A stylistic idiom, emerged from the evolution of the artists early style with strong connotations to childhood age (works of period 1998-2000) works with girl's figures suggesting magna comics (Why not play with me? 2000-2003) following is influenced by pop art (Brain Damage, 2004), of a more surrealistic nature is (Flying-Flying, 2006) concluding the vividly expressionistic, only with surrealistic colour hints of the ''I want you'' (2007) unit. The style of this very last unit, maintaining its vivid countenance and its brush-strokes dynamics, so much in the attribution of feelings, figure and colour variations the artist evolves her colour-palette in a purely distinguished surrealistic colour variety.

Expressionism, stylistic emotion and magical surrealism are all combined perfectly to the story she has to say. A personal, humane, experimental fairytale, harsh like the tragic reality of the world we live in and as magic as the transmutation of this world, within the imaginary dimension met only in a dream world.
It is a painting narration/metaphor of the same love story. The story of 'Yes', the story of Bonding. A story that was never an easy case; a story containing lots of suffering, anxiety and effort. A story, if believed, can take us to the final redemption within the Garden of sences and feelings.

Colours here narrate shapes and figures follow. The material mix, she works the Paper. Thin, sensitive and fragile yet it is transformed into strong and durable material when the artist glues one paper layer upon another, thus creating a kind of natural-coarse canvass. Paper is moulded in irregular outlines and bulks. Works operate one by one separately narrating a story or as a united installation inside which the visitor can wonder around the three basic spaces of the Parental House, the New House and the Garden. A grown ups' tale, a story for life, with sentiment and emotion but also the cruel imprint of hard to reach paths that we are called to cross. A tale of effort and truth, with honesty and faith leading to a better world.

In the exhibition of Melina Apostolidou, entitled: ''Urban Spaces'' (middle gallery level) works derive from images that the artist has photographed in the centre of Athens or found on the internet by groups that explore abandoned buildings. Within these shapes she finds sceneries. These are imaginary places and the procedure of their decipherment. One can see the Natural and Urban scenery, in dialogue and in union. In this procedure she enlists forms of damage created by time, adding details of architectural urban elements and transforms them into unorthodox buildings. The artificial often looks more fragile than the natural.

Abstract shapes are combined with building outlines, cuts, bridges, wires, and scales. The scenery - black outlines surrounding shadows- often refers to 'theatre of shadows'. The idea of the scenery is re-addressed. The swing, the imaginary colour element within the motives and the design, the surrealism, the abstraction and figurativeness imprint and exalt a fresh, contemporary approach to the image and reality.
Texture and colour are equally important. The works are made mainly with acrylic colours and ink. Spatial colour is thinned out and at places there are multiple layers so as to achieve different atmospheric colour variations. Concluding, colour is left to drip on the canvass thus creating artifial drips and water effects of surrealistic nature and sentimental charge.

Duration of exhibition: until Saturday 7th of March 2009