DEPOT Art Gallery, 5 Neofytou Vamva street, in Kolonaki,
has on Monday, February 20, 2017 at 20:00-23:00h,
the opening of Ioanna Konstantinou's new painting exposition,
with the title NON-URBAN DEPICTIONS.
The exposition is under the auspices of the Norwegian Embassy in Athens.
The painter gets her inspiration from the Greek and the Norwegian wild nature, preferably the mountains and woods, the rivers and cascades and wants to relate the message of environmental consciousness to the public.
In reference to Ioanna Konstantinou's paintings, K. D. Basios, Art Historian, has underlined that:
"...The artist handles a highly politicized type of cultural expression in her own, very personal, way. From the sheer choice of the applied technique that she uses(namely, a coat of gesso, along with pumice particles, that act as a representation of the rough interior country houses’ walls) to an Alps-type of habitat that she inventsand does not care to slavishly imitate (something that can be found in the mountainous region of Epirus, Greece), there is definitely an intention to set a landscape far and away from the usual; to define the countryside as a version of nature (which is exemplified by the vibrancy of the flowers’ color and the misty volume of the trees)and to refuse the adoption of certain images, thus restricting any possible appropriation.”
The duration of the exposition is from February 20, to March 16, 2017.