DEAR FRIENDS

CAMDEN ART GALLERY is pleased to invite you to the new exhibition of Greek artist MARIE PERRAKIS

From 4th until 20th July 09

Pre-view: Saturday 4th July, from 6:30pm

at

Camden Art Gallery
61 Chalk Farm Road
London
NW1 8AN

Tel 020 7485 6644
E-mail: info@camdenartgallery.com
www.camdenartgallery.com


We look forward to seeing you.
Regards

CAMDEN ART GALLERY


MARIE PERRAKIS

Marie Perrakis, Greek artist of French origins, is currently based in Athens, Greece, after ha-
ving lived and worked in New York.


Once the "Apocalypse of the Illusion" occurs, once our worst expectations are fullfilled, 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 aban-
doned.
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 investi-
gates 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 cons-
ciousness, 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 experi-
mentation 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 me-
taphors, 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