On Tuesday the 23rd of May, in the art space of ASTROLAVOS artlife opens a double exhibition with artifacts and jewelry by Julia Carasso and painting works by Giannis Spyropoulos.

Carassos’ main material is aluminum wire gauze, in its natural silver color or tinted with warm and cool colors and gold leafs, highlighting through transparencies and airy, supple materials the different textures of the chosen motives.

Her subject matters, simple- of everyday life - inspired mainly by nature, constitute large units; like the unit of "Flowers" which decorate necklaces, bracelets, rings and earrings. Following, is the unit of "‘Snakes", which can be transformed into belts, necklaces or bracelets and a smaller unit, the one with the broaches entitled, "Hearts".

Carassos other jewelry are made with simple, light, geometric lines. The artist playing like a child creates accelerating folds with wire, paints it; emphasizing on multicolored patterns.
In her larger artifacts the artist uses geometry and Doric shapes, reorganizing metal elements (engine parts) recomposing them with her own manufactures and combining them with glass. The main units are the "Boats" and the "Lights". In both these units, artifacts are combined with postmodern/ industrial elements from ready-mades in a simple design while several elements refer to childhood age; like the transparent glass beads glistening under the light. In general, Carassos artistic manufactures and her jewelry are indirectly connected- metaphorically through the elements/ symbols- which are consisted of, with nature but also with humans’ basic, internal needs.

The painting exhibition which is presented at the same time in «ASTROLAVOS» artlife is with oil canvasses, drawings and watercolors by Giannis Spyropoulos (1912- 1990). The works presented by this internationally renowned Greek artist are from different periods of his work.

Scenery drawings from the first period of his work (before 1960), where the Hellenic, mainly islandic scenery, prevails on the artists canvasses and approaching in a totally personal style thus transcending the absolute, naturalistic truth and going together with the first modernists of the 20 th Century, like P. Cezanne. In these works, celebrated and appreciated by art lovers and historians, for they are rare, it is interesting to study the deconstruction and re-synthesis of the scenery’s different layers and the internal rhythm which run through space. At the same time are exhibited oil canvasses and mixed medium works by the last, better known units, when he had totally joined the movement of Surrealism. In the specific canvasses, with the dark brown colors, earthy highlights, dominating the canvass golden shades and thin- vague color; the main interest lies in the realization of the stability of the under color, which is skillfully lighted only by individual geometrical shapes- circles or straight lines- in vivid, warm colors attributing symbolic tensions to the art work.

Giannis Spyropoulos was given an award in the 1960 Venice Biennale and is one of the few Greek artists who had an international career and painting works were recognized in an international level.

Duration of exhibition: 23d of May until 10th of June.