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Solo exhibition of Maria Zisi with the title "Aspects of Woman and Water"
Govedarou Art Gallery organizes the solo exhibition of the artist Maria Zisi entitled "Aspects of Woman and Water". Art historian Maria Kyrgiafini writes about the works of Maria Zisi: Pastel-colored oils and escape from the two-dimensional form of the painting become the means by which the artist Maria Zisi bridges art with the experiences of the modern woman. It is essentially a technical escape that functions as a transition from painting to canvas to miniature sculpture.
The female existence in transition, the life of a woman of all ages in the daily life, the motherhood and the inner, timeless reality are the artistic references of the artist in the collection of Aspects of woman and water works. Fragments of a reality, women flowing through time, past, and now. Flowing women like water, which is a field of concern for women as an archetype of every regeneration and transformation. Water has been there since the beginning of human life, giving birth and regeneration, giving life and releasing it. In Bathtubs the water becomes a mirror-passage, a showdown only by itself.
In that private bathroom, the goal is to isolate the emotion, with the water sometimes covering and sometimes interpreting the small sculptures of lasting companionship.
Opening: Wednesday, November the13th, 19:30
Duration: 13 to 30 of November 2019
Sponsor: STOSA Kitchens
Free admission to the public.
Invitation
Govedarou Art Gallery at 4th Art-Thessaloniki at HELEXPO
4th Art-Thessaloniki 2019 at HELEXPO
You will find us at Pavilion 10-Booth 17 of the 4th Art-Thessaloniki 2019 at HELEXPO.
We present to you 5 artists Maria Zisi, Nana Winter-Georgiadou, Stelios Zacharoudis, Stefanos Folinas and Nina Michailidou!
"I Feel, then I Exist" solo exhibition of Irantzu Lekue
Irantzu Lekue works social art, conceptual art, activism and art accessible through artistic installations, video art, painting and sculpture. She has won the First Prize Videotalentos of the Santander Foundation, the First Prize photographic memories of the Canal Foundation or the Welcome Donostia 2016, among others.
She has studied Bachelor of Fine Arts from the UPV / EHU, at the University of Granada, the University of the Laguna de Tenerife and the Accademia di Belle Arti di Perugia (Italy). Postgraduate in photography at the Master Photoespaña: Theories and artistic projects at the European University of Madrid and in cinema, with an International Bachelor in Creative Media Production, at the School of Communication, Image and Sound (CEV) of Madrid and the University of Essex (England).
Her works are characterized by their social awareness work. Through various techniques, she has produced works that analyze the condition of women, social injustices, climate change, life and death. During the last years she has influenced the demand and accessibility through art. In her artistic practice she has gone through different stages that have marked her work. It began with introspective works that reflected different stages such as cancer disease, identity crises, loneliness, bullying, death or sexual abuse.
Subsequently, her works have varied towards an increasingly social theme such as gender, racism, historical memory or socio-economic injustices, using art as a tool to activate thoughts around hegemonic and unfair situations in different social environments; all closely linked to social art. Her artistic installation works invite spectators to be part of them and to be able to interact with them, to promote participation, reflection and self-criticism. That is why the artist performs actions in the public space in order to provoke some kind of reaction in the public making the viewer a participant or part of her work. Her artistic practice has also led her to be denounced before the courts as was the case with the artistic occupation of the Krea Building in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
Her artistic installations are characterized by being composed of repetitions of everyday objects that are distributed through space, decontextualizing the object, resignifying it and allowing an infinity of readings. Irantzu Lekue was in charge of closing the Energy Waves program of the European Cultural Capital DSS2016 with the urban art installation “Aztarnak”. She made a huge fingerprint consisting of 10,000 glass bottles. Each bottle contained a message from citizens who wanted to participate in the work with desires for culture and art.
Transformative muralism
The Basque artist Irantzu Lekue and her team also perform murals on a large scale and also orders for companies or private homes, collaborative, participatory murals or artistic commissions to take art wherever it is necessary. Transformative muralism because it improves, brings art to the street and bets on urban rehabilitation from society. She wants to improve environments outside but also inside through the dynamics of citizen participation. Her last project has been done in Barcelona.
Closing Party για την ατομική έκθεση του Σπύρου Γελέκα "Tales from Middle-Earth"
Οι Πύλες της Μόρια θα ανοίξουν μια τελευταία φορά στη Govedarou Art Gallery για την ατομική έκθεση του Σπύρου Γελέκα "Tales from Middle-Earth"!
Ελάτε τη Δευτέρα 30 Σεπτεμβρίου, ώρα 19.00 να μιλήσετε με τον ζωγράφο που εμπνεύστηκε από τον κόσμο του Tolkien όλη τη θεματολογία των έργων του. Μια εξαιρετική παρουσίαση από το χώρο της φαντασίας από το διακεκριμένο Κερκυραίο ζωγράφο αναγνωρισμένο σε Ελλάδα και εξωτερικό για τη δουλειά του.
Μοναδικά έργα τέχνης δουλεμένα με αγάπη και αφοσίωση για το έργο του μεγάλου καθηγήτη J.R.R. Tolkien!!
Closing Party for "Tales from Middle-Earth"
The Gates of Moria shall open one last time for the Closing Party of the solo exhibition of Spiros Gelekas "Tales from Middle-Earth" at Govedarou Art Gallery. A tribute to J.R.R. Tolkien's work transferred to the canvas by the painter Spiros Gelekas.
Come to share with the artist his inspiration from the world of Tolkien. Monday 30rd of September, at 19.00 at Govedarou Art Gallery.
An excellent presentation from the world of fantasy by the acknowledged painter from Corfu in Greece and abroad.
Unique artworks dedicated with love to the work of professor J.R.R.Tolkien!
Presentation of the book "Trees and Forests of Middle Earth" by the author Evlabia Tsireli
When the legends of Messopotamia and the Bible meet the literature of fantasy.
A new approach to the work of J.R.R. Tolkien. Colien Duriez, writer of Tolkien's biography is signing the introduction of the book "Trees and Forests of Middle Earth".
Daidaleos publications
Monday 23 of September, at 19.00
Solo Exhibition of Spiros Gelekas "Tales from Middle Earth"
The fantastic world of the famous Greek painter Spiros Gelekas from the island of Corfu with his super-realistic color palette meets, for the first time in Greece, the fantastic "universe" of the great J.R.R. Tolkien, writer of Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and Silmarilion. Spiros adores the world of fantasy, thus the world of Salvador Dali, Roger Dean and J.R.R. Tolkien. Tolkien's world are the subject of his painting from 2016 and on. The year 2018 brought him the worldwide recognition he needed and his works were exhibited next to Salvador's Dali and Picasso in Asia. He entered in the list of the best 100 painters in the international competition "The Global Art Awards", and was selected to be included in the encyclopedia of "Global Art freaks" in 2019.
The exhibition is deticated to J.R.R. Tolkien and the Middle Earth and will be exhibited on September in Thessaloniki at Govedarou Art Gallery and on October in Athens at the festival ofFantastiCon.
Under the auspices of The Greek Tolkien Society – The Prancing Pony.
The exhibition will accompany with their music Lady Delwynne and George Palousis
E-Catalogue of"Tales from Middle-Earth"
1st Touring4Art:“Show me what you got: 2019”
Govedarou Art Gallery 13 – 31 of May 2019 Thessaloniki
PurPur Gallery 7 – 22 of June 2019 Lamia
Group Exhibition. Free subject
Govedarou Art Gallery in Thessaloniki and PurPur Gallery in Lamia work together and launch the group exhibition 1st Touring4Art "Show me what you got: 2019". It will be an opportunity for old and new artists to show their work in two cities of Greece. The subject is free and artists can participate with their artworks either with painting, sculpture, engraving or photo.
ANNOUNCEMENT FOR ARTISTS IN A GROUP EXHIBITION
1stTouring4Art
“Show me what you got: 2019”
Govedarou Art Gallery 13 – 31 of May 2019 Thessaloniki
PurPur Gallery 7 – 22 of June 2019 Lamia
Group Exhibition. Free subject
GovedarouArtGallery Thessaloniki and PurPurGallery Lamia work together and lounch 1stTouring4Art"Show me what you got:2019". It wiil be an opportunity for old and new artist to show their work in two cities of Greece. The subject is free and artists from painting, sculpture, engraving and photo can participate with their works.
For more info the artists who are interested can send an email at Govedarou Art Gallery info@govedaroufineartgallery.com. The applications must be sent from 2-20 of April 2019. In case the number of participants is filled you will notified.
Closing Party for the exhibition of Stelios Zacharoudis
Govedarou Art Gallery is inviting you to join us at the Closing Party we organize for the end of the exhibition of Stelios Zacharoudis "One Painter - three subjects"
The Party will be at the gallery on Thursday, 29th of March 2019, at 18.30.
The exhibition is was prolonged until Saturday, 30th of March 2019.