Katia Varvaki, an artist with long experience in descriptive art and some involment with comic drawings, opens on Tuesday the 14th of March 2006 an individual exhibition, in ASTROLAVOS artlife (Herodotou 11, Kolonaki, tel: 210 7221200, 4, fax: 210 7221304, www.astrolavos.gr opening hours: Mon-We-Sat: 11-15.00, Tu-Thu-Fr: 11-20.30). This new unit of painting works and artifacts is entitled: «oi-kymata», (a word pan from the two Greek words house + waves.)

Its main topic is the house in its ancient form. Houses with red pyramid shaped roofs supported by wooden poles, houses with no walls, doors or windows, see-through and hollow dominate the core of Varvakis’ works. Emerging from a world of dreams, these works travel bathed in light and surrendered on air.
The human element is missing, as far as the representation of figures is concerned, but it is being symbolically replaced by spread out laundry hanged around the houses.
The deserted scenery and the empty houses both remind primitive worlds, they seem even lonelier and desolate as they are windblown.

The colours of the scenery surrounding the houses are surrealistic. The space occupied reminds us of alien sceneries, where invisible theatrical plays are being performed. Morphological elements: stairs, fireplaces, trees, colours, gain an entity of their own and constitute symbols of our childhood utopias. The tree transforms into shelter, birds into friends, children’s clothes from broken dolls in airy visions of another era, miniature worlds within the infinity of imagination. Lost and regained time eternally placed in our cellular memory have been the inspiration for this creation within an ever-changing world, remaining the same within us.
A journey of no return, without trades, through staircases leading where else? Into the sky. This is the magical world of Katia Varvaki.

Duration of the exhibition until the 6th of April.