Dear Friends
CAMDEN ART GALLERY is pleased to invite you to visit the new exhibition of Greek artist Marie Perrakis
From 12th until 20th May 2009
At Camden Art Gallery, 61 Chalk Farm Road, London, NW1 8AN, UK.
Preview: Tuesday 12th May 2009, from 6:30pm until 9pm.
We look forward to seeing you.
Thank you.
CAMDEN ART GALLERY
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MARIE PERRAKIS
Miracle Making - "So mote it be"
Camden Art Gallery, 12th - 20th May 2009
Private view: Tuesday 12th May 2009 - 6:30 PM
Marie Perrakis, Greek artist of French origins, is currently based in Athens, Greece, after having lived and worked in New York.
Once the "Apocalypse of the Illusion" occurs, once our worst expectations are fulfilled, then I ask myself: what's left of the horizon of the landscape, of these line of hope where our destinies should approach themselves?
Images, shapes, colors and movement are a recovery, a selection, a testament.
Once definite, they are object of contemplation, if abandoned they are like sanctuaries where only the light is astonished on the silver dust.
The image denounces why it lives in our soul, the logic of the icon is no different, nor it is the spontaneity of looking: eyes are to see, and what's seen is registered in our memory, nothing is forgotten nor abandoned.
Marie Perrakis's painting is a figurative journey although, being more faithful to the path followed by the artist, we could say that she makes use of the figuration to invoke her internal knowledge.
Whatever the result is, it is full of wonderful fragments of infinity. Stretching towards the limit, she investigates different alternatives of the figuration with the stylistic contribution of the abstraction; she marks, well defined, with the gesture of the romantics, indecipherable mists and blinding twinkles.
Her way of thinking is directed towards the unapproachable, the inaccessible, towards what we feel as overbearing because of its strength.
She suggests a reflection on the "orderless" but carefully studied handling of the brush, attaining consciousness, forming part of the totality of painting, of the fact that in a strict form the sublime cannot be painted but only suggested, surrounded and alluded; transforming itself, in front of our astonished eyes, into silence that can be heard, into scents of spring flowers, and our sense of smell "gets drunk" with it.
As we re-discover them, the textures of her works seem to us tangible even without touching them.
In these works that she presents, Marie confirms this stance towards life, taking to the edge the experimentation that she has realized through different ways of presentation.
This is how she manages to obtain a structural form that allows her to set out subtle but powerful metaphors, dialogues and messages, as to compose impressive landscapes from a glance to the natural world.
Besides the presentation of the media that she uses for the exposition, her works recall to a great poetry, to a distinctive way to see nature, that surrounds us and takes us to an intimate change that can be "channelized" at any time.
By looking through the works of Marie Perrakis, it is visible, in her pictorial language, her visual maturity and her great sensitivity that absorbs the elements of her surrounding and, first of all, of her intimate life.
Her thoughts, written on her artwork, are transformed into images both sober and colorful, explosive and full of scents and movement.
The powerful brushstrokes and the graphics that create a sort of connection among different elements, show this internal strength, like a scream that Marie fights to release, and a light that appears thorough all these different ways of expression.
RoseMarie Bellemur
Art Critic
Laura Manganello
Translation
CAMDEN ART GALLERY
L O N D O N
61 CHALK FARM ROAD. NW1 8AN . LONDON .UK
T.+44 (0) 207 485 66 44 / T.+ 33 9 66 87 05 45
INFO@CAMDENARTGALLERY.COM/ WWW.CAMDENARTGALLERY.COM
