Kyriakos Mortarakos at Zoumboulakis Galleries

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Zoumboulakis Galleries present the exhibition entitled “Window”, a solo show by Kyriakos Mortarakos from April 11 to May 18, 2013.

Works of various scales revolving around interiors and text writing are presented. Writing in his work is very important not only as a written meaning but also as a plastic value.

The materials he chooses are canvases, MDF, paper, pastel and oil.

His problematic evolves towards the bipolar shape of the notion 'window' which contains the 'interior' and the 'exterior' at the same time. As the artist points out: "I don‟t know what comes first in mind when I think of the word 'window', the 'interior' or the 'exterior'. The coexistence of these opposites fertilizes imagination. There‟s no specific project. The work either constitutes a unity or not. Small or large scale work preserves its autonomy. It declares its reason of existence and based on this declaration, takes its shape".

The Art Historian and Art Critic Haris Savopoulos writes about Kyriakos Mortarakos: "'Writing' is of great importance to Mortarakos! During coffee, in a walk, in moments of relaxation, bent over a paper, he writes. He writes using the primitive movement of the repeated engraving made known by Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze). He writes with the aggressive retrogression of a child‟s writing, loading tremors of silence and punching, black silences and dramatic intervals of silence on a piece of paper. And his painting was always like that and always will be: A Writing".

Exhibition duration: April 11 – May 18 2013

Zoumboulakis Galleries, 20 Kolonaki Sq.

Opening hours: Tue., Thur., Fri. 11.00-15.00 & 17.00-20.00, Wed. 11.00-15.00, Sat. 11.00-14.00,
Sunday & Monday closed

Brief Curriculum Vitae:

Kyriakos Mortarakos was born in Athens in 1948. He studied painting under Y. Moralis at the Athens School of Fine Arts, scene-painting under V. Vassiliades and religious painting under K. Xinopoulos. He graduated in 1976. He has presented 17 solo exhibitions and participated in various group exhibitions in Greece, Europe and the U.S. His works are to be found in Foundations, Private Collections, Museums, Galleries, Banks and the Central Bank of Europe in Frankfurt, Germany. From 2006 he has been teaching regularly at the School of Fine Arts of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He lives and works in Athens and Thessaloniki.

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