Vassilis Karakatsanis “Carpets 2” Exhibition duration: 26 May – 27 June 2020 Respecting the doctors’ advice to prevent and safeguard public health, the opening will not take place. The exhibition will start according to its scheduled start date and you'll be able to visit us during the opening hours of Art Prisma Gallery. Painting

Art Prisma Gallery, hosts the artist Vassilis Karakatsanis, in his solo show entitled ‘Carpets2’. This exhibition is the continuity of the unity, in the same title, already presented in Athens, Cyprus, Denmark, the United Arab Emirates and the Art Athina, Art Thessaloniki, Affordable Art Fair Milan, World Art Dubai International Art Fair and it is Vassilis Karakatsanis’s second solo show hosted in Cube and the 94th included in his curriculum vitae. ‘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 30 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’. 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 Art Prisma Gallery 187 Kountouriotou Street, Piraeus 18535 T: +30-2104296790, F:+30-2104296079 artprisma@hotmail.com www.galleryartprisma.gr coordinator: Natassa Thomakou Opening Hours: Tu. Thu. Fri: 10:30-15:00 & 17:30-21:00 / Wed. Sat: 10:30-15:00 Sun. Mon: closed

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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