On Thursday the 3rd of February opens at the Art Gallery "ASTROLAVOS artlife" (Irodotou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7221200, 4 fax: 210 7221304, www.astrolavos.gr) an exhibition of artistic constructions by the artist Amalia Petsali Diomidi entitled: "Where the color goes when it's getting dark".
Three dimensional artistic constructions are represented in the exhibition and also mixed technique paintings made from the use of different materials (wood, plaster, wire, textile, mirror, ceramic etc.).

Petsalis work is an artistic search and exploration in the plastic and expressive use of the materials, so that works can be created in rhythm and harmony that will cause surprise, pleasure and dreaminess. Both the creation of a work and the aspect of the observation become a small journey, a little adventure.

In this colorful, rhythmic work-game the calm worm colors are breaking on pointed materials (wire, glasses etc) creating a brew-smoulder poetry. Here in this three dimensional work of art the materials have another dimension where the changes of the light and motion are creating an unexpected game. Petsalis microcosm in combination to these different kinds of materials brings out a sense of harmony and surprise. The artist her self says that she desires: "to carry an inmost and real movement as a consequence of a moment of challenge and play, a challenge of pleasure that makes someone to forget".

Duration of the exhibition until: 26th of February.

Amalia Petsali Diomidi

Petsali was born in Athens. She studied painting in Athens School of Fine Arts from 1978 to 1983 in D. Mitaras, G. Mavroides and N. Kessanlis workshops. She continued her studies in painting in the Ecole Nationale D’ Art Decoratif (ENSAD) in Paris with Lapouzade.
After her return in Greece she followed the stage design section of School of Fine Arts under V. Vasiliades. She was a teacher in schools and in Halkidas workshop with H. Mitara.
She lives and works in Athens.
She had made 3 solo exhibitions and had participated in many group exhibitions in Greece as in Abroad. Many of her works are part of private collections.