Christina Darras

Zoumboulakis Galleries 20 Kolonaki Square 10673 Athens Greece (city map) Send E-mail tel +30 210 36 31 364 www.zoumboulakis.gr

Crhistina Darras - i hate to be controlled

Opening night: Thursday 12 June 2008, 8.00pm

Zoumboulakis Galleries, 20 Kolonaki Square


Zoumboulakis Galleries proudly presents "I hate to be controlled", a solo exhibition by Christina Darras. Exhibition opens on 12 June 2008.

The show contains a series of paintings (acrylic on canvas) that burst with vigorous colors and dense composition, and portray Darras' trademark anthropomorphic animals, her distinct motifs and figures from fairytales. It also contains portraits of real people. As Darras explains "… They illustrate the brain's complexity, when dealing with emotions, memories, instructions, desires, in an attempt to create a landscape of the psyche. The goal is to treat with the same fluidity real or imaginary elements, which exist there to remind us that after all everything ends up at reality".

A series of intensingly fluid, monochromatic pencil-drawings in the colors of the rainbow and two photographs complete Darras' world.

The works neither seek subversion nor a serious-looking approach. On the contrary they invest in the melancholy and the emotionally charged nature of the characters they portray, characters ultimately convinced that they do not want to be controlled!


Exhibition Duration: 12 June - 5 July 2008

Opening Times: Tuesday - Friday, 11.00 - 14.00 & 18.00 - 21.00, Saturday 11.00 - 14.00
Sunday & Monday closed

Artist's CV in brief:
Christina Darras was born in 1968 in Athens. She studied painting at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, in Paris (1986-1990), and completed her studies in Engraving at Central St. Martins College of Art & Design, in London (1990-1991). Since 1990 she has had solo shows in Greece and abroad, while she has participated in numerous group shows.