George
Hadzimichalis
Born
in Athens in 1954. Studied painting in London (1971-75). Since the 1980s
he has worked closely with writers, archaeologists and poets, focusing
on the use of history as raw material for arriving at an authentic meaning
of visual language. He has presented his work at international exhibitions:
Biennale of Architecture, Venice 1991, Documenta Kassel 1992, etc. and
in the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens in 2001. Lives and
works in Athens
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1.
Journey: O.P./c.1221(12),
1986
book,
acrylic on paper, 432x35cm opened Private Collection.. |
2. Small image
archive (001-100),
1986/1996-1999
Mixed
media. Chest of drawers made of MDF. Consists of 100 drawers containing
paintings, h.108x87x54cm
Private
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Nikos
Houliaras
Born
in Ioannina in 1940. Since 1970 the multi-talented artist, painter, writer,
composer and singer has created a distinctive personal idiom in painting,
combining the narrative character of his fantastic images with the art
of writing. His short stories have been translated into foreign languages
and adapted for television. He has been awarded twice in the international
exhibition of artist’s books in Leipzig, for his works Drawing-Texts
(1st Award) and The Snow I knew (3rd Award). Lives and works in
Athens.
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1.
Time
is always on his side, 1989
80
printed sheets from the publication Time is always on his side,
Nefeli, Athens 1989, with front cover and illustrations by Nikos Houliaras,
© Nikos Houliaras, NEFELI 1998, placed in a Plexiglas box measuring
150x100cm. The poems in the book were written between the spring of 1983
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Yorgos
Lazongas
Born
in Larissa in 1945. Initially studied architecture at the Aristotelian
University of Thessaloniki and turned to painting in the early 1970s. He
processed deeply and extensively the concept of painting as an act of imprinting
traces of writing and as an act of concealing and revealing the image –
notions which he interpreted using various media and on which he based
a large part of his blind painting of the 1980s. He has presented
his work through many solo exhibitions in Greece and abroad and has represented
Greece in international exhibitions: Biennale des Jeunes, Paris 1980, Art
et Poésie, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris 1981, Sao Paulo Biennale
1983, etc. Lives and works in Athens.
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1.
Blind
trace-print with carbon paper (frames face to face),1992
oil
silk-screen colours on canvas, 145X145cm.
Collection
of the artist |
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Blind
trace-print with carbon paper (frames face to face),1992
oil
silk-screen colours on canvas, 145X145cm.
Collection
of the artist. |
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3.
Video Blind painting, 2001
The
video Blind painting, shown for the first time at the exhibition
"Mythologies of the Book" in Frankfurt, is a sequel to Lazongas’s long
quest around the notion of the visual language as the transcription –in
different spaces and times– of incessant layers of writing, traces of thoughts,
fragments of physical and mental existence. The act of writing and its
imprints throughout the history of civilisation is central to his works,
which he renders in multiple media from 1977 onwards. As far as blind
painting is concerned, he notes: "blind painting, drawings as
extensions of the hands, a touch of the fingers; recalling the prehistory
of instinct; I am at the centre and the periphery at the same time, palimpsest,
fragment, décollage" (from the catalogue Lazongas. Painting
Drawing 1977-1987, Vafopoulion Cultural Centre, Municipality of Thessaloniki,
1987). |
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