
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From the collection, "White Noise" exhibited Sydney, Australia 2010. The figures in my paintings are symbols or metaphors for ideas and concepts gleaned from philosophy, scientific theories, physics and literature. For White Noise I have chosen to delve into Greek Mythology and explore the myth of Persephone - Goddess of the Underworld. The myth is thought to have been created to explain the changing of the seasons, however, the Ancient Greeks also revered Persephone (along with Orpheus, Bacchus and Dionysus who descended into Hades and returned) as a philosophical basis for Orphism; an early Hellenistic belief in reincarnation - the eternal return. Orphics believed that human souls were divine and immortal, yet doomed to live for a period of time caught within a grievous cycle of successive bodily lives. This belief is not dissimilar to the Buddhist philosophy of Samsara. In short, the Orphics believed in the cycle: Life/ Death/Life/Truth. Without Persephone, Hades King of the Underworld (or death), could not continue to exist alone. Hades abducted the goddess, married her and made her eat pomegranate seeds (the fruit of the underworld), which kept the goddess trapped in an eternal return to life and death; on earth with her mother Demeter during Spring and Summer and in the underworld with Hades through Autumn and Winter. It was from Orphism that the first Greek philosophers were born, each successive generation of philosophical thinkers, endeavored to prove the Orphics wrong, and thus emerged the beginning of the end of mythology; of Gods and Goddesses to explain the meaning of existence. It is from Orphism that the gradual steps were made toward the scientific reason of today. The bride is therefore a complete symbol of beginning and end, the end of innocence, the beginning of a union of knowledge and the initiation of marriage as a right of passage toward a cycle of birth, death and the search for truth.
Painting:Oil on Canvas
Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork
Size:66.1 W x 59.8 H x 1 D in
Frame:Not Framed
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
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"Georgiadis draws on the complexities and contradictions of the landscapes around her and of the people she conjures in paint. Her greatest skill is her ability to access the fragility of the human spirit. In every single work, there is a suggestion of the painfull falliability of humankind and a reminder of the cyclical quality of everlasting time". (Prue Gibson, Australian Art Review, 2010) Born in Sydney, Australia of Greek/Egyptian parentage in 1968, Georgiadis lives and works in New South Wales, Australia. Margarita's work explores the illusion of reality, the presence of absence and the law of the continuum of forms. Margarita's work is influenced by physics, literature, philosophy, mythology, film and cinema. "Through the process of painting, my concerns are based on endless variations of silence and absence, presented as a series of fragmented narrative. "¨"¨Each of my paintings are like fragments of an unknown story, like a film still, removed from the sequence of the entire film; the viewer is only presented with one frame in order to evaluate and comprehend the infinite possibility of narrative that surrounds each painting. I am interested in focusing attention on that which is not visible in the painting, that missing element of narrative that completes the story. "¨"¨ I endeavour to paint the presence of absence".
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