On Tuesday the 26th of April is inaugurated in the Art gallery ASTROLAVOS artlife (Irodotou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7221200,4, fax: 210 7221304, www.astrolavos.gr) an exhibition of works with religious subject of Aginoras Asteriadis, Giorgos Vakirtgis, Nikos Hatzikiriakos Gikas, Spiros Vasiliou, Theofilo, Aleko Kontopoulo, and Foti Kontoglou.
The works are in the majority of their small dimensions, oils or tempera and also pencil or ink drawings.

Compositions of few persons, other with iconographic content and morfoplastic approach of the subject in direct connection with the rules of Byzantine art and some other with free personal dialect by their creators, constitute nevertheless, firm testimony for the explicit effects and the continuation of religious painting from the important artists of the beginning of 20th century, but also for the particular love of artists of generation ’30 for Greek tradition. A tradition that maintained almost intact through the Byzantine and post Byzantine murals and icons and which artists as Aginoras Asteriadis, Fotis Kontoglou, Nikos Eggonopoulos and Spiros Vasiliou have carried in their work, with absolute attachment in the types and the planning of forms, the objects and the elements of landscapes in pictures. The white colored paints with which the lights of the faces and the bodies are attributed, the shaped folds in their clothing, the planarity in the output of bodies, the reverse prospect and the shallow monochrome background and mainly the acquaintances from the Byzantine art morphographical types for the saint forms are elements of their pictures and witness the service of some of these in the depiction of holy temples or in the creation of Byzantine style pictures. The exhibition is also surrounded from certain works with more secular subjects, in that however, the shape of form as much the selective import of certain individual objects or elements in space, witness their origin from the Byzantine art. This group exhibition substantially proves the affinity and powerful bonds that exist with the Byzantine iconographic tradition even in certain individual works of our recognized artists, most of them became acquaintances in the wide public through a popular Naif painting dialect or through modern movements of Surrealism or Abstraction of 20th century.

It is important for someone to visit the exhibition not only because the works are particularly unique, but also because they have become with real desire, love and deposit of soul from the artists.
Duration of exhibition until: 7th May.