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Solo exhibition
"Painting"
Centre of Contemporary Art
Museum of Modern Greek Art
Rhodes 2-15 MARCH 2002

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Introduction

The text that follows
is written by the art historian
Polly Hatzimarkou, as an introduction
to the exhibition catalogue

Girl in the room, 2002, 90x120 cm, oil on canvas
"Angelos Spartalis creates using a traditional form of art -oil painting on canvas. His painting, however, simultaneously vital and plethoric, violent and sensitive, contradicts the above definition (traditional). Figurative experimentations and combinations of colour, free gesture and design techniques develop into unity-circles that close and open again, transferring traits from one to the other and borrowing ideas and questions and finally marking out an endless route, multicolored and gradually matured. Those bizarre circles are the ones that do not let the artist fall into a category in the mainstream of art. In MoTeR 1 we present this work -from the "Reflections" series to the most recent creations-; a -full of incentives- year's work. Deconstructed bodies, urban environments extracted from their conventional nature, are assembled in such a way that the tormenting conceptual suggestions of isolation, of the constructed human identity and the hybrid body, of the fragmented man as a mass unit, are all recalled and placed again in vigorous unruly representations."

Polly Hatzimarkou
art historian, curator ïf the Museum of Modern Greek Art

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List of presented artworks
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1. Model on red 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

2. Cooking (P.B.) 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

3. Model on blue 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas


4. Model on blue (Matina)
___2002, 90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

5. Model on blue (Eleni) 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

6. Dancing 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas


7. Dark model (Zaf) 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

8. Dark model 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas


9. Thinking Man 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

10. Thinking Man III 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

11. Man in the room II 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas


12. Girl in the room 2002
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

13. Pregnant 2001
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

14. Man in the room 2001
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas


15. Self-portrait 2001
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

16. Sel-portrait in the room 2001
___120 x 90 cm, oil on canvas


17. The City 2001
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

18. The City II 2001
___500 x 500 x 200 cm, installation

19. Bicycle rider 2001
___270 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

20. Miro painting Bacons portrait
___2001, 120 x 180 cm, oil on canvas

21. Modigliani & model 2001
___120 x 90 cm, oil on canvas


22. Self-portrait & model 2001
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

23. World War 2 2001
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

24. Reflection 2001
___90 x 120 cm, oil on canvas

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Press Articles & Remarks


Local
1. newspaper "PROODOS", 27/02/02 (1 photo)
2. newspaper "RODIAKI", 27/02/02 (1 photo)
3. newspaper "DIMOKRATIKI",  28/02/02 (1 photo)
4. newspaper "RODIAKI", 02/03/02
5. newspaper "PROODOS", 02/03/02
6. newspaper "DIMOKRATIKI",  03/03/02
7. newspaper "DIMOKRATIKI",  10/03/02 (1 photo)
8. newspaper "RODIAKI", 14/03/02

National
1. newspaper "TO VIMA", 03/03/02 (1 photo)
2. newspaper "ELEFTHEROTIPIA", 28/02/02 (1 photo)
3. newspaper "TA NEA", 02/03/02
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"ELEFTHEROTIPIA", 28/02/02...







Photographs



above: photos from the opening
left: the Prefect of the Dodecanese with his wife
right: Deputy Mayor, Mayor of the City of Rhodes, President of the Museum
below: "Philosophy of Blue" lecture during the exhibition

 

 

 

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more information on...

  • Panoramic view
    main hall of the exhibition
    mov file size: 170 KB

  • Video
    duration: 2 min
    mpg file size: 3,4 MB

 

 

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