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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