On Friday, the 17th of March, in the art space of «ASTROLAVOS dexameni» (Xanthippou 11, Kolonaki, tel no: 210 7294 342, 3, fax no: 210 7293 317, www.astrolavos.gr), opens double exhibition of Panagiotis Alexiou (lower level) and Christina Papageorgiou (middle level).

Alexious' painting works, celebrate the joy of life and creation. Colorful room interiors painted in dreamy colors- unrealistic- create surroundings which seem familiar to look at.

Variations of blue and pink and of light purple, spread out in large surfaces of clear color, placed one next to another, dye chromatically not only interior walls but also smaller and larger objects and the few figures which inhabit these spaces.

The contrast game beyond the colors spreads with brush strokes. Broad strokes and wide surfaces of certain colors strongly juxtapose with some, almost pictographically given decorative motives. These are elements within the space or objects like light bulbs, candy wrappers, notebook pages or magazines, flower pots and coffee mugs.
The elements which compose these surroundings are very simplistic: objects of everyday life and common; they disappear one into the other, since their colors contrast and mix. Outlines do not exist, neither do straight lines. This fantastic, miniature world- compact and unstable- human and incomplete is a pictorial world. In the end, painting itself creates more effectively the illusion of space.

Everything is being created by color and everything fades into the color. Objects or parts of objects all disappear inside other elements, following the contemporary painting procedure of 'non-finito', for example the back or the leg of a chair, a part of a wall or part of a carpet or the inside of a couch.
The artist’s chromatic choices, the fluid and steady brush strokes, the color analysis on the canvas, the conventions and transitions which these colors get are based upon an aesthetical and not an intellectual choice.

As the artist claims: 'No one is able to stop water from running in abundance. Emotions overflow the work of art. The painted surface simply shows off this crossing of emotions'.
Their abundance makes them look as if they are halted. Yet, the truth is that they are in motion. The objective and the result are painting itself and its approach through the creative procedure of inner beauty.

Christina Papageorgiou, will exhibit, in the middle level of the art space, an installation entitled «Parachute Grass».
Grass made out of parachute fabric, wooden apartment floorboards as corridors, artificial lighting from stoves and nylon clothing glued to the wall compose a void space -anon place-, a space where the exhibition 'reader' will walk. «Parachute Grass» is the concentration of multiple side-spaces, withdrawn from their initial authentic substance thus composing an unorthodox environment.

Within this environment, class hierarchies are unstable yet they possess the ability to constantly transform, producing random patterns which alter the zoning plan and disrupt the experience and construction of a stable identity.

Peoples movement within the space of «Parachute Grass», resemble the beginning of a perpetual reality. A constant counter energy which composes different, often conflicting, pieces of information.
M. Heidegger, in his book, Building, Dwelling and Thinking, connects space with a 'place that has been cleaned and freed proper for settlement and housing', thus making the segregation between a deserted space and an inhabited place. The thick grass inside «Parachute Grass» insists on supporting the roughness and disorder trapped within a room.