"Land-Escapes"

In his new photography exhibition, entitled: ‘ Land-Escapes‘, Nikos Vandoros aims to decode the self-evident representation of common landscapes. Mainly through night shots come to light and revive shapes and figures that escape the mere glance. His basic theme being the open space and aesthetics of the night, Vandoros allows the lens to create the illusion of a parallel dimension.

The landscapes of Vandoros release a mystical – mostly dark – figure, while recording artistically that phenomena could be changing. His images' colour refers to a modern magical realism or – more accurately – surrealism. As a colour leaping from the artist's palette, a dialogue with illusionistic colours that can only be found in painting, he at times beautifully captures the intensities of light on the matter and, at times, risks as passage, with extreme sensitivity as to the tones, to thousands infinitesimally different colour gradations, capturing the transitions from one tone to another.

Sculptural volumes, robust compositions, axes and forms that appear, which are being revealed by the artist-photographer's view, through the occasional landscape, create pictures that look freely staged from their creator's artistic touch. The impact of Vandoros's work is soothing, alternating with mystical hues, leading the audience to be instantly led to its own personal magic universe.

Vandoros's pictures are digital and have not undergone photoshop editing.

"Kaleidoscope"

In her exhibition entitled: ' Kaleidoscope', Effie Chryssi presents paintings and constructions inspired by the most resent orientation of the painting embracing Visual Art tendencies, known as “Op-Art” (Optical Art). Emphasising the form and its geometry, that is subject to constant changes and transformations, linear and colour nuances, the artist creates a fictional universe. In a world of patterns, sometimes referring to a physical item or object, sometimes being mere geometric shapes, the overarching goal is to create art games, both from a visual as well as from an imagination point of view.

A geometric symbolism connects shapes and concepts – a circle and life, a pyramid and the uplift, a square and the logic etc. The nature, as well as the science of geometry, are key sources of inspiration for the small recurring patterns of the artist's work. Stars and sea stars, suns and moons, waves and pebbles, mills and pyramids, planets and totems, cubes and glass balls, swords and scales, ribbons and fans are interwoven in one another in configurations, in which the negative and the positive element reveal a deep, unbreakable bond between them. The various shades of colour and tonal relationships, sometimes in harmony and sometimes in sharp contrast among themselves, help create a magical universe, geometric and colourful, that becomes all the more frolic the longer you look and get lost in it.

Creation, according to Chryssi, equals sweet solitude. The Art is her means of travel through countless hours of commitment to patient work. Her works relate to an alternative world - the art of infinity. As a matter of fact, her compositions are based on the finiteness of the material, but mentally stretching beyond the boundaries of time and space. The artist's wish is to invite the audience to see the colours and the shapes anew through her work, in another dimension, through her personal vision.

Duration of exhibitions :  until Saturday 29th October 2011.