CONTEMPORARY ART GROUP EXHIBITION
GEORGE KAZAZIS
George Kazazis, Breathe in - Breathe out, 2018, Oil on canvas, 40 x 60 cm
Image Copyright © George Kazazis
I inhale and exhale with faith, without analyses, without guilt.
I breathe in the limitless exploration of the other.
I breathe out the conditio sine qua non surrender of the other.
I am investigated by inhalation I explore by exhalation.
I surrender myself to binary exploration
George Kazazis
George Kazazis was born in Athens where he lives and works. He has been teaching at the Athens School of Fine Arts since 1990 (Professor today).
Solo Exhibitions 2009 Couples in Life and Art : Eleni Dimitropoulou + George Kazazis", Curator Lina Tsikouta, Gaia gallery, Pireas (flyer) 2008 Art Kessaris, Mykonos 2007 Art Act, Athens 2001 Els Hanappe Underground, Athens 1995 Medusa+1 gallery, Athens (catalog) 1992 Medusa gallery, Athens (catalog) 1989 Medusa gallery, Athens (catalog) 1985 Medusa gallery, Athens (catalog)
Selected Group Exhibitions 2013 – 2018 2018 Cosmonauts of Inner Space, Concept: Spyros Verykios, Curatorship: Ilia Katsaridou, National Observatory of Athens, Athens, - WE DO Giving Project, Concept: Panagiotis Siagreece, Thanasis Bathas, Curatorship: Maira Stefou, ASFA, Athens, - Samarkand, Curator Nikolena Kalaitzaki, Trii Art Hub Gallery, Athens (flyer) 2017, - From Santorini to Athens, by Restart - Contemporary Art Platform and Eos gallery, Santorini (catalog), - "...at music inn", Underflow, Athens, - Saturdays without Legend, Cube Gallery, Patra 2016, - Art Fare, Cube Gallery, Patra, - Through the Looking Glass, Cube Gallery, Patra, - Censored, Underflow, Athens, Text Thanasis Moutsopoulos 2014 DIA-, Curators Dora Theodoropoulou - Elina Theodoropoulou, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, - Contemporaries - Statement Made, Curator Artemis Potamianou, Art-Athina, Athens, - Gloria Gallery, Cyprus, Booth H5, Art-Athina, Athens, - Platforms, Artia Gallery, WE33, Booth P30, Art-Athina, Athens 2013 Platform Project @ Art Athina 2013, Emeis33, Artia Gallery (booth P39), Athens
The elements in the painting by Giorgos Kazazis are both non-pictorial and yet simultaneously have such a verisimilitude within their non-pictoriality as if they had been painted de natura; as if the painter had them before him.
The emotion is not any longer subjective on the contrary it is objective, existent, actual, realistic and so truly tangible casting a shadow.
An emotion with texture, matière and a natural dimension.
He does not paint what he feels but what he sees.
He self-determines this new reality rendering the objective dimension. He frequently places his self-portrait in his works in lieu of a romantic hero, in the historically heroic sense of romanticism.