Andreas Devetzis, "On buildings, residents" exhibition

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Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery (Athens, Greece) hosts until November 24th 2012 Andreas Devetzis latest artworks in an exhibition under the title "On Buildings, Residents". All Devetzis' figures are feminine; both woman and home. Fragmented, trapped, and frustrated, they submerge in either introspection or silence. Suddenly his theme acquires a dramatic, existential dimension: one of people and buildings; sets of figures within inhospitable, bare rooms. Old. Not even the meridian light can provide consolation. The painter being honest, tenacious, and bearing a frugal, direct -almost ascetic despite its chromatic wealth- language is first describing and then interpreting, how we got here. Us, you, the others, the city...