"Acropolis, the Monk and some new works" at Zoumboulakis Gallery

Zoumboulakis Galleries presented yesterday to the Athenian public "Acropolis, the Monk and some new works", the latest solo exhibition by Manolis Charos. In this exhibition Charos shows a series of paintings and 3-dimensional, made from 2008 to 2012.

His works constitute a unit chosen carefully and create an assemblage of visual language and reflection as they bear the signs of our time. They comment our reality, meditate and invite personally every viewer to travel into the artistic world of the artist.

In the "Monk" (2008), painting-reference to the famous work by C.- D. Friedrich (1818), the monk-lone person reflects on the new dawn, in the way of the great romantic painter of the 19th century.

In the "Acropolis" (2012), a large scale work, the artistic scripture oppose to the sonorous and classic topic it depicts.

Manolis Charos, with his nonstop presence in the artistic scene since 1978 when he first presented his work, constitutes one of the main characteristic painters of his generation. A painter and sculptor firstly, he uses different means and materials with great liberty. Having conquered his artistic language, the new series of works guide us to new places and images. With his characteristic visual language sometimes subtractive, but always familiar and sensitive and with a rather daring and poetic use of colour, these works follow consistently his personal course.

Manolis Charos was born in Kithira in 1960. He studied in Paris at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beauxs-Arts and did his Master at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. He has been honored with the French national Prix des Fondations and the Athens Academy Award. He has worked as a guest artist at the University of Princeton (USA), starting point for his research on the Aesop’s Myths, which was the topic of his last exhibition at the Benaki Museum. With lots of exhibitions in his course, both in Greece and abroad (France, United Kingdom, Italy, Germany USA etc.) he is considered as one of the most important representatives of his generation and his works are to be found in public and private collections in and out of Greece.

The duration of the exhibition is from 15 March to 7 April 2012. Zoumboulakis gallery (20th Kolonaki Square, Athens) opening hours Tuesday-Friday 11.00-15.00 & 17.00–21.00, Saturday 11.00–14.00, Sunday & Monday closed.