'Distinct District' - Solo Exhibition of Vassilis Karakatsanis
Vassilis Karakatsanis - 'Distinct District' - Invitation
23rd of March, 2019 – The Art Cocoon gallery presents contemporary artist, Vassilis Karakatsanis, and his online solo exhibition ‘Distinct District’, a curated selection from his latest art series consisting of 13 paintings, of mixed media on canvas.
PRESS RELEASE
Vassilis Karakatsani's solo exhibition ‘Distinct District’, is a visual approach to the Athenian landscape through the artist's 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 – some times authentic, and some 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 processed and then expressed on the canvas.
In most of his thematic units, he deciphers the urban landscape as an internal process, where the surrounding space is presented as a surprise, a theatrical action.
Browse "Distinct District" exhibition today, and inquiry for your favorite work from a range of small to large size canvases.
'Distinct District No.25', Acrylic, Gouache, & Oil paint on Canvas, 140 x 100 cm
Vassilis Karakatsanis (b.1957, Athens) 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 had more than 89 solo exhibitions, in Greece, Cyprus, Spain, Italy, Indonesia, Ecuador, Turkey, Denmark and Germany. He has taken part in many group exhibitions, art fairs and international exhibitions.
His works are part of museums collections, as well as private and public collections in Greece and abroad.
Duration
Saturday, 23rd of March till 23rd of April, 2019
Venues
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