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Christos Kechagioglou - Horizon

Opens on Thursday 13 November 2008 at 8.00pm

Zoumboulakis Galleries, 20 Kolonaki Square

Zoumboulakis Galleries cordially invite you to the preview evening of Horizon, an exhibition featuring new works by Christos Kechagioglou, on Thursday 13 November. The exhibition comprises of a series of acrylics on wood in Kechagioglou's characteristic style of bright colors, experimentation with perspective and lines, and painting immersed in a dreamy atmosphere.

Horizon, according to the artist, engages by means of painting with the two interpretations of the word:
"Horizon generally represents a threshold, an infinity, a beginning and an end. It is a line, straight or crooked, our world's distant boundary. It always remains remote, suggesting the unapproachable and our inexperience both in the familiar and unknown world around us". But in the artist's mother tongue, where the origins of the world "Horizon" can be found, the term represents additionally something else. "Horizontas is the participle of the verb "horizo", meaning "to arrange". We arrange things, feelings and situations, we invigorate meanings and create order within this vast and chaotic world".

Christos Kechagioglou explores a typical but nevertheless unavoidably limited part of endless versions and variations in depicting the visible world's line - boundary. The line every time is at the core of the composition's geometry and affects the shapes and the harmonious coloring of the works. At the same time, the works compose pathways directing us on a course to discovering meaning, "while the simplicity of their discourse guides us to the origins of the world within us".