slipping signs

group exhibition

penindaplinena gallery limassol , cyprus

opening: friday 13 january 2012 20:00pm

place: 49 Ellados, 3041 Limassol, Cyprus

when: mon-fri: 4:00am -8:00pm

           sat:10:00am -2:00

email:  info@50-1gallery.com

tel:      0035725340727

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Anastasia Mina

Dimitra Bista

Konstantinos Dregos

Maria Aristotelous

Socrates Fatouros

landscapes seem seismic when burning colours from the sky and expressionistic stroke of thick paint envelop the canvas.in this group show at 50-1 gallery,explosive remnants of material rephase interruptionsand form fresh beginnings.The exhibition Slipping Signs showcases 5 multi-media artists working from scapes to escapes,scopes,styles and space as they seize them at shifty and slippery moments.in these works,random and anticipated transformations transpire from dark to light,from reflections to position,from networks of lines to swelling surfaces,addressing matters of identity and continuation,repetition and inscription,site and interiority,frame and de-centralization

A starting point for many of these artists works takes off from a given inner place,or city where,although the intention seems to be more in this identifying place of "rest",there is a longing to explore disruptions that "promising" sites do not anticipate.The works composing the exhibition Slipping Signs evoke a new habitat to revive vision,to dream another dream, to embark on re-constructing intimate possibilities where the impulse of indefinate and infinite connections these artists works vigorously surface through a distinct treatment of pencil,paper,ink,acrylic,canvas and cardboard.

Maria Aristotelous thick coats of paint in longstrokes splattered in apparently unintended smears are pencil lined, like fluid feathers of interaction and interruption in these paintings reflections.Dimitra Bistas refined pencil on paper drawings subtly move in a net of lines and scratches which seem to meet somewhere between a deliberate de-centralization of beggining and a lack of colour and neat symmetry.Although working with seemingly inflexible materials ,such as leather and porcelain,glass plaster and tar ,Konstantinis Dregos sculptures like flesh,flow organically through space without ever trapping these forms in a solid surface.Paint drips on canvas like water seething before the bubbles morph in to flowers,half blooming half fleeing.In a leveling and surging force , the drawings of Anastasia Mina work like pencil and writing; smooth surface and compulsive depth;an urging and urgent process of impulsive intensity which,while engrossed in a swirling repetition,also dissolves the raw residues of lead to reach a liberating coexistence of black and white.In City End, Socrates Fatouros handles the textures of oil and acrylic on cardboard through a fragile vigor of colour,which erupts in a volcanic temper,from the centre out.The city doesnt end somewher,it unfolds.No longer a heart, the enges of this city extend beyond an "identifiable" city.

                                                                                                                                     writer:Maria Petrides