ART ATHINA 2024
We are delighted to invite you to the 27th edition of Art Athina, returning to its iconic home at Zappeion Mansion from September 19 through 23, 2024.
After the success of Thalia Kerouli's ''SARCA II'' exhibition at the Piraeus Bank Group Cultural Foundation, K23 will be present at Art Atina with one of the Greek artist's most beloved installations.
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SARCA II
The Piraeus Group Cultural Foundation (PIOP) and A.M.K.E. "Field for art and culture" present, from Monday, October 9, 2023, the periodic exhibition "Sarca II", by Thalia Keroulis, at the OPEN-AIR WATER POWER MUSEUM of Hydrokinesis, in Dimitsana.
With the restored workshops and pre-industrial tannery processes as a point of reference, as presented in the Museum, Keroulis' paper sculptures, which directly refer to flesh, carcasses and skins, are in direct dialogue with the permanent exhibition. The works, from the artist's work in progress, entitled "Sarca" (2020-), harmoniously integrated into the spaces of the Museum, highlight key issues such as the fragility of human nature, resilience and care. At the same time, they reflect the inseparable relationship between matter and spirit and the importance of physical and mental health against wear and tear.
Somatica
Neuter plural adjective from the Greek σωματικός, wich means "body", arises from a poetic and anatomical reflection on human body layers, from the inner organs to the skin. Artist Thalia Kerouli covers the whole exhibition space with an assemblage of papers painted with natural pigments and sun-dried until they get a rigid and yet friable texture. Floor and walls therefore function as an architectural backbone on which a new skin is grafted...
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Alone
"Alone" Is an digital exhibition in the context of Trento Art Festival, an international exhibition in which contemporary art converses whith the public and collectors by exploring the new opportunities provided by the network through the platform kunstmatrix.com with the patronage of the municipality of Trento.
A double solo exhibition by Thalia Kerouli and Paolo Incarnato who a take distance from the fast rhythms of the modern era but without closing their ears to its “Sirens”. As “monks”, they deepen their artistic discourse, having man at the center of their work, but with a purely humanistic approach.
SARCA
EGIIDON 31 hosts Thalia Kerouli’s solo exhibition Sarca. Sculptures made of paper –which refer to flesh, slaughtered animals and skins, as an of fering to the gods – are scattered in the exhibition space, reminding us of the slaughtered animals found in artworks from different periods of art history.
She mixes old used papers with various materials such as varnis hes, glues and powders. A process, painful on a physical and mental level, as well as contradictory, if one considers that the final product is the composition of a flesh in decomposition.
For Kerouli, this series of works, the beginning of which coinc ided with that of the pandemic, is a
way out, the expression of her strong emotions. As she characteristically has stated, “the skin is
our natural identity where the past and the moments of our own history are recorded.” The works invite the viewer to experience the fragility of human existenc e and its wounded uniqueness and, above all, to confront his own existential fragility, thus raising the question of the relationship between matter and spirit.
Back to Athens 7
This year's Back to Athens 2020 under the title " μetaΑθήνα / pόστΑθενς" will present 11 curatorial
exhibitions and individual artistic proposals with the participation of 100 artists and curators from Greece and abroad. It will be a unique post-lockdown meeting, during which Greek and International artists will reconnect in physical presence, in the face and the circumstances of a new reality.
Back to Athens was first introduced at the beginning of the crisis in 2012, and to this day unfolds the concerns and expectations of artists and the public that take place within the Athenian landscape. The aim of the event is to study and document the new reality of our times as it is given through the curatorial concepts and the artwork; a source that will most likely provide conclusions for the near future.
From July 1 to July 4, Back to Athens 2020 will take place in the monumental 1950s building of 48-50 Aiolou street, within its distinctive rooms that once served as small offices and workshops for local businesses. Artists, members of the art community and art lovers will meet again this year, taking in consideration protective health measures and obligations commanded by the present conditions.
Hartigrafia
The series entitled "Hartigrafia" literally writing-drawing with paper, represents the latest art production of the artist Thalia Kerouli. Still works with papers like the "Bianche" and the "Spose Bambine", this time create large-scale collage portraits. Physiognomies of people who live in the real world. Presences with a strong visual impact, emphasized by the large dimensions of the canvases. The recycled papers on large backgrounds are loaded with vivid colors, shades and chiaroscuro effects, are created by the wise choice of combinations.
Using reflecting colours the artists captures the secret inner world in depth. Physiognomies that are "inner landscapes". Like geographical maps that show in detail the paths, the morphology of a place, so the Portraits expess intimate characterics and uniqueness of each presence. The artist's research focuses on the eyes that look at us, seek and engage in direct dialogue with us. They invite us to share, discover a hidden world of stories, dreams and secrets. A gallery of Portraits. Presence of the soul of which Thalia Kerouli gives us and makes us participate.
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Hartigrafia
The paper becomes color. Thalia Kerouli uses cards to draw portraits of large collages. Portraits made with recycled paper make up shapes that resemble "interior landscapes".
Like geographical maps that show in detail the paths, the morphology of a place, so the portrait tells us the psychosynthesis of a person, his unique individual identity.
Extra Ordinary
Now in its eighth edition, Internationart In Venice, offers the best of world artistic production in the historic spaces of Ca ’Zanardi and adds the curator Fausto Brozzi:“ a point of preciousness in everything and history has proved me right. Increased visitors every year and artists compete to be there. Quality and exceptionality are essential ingredients to break away from the chorus of a commodified market that is not attentive to new languages "
Metamorfosi
The works of Thalia Kerouli, large canvases in collage to colors, are a prevailing reflection on the figure and the female universe.
In her latest productions, the series of "Bianche" and "Spose Bambine", the woman, the woman's body is recomposed from the initial wounds rediscovering her unity, self-awareness.
Make Art
More than 150 creators participate by presenting their work in a variety of alternative and original venues, galleries, studios, vacant apartments, cafes, showcases, art galleries, multipurpose, encouraging the public to participate in a unique exhibition safari.
Make Art is the largest umbrella of creative exhibitions in Thessaloniki and it proves that the creative community not only continues its work, but is more timely than ever.
In the first half of April, the city changes, transforms and hosts exhibitions all day and night, highlighting the creative minds and possibilities of the future. The creators are here and their city belongs.
Faos
Exhibition from Painting to Sculpture August 3-30, 2013 Picture Gallery of the Balkan Contempranean Art of Kondias Island of Lemnos - Greece Faos = light and splendor, glory, salvation and joy. Six artists graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Naples, have decided to call this creative activity "faos". For six weeks they will be in Lemnos to produce their works. Paolo Incarnato sculptor, Thalia Kerouli painter, Alessandra Olivieri painter, Adriano Ponte sculptor, Marco Romano painter, Andreas Zampella painter.Lottanando against their own demons, trying to find ways out and bring the truth to light. Constant research, doubt, error and correction, emotion and frustration, is for them a torture and also the essence of art. The youthful vigor, the passion of "saying everything" is shown in the museum-sized works and in the compositions of materials recovered from a nito cycle that return as works of art. At the heart of myths there is always a truth. Every truth is light and freedom. Our artists have studied ancient Greek myths and left themselves in uezare from this one. Their love for Greece and its history is also evident. Moreover, for them it is education and a source of inspiration.
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To Keno' & To Gemato
Thalia Kerouli & Paolo Incarnato Showcase Vernissage: Monday 2 April 2012 19:00 hours On display until 14 April Gino Ramaglia Featured Artists Via Broggia, 10 Naples Thalia Kerouli Figures on the edge of the existing space replace the shapes of colors, putting themselves below a surface that takes on a dominant role even when it is canceled with its white, broken only by a marked wound that unites it to its host, becoming one with it. Paolo Incarnato As it happens in our members that a memory is never purely clear, so "Ricordi" tries to portray this sense of incomplete. The cage symbolizes the impossibility of man to resume his own experiences, but through this it is possible to see only fragmented details of what he was. A work that tries to give shape to our past fears, enclosing fragments of the past in a playful space.
