Angelos Spartalis - Calendar - Exhibition, FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON, KOZAS Gallery

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		..FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON
		On Monday 12 September at 20:00 opens in TITANIUM Gallery, Athens, the new painting exhibition by Angelos Spartalis “From the Earth to the Moon”. The exhibition will last until 3 October. There will be large scale works - oils on canvas (160 x 130 cm)- as well as smaller works on paper. Manos Stefanides writes about Angelos Spartalis' exhibition: Angelos Spartalis is among the few artists who continue to defend the tattered flag of the avant garde, the value of the images that resist the vulgarity of television. The exhibition presented in Titanium Yiayiannos Gallery is titled "From Earth to Moon" and includes paintings influenced by the rock years of the 70's. Through heavy bitumen colors, earthy tones and nervous brushstrokes Spartalis investigates the genealogy of the images that literally and metaphorically brought us here: from the Earth [land] (Canaan, hortus conclusus, Promised Land) to the Moon (Lunar landscape, lunacy, the metaphor of Armageddon). And here lies the epilogue of the efforts of the painter. The simple yet momentous fact that Angelos Spartalis -awarded filmmaker and mixed media artist- loves and still believes in painting. As long as the painting does not confine itself in decorative and emotional adjustments but takes a stand on the issues of the era; to propose aesthetics as a revolution. Angelos Spartalis writes about his work: My new painting series “From the Earth to the Moon” revolves around the television broadcast of the U.S. space flight Apollo 11 landing on the Moon. I focused on the not so remote but definitely salutary year 1969 and going a back and forth in time I put on canvas or paper images that made history, just as a royal court painter would in another era before the invention of photography. As I always mix up things around me and inside me, I blended the Moon and Vietnam, Kennedy and Woodstock, The Beatles, our very own YENED (Greek National Television of the 60’s – 70’s) and the speech of dictator Georgios Papadopoulos as well as a Christie’s sale of Van Goghs and even … “Space Invaders”. These paintings were created in the same time as the homonymous 90 min. long animation film that I have been working on based on the book by Jules Verne. Animation and painting, painting and animation are entwined so that the keyboards of my computers are constantly stained with oil paint and my paintings become “pixelated”. As Barbican, the protagonist in Verne’s book would have put it: “Up to the Moon! Let’s go up to the sky my fellow cannoneers!” Bon Voyage! Photos: painting1, painting2, painting3
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	a	..EXHIBITION ARTWORKS	a
		oil on paper, 2010, 35x25cm each oil on canvas, 2011, 90x60cm each oil on canvas, 2010, 160x130cm each oil on canvas, 2011, 270x120cm complete list of the paintings Flash presentation medium and high resolution www.titaniumartgallery.com the exhibition in Rhodes
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		outside view inside view inside view inside view Monday, September 12, at the opening of the exhibition Friday, September 30, music performance by Nikos Tsilogiannis, Akis Petriniotis & Dimitris Pantelias Angelos Spartalis painting lab at Crete during the creation of the painting series "From the Earth to the Moon" (August 2010) Angelos Spartalis painting lab at Crete during the creation of the painting series "From the Earth to the Moon" (August 2011) Angelos Spartalis in front of "starry night" Crete, June 2010. Photo by Angela Svoronou

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