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2004 - Wolf, oh wolf are you here?

Solo exhibition at "GALLERY 7 ZALOKOSTA", Athens

Τhe ‘Red Riding Hood’ is a charming, ‘innocent girl’ that the ‘Wolf’ ingests. According to the variance of the Grimm brothers, good forces like the ‘Ranger’, releases her from the belly of evil ‘Wolf’, whaterver this means. But the child understands the tale differently while growing. The ‘Red Riding Hood’ is not so innocent and the ‘Wolf’ is not so bad. The truth in this case is that both of them are incredibly human and go along with each other alternating roles. The common thing that brings them close to each other is their desire to meet. But strong forces originating from their darkness of their consciousness prevent this meeting. We would say that they are two contradictory elements that complement the human existence. Nevertheless, they clash with this complement, in other words their own selves, their very existence. So, they have to conflict not only with this entire suffocating system which surrounds them - iron frame - and which defines their lives dominantly but also with their own selves - passions, weaknesses, loneliness. A struggle which takes place in a predefined location and on set conditions, in the fabric of their microcosmos- wire netting. So, they live their short life, illiberally liberal because their liberty is actually restricted to this strictly limited, cold and powerful frame –well-polished metal.

Monday, 21 March 2016

Prisons - Guards

55x100

Walking on the grass

70x130

The Scaffold

55x55

Rising

22x22

Meaningful eyes I

22x22

They burn the ocean

22x22

Wolf, oh wolf are you here? -Yes and I am awaiting

200x100

What time is it?- It is the time when time ended

55x55

Happiness is also a visitor, if it finds the door barred then it goes away

55x55

Picnic

70x130

The short journey

70x130

Sunbathing

70x70

The little dress of her doll

230x50x50

A start on continuity Ι

70x70

A start on continuity ΙΙ

70x70

In one day…no… in a whole life this idea was born

70x70

The rain damages the ears of grain

70x130

Meaningful eyes II

22x22

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Wolf, oh wolf, loneliness.

Wolf, oh wolf, absence of speech.

Wolf, oh wolf, infinite guilt

Deep and sensual

 

Rhea Galanaki

they wrote...

From bottom to another bottom

From the bottom of the eye to the bottom of the sea the distance is enormous. And yet even if the distance is not met, the painting of Konstantina Katrakazou brings the one bottom close to the other, without painting seas, without searching the colorfulness of the eye, only revealing the secrets that sleep in the two bottoms.

Thanassis Hatzopoulos