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  Astrolavos dexameni 09.05.05 - 28.05.05

The work's composition of George Papageorgiou fluctuates in the bounds of the abstraction. In his works, which will be presented at the lower level of ASTROLAVOS dexameni Art Gallery (Xanthippou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7294342-3, fax: 210 7293317, www.astrolavos.gr) from 9th until 28th of May 2005, the composition is dominated partly by intense expressionistic gesture strokes of the brush, while their background equalizes the intense, with the way the artist handles the color - his works are almost monochromatic or with light grades of tonicity. The expressionistic motives, of minimalist simplicity, take up the center horizontal arbor of the work or one central placed rectangle - like a second frame inside the bigger frame of the work – and remind the calligraphic character of the ideograms and the Japanese art, but with bigger freedom in gesture and in stroke of the brush. The choice of this type of eccentric compositions, adds in works one opposite by the intenses and the prominences of the dynamic stroke of the brush, balance. For the background color in most of his work the artist chooses usually the frigid earthy colors in different shades of brown - grey; light blue and white while rarely we find in these big surfaces intense bright, yellow, orange and red colors. Contrary, the center expressionistic motives of the works are usually being attributed with dark rough tracings by black more thick or slighter strokes of the brush. The peaceful, the intense, the bright and the dark color range or the worm or the frigid colors are the usual opposite sides of his work that transformed by unique way through the best handling of the colour.
Some of his works less abstract have shapes that refer in objects like signals or rectangle forms while some are pure geometrical and in which the artist investigates the subjects of drawing, form, composition and of color. In any case at the above categories of his work the common characteristic which governs overall the painting of the artist is interiority and a spiritual dimension that are the result of the gesture of light and of color. At the end it must be noted the connections and the intense influences of the music in his work which are being expressed through the melody and the rhythmic of his morphological elements.

George Papageorgiou lives and works in Belgium. After studying in Montpellier and in Paris, he finished Art Studying in Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels, from 1998 to 2002 in Toma Roata atelier. Since 1998 until 2002 he has had four solo exhibitions in Brussels and he had participated in many group exhibitions. He has also expose his work twice (May 2000 and November 2001) in Foire d' art contemporain in Paris.

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